Ave Dei patris filia

8 mins

for SSATB

Text: Votive Antiphon to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Commissioned by The Tallis Scholars for their 40th Anniversary
First performed by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, at St Paul’s Cathedral, London on 7 March 2013

Choral Symphony

22 mins

for 6S6A6T6B

Texts by Anonymous, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 –117) Thomas Freeman (1590?–1630?), Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), John Davidson (1857–1909), Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920), Walter Jerrold (1865 –1929), Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), & George the Poet (b.1991)

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers
First performed by the BBC Singers, directed by David Hill, in the Konserthuset, Kristianstad on 8 October 2012

Adoro te devote

3 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Commissioned by the 2012 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
First performed by the choir of St Pancras Parish Church, London, directed by Christopher Batchelor, on 16 May 2012

Luce coruscas (herself a rose)

10 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Texts: Hymn at Vespers, Feast of the Assumption & Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Commissioned by Coro Misto for their 20th Anniversary
First performed by Coro Misto, directed by Søren Birch, at Our Lady’s Church, Aalborg on 9 June 2012

Lamentations of Jeremiah

8 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday vv1-3

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers
First performed by the BBC Singers, directed by David Hill, at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London on 5 April 2012

Tota pulchra es

5½ mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text: Antiphon at Second Vespers, Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Commissioned by the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street
First performance by Farm Street Church choir, directed by David Graham, on 8 December 2012

Winter heavens

6 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by George Meredith (1828-1909)

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers
First performed by the BBC Singers, directed by Stephen Cleobury, at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London on 16 December 2011

Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland

8 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Texts: Medieval Scottish (found in On a MS. Book of Hours written in France for the use of a Scottish Lady by E.S. Dewick) and the Collect for St Margaret of Scotland (from the Scottish Book of Common Prayer (1929))

Commissioned by Duncan Ferguson and the Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
First performed by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, directed by Duncan Ferguson, on 15 November 2011

Airplane Cantata

18 mins

for SATB and pianola

Texts by Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568), from The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, December 18, 1903, and by Orville Wright (1871-1948), Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940), Louis Blériot (1872-1936), Sir George Cayley (1773-1857), Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) and Hart Crane (1899-1932)

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers
First performed by the BBC Singers and Rex Lawson (pianola), directed by James Morgan, at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London on 24 October 2011

Vidi aquam

4 mins

for SATB and organ

Text: Antiphon at Mass, Easter to Trinity

Commissioned by the Friends of Lincoln Cathedral
First performed by the Choir of Lincoln Cathedral, directed by Aric Prentice, on 18 June 2011

To the Field of Stars

34 mins

for SATB, violoncello and 2 percussion (7 handbells, tubular bell, crotales, glockenspiel)

Texts from the Codex Calixtinus, from Carmina Gadelica (translated by Alexander Carmichael (1932-1912)) and by John Adams (1735-1826), William Cowper (1731-1800), Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and St Jacobs Chamber Choir, Stockholm
First performed by St Jacobs Chamber Choir with Elemér Lavotha (violoncello) and Anders Åstrand and Martin Wikström (percussion), directed by Gary Graden, at St Jacobs Church, Stockholm on 24 October 2011

According to Seneca

7 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by Gustav Sobin (1935-2005)

Commissioned by Donald Nally and The Crossing
First performed by The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia on 5 June 2011

Solitude/Vientulība

7 mins

for two SATB choirs

Texts by John Keats (1795-1821) and Ronalds Briedis (b.1979)

Commissioned by the BBC
First performed by the BBC Singers, directed by David Hill, and the Latvian Radio Choir, directed by Kaspars Putniņš, at the Roundhouse, London on 25 March 2011

I am the voice of the wind

5 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by Geraldine Atkinson

Commissioned by Christopher and Elizabeth Atkinson in memory of their daughter Geraldine
First performed by the Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, at St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London on 7 April 2010

The Glory of the Lord

2 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text from Common Worship

Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
First performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey, directed by James O’Donnell, on 17 September 2010

In Nomine Domini

10 mins

for SATB, harp, percussion (1 player: vibraphone, glockenspiel, crotales, tubular bell and tam-tam) and string quartet

Text by John Bradburne (1921-1979)

Commissioned by the BBC for the 2010 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
First performed by the BBC Singers, members of Endymion and the Arditti Quartet, directed by David Hill, at Cadogan Hall, London on 4 September 2010

Missa Sanctae Margaretae

12 mins

for SATB and organ

Commissioned in memory of Gwyneth Kathleen Davey (1949-2009) by her family and friends
First performed by the choir of St Margaret’s Church, Oxford, directed by Richard Goodall on 18 July 2010

Ruchill Linn

8½ mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by Robin Bell (b.1947)

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers
First performed by the BBC Singers, directed by Paul Brough, at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London on 23 April 2012

In all his works

4 mins

for ATTBB unaccompanied

Text: Ecclesiasticus 47: 8-10

Written at the request of Elizabeth Wicks
First performed by a consort of ex-Canterbury Cathedral choristers and layclerks, directed by David Woodcock, at the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Dr Allan Wicks in Canterbury Cathedral on 21 May 2010

The Christ-child

4 mins

for SATB unaccompanied

Text by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge
First performed by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury, on 24 December 2009