A programme in the SONORO series Choral inspirations was to include Janet’s Beati Quorum Via (Homage to Stanford) as well as Sarah Cattley’s Sicut Cervus. Janet and her chamber choir Granta Chorale were due to share the Saffron Hall platform with Neil Ferris and professional chamber choir SONORO in March. Sadly the event fell victim to the pandemic but all hope to pick up the project again when possible.
The Tealby Watson family (already regular patrons through their commissions for Time Becomes A Song and Gather the Good Days) commissioned new choral pieces from Janet for a family celebration on the island of Arran in summer 2019. Janet set wonderful Scottish poems by Gordon Jarvie and George Bruce, whose poem Voyage We to Islands is to be the title piece for Janet’s intended cycle growing from these two songs. Janet conducted a super ad…
This Pentecost motet will be paired with Tallis’ famous setting of the same text at evensong by the choir of St Bride’s, Fleet Street on Sunday 9th June. Janet’s work uses the opening of the plainchant as a motif to create a jabbering effect to mimic many voices.
Sonoro commissioned Janet as one of six composers to write a work inspired by a choral classic. Janet chose Stanford’s Beati Quorum Via as her inspiration for personal reasons, as she explains in this short video. Watch and listen to her setting here and get in touch for a perusal score. Sonoro are bringing the whole set of twelve paired works to Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham, and London this summer and autumn. A workshop for local…
As part of their programme ‘The Music of Rome’ ORA Singers premièred Janet’s Terra Tremuit at LSO St Luke’s in London on 1st June. ORA are partway through the process of commissioning 100 choral composers each to write a reflection on a Renaissance piece, and Janet was asked to respond to Palestrina’s motet Terra Tremuit. In a pre-performance Q&A session with ORA’s Artistic Director and Founder, Suzi Digby OBE, Janet spoke about her focus on painting…