UPCOMING

THE TIME HAS COME... and Sweeter than Honey album release

Resonus Classics: 'London Calling: Choral Works - Vox Urbane'

Vox Urbane

Dan Ludford-Thomas - conductor

Helen Meyerhoff - artistic director

Friday 21st August 2026

sâye (shadow) BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live

Elizabeth Alker presents an afternoon of exclusive music-making, with recordings from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber and choral music from the St. Magnus Festival on Orkney.

Thursday 16th July 2026, 1.00pm

sâye (shadow) world premiere

St Magnus International Festival: The Auld Alliance

The Marian Consort

Rory McCleery - director

St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

Tuesday 23rd June 2026, 9.30pm

Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, supported by the RPS Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund.

Words, tracing world premiere

SongEasel: Sweet Harmony Song Exchange

Theano Papadaki - soprano (replaces Negin Razzaghi)

Filippo Turkheimer - baritone

Joe Zeitlin - cello

Jocelyn Freeman - piano

St Matthew's Church, Elephant and Castle

Saturday 23rd May 2026, 6.30pm

'Dev' and 'Shereen' from Book of Queens second performance

Hochschule für Musik Würzburg Liedforum: Konzert II - "stimmlos"

Sydney Penny - soprano

Andrea Marie Baiocchi - piano

Hörsaal im Gebäude Bibrastraße, Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Friday 8th May 2026, 4.00pm

A Clare Toccatina

Salisbury Cathedral Choral Evensong

Catherine Harris - organ

Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury

Saturday 18th April 2026, 5.30pm

A Clare Toccatina

Union Chapel: An organ recital with Catherine Harris

Catherine Harris - organ

Union Chapel, London

Saturday 7th March 2026, 12.00pm

THE TIME HAS COME... second performance

Vox Urbane: Ceremonies and Origins

Dan Ludford-Thomas - conductor

St George's Cathedral, Southwark

Monday 26th January 2026, 6.30pm

Mother Love second performance and The Sick Rose seventh performance

SWAP'ra: The Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - semi final

Katy Thomson - soprano

Rustam Khanmurzin - piano

Nancy Holt - mezzo-soprano

Daniel Peter Silcock - piano

Royal Over-Seas League, London

Monday 19th January 2026, 1.00pm

Coventry Carol

Great Sacred Music: Epiphany

St Martin's Voices

Andrew Earis - conductor

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Thursday 8th January 2026, 1.00pm

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Coventry Carol

Christmas with the ASMF by Candlelight

St Martin's Voices

Andrew Earis - conductor

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Friday 19th December 2025, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

Carols from Temple Church with the BBC Singers

BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin - conductor

The Temple Church, London

Friday 19th December 2025, 2.30pm

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live

Coventry Carol

The Joy of Christmas: Magnificat!

Bryan Zaros and Kent Tritle - conductors

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York

Saturday 13th December 2025, 4.00pm

Coventry Carol

LSE Chamber Choir: Christmas Concert

Max Wedmore - conductor

LSE Old Building, London

Friday 5th December 2025, 7.00pm

Ave Maris Stella second performance

Oxford International Song Festival: Duruflé Requiem

The Choir of Merton College, Oxford

Benjamin Nicholas - conductor

Merton College Chapel, Oxford

Saturday 25th October 2025, 4.30pm

Book of Queens world premiere

Oxford International Song Festival: The Book of Kings

Soraya Mafi - soprano

Ian Tindale - piano

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Thursday 23rd October 2025, 7.30pm

In Conversation with Emily Hazrati

Oxford International Song Festival: Song Connections event

A discussion of the Shahnameh and how it has provided inspiration for Emily Hazrati and Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh's new song cycle, Book of Queens

Emily Hazrati - composer

Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh - writer

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw - speaker

Philip Ross Bullock - speaker

Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford

Tuesday 21st October 2025, 3.00pm

Jabberwocky third performance and The Sick Rose sixth performance

Oxford International Song Festival: Summer Nights

Nancy Holt - mezzo-soprano

Weng Soon Tee - piano

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Tuesday 21st October 2025, 1.00pm

Coventry Carol album release

Resonus Classics: 'A Babe is Born: Music for Christmas'

more information here

St Martin's Voices

Andrew Earis - conductor

Friday 17th October 2025

Hearts are scattered seeds world premiere

commissioned by Katie Wong and Tom Bartlett for their wedding ceremony

Tom Bartlett - double bass

Katie Wong - piano

Wakehurst , Sussex

Saturday 11th October 2025

The World Turns second performance

BBC Singers and Aaron Azunda Akugbo

Aaron Azunda Akugbo - trumpet

Dominika Mak - piano

Owain Park - conductor

Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican

Thursday 9th October 2025, 7.30pm

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert

The Sick Rose fifth performance

Britten Pears Arts - Building a Recital Programme: End of Course Concert

Nancy Holt - mezzo-soprano

Daniel Peter Silcock - piano

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

Saturday 26th July 2025, 2.00pm

silk eternal world premiere

LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers' Scheme Workshops

London Symphony Orchestra

Jack Sheen - conductor

Blackheath Halls, London

Monday 14th July 2025, 10.30am-2.00pm & 3.00-6.30pm

The Sick Rose fourth performance

What If?

Kieran Rayner - baritone

Gamal Khamis - piano

Jermyn Street Theatre, London

Friday 4th July 2025, 7.30pm

The World Turns world premiere

St Martin's Voices: Heaven and Earth

Imogen Whitehead - trumpet

Jamie Andrews - organ

St Martin's Voices

Andrew Earis - conductor

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Tuesday 10th June 2025, 7.00pm

A Clare Toccatina

York Minster Choral Evensong

York Minster, York

Saturday 8th February 2025, 5.30pm

György's Apprentice sixth performance

New Music: The Ligeti Quartet

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Thursday 16th January 2025, 8.00pm

Coventry Carol

Symbel Choir: Choral Evensong

Anthony Chater - musical director

St Peter's Church, Belsize Park

Sunday 19th January 2025, 5.00pm

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Coventry Carol Classic FM broadcast

Classic FM - Christmas from St Martin's with Zeb Soanes

Thursday 24th December 2024, 8.00pm

Coventry Carol

Melbourne Octet: Christmas Concert 2024

St Dominic's Catholic Church, Melbourne, Australia

Sunday 15th December 2024, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

Epsom Chamber Choir: Now the Holly bears a Berry

Jack Apperley - conductor

St Martin's Church, Epsom

Saturday 14th December 2024, 6.00pm

Coventry Carol

Symbel Choir: Christmas Concert

Anthony Chater - musical director

Church of The Ascension, Lavender Hill

Saturday 14th December 2024, 6.00pm

Coventry Carol

St Martin's Voices: A Classic FM Christmas with Zeb Soanes

Andrew Earis - conductor

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Monday 9th December 2024, 1.00pm

THE TIME HAS COME... world premiere

Vox Urbane: Responses II

Dan Ludford-Thomas - conductor

Fellowship Inn, Bellingham

Sunday 24th November 2024, 6.00pm

The Sick Rose third performance

Kieran Rayner and Gamal Khamis present: What If?

Kieran Rayner - baritone

Gamal Khamis - piano

Royal Over-Seas League, London

Monday 11th November 2024, 6.30pm

Dawn, Wisdom world premiere

composed for Making Music's Adopt a Music Creator project

Uckfield Concert Brass

Nick Morris - musical director

Holy Cross Church, Uckfield

Saturday 26th October 2024, 7.30pm

Prologue and Justice world premiere, Schoolboy and Sans everything second performance

Oxford International Song Festival: Byron and Don Juan

Ella Taylor - soprano

Jocelyn Freeman - piano

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Friday 18th October 2024, 1.00pm

Schoolboy BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune

Katie Derham with live performance from soprano Ella Taylor and pianist Jocelyn Freeman ahead of their concert at Oxford International Song Festival.

Thursday 17th October 2024, 5.00pm

khāné (meditations on home) concert premiere

MOSAIC: Inventions

Máth Roberts - musical director

St George's Church, Bloomsbury

Saturday 14th September 2024, 7.30pm

Dilectus meus loquitur world premiere

commissioned by Jessica Kinney and Jack Franklin for their wedding ceremony

Graham Walker - conductor

Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire

Saturday 22nd June 2024

Schoolboy and Sans everything world premiere

SongEasel: An Evening of Don Juan

Ella Taylor - soprano

Jocelyn Freeman - piano

St Catherine's Church, Telegraph Hill

Friday 31st May 2024, 7.00pm

Sweeter than Honey London premiere

Vox Urbane Spring Concert

Dan Ludford-Thomas - conductor

St Matthew's Church, Wimbledon

Saturday 20th April 2024, 7.00pm

György's Apprentice fifth performance

Sounds of Now - Ligeti Quartet plays Anna Meredith

Woolwich Works, London

Thursday 11th April 2024, 8.00pm

O Crux Benedicta 

St Laurence Catford Easter Vigil

Jocelyn Freeman - conductor

St Laurence Church, Catford

Saturday 30th March 2024, 8.00pm

khāné (meditations on home) digital premiere

National Youth Choir Showcase 2024 

National Youth Choir Fellowship Ensemble

Nicholas Chalmers - conductor

broadcast from Voces8 Centre, London 

Wednesday 28th February 2024, 6.30pm

One Thousand Threads Soho Radio broadcast

Max Reinhardt's Late Lunch Show 

Wednesday 14th February 2024, 4.00pm

One Thousand Threads and khāné (meditations on home) album release

NMC Recordings: NYC Young Composers 5

more information here

National Youth Choir (Tracks 1,5,7,8)

Emily Dickens - conductor

National Youth Choir Fellowship Ensemble (Tracks 2-4, 6, 9-10)

Friday 26th January 2024

Coventry Carol

Great Sacred Music: The Three Kings

St Martin's Voices

Andrew Earis - conductor

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

Thursday 4th January 2024

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Coventry Carol

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 

St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sunday 17th December 2023

O Crux Benedicta London premiere

West London Chorale: Christmas by Candlelight

Hilary Campbell - conductor

St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

Monday 11th December 2023, 7.00pm

György's Apprentice fourth performance

Ligeti at 100: Huddersfield

Ligeti Quartet

St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield

Monday 4th December 2023, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

Abbeydale Singers: Candlelit Christmas

Lucy Joy Morris - conductor

St Mark's Church, Broomhill

Saturday 2nd December 2023, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

University of Warwick Chamber Choir: Strange is the Night

Suzzie Vango - conductor

Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

Friday 1st December 2023, 6.30pm

Coventry Carol

Temenos Chamber Choir: I Sing of a Maiden

Patrick Craig - conductor

St John the Baptist Church, Sevenoaks

Saturday 25th November 2023, 7.30pm

György's Apprentice third performance

Ligeti Centenary Concert

Ligeti Quartet

First United Church, Waterloo, Canada

Tuesday 7th November 2023, 7.00pm

György's Apprentice second performance

Ligeti Festival - Quartets and Etudes

Ligeti Quartet

Bourgie Hall, Montreal, Canada

Sunday 5th November 2023, 2.30pm

György's Apprentice BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show

Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes

Saturday 19th August 2023, 9.00pm

Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

Presented by Fiona Talkington

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter - conductor

Monday 23rd July 2023, 2.00pm

Ave Maris Stella world premiere

Thames Philharmonic Choir: Great Cathedral Anthems

Harry Bradford - conductor

James Orford - organist

All Saint's Church, Kingston

Saturday 17th June 2023, 7.30pm

György's Apprentice world premiere

Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes

co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, and Bourgie Hall

Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Maltings

Friday 23rd June 2023, 8.00pm

Mother Love world premiere

Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song

Katy Thomson - soprano

Rustam Khanmurzin - piano

The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford

Sunday 23rd April 2023, 2.30pm

My Name is... world premiere

Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song

Jonathan Eyers - baritone

Joseph Beesley - piano

The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford

Saturday 22nd April 2023, 7.30pm

Drop Down, ye Heavens, from above

BBC Singers: Stephen McNeff

BBC Singers

Grace Rossiter - conductor

Maida Vale Studios, London

Friday 24th March 2023, 2.00pm

Coventry Carol and A Clare Toccatina 

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Daniel Blaze - organ

Graham Ross - conductor

Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

Thursday 26th January 2023, 6.15pm

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Coventry Carol

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 

St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sunday 18th December 2022

Coventry Carol

Chapter House Choir - 'Carols by Candlelight'

York Minster Cathedral, York

Saturday 17th December 2022, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

Vasari Singers - Christmas with Vasari 'Sing Lullaby'

St Paul's Church, Covent Garden

Friday 16th December 2022, 7.00pm

Coventry Carol

John Lewis Carol Service

Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square

Thursday 15th December 2022, 7.00pm

Coventry Carol London premiere

Voce Chamber Choir - 'Christmas Extravaganza'

Grosvenor Chapel, London

Sunday 11th December 2022, 7.00pm

Coventry Carol 

Oxford Pro Musica Singers - 'A Christmas Cracker'

Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Sunday 11th & 18th December 2022, 5.00pm

Away in a Manger world premiere

Hampstead Chamber Choir - 'A Christmas Chorus'

Dominic Brennan - conductor

Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead

Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm

Coventry Carol

Abbeydale Singers - 'A Heavenly Song'

St Mark's Church, Broomhill

Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm

Drop down, ye Heavens, from above German premiere

Advent Carol service

Anglican Consort directed by Arwen Pearson 

St Thomas à Beckett, Hamburg

Saturday 26th November 2022

TIDE first performances, Aldeburgh Festival 2022

a new chamber opera in development commissioned by Britten Pears Arts

Jerwood Kiln Studio, Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings

Georgia Mae Bishop - Estèr 

Katherine McIndoe - Amelia

Erin Gwyn Rossington - Ina

Eleanor Burke - director

Will Sharma - music director

Sophie McLaughlin - flute (doubling alto flute and piccolo)

Anna Caban - violin

Akito Goto - cello

Thursday 23rd June 2022, 11.00am & 12.30pm

This performance is followed by a post-show discussion.

The Sick Rose second performance

Kieran Rayner: Wohin – Where To?, Aldeburgh Festival 2022

Peter Pears Recital Room

Saturday 4th June 2022, 5.00pm

The Sick Rose concert premiere and Jabberwocky London premiere

Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Contemporary Collaborations

Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Friday 27th May 2022, 6.00pm

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Coventry Carol Midnight Mass

Midnight Mass, Christmas Eve

St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand

Friday 24th December 2021, 11pm

Coventry Carol New Zealand premiere

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 

St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sunday 19th December 2021

Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast

BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers - Afternoon Concert

Presented by Tom McKinney

BBC Singers

Nicholas Chalmers - conductor

Recorded in Maida Vale, London

Tuesday 7th December 2021, 2.00pm

Drop down, ye Heavens, from above

Advent Procession and Carols

The Choir of Guildford Cathedral

Katherine Dienes-Williams - conductor

Guildford Cathedral, Surrey

Sunday 28th November 2021, 6.00pm

The Chef and the Sommelier digital premiere

Performance Arts Lab Summer School

Sunday 15th August 2021

Paradise Garden world premiere

Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Opera Makers 

Milton Court Studio Theatre, Barbican, London

Thursday 1st, Friday 2nd, Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th July 2021, 7.00pm

CLOUDSCAPES digital premiere

performed by Tom McKinney as part of Psappha's 'Composing For..' scheme

Monday 19th July 2021, 8.00pm

küçük aslan (little lion) 

St Marylebone Festival: Creative Minds in Song

Theano Papadaki - soprano (doubling fiddle)

Lydia Shariff - mezzo-soprano

Bethy Reeves - accordion (doubling voice)

Alaric Green - baritone (doubling guitar)

St Marylebone Parish Church, London

Monday 19th July 2021, 1.00pm

küçük aslan (little lion) world premiere

Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Creative Minds in Song

Theano Papadaki - soprano (doubling fiddle)

Lydia Shariff - mezzo-soprano

Bethy Reeves - accordion (doubling voice)

Alaric Green - baritone (doubling guitar)

St Marylebone Parish Church, London

Thursday 8th July 2021, 1.00pm

RED LETTER DAY digital release

launched by Illuminated River: a public art installation

new work associated with Lambeth Bridge for chamber orchestra and narrator

A Clare Toccatina 

York Minster Choral Evensong

Ben Morris - organ

York Minster, York

Thursday 25th March 2021

raindrops keep dancing... digital premiere

Guildhall New Music Society: Spring Term micro-commissions

Julien Harman-Evans - voice flute

Thomas Ang - piano

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Coventry Carol published by Multitude of Voyces

Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers, Volume 3: Advent to Candlemas

launched December 2020, available to purchase from Stainer & Bell Ltd here

Song of Sara workshop and recording

Thursday 3rd December 2020, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

written for and performed by Eline Vandenheede (GSMD Opera School 2020)

A Clare Toccatina world premiere

Sunday 15th November 2020, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

commissioned by Choir & Organ in partnership with Graham Ross and The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

CamFM radio interview

Thursday 1st October 2020, 6pm, Can and Dec's Thursday Night Takeaway

A Castrated Confession digital premiere

Sunday 23rd August 2020, Performance Arts Lab closing concert

performed by singers from GSMD, RCS and NWU (South Africa)

Psalm 45: 10-17 digital premiere

Sunday 16th August 2020, present company Assumption Evensong

performed by singers from the choirs of Trinity and Caius colleges, Cambridge

The Sick Rose digital premiere

Tuesday 21st July 2020, Chetham's School of Music Vocal Leaver's Concert

written for and performed by Zachary Smith and Madeleine Brown as part of Quarantine Song Project 

Choir & Organ Magazine feature

May 2020 issue, New Music Series

Drop down, ye Heavens, from above world premiere

Sunday 19th January 2020, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

performed by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in their evensong for The Minerva Festival: celebrating music by female and non-binary composers