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AT THE BORDER (SATB, SATB SOLOISTS, PRIMARY CHOIR, ORCHESTRA, ELECTRONICS) - COMPOSED WITH STUDENTS FROM ST MARY REDCLIFFE AND TEMPLE SCHOOL
A 50-minute Oratorio, composed as part of a year-long project with the BBC Singers, St Mary Redcliffe School and writer Peter Spafford.
Exploring themes of migration, persecution and the Refugee, it received a hugely successful first performance with all 24 BBC Singers, 2 school choirs and the Temple Orchestra.
"A triumph. The audience loved it and it sounded so fabulous" Garth MacArthur - BBC Singers
THREE RAVENS (SOP, MEZZO, ALTO, VLN, CELLO, DB)
Original highly effective setting of a traditional english text.
First performed by Juice and the Emerald Ensemble, Colston Hall, Bristol: May 2008.
BIRDSONG BRINGS RELIEF (THREE FEMALE VOICES AND CD)
This piece, written for Juice vocal ensemble, is entirely based on blackbird song, recorded, slowed down and transcribed for human voice. The electronic sounds are all vocal recordings of the three singers using the blackbird’s melodies. No other sounds are used apart from the human female voice. It uses a short text by Rumi of the same title.
O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM (SS/SATB)
THE BOAT (SS, PNO, PERC [OPTIONAL])
REDEMPTION PRAYER (SS, SOP SAX, ORG, PERC.)
Commissioned by Christian Forshaw.
I SING OF A MAIDEN / IUDICII SIGNUM (S SOLO, SS, ORG)
Comissioned by Bristol Cathedral.
Alternative version for S Solo, SS, Org with Soprano Saxophone
