Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Composer's note:Each year at their Summer Festival in Tavistock, the Exon Singers feature the music of a living composer. In the summer of 2008 I was privileged to be the chosen composer. Salve Regina...

Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Guildford to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Cathedral, The Holy Spirit sets a text by the poet and novelist Evelyn Underhill with mas...

A setting of the well-known text from the Book of Revelation, chapter 21, And I saw a new heaven reflects the vibrant and highly descriptive text, with approachable dissonance and varied textures. Eac...

Thomas Campion's Never weather-beaten sail is a sprightly text that powerfully evokes the sailor's plea for God's calming presence upon the sea's unrelenting rushing waves. At the opening of this work...

Devised as a choral Christmas waltz, this carol for unaccompanied mixed voices (no divisi) by Welsh composer Gareth Treseder is a jolly setting of a traditional text. The work is structured in the man...

A collection of three choral songs setting the words of three First World War poets, commissioned in 2014 by the choir Sospiri to mark the centenary of the start of the war. The songs are charged with...

This piece for unaccompanied mixed choir (with frequent voice divisions) was commissioned by Ralph Allwood for the 1987 broadcast of the Eton Choral Course on Radio 3. The inimitable poem by Phineas F...

The set of 'Four Carols for Dark Times' was written between 2003-5 and commissioned at the rate of one piece per year for the Birmingham Bach Choir to perform at their Christmas concerts. The third ca...

Predating the well-known Bethlehem Down by just a few years, As dew in Aprylle is one of several choral works by Warlock to draw on texts from the 15th century Sloane Manuscript, yet musically this wo...

Two traditional French carols, Berceuse de Noël ('Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris') and Nouvelle agréable ('Nouvelle agréable un Sauveur Enfant nous est né') arranged for unaccompanied mixed voice choir,...

This carol was commissioned by the John Lewis Partnership Music Society and first performed at their annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Westminster Cathedral in December 2014, conducted by M...

Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's Spiewniki Koscielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced...

Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's Spiewniki Koscielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced...

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flo...

This beautiful short work was commissioned in 2014 to celebrate the 20th wedding anniversary of two of the composer's friends. It was first performed by the chamber choir Tenebrae on their album of mu...

Composed in 2014 for the Wellensian Consort (conductor: Christopher Finch), At Evening is composed in the style of an evening benediction. As a result, it is wonderfully suited as the praise song of a...

This setting of a verse from Psalm 43 ('Send out your light and your truth; these themselves led me forth, and they brought me to your holy mountain and to your holy place') with a Gloria Patri was co...

This piece was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford for the Merton Choirbook, a collection of choral music composed to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the college in 2014. It is a setting of some...

This setting of a war poem by Charles Hamilton Sorleys was composed for Genesis Sixteen and performed at the 2015 Cumnock Tryst, James MacMillan's own music festival in Ayrshire, Scotland, to commemor...

This hymn of praise was composed on the occasion of a thanksgiving service for a betrothal in June 2011. In search of a suitable text, the composer once again turned to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Brow...

Three Songs of Love was commissioned by the Exultate Singers and first performed at St George's Church, Bristol on 14 February 2015.The three texts (Clare, Yeats and McCrae) represent different moods...

A contemporary arrangement of the Basque Christmas carol, The Angel Gabriel by Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) is one of four Christmas songs written by the composer in the 1960s. The familiar melody is trea...

The Minstrels was commissioned and performed by the BBC Singers in their Winter Solstice concert at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London on 21 December 2016, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3...

William Shakespeare's famous sonnet ('Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments'), often used at weddings and civil ceremonies, is here set to beautiful, fresh music by young composer...

With text from the Book of Psalms, His heart's desire is a short motet for mixed voices, with homophonic outer sections with minimal divisi and a middle section dividing the chorus into two SATB group...