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Janet’s Imagine it! (originally written for NYCGB and O Duo) was part of a Saffron Walden Choral Society programme booked for Saffron Hall in July. It should have shared the programme with Orff’s Carmina Burana and Jonathan Dove’s Arion and the Dolphin, all of which is now on hold.

Janet is very pleased to have a commission from Sarah Tenant Flowers to write a piece for the wonderful Papagena. She is exploring texts for this.

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.

In April Janet had been due to conduct Saffron Walden Choral Society and the Chameleon Arts Orchestra in Alec Roth’s A Time To Dance paired with the Bach Magnificat. SWCS hope to reschedule these wonderful pieces in due course.

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.