*NEW* I am currently working on:
This piece is a choral and orchestral setting of poems for
1. Afternoon - (this is complete)
*NEW* Written in July/August 2024 is a setting of the Communion Service in English for a cappella SATB choir. Each movement is based on Christmas Carol tunes.
1. Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie based on Veni Emmanuel and Hyfridol (O come, O come Emmanuel and Come thou long expected Jesus)
2. Gloria (Hark the Herald Angels Sing, In Dulci Jubilo, The Holly and the Ivy, Silent Night)
3. Sanctus based on Forest Green and Branle de l'Official (O little town of Bethlehem and Ding Dong Merrily on High)
4. Benedictus based on We Three Kings
5. Agnus Dei based on Winchester Old and Es ist ein Rose Entsprungen (While Shepherds watched and A great and mighty wonder)
Link to a score video on YouTube "sung" by Voices of Prague below.
Written in February 2024 'Swan Creek' is a new partsong
Also Written in February 2024 'Caeli Enarrent Gloriam' is a new a capella motet Written between January and February 2024 'Concertino for Cor Anglais, Marimba and Strings' is a new light orchestral work
Written between March 2019 and April 2020 'Requiem for Walter' is my largest scale choral and orchestral work so far
Geoff graduated from Royal Holloway College, London University with a degree in Physics.
Songs of a Day
2. Evening (in progress)
3. Night
4. Morning Sunrise
It is a sort of choral symphony scored for conventional full orchestra and SATB choir.
A Christmas Mass
based on the tune I wrote for the Concertino (below), a setting of a poem by Williston Fish.
Do have a look and listen using the links below
Swan Creek
A setting of 4 verses of Psalm 18 (Vulgate) - In English " The Heavens are telling the Glory of God
Do have a look and listen using the links below
Caeli Enarrent Gloriam
It is in a single movement with several contrasting sections finishing with a rumba!
The slow movement is based on a tune that I intend as a setting of a poem by Williston Fish, called Swan Creek.
Do have a look and listen using the links below
Concertino
Do have a look and listen using the links below
Requiem for Walter
Background to the Requiem
Salient Biographical Details :
However he probably spent more time in the Music department as a tenor in the Chapel Choir,
Savoy Opera Society and various orchestras as a Violist. Later he also
played Double Bass in the Mid Somerset Orchestra and various Jazz Groups
He has continued his choral interests in Somerset and Dorset over the last 40 years as Decani Alto in Sherborne Abbey Choir
and as soloist, occasional MD and Director for Milborne Port Opera and MD of Myllburne Camerata.
He has sung with many other choirs in the South West.
He is a published choral composer and made a living before retirement as a Software and Systems Architect.Assistant Musical Director : Bruton Choral Society
Previously, Musical Director : Gillingham Singers
Previously, Musical Director : Myllburne Camerata (1995 - 2011)
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