Singing in a Choir – Janet’s lockdown song

Janet’s online rehearsals during lockdown have been enthusiastically received by singers in her choirs. Of course these rehearsals bring inevitable frustrations for singers and conductors. The joys and benefits of actual choral singing over virtual choirs were the starting point for Janet’s new ‘pop song’ Singing in a Choir. Granta Chorale member Emma Hall had suggested Janet compose a new piece and Emma then produced the video, while Janet’s nephew Robin Wheeler mixed and produced…

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Requiem to Cancer – commission

Janet is very pleased to have been commissioned to compose an anthem for Requiem to Cancer – originally scheduled for the end of September 2020, but now postponed until 2021. She is delighted to support this very worthwhile cause, following in the footsteps of previous composers Will Todd and Cecilia McDowall.

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Voyage We to Islands

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…

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Sonoro launches “Choral Inspirations” including Janet’s Beati Quorum Via

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…

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