These pieces have non-religious texts, and can be performed in any context.
- WARNING – Choirs For Climate (any voices, up to 11 parts) – a pair of partnered rounds about our lifestyle and the resulting impact on the climate.
- Animals – Choirs For Climate. For upper voice choir (mostly unison, some 2-part, ideal for a children’s choir) and piano.
- If The World Were Ours – Choirs For Climate. For SABar choir – available transposed on request for ATB, TBarB or SSA.
- rising – available through Choirs For Climate. Quite tricky, for SATB a cappella with ATBarB soloists
- When The Snow Came – winner of Kantos Choir’s 2021 composition competition. For SSAATTBB choir and small speaking chorus, quite tricky. Contact me for a sample score.
- Let Them Not Say – available through Choirs For Climate. Quite tricky, for SSAATTBB choir.
- The Rules – available through Choirs For Climate. For 2-part choir and piano.
- Why We Sing – available through Choirs For Climate. For 2-part choir and piano.
- Statue Songs – SABar choir and piano, fairly easy. Five pieces based on Scots myths and legends, with texts by poet and storyteller Bob Pegg. Some divisi to SSA or SAA in upper parts, lower parts have optional divisi for high/low voices but can be done without.
- Where Are My Unnumbered Days? – for SATB choir with some divisi (could be done with 2 people per part, would work better with 4 or more). Moderate difficulty, several rapid key changes. Part of #choirsagainstracism. The words are by Mohamed Assaf, a Syrian refugee who now lives in England, written when he was 12. They are also published in England: Poems from a School (published by Picador, edited by Kate Clanchy, Mohamed’s teacher). Winner of the Murau International Music Festival Composition Prize 2019 and the Wicker Park Singers call for scores 2019.
- The Wall – part of #ChoirsAgainstRacism. For 2-part choir (can be SA, TB, or ST/AB, etc.)
- I brought your name to the river – commissioned by the Edinburgh Singers with support from Creative Scotland. For 6-part choir, SMezATBarB. Listen on Soundcloud.
- “We Are One Voice” is a very flexible piece for choirs (commissioned by Beaconsfield Choir Festival) – ideal if you have a number of choirs of varying abilities and numbers of parts and want them all to sing one piece together that they can also use individually. It’s available for any type of choir and piano (available for 2-part, SSA, TBarB, SABar, SATB and unison) – click here for scores and a recording.
- The Kindness of Strangers (words by Brian Bilston) for SATB choir (divisi to SSAATBB, handy if you’re short of tenors).
- The Birlinn – available for SATB, SABar or TBarB choirs (with piano)
- I’ve put up a new piece for which you can pay as much (or as little) as you want! It’s a 3-part round called “A Bicycle Wheel”, should be suitable for any level of choir.
- Mary Morison – 4′, SSATB choir a cappella, fairly easy
- It’s Raining – 3, children’s choir and piano
- Under The Wide And Starry Sky – 2′, children’s choir and piano
- Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – SATB (no divisi), 3′, ideal for a memorial event but would also make a lovely concert piece. Listen below:
- Next Morning – for SATB choir and solo trumpet (or other brass instrument). A setting of a diary from WWI, about the execution of a deserter.
- As The Rain Hides The Stars – for SATB choir (some divisi, min. 2 singers per part). Medium difficulty. Single copies £1.50, PDF £25.
- Come Away, Death (3′, SATB, fairly easy, words by Shakespeare). 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.
- 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 arrangements on this page – many of the pieces there are for three-part or two-part choir.
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