Judith Bingham
Judith Bingham is one of the most prolific composers of choral music active in the UK today, and was Associate Composer with the BBC Singers until this year. She has won three British Composer Awards for her choral music, and was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in May 2007. She has received commissions from an impressive range of choirs and ensembles – from King’s College Cambridge and the King's Singers, to the BBC Philharmonic, and in addition has written many works for amateur choir. Bingham trained as a composer and also as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, was a member of the BBC Singers for many years and was the BBC Singers Composer in Association from 2007 to 2009.Visit Judith Bingham's Homepage
Jonathan Dove
Dove's choral music includes a song cycle, The Passing of the Year, and several anthems and carols, among them The Three Kings, commissioned by King’s College Cambridge, and The Far Theatricals of Day, settings of Emily Dickinson for soloists, choir, brass quintet and organ. His most recent works are The Darkling Thrush, commissioned by Trinity College Cambridge and It sounded as if the Streets were running with poems by Emily Dickinson for the Farnham Youth Choir.Click here to visit the Dove Choral page
Sandra Milliken
A noted choir director, clinician, adjudicator, accompanist and singing teacher, Sandra Milliken's work is ideally written for voices, and is particularly appealing to youth choirs. Sandra has developed the Choral Vivace series for Peters Edition.Click here to visit the Choral Vivace Homepage
Stephen McNeff
Stephen Mcneff is best known as a composer of opera, music theatre and community pieces, and his music for children is widely played and broadcast. Mcneff was the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Composer in the House from 2005 – 2008. His choral repertoire presents a diverse and appealing collection of sacred and secular works for both mixed and upper voices that reflect his sensitivity to timbre and an innate sense of drama. His catalogue includes a magnificat and nunc dimittis, several carols and various works which set famous poetic texts.Click here to visit Stephen McNeff's Homepage
Roxanna Panufnik
Panufnik’s highly distinctive compositional voice is reflected in the wide range of high profile commissions and performances that mark her career to date, both in the UK and internationally. She is perhaps best known for the large-scale choral work of 1998; the perennially popular Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Basil Hume's 75th birthday. Recordings include works on the Warner Classics and EMI Classics labels. A choral disc, ‘Angels Sing’, features Douai Missa Brevis, Prayer, Spring, The Christmas Life, Angels Sing and Westminster Mass, sung by the Joyful Company of Singers.Click here to visit Roxanna Panufnik's Homepage
Ben Parry
Ben Parry studied at Cambridge University and sang in King's College Choir. He was a singer and musical director with The Swingle Singersin the late 1980's, before embarking on a wide-ranging career that has spanned singing, conducting, arranging, composing and acting in both classical and light music fields.Click here to visit Ben's Choral page
Jonathan Rathbone
After training as a chorister at Coventry Cathedral and choral scholar at Christ’s College Cambridge, where he read mathematics, Jonathan rounded-off his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music with a second degree, specializing in singing and composition.Jonathan Rathbone was Musical Director and arranger for the Swingle Singers (1984–96) and has worked with many of the world’s leading musicians, from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Pierre Boulez to Stephan Grappelli and George Martin.
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Patric Standford
Patric Standford is an international award winning composer who has just completed Tenebrae, a cycle of 18 Passiontide motets, adding to a significant choral output which includes Ancient Verses, Motets in memory of Benjamin Britten, A Hildegard Mass and O sacrum convivium for six-part choir. His recently revised Easter oratorio Christus-Requiem was awarded the Yugoslavian State prize in 1975, and his two choral symphonies each gained major awards: Toward Paradise, the Ansermet Award in Geneva, first performed by the Suisse Romande in 1986, and The Prayer of St Francis, which earned the Kodaly Prize in Budapest, was first heard on Hungarian Radio in December 1997, given by the Budapest Symphony.Click here to visit Patric Standford's Homepage
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