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.
As a companion piece for her cantata The Measure of a Tree, Janet has composed a setting of Kate Wakeling’s poem ‘and a tree’ for the Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir. Kate’s poem was commissioned by the Poetry Society to celebrate the decoration of the annual Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree in 2022. Janet chose to set this text because it echoed many of same ideas explored by ‘The Measure of a Tree’. She has dedicated her…
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.
Janet’s Prelude on Angelus ad Virginem has been published in Encore Publications’ new anthology: Born in a Stable – Organ music for Advent and Christmas. Janet was delighted when Sarah MacDonald gave the première in Ely Cathedral on September 8th in her recital marking the Nativity of the BVM. Sarah plans to play it again in Westminster Abbey next year.