The Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester included Janet’s Responses in the festival Evensong broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong on July 29th. Festival director Adrian Partington directed the combined choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester Cathedrals. The service also featured music by Bliss, Hurd, Wesley and the world première of Gavin Higgins’ Gloucester Service. Also featuring in the festival, The Oriel Singers conducted by Ben Sawyer presented a programme ‘I Heard a…
In July 2026 Selwyn College Chapel Choir with Sarah MacDonald recorded an album of Janet’s sacred music for Regent Records. The sessions took place over two days and included a wide range of pieces: introits, anthems, psalm settings and The Selwyn Service, a set of canticles dedicated to the college. Four trombonists from Prime Brass featured in one track, Psalm 150, and several pieces included organ accompaniments beautifully played by Shanna Hart and Kim Chin.…
Star-high, heart-deep is Janet’s setting of Ursula Bethell’s poem ‘Twinkled to Sleep’ for mixed choir and strings. It will be premièred by Granta Chorale and Hellier Strings at a gala concert in St Mary’s Saffron Walden on 6th June 2026. The words depict the twinkling of the New Zealand night sky and how it makes the heart dance, bringing peace and sleep.
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.