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…
The video made during the NYCGB Training Choir Summer School in August has now been launched on the choir’s YouTube channel. Conductor Greg Beardsell and virtuoso percussionists O Duo worked with the young singers to perform and record Janet’s setting of words by John Taylor, exploring the infinite variety of what the human mind can do. Gramophone Magazine made it their Video of the Day on 16th October 2018. You can watch the video here. To…
These variations on John Dowland’s love song Come Away, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite were composed originally to be played by a wedding string quartet. This is the first performance in an extended version for string orchestra, including two new variations. Harlow Symphony Orchestra – St John’s Church, Epping Sunday 2 July 7.30pm
Psallite Women’s Choir (director Nancy Hadden) commissioned this work with support from Cockayne Grants for the Arts and the London Community Foundation. The text weaves together joyful extracts from Psalm 68, Walt Whitman, Thomas Campion and Emily Bronte. Rhapsodic bursts of renaissance flute punctuate shifting choral and solo textures and little touches of percussion add colour and sparkle. Psallite Women’s Choir – The Old Church, Stoke Newington Thursday 29 June 7.30pm