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.
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…
Following its première in June 2025 by Granta Chorale, Slideways Trombone Quartet and Richard Carr on the organ, Janet’s setting of Psalm 150 was given its second performance by Ely Choral Society – again with Slideways – in Ely Cathedral on October 18th. The concert also featured new pieces by the choir’s conductor Andrew Parnell. Psalm 150 was the result of a commission from David and Rachel Musgrove to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. The…
Janet’s new arrangement of a beautiful Shaker work song contains three variants which can be sung continuously or as separate interludes in a concert. Granta Chorale gives the première in their concert: ‘All in the end … is harvest’ in Corpus Christi College Cambridge on 17th October. The piece can be sung by a flexible line-up of at least 4 voices with piano.