New Publications

Last Sunday evening in St Patrick’s Church, Coleraine, there was the first performance of Philip Stopford’s new anthem FOR HE IS OUR PEACE. It is scored for piano and SATB choir with optional organ providing a string orchestra effect in the backgroud.    A YouTube video of the final rehearsal can been seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baRQu79wCpE   […]

Description   Early Summer – based on the poem Early Summer by Charles Harpur (1813-1868) – for SSA & Piano or SA & Piano   ‘Tis the early summer season, when the skies are clear and blue, When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew, And upland growths of wattles engolden all […]

SATB now available with String Ensemble Accompaniment  . . .    About the song . . . A new setting of a traditional poem, this work juxtaposes simple melodic beauty with a wider harmonic palette in the interior sections. These interior sections can be performed with the optional piano part, or a capella. The use of […]

This is perhaps the greatest poem by Stephen Spender (1909-1995). Permission to use  the text was kindly granted by the Estate of Stephen Spender. The music is challenging, but firmly tonal and hardly intimidating to any auditioned and well rehearsed chorus. All my works are written in Sibelius, so fully professional scores are available, with […]

Here is an eight part setting, challenging but hardly insurmountable, of the famously magnificent poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). This is not the first setting, and the final stanza,  beginning “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,” has also been set separately. All my works are written in Sibelius, creating fully professional scores. […]

I am proud to announce the availability of my very best and most original choral work to-date, a setting of THE CITY IN THE SEA by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) for SATB chorus (divisi) unaccompanied. While only 6:40 in duration, this setting has been literally two decades in the making. As a composer, I am […]