Works Catalogue
A catalogue of choral, vocal and instrumental music, grouped by genre and listed chronologically. Durations are approximate; follow the score links to purchase published music, or get in touch about works available directly.
Large-scale choral & choral-orchestral works
Lux Aeterna
SATB choir, SATB semi-chorus and orchestra
Difficulty: A/M
Written for Winchester College as a companion piece to Fauré’s Requiem, Lux Aeterna brings together chorus, semi-chorus and orchestra in a substantial meditation on eternal light.
Scores: Please enquire
Magnificat
Solo SATB quartet, SATB chorus, strings, piano, optional harp and percussion
Difficulty: M/A
Commissioned by Sing for Pleasure to celebrate its Golden Jubilee, this twelve-movement Magnificat places Mary’s song within a wider sequence of texts drawn from Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions. The work moves between intimate reflection and large-scale choral writing, looking at the familiar story from several different perspectives.
Scores: Please enquire for hire
Recording: Serafine Chamber Choir & Sinfonia · Manvinder Rattan — Convivium Records, 2015
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St Mark Passion
Soloists, SATB choir, SATB semi-chorus and orchestra
Difficulty: A
Commissioned by the St Endellion Easter Festival, St Mark Passion draws on the particular concision and urgency of Mark’s Gospel. Lucia Quinault’s libretto extends the Passion narrative with parables and miracles from elsewhere in the Gospel and gives greater prominence to some of its less-heard voices, placing the human drama at the centre of the work. First performed at St Endellion in 2019, it received a new semi-staged production at Ushaw, Durham, in 2026.
Scores: Please enquire
Lux Stellarum: A Requiem
Soloists, SATB divisi choir and organ
Difficulty: A
Commissioned by the American Cathedral in Paris and first performed at Saint-Sulpice, Lux Stellarum is a compact Requiem in which plainsong and the familiar liturgy are interwoven with scripture and poetry by John Donne and Marjorie Pickthall. Images of stars and light open the work out into a wider reflection on mortality, the cosmos and humanity’s place within it.
Scores: Please enquire from Oxford University Press — music.permissions.uk@oup.com
Recording: Choir of Royal Holloway · Andrew Dewar, organ · Rupert Gough, conductor — Convivium Records, 2025
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The Night Before Christmas
SATB choir and piano or chamber ensemble; fuller orchestral version also available
Difficulty: M/E
Written originally for Lancaster Priory, this is a lively setting of the much-loved Christmas poem, with familiar carols woven into the story as it unfolds. Silent Night, Good King Wenceslas and We Wish You a Merry Christmas all make appearances, giving the piece an immediately recognisable festive character alongside the narrative.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recording: EP forthcoming from Oxford University Press
In All the Earth
SATB choir and orchestra
Difficulty: M
Written for Winchester Festival Chorus to words by Lucia Quinault, In All the Earth incorporates the hymn All Creatures of Our God and King within a broader reflection on humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Its celebration of creation is set against a more searching question: what responsibility comes with our place within it, and how well have we cared for what surrounds us?
Scores: Please enquire
The Canticle of Elizabeth
Soprano soloist, SATB choir and chamber orchestra
Difficulty: E
With a libretto by Lucia Quinault, The Canticle of Elizabeth tells the story of the mother of John the Baptist: a woman long thought unable to have children who finds herself unexpectedly carrying new life. The work moves through longing, disbelief and joy.
Scores: Please enquire
To Music
SATB choir and piano or orchestra
Difficulty: E/M
A celebratory setting of Robert Herrick, commissioned by Mark Jordan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Milton Keynes Chorale.
Scores: Please enquire
Jonah
Chamber opera for soloists, children’s chorus, amateur and professional strings, piano four hands, trumpet, horn, organ and percussion
Difficulty: M/E
A new chamber opera for the Barnes Festival, retelling the story of Jonah and the whale with children and community performers at the heart of the work.
Scores: Please enquire
The Canticle of Ruth
Soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, SATB choir and chamber orchestra
Difficulty: E
With a libretto by Lucia Quinault, The Canticle of Ruth explores devotion, loyalty and love through Ruth’s decision to remain with Naomi and follow her from Moab to Bethlehem. It forms part of a developing sequence of canticles centred on women in biblical narratives.
Scores: Please enquire
The Canticle of Eve
Choir and orchestra
Difficulty: E
A further work in the canticle cycle, The Canticle of Eve takes Eve’s story as the starting point for a wider reflection on humanity’s relationship with the natural world — and the responsibility that comes with our place within it.
Scores: Please enquire
Stabat Mater
Mezzo-soprano soloist, SATB divisi choir and orchestra
Difficulty: M/E
A new large-scale setting of the Stabat Mater, commissioned by Twickenham Choral Society and The Hanover Band for first performance in 2028.
Scores: Please enquire
Choral works
All Praise to Thee in Light Arrayed
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M
A radiant setting of Thomas Ken’s hymn of thanksgiving, drawing on its rich imagery of dawn, light and praise — including the striking image of a “boundless ocean of bright beams”.
Scores: Buy score
Irish Blessing
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
Written in memory of my mother, this setting of the traditional Irish blessing grows from isolated notes into warm, consoling harmony. Its emotional centre comes with the thought of meeting again, before the music gradually settles into a quiet resolution.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing
Recording: University of Glasgow Chapel Choir · Katy Lavinia Cooper, conductor — Classic FM
Faire is the Heaven
Double SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M/A
Written for the St Endellion Music Festival, this setting of Edmund Spenser responds to the poem’s expansive vision of heaven and the vastness of the space in which “happy souls have place”. Spacious choral writing reflects the text’s sense of distance, wonder and transcendence.
Scores: Please enquire
Christ be with me
Flexible two-part voices and organ
Difficulty: E
A concise and approachable setting of words from St Patrick’s Breastplate. Its repeated invocations — Christ before, beside, above and within — make this a direct, prayerful anthem designed to work effectively with a wide range of church choirs.
Scores: Oxford University Press — Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems
Cor ad Cor Loquitur
SATB choir and SATB soloists, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
Written for the retirement of Ralph Townsend as Headmaster of Winchester College. Taking its title — “heart speaks to heart” — as its starting point, the piece was conceived as a personal musical valediction.
Scores: Please enquire
Stars (from Lux Stellarum)
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
Written as the Stars movement of Lux Stellarum, this setting of Marjorie Pickthall’s poem explores the stillness and mystery of the night sky in luminous, atmospheric choral writing. It is also published separately by Oxford University Press.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recordings: Luther College Collegiate Choir · Jennaya Robinson — More Choral Highlights 2019, Oxford University Press; Choir of Royal Holloway · Rupert Gough — Convivium Records, 2025
A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: A
Written for Sansara, this extended setting reaches beyond the familiar “day by day” words to St Richard’s older and more searching prayer. The familiar final triplet emerges almost as a distant heavenly response, giving the piece a trajectory from pain and mortality towards discipleship and transcendence.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Sansara — Cloths of Heaven, Convivium Records, 2017
In Homeward Flight
SSS–SAT–ATBB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: A
A reflection on the plainsong antiphon Maria Virgo assumpta est, with a specially written text by Lucia Quinault. The Assumption is approached through its human story as much as its theology: a mother returning home to be reunited with the child from whom she has been parted.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: ORA Singers · Suzi Digby — Sanctissima, 2023
The Lover’s Ghost
Emerging Voices (cambiata) or SATB choir and piano
Difficulty: E
A pulsating, folk-inflected setting of the traditional ballad often known as The House Carpenter: a dark sea story of love, departure and loss. Strong rhythmic writing and memorable vocal lines give the piece an immediate appeal, while chromatic shifts add a more unsettling edge.
Scores: Oxford University Press — Emerging Voices · SATB
Recording: The Oxford Choir · Richard Pearce — Oxford Choral Highlights 2020
Come, Lord Jesus
SABar choir and organ or piano
Difficulty: E
A warm, straightforward Advent anthem asking Christ to bring justice, hope and joy. A memorable melody and gently flowing accompaniment make it accessible to modest forces without losing its expressive character.
Scores: Oxford University Press — individual score · Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems
Recording: Commotio · Griselda Sherlaw-Johnson — The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems, 2018
Come, let us return
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
Written for a Winchester College BBC Choral Evensong, this setting of Hosea’s call to return to the Lord moves from brokenness towards the promise of healing and restoration.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Winchester College Quiristers — BBC Radio 3, 2017
Majora Canamus
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M/A
Written for the Southern Cathedrals Festival during its Jane Austen celebrations, Majora Canamus takes the opening Sinfonia of Handel’s Messiah as its musical point of departure. Rather than quoting it straightforwardly, the piece imagines fragments and echoes of Handel still reverberating through the cathedral after centuries of performances. Its text comes from the scriptural frontispiece Charles Jennens placed at the head of his Messiah libretto. The first performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Southern Cathedrals Festival — BBC Radio 3, 2017
Chimes
Flexible voices and piano
Difficulty: E
A setting of Alice Meynell’s short, atmospheric poem, written for flexible forces and suitable for unison, two-part or mixed-voice choirs. Marked “rolling and flowing”, the gently undulating music suggests the fleeting sound of bells carried through the night.
Scores: Oxford University Press — Oxford Book of Flexible Choral Songs
Recording: Oxford University Press
The Silver Swan
SSA choir and piano; also available for high or low solo voice
Difficulty: M
A modern response to the traditional text made famous by Orlando Gibbons. The piece retains the poem’s stillness and poignancy in an expressive contemporary setting, and is available both for SSA choir and as a solo song.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recordings: National Youth Girls’ Choir · Katie Thomas · Michael Higgins, 2022; Commotio · Joanna Tomlinson — More Choral Highlights 2019
O Sacrum Convivium
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: E
Written for Sing for Pleasure, this brief Eucharistic motet has a gently coloured, early-twentieth-century French flavour: compact, atmospheric and creating a distinctive sound-world in only a couple of minutes.
Scores: Sing for Pleasure
Words of Forgiveness
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M
Written for Max Barley and St Mary’s, Wimbledon as part of a project on the Seven Last Words from the Cross. The piece centres on Christ’s first saying from the cross — “Father, forgive them” — and the difficult generosity contained within it.
Scores: Please enquire
Prayer to the Mother of God
ATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
A short Marian work written for The Marian Consort, setting words associated with Hildegard of Bingen with deliberately simple, clear textures.
Scores: Buy score
Recording: The Marian Consort · Rory McCleery — A Winged Woman, Linn Records, 2023
The Spirit of the Lord
SATB choir and piano
Difficulty: M/E
Commissioned by Sonoro for its Choral Inspirations project as a companion to Elgar’s setting from The Apostles. Rather than arranging Elgar, the piece responds to the same text and musical inheritance in a contemporary language, and has since proved popular with choirs.
Scores: Buy score
Recording: Sonoro · Neil Ferris · Michael Higgins — Choral Inspirations 2, 2022
Give Us the Wings of Faith
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M
Commissioned for the St Davids Cathedral Festival, this saints’ day anthem has a broad, rugged character that reflects something of the exposed coastal landscape around St Davids. It was subsequently performed from the cathedral in a BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: St Davids Cathedral Festival
Christmas & Advent
The Darkest Midnight in December
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M/E
A compact setting of the traditional Irish Christmas text, in which the bleakness of midwinter gives way to the Nativity and the warmth of the Christmas story.
Scores: Please enquire
The Salutation Carol
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M
A compact carol centred on the Annunciation: the moment of encounter between Gabriel and Mary and the extraordinary news at the heart of the Christmas story.
Scores: Please enquire
Balulalow
SATBarB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
A tender setting of the familiar Scots cradle-song, combining the intimacy of a lullaby with richer divided choral textures.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recording: Sansara — The Waiting Sky, 2019
I Sing of a Maiden
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
A simple and direct setting of the medieval Marian text, allowing the poem’s delicacy and its image of Christ arriving “as dew in April” to remain at the centre.
Scores: Please enquire
The Waiting Sky
SATB choir, unaccompanied; also available for SSAA choir
Difficulty: E/M
A reflective Advent miniature setting words by Lucia Quinault. A bare rural winter landscape seems to hold its breath for the appearance of the star, creating a piece full of stillness, expectation and quiet light.
Scores: Oxford University Press — SATB · SSAA
Recording: Sansara — The Waiting Sky, 2019
The Wise Men and the Star
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M/E
A mystical Epiphany carol setting words by Lucia Quinault and following the Magi on their journey towards the child. A steady sense of expectancy is contrasted with moments of stillness as the travellers finally reach their destination.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recordings: Sansara — The Waiting Sky, 2019; The Sixteen · Harry Christophers — CORO, 2025
Under the Starlight
SATB or SSAA choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: E
Written during the Covid period as a small Christmas gift, this very simple setting of words by Lucia Quinault compresses the Nativity into a handful of images: a cold, dark night suddenly illuminated, and the pain of labour giving way to the promise and joy of new life.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing
Recording: Under the Starlight, 2020
The Blackthorn Carol
SATB choir, unaccompanied, with divisions and solos
Difficulty: M
Lucia Quinault’s text approaches the Annunciation through the natural world, linking Mary’s story with the unexpected flowering of blackthorn in winter and the first signs of spring. The piece has also been performed on BBC Radio 3.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing
Recording: Vox Populi · Tom Edney, conductor — 2024
There is no rose
Upper voices and piano
Difficulty: E/M
An unusually buoyant setting of this much-loved medieval Christmas text. Bright, flowing writing for upper voices and piano gives the familiar words a fresh and breezy character.
Scores: Please enquire
A Winter’s Night Carol
Upper voices and piano
Difficulty: M/E
Written for Metropolitan United Church in London, Ontario, this carol tells the shepherds’ story through a text that draws some of its imagery from O Little Town of Bethlehem. The result combines familiar Christmas associations with a newly told narrative.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Metropolitan United Church · London, Ontario — 2025
See also: The Night Before Christmas under Large-scale choral & choral-orchestral works.
Liturgical & service music
Winchester Missa Brevis
SSA choir and organ
Difficulty: M
A compact Mass for treble voices and organ, written within the English choir-school tradition and owing something to the precedent of Britten’s Missa Brevis while using a more contemporary harmonic language.
Scores: Please enquire
Missa Media Nocte
SATB choir with divisions and organ or chamber ensemble
Difficulty: M/E
Commissioned for Lancaster Priory’s Midnight Mass, this is an uplifting and concise setting of the Latin Missa brevis. Its flexible accompaniment allows it to be performed with organ alone, chamber ensemble, or a combination of instrumental colours and organ.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recording: Lyndhurst Singers · Ed Wellman · Griselda Sherlaw-Johnson — Oxford University Press Music, 2020
Lancaster Service
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M/E
Commissioned by Lancaster Priory following a project with its trebles, who were invited to imagine what their ideal Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis might sound and feel like. The resulting service grew directly from those conversations with its first singers.
Scores: Please enquire
Missa Brevis (Salve Regina)
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M/E
Written for Morland Choristers’ Camp, this highly accessible Mass setting has something of the colour and sweep of the grand French Mass tradition, but without its technical demands. Alongside the familiar liturgical movements is a metrical English setting of the Gloria, conceived as a hymn, with words by the Revd Carrie Thompson.
Scores: Please enquire
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis — The ‘Schuil’ Service
SATB choir and organ
Difficulty: M
The title comes from the Dutch word for a “hiding place” and refers to the concealed Catholic churches in which worship continued during periods of persecution. Jointly commissioned by Koorschool Delft and St John’s Cathedral in Knoxville, the service connects this history of hidden worship with St John’s own exile on Patmos.
Scores: RSCM
Recordings: Magnificat · Nunc Dimittis — St John’s Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee
Young voices, children & community
Thunder, Lightning, or in Rain
Young voices, piano and percussion
Difficulty: M
Three Shakespeare texts brought together in a compact work for young singers, piano and percussion, using the vivid theatrical language of the plays as the starting point for a lively choral sequence.
Scores: Please enquire
Treasure Island
Young voices, soloists and piano or instrumental ensemble
Difficulty: E/M
Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous adventure story retold as a large-scale cantata for young performers, bringing its pirates, journeys and larger-than-life characters into a theatrical musical setting.
Scores: Please enquire
Love makes the world go round
SATB choir and piano
Difficulty: E
Originally written as part of Around the World in Eighty Days, this upbeat song with words by Carrie Thompson celebrates diversity, tolerance and respect — a lively stand-alone number particularly suited to community and youth choirs.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing
The Lover’s Ghost
CCBar (Cambiata) choir and piano
Difficulty: E
A pulsating, folk-inflected setting of the traditional ballad often known as The House Carpenter: a dark sea story of love, departure and loss. Strong rhythmic writing and memorable vocal lines give the piece an immediate appeal, while chromatic shifts add a more unsettling edge. An SATB version is also available.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recordings: Winchester College Cambiata Choir 2018; The Oxford Choir · Richard Pearce — Oxford Choral Highlights 2020
Sea Fever
CCBar (Cambiata) choir and piano
Difficulty: E/M
An expressive setting of John Masefield’s famous poem for changing voices. The music ebbs and flows with the text, using imitation and wave-like movement to catch its irresistible longing for the sea.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Recording: Winchester College Cambiata Choir 2018
Shenandoah
CCBar (cambiata) choir and piano
Difficulty: E/M
An arrangement of the well-loved American folksong that begins in simple one- and two-part writing before opening into three-part imitation. A flowing piano accompaniment carries the music forward before voices and accompaniment gradually ebb away.
Scores: Oxford University Press
Around the World in Eighty Days
Cantata for young voices and piano
Difficulty: E/M
A fast-moving musical retelling of Jules Verne’s novel, bringing Phileas Fogg’s journey and its succession of adventures to life in an approachable theatrical work for young performers.
Scores: Please enquire
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Cantata for young voices and piano
Difficulty: E/M
A choral journey through Lewis Carroll’s strange and playful world, bringing the novel’s eccentric characters, sudden changes of scene and verbal absurdities into a lively musical narrative for young performers.
Scores: Please enquire
Trade Winds
CCBar (cambiata) choir and piano
Difficulty: M/E
An evocative sea piece for changing voices, built around the romance and danger of distant harbours and the “Spanish seas”. Rugged imagery and a strong sense of movement give it the atmosphere of a seafaring ballad.
Scores: Please enquire
I Am. We Are.
Treble, cambiata and baritone voices (or SATB choir) and piano
Difficulty: M
Written with lyricist Hazel Gould in collaboration with members of the National Youth Boys’ Choir, this three-part work explores identity, growing up and the importance of finding a place within a community. Individual voices gradually gather into something larger, culminating in a confident affirmation of belonging; the work was subsequently performed as part of National Youth Choir’s fiftieth-anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: National Youth Boys’ Choir · Lucy Joy Morris · Adam Hope — National Youth Choir Recordings, 2023
The Odyssey
Cantata for young voices and piano
Difficulty: E/M
A vibrant retelling of Homer’s epic journey with words by Carrie Thompson, moving through its monsters, heroes, disasters and homecomings with a lively and often witty theatrical style.
Scores: Please enquire
New Forest Song Cycle
Children and young voices with piano
Difficulty: M
A community-led cycle developed with children and young people from across the New Forest, celebrating the landscape through six songs about place, nature and the changing seasons. Created through workshops with local groups and schools, the project encourages its singers not simply to observe the Forest but to think of it as their home and something for which they share responsibility.
Scores: Please enquire
The River
SAB community choir, unaccompanied
Difficulty: M
Written to celebrate twenty years of Winchester Community Choir, with words by Lucia Quinault. The piece imagines music flowing through Winchester as the River Itchen does: gathering voices, memories and places into a shared current through the city.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Winchester Community Choir
Queen Mary’s School Song
School voices and organ or piano
Difficulty: E
Written for the 150th anniversary of Queen Mary’s School, Thirsk, with words developed by the pupils themselves through workshops. The new song was created to give the school community a tradition of its own, with its first outing at Ripon Cathedral.
Scores: Please enquire
See also: Jonah, a chamber opera for soloists, children’s chorus and instrumental ensemble, under Large-scale choral & choral-orchestral works. First performance at the Barnes Festival in 2027.
Songs & solo works
The Silver Swan
High or low voice and piano
Difficulty: M
The solo version of the choral setting: a modern response to the traditional poem made famous by Orlando Gibbons, preserving its poised melancholy in an expressive contemporary song. Versions are available for both high and low voice.
Scores: Oxford University Press — high voice · low voice
Recording: See the SSA choral version — National Youth Girls’ Choir, 2022
Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge
Voice and piano
Difficulty: M
An atmospheric setting of Wordsworth’s familiar sonnet, responding both to the extraordinary stillness of London seen at dawn and to the weight, scale and underlying grit of the city beneath that moment of calm.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge
Instrumental
Chorale Prelude on ‘Ein feste Burg’
Organ
Difficulty: M
Written for the Choir Schools Association Conference in 2022, this short, exuberant prelude takes one of the great historic chorale melodies and gives it a compact contemporary treatment.
Scores: Please enquire
Recording: Benjamin Cunningham · The Queen’s College, Oxford — 2022
Hymn tunes
Ripley
Hymn tune
Difficulty: E
Written for the text They shall not e’er grow old.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing
Mornington Crescent
Hymn tune
Difficulty: E
Written for the text Creator God, whose sovereign word.
Scores: Choral Music Publishing