Christmas pieces

Music intended primarily to be performed around Christmes time (including Advent and Epiphany). This may include both sacred and secular pieces.

Guiding Star is one of my latest Christmas pieces, which was performed by the Chorus and Orchestra at the CBSO Christmas Concerts at Symphony Hall in 2016, and by the […]

Originally written and arranged for the CBSO Christmas concerts in 2015, Rejoice! incorporates the Advent hymn, ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’. The piece is designed as an opening number for […]

This is a new setting of Reginald Heber’s Epiphany poem, “Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning.” It was written for the Boys’ Choir of the Nidaros Cathedral […]

Christmas Candles

This is a lighthearted piece, my first ever commission!  It was written for John Bayley and the Solihull Chandos Choir, and received its first performance on 14th December 2010 at […]

New orchestral piece for holiday concerts: “A Children’s Suite for Christmas” Are you looking for something a little different for your Christmas concert this year? I’ve just completed a new […]

This arrangement of the well known carol, set to the tune of Greensleeves, was written specially for the Nidaros Cathedral Boys’ Choir in Trondheim, Norway, where it is to be […]

Another new setting of familiar words is And glory shone, written for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, and performed at their Christmas concerts in 2007 and, with a […]

Originally arranged for a school choir, this traditional American spiritual includes an oboe obbligato part. The current arrangement was first performed by by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Choir, and […]