Janet’s Salva Nos (Fanfare in Extremis) has been selected by JAM to be premièred at their Music in Our Time concert at St Brides Church, Fleet Street on 26th March 2026. Envisaged as an instrumental prayer for safety amid turbulent times, this short piece contrasts nervous and energetic music with chorale-like phrases inspired by the words of a Latin compline hymn. It will open the concert performed by Onyx Brass.
Guildford Choral conducted by Jonathan Willcocks are performing Janet’s I Sing and Ever Shall on Saturday March 14th 2026 at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. Including texts by Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Rabindranath Tagore and Robert Herrick, the cantata celebrates the joy of singing. Its classical-style orchestral line-up matches that of many works by Mozart and Haydn and it is paired in this concert with Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War.
Chamber choir Fever Pitch conducted by Elinor Corp sang choral Evensong at Southwark Cathedral on 10th January 2026. They included Janet’s a cappella setting of the Latin Magnificat, and the spacious textures and lush harmonies of the piece really bloomed in the cathedral’s beautiful acoustic.
Volker Kroll conducted the Ölberg Chor and Concerto Spirito in the German premières of Janet’s Magnificat cum Angelis given at Emmaus-Kirche in Berlin on 21st and 22nd November 2025. They performed Janet’s new condensed edition of the opening Angelus movement, which shortens the overall duration of the work to 40′. After the performances Volker wrote: “The concerts were a big success, the visitors loved your music. I really hope that many performances will follow. I…
A new album by Papagena includes Tomorrow is Today as its title track. Janet wrote this for the group in 2021, setting a text by Sarah Cattley which likens each new dawn to the new life of a chick emerging from its egg. The music incorporates layered birdsong effects to create a dawn chorus. This is interspersed with more rhythmic and energetic, dance-like music full of the excitement of a new morning and new life.…