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Go In Peace

Composed: 2011

SSA choir
Organ (or piano)

Duration 2 minutes

First performance: The Chapel Choir of the Royal Masonic School, dir. Julia Whitbread, Royal Masonic School Chapel, Hertfordshire, 11.11.12

Golden Slumbers

Composed: 2012

SSA choir
​Piano
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Text: Thomas Dekker

Duration 2½ minutes

First performance: Choro, dir. Julia Whitbread, Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, 1.5.13
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To Hear The Angels Sing

Composed: 2012

SATB choir, a capella

Text: It Came upon the Midnight Clear, Edmund Sears (1810-76), 1849

Duration 4½ minutes

First performance: Swansea Bach Choir, dir. Greg Hallam, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 7.12.13
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Performance credit: Swansea Bach Choir, Greg Hallam

Silent Night

Composed: 2013

SSA choir (or SA)
Piano

Text: Joseph Mohr (1792-1848), 1816

Duration 3½ minutes

First performance: Choro, dir. Julia Whitbread, Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, 3.12.13

London Premiere: London Youth Choir, dir. Greg Hallam, St Saviour's Church, Pimlico, 16.12.13
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Two Folksongs From Ireland

Composed: 2013

SAB choir
​Piano

1. Cockles and Mussels
2. Danny Boy

Texts: traditional

Duration 8 minutes

First performance: RMS Community Choir, dir. Julia Whitbread, All Saints Church, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, 12.10.13
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Hope Will Find Its Way

Composed: 2014

Two-part choir
​Piano

Text: Julia Whitbread

Duration 4 minutes

Commissioned by The Children's Trust

First performance: St John's, Smith Square, London, 9.3.14

As The Rain Hides The Stars

Composed: 2014

SATB choir, a capella

Text: Gaelic Prayer

Duration 3½ minutes
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Away In A Manger

Composed: 2014

Two-part choir
​Piano

Text: Anon.; third verse John T. McFarland (1851-1913)

Duration 3 minutes

First performance: Hertfordshire, 5.12.14
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Two Folksongs From Britain

Composed: 2015

SAB choir
​Piano

1. The Ash Grove
2. Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

Text: Traditional

Duration 7 minutes

First performance: RMS Community Choir, cond. Chris Brammeld, Rickmansworth Festival, Hertfordshire, 16.5.15
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Four British Folksongs

Composed: 2015

Unison voices
​Piano

1. Cockles and Mussels
2. Danny Boy
3. The Ash Grove
4. Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

​Duration 15 minutes
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Two Folksongs From Scotland

Composed: 2016

SAB choir
​Piano

1. Skye Boat Song
2. Gradh geal o cridh ("Eriskay Love Lilt")

Text: Traditional

​Duration 6 minutes

First performance: RMS Community Choir, cond. Julia Whitbread, Rickmansworth Festival, Hertfordshire, 21.5.16
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A Christmas Tale

Composed: 2016

Children's choir, youth choir and mixed adult choir
Piano
Cello
Percussion (1 player): glockenspiel, toms
Timpani
(Orchestral version, in preparation)

Texts
A Coventry Carol: trad.
In the Bleak Midwinter: Christina Rossetti ("A Christmas Carol")
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day: trad.

​Duration 8 minutes

​First performance: cond. Chris Brammeld, Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, 9.12.16

Winter

Composed: 2017

SAB choir
Flute
Clarinet
Strings
Harp
Piano

Text: Walter de la Mare
Text reproduced by kind permission of The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative.

Duration 3 minutes

Commissioned by Bancroft's School

First performance: Bancroft's School, Essex, 6.12.17
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To A Sky-Lark

Composed: 2019

SAB choir
Piano

Text: William Wordsworth

Duration 3 minutes

Commissioned by Bancroft's School for the 40th anniversary of the Bancroft's Singers

First performance: Bancroft's Singers, Bancroft's School, Essex, 11.5.19

My Love Is Come To Me

Composed: 2019

SATB choir, a capella

Text: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 94) (A Birthday, 1857)

Duration 3 minutes

​Commissioned by VOCES8

First performance: VOCES8, Penkhull Festival, 21.9.19

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