Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Words: Max Arthur
Song Cycle for soprano, tenor, baritone, cello & piano (12 songs)
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Tenor: Matthew Long
Baritone: Simon Wallfisch
Cello: Oleg Kogan
Piano: John Reid
vocal
Messiah
Director: Chris Swann
Words: Chris Swann (after Isaiah)
On-going film project
18th century costume drama highlighting the plight of London's abandoned children and celebrating the three great men who sought to find a solution.
What Is the Word
A setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem scored for 2 sopranos, cello and narrator
Sopranos: Helen-Jane Howells, Sophie Daneman
Cello: Vanessa Lucas-Smith
Narrator: Robert Bathurst
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
Instructions To Four Walls
A setting of W.S. Merwin's poem, scored for two sopranos, two contraltos, harp and glass harp.
Sopranos: Helen-Jane Howells, Sophie Daneman
Contraltos: Caroline Sartin-Smith, Diana Moore
Harp: Lucy Wakeford
Glass Harp: Anna Szafraniec
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
Care-charmer Sleep
Words: Samuel Daniel
For four voices (unaccompanied).
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Countertenor: William Towers
Tenor: Ben Breakwell
Baritone: Jonathan Brown
Commissioned for the Kapoor Chamber Concert Series
Never doubt I love
Words: William Shakespeare
For 4 voices and string trio.
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Countertenor: William Towers
Tenor: Julian Forbes
Bass: Gabriel Gottlieb
When days are long in May
Words: Jaufré Rudel
Translation: Frederick Goldin
Not waving, but drowning
Words: Stevie Smith
For tenor, horn and piano.
Tenor: David Menezes
The darkling thrush
Words: Thomas Hardy
choral
Thro’ midnight streets
Words: William Blake
A setting of Blake's *London*
Premièred by the New London Children's Choir at the Barbican in March 2017
Commissioned by the New London Children's Choir
A Winter’s Tale
Words: Dylan Thomas
SSA and piano.
Sung by the New London Children's Choir.
Commissioned for the 2014 'Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia' Festival
In the bleak midwinter
Words: Christina Rossetti
A new (punter friendly) setting of a classic text.
SSAATTBB unaccompanied.
Commissioned and sung by the choir of St. George's, Hanover Square
The Heart-in-Waiting
Words: Kevin Crossley-Holland
SSATB unaccompanied.
Commissioned and sung by the choir of St. George's, Hanover Square
Sheep like stones
Words: Jenny Overton
Advent carol.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by the choir of St. George’s, Hanover Square.
The Canticle of the Sun
Words: St Francis of Assisi
Translation: Adrian House
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by the choir of St. Michael’s, Cornhill.
songs for friends & family
The Shepherd’s Song
Words: Edmund Bolton
For my mother at Christmas.
For mezzo, contralto and bass.
Sung by Arianna and me (x2).
To a child dancing in the wind
Words: W.B. Yeats
For my stepdaughter on her 15th birthday.
For mezzo, horn and piano.
Sung by Arianna (the birthday girl).
Trust your heart
Words: E.E. Cummings
For my wife on her birthday.
For mezzo and bass.
Sung by Arianna and me.
Look thy last on all things lovely
Words: Walter de la Mare
For my mother.
For 3 baritones, clarinet, horn, cello and piano.
Sung by me.
Tread lightly
Words: Oscar Wilde
For Charlotte.
For mezzo, cello and piano.
Sung by Michaela Betts.
Carry her over the water
Words: W.H. Auden
For Sasha and James on their wedding day.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by Synergy Vocals.
The Villagers’ Carol
Words: Kenneth Grahame
For friends, one Christmas.
SATB unaccompanied.
Sung by Synergy Vocals.