Secular Choral Music
Shakespeare’s Song of Winter
(When icicles hang by the wall) (2003) |
SATB.
Words: Shakespeare. First performed by the Giltspur Singers in Newham General Hospital. |
Three Pastoral Partsongs
(2004) 1 Over the Hill (Keats) 2 Requiescat (Tennyson) 3 Great Things (Hardy) |
SATB (Bar solo in Great Things).
First performed by The Giltspur Singers. |
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The Oxen
(Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock) (2005) |
SATB.
Words: Thomas Hardy. First performed by The Giltspur Singers in The Temple Church, London. Note: this piece is also listed under Christmas Music. |
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Thank you, Simon, for the cake/
Riddle Canon (It's in the church but not in the steeple) (2010) |
Perpetual canon 4-in-1.
First sung at a Scott Plummer singing afternoon. |
2012 And All That
(FASTER! HIGHER! STRONGER! I can't go on any longer!) (2012) |
Perpetual canon 6-in-1.
A satirical piece about the London Olympics, first sung at a Scott Plummer singing afternoon. |
Songs of Gods and Mortals
(2014) 1 Hymn to Pan (Fletcher) 2 Mistress Margery Wentworth (Skelton) 3 Hymn to Bacchus (Herrick) 4 Jenny kissed me (Hunt) 5 Hymn to Venus (Sappho/Philips) 6 Mad Tom (Anon.) |
SATB (with many divisions).
Composed for the 10th anniversary of the Giltspur Singers who gave the première performance at St John's Holland Road on 12th July 2014. |
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Arrangement of 'White Christmas' by Irving Berlin
(2015) |
SATB (with divisions).
Composed for the Giltspur Singers 2015 Christmas Concert. |
Available from the composer
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The Drum
(I hate that drum's discordant sound) (2017) |
SSATB.
Words: John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783). |
Two Doves
(2018) |
SATB (with divisions) /
SATB (with divisions) & wind quintet. Commissioned for and premiered at the wedding of Mr Jonathan Stoneman and Miss Antonia Mott in August 2018. |
Six Jingles for the BBC Music Magazine
(2018) |
SATB.
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Dr Swift's Riddle
(We are very little creatures) (2019) |
Perpetual canon 4-in-1.
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Five Shakespeare Fragments
(2020) 1 Be not afeard 2 What harmony is this? 3 You nymphs, call'd Naiads 4 You sun-burn'd sicklemen 5 The cloud-capp'd towers |
SATB.
Words from The Tempest |