Concert: The Singing Will Never Be Done
Sospiri are performing a concert of music for remembrance, including Arvo Pärt’s sublime Stabat Mater and Rudolf Mauersberger’s moving elegy Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst written just after the bombing of Dresden in 1945. Alongside this the…
Read More...Novello publishes two new pieces
Novello is publishing John’s motet Nunc autem manet and the carol La Ballade de Jesus Christ as part of the Novello New Choral Series, which is being launched at the ABCD conference at
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Read More...Shorter House publishes two new pieces
Shorter House is publishing John’s 12-part Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in a new collection of Canticles The Book of New Canticles Volume II. This new set is being launched at the ABCD conference at the Birmingham Conservatoire, August…
Read More...World première of ‘Dance’
John is putting the finishing touches to a new piece – a setting of the poem ‘Dance’ by the medieval Persian mystic and poet, Rumi. The work was commissioned by dancer and choreographer, Cecilia Macfarlane, as the overture to her…
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Competition piece shortlisted
Breathe was shortlisted for the Joe Shepley Choral Composition Competition in March 2011. The competition is run by the Namasté Women’s Choir of California. The brief was to write an a cappella piece for women’s…
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Review in the Church Times
The Church Times has a great review of the most recent concert by Oxford-based choir, Commotio. The centrepiece of the concert was a new 8-part Mass setting by Francis Pott (commissioned last year by Commotio). Alongside…
Read More...First performance of Ave Verum
Whilst John was away in Chicago for the 2011 ACDA conference, his Ave Verum received its first performance. It was sung in Douai Abbey at the end of Communion, during Mass for the first Sunday of Lent (13 March). Fittingly…
Read More...Performances of ‘Futility’ at the ACDA conference, Chicago
John’s setting of the Wilfred Owen poem ‘Futility’ is being performed by Denver-based choir, Kantorei, in Chicago at the 2011 ACDA conference.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
9:00 a.m. – Orchestra Hall
2:00 p.m. – Auditorium…
Requiem available on iTunes and Amazon.com
The Sospiri disc, Requiem, is now available as a download on iTunes and Amazon.com. The disc is already available from all other Amazon sites and many other online retailers.
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Praise for ‘O Babe, born bare’
Sleep, Holy Babe, the highly acclaimed new collection of music for Advent, Christmas and the Epiphany, receives another five-star review in the February/March edition of Muso magazine. Journalist and singer, Hazel Davis, praises the collection as a whole, saying:
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