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This page needs a lot of updating – in the meantime, please see the pages for each type of choir as follows:
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Children’s choirs or unison voices
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or by type of music:
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When you order music, I prefer to supply a personalised electronic copy (PDF) of the full piece, allowing you to print as many copies as you like – these start from £10. To place an order, just contact me by email – I’ll send you a PDF and invoice by email, or post copies to you along with an invoice. Payment can be made by Paypal, cheque or direct bank transfer. If you prefer to order printed copies, these start from 50p per piece, plus postage – prices below.

The scores linked below are watermarked – please email me to order full copies. You are welcome to print off a single copy for perusal if you wish. All files are in PDF format – Adobe Acrobat’s free PDF reader can be downloaded here.

If you would like a recording of a part for practice, I’m happy to supply these on request (email me). You can hear recordings of many pieces at my SoundCloud page.

Latest pieces

  • Choirs For Climate pieces – eight new works for mixed choir, available under Creative Commons licenses
  • Be Thou A Bright Flame Before Me – SATB, no divisi, suitable for most sacred occasions. View the score here (2 pages), listen on SoundCloud, or watch a score follower video.
  • Keep Watch, Dear Lord – SATB choir, short soprano solo at end, written in memory of victims of the Covid pandemic. Order from MusicSpoke. Hear a recording on SoundCloud.
  • Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life – SATB with no divisi. Hear it performed at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
  • Statue Songs – SABar and piano, secular
  • Anna, Surprised – SATB with some divisi, for Candlemas
  • O Clavis David – for SSAATTBB (could be done by 8 soloists, but would work much better with a larger choir). Quite challenging but rewarding. A setting of one of the O Antiphons. Commissioned by the Quodlibet Chorale and premiered in Edinburgh, November 2015 (alongside settings by Gjeilo, Esenvalds, MacMillan, Rubbra and Lukaszewski). PDF £25, single copies £2.
  • 3 Churches Communion Setting – can be performed by unison choir and organ, the SATB parts are optional. Commissioned by 3 churches in Edinburgh. Single copies £2.50, PDF £40 – a congregation-only version (4 pages) is also available, £1 per copy or free with the PDF of the full version.
  • Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – SATB (no divisi), medium difficulty, 3′, ideal for a memorial event but would also make a lovely concert piece. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • Drop, drop, slow tears for SSA trio or small choir, difficult, 3′. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • Responses – for SATB choir, medium difficulty. For use in church services, especially Anglican evensong or similar. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
  • A Mother’s Blessing – SATB choir, easy, 3′. Lyrics are an ancient Celtic prayer from “Carmina Gadelica”. A beautiful piece for a baptism or christening. Single copies £1, PDF £20.
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  • Magnificat – available for SATB, ATBarB or TTBB. Single copies £2.50, PDF £30.
  • Nunc Dimittis – available for SATB, ATBarB or TTBB. Single copies £1.50, PDF £20. Buy the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis together for £3/copy or £40/PDF.
  • As The Rain Hides The Stars – for SATB choir (some divisi, min. 2 singers per part). Medium difficulty. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.

Secular choir pieces

  • As The Rain Hides The Stars – for SATB choir (some divisi, min. 2 singers per part). Medium difficulty. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • O Mare! SATB or SSATBB, needs at least 4 people to a part but fairly easy. 5′. Latin. Secular. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • After Culloden – 5′, SATB choir a cappella, mostly easy. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • The Water Cycle – 6′, children’s choir (SA with some optional divisi and solos), piano, vibraphone, xylophone and marimba (percussion instruments can easily be changed), and optional rainsticks. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • Under The Wide and Starry Sky – (2′, unison choir and piano, very easy – words by Robert Louis Stevenson). Single copies £1, PDF £20.
  • Come Away, Death (3′, SATB, fairly easy, words by Shakespeare). Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • Sleep (5′, SATB, difficult) Words by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). Copies £1.50, PDF £25.
  • The Toads’ Chorus (4′, six-part choir, difficult). English. Secular. Copies £1.50, PDF £25.

For more secular choir pieces, also check out my free arrangements on this page – many of these are for three-part or two-part choir.

Sacred music for any time of year

Christmas specials!

For chamber groups and soloists

  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci. 7′, four solo sopranos and harp, professional difficulty. Words by John Keats. Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.
  • New! Seeds for brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba), string quintet (2 violins, 1 viola, 2 ‘cellos), or string orchestra. 4’, medium difficulty. Hear a recording. £40 for printed score and parts, or for PDFs.
  • The Windhover. 8′, SATB soloists, string quartet and two pianos, moderate difficulty. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.
  • Prometheus (5′, piano solo, professional difficulty). £10 (PDF or printed).
  • Actaeon And Diana (8′, piano, horn, clarinet, violin and cello – professional difficulty). Hear a recording. £50 for printed scores and parts, or for PDFs.

The items below do not have an online preview yet, please email me if interested:

  • New! Martyrs (string quartet, quite difficult). Hear a recording (MIDI realisation). Scores and parts £50, PDF or printed.
  • Song of Solomon. SATB and organ, medium difficulty, 3′. English text, biblical. Very suitable for weddings! Hear a recording. Sample PDF available, please email. Copies £2, PDF £25.
  • New! Ave Maria Gratia Plena (4′, soprano solo and piano, words by Oscar Wilde, professional difficulty). PDF or printed copies £20.
  • Wilderness (c.15′, baritone, marimba, percussion, professional difficulty). Score is handwritten at present, copies £30.

Choir pieces for Easter