New Publications

A gorgeous setting of the hauntingly beautiful New Zealand folk song “Pokarekare Ana.” This arrangement of New Zealand’s unofficial national anthem is perfect for your beginning to intermediate ensemble. Featuring a lovely piano accompaniment, solo opportunities and a memorable melody. Also available in the following voicings: Unison, SA, SSA, TB, TTBB, SAB, and SATB. (Different […]

Please click below to hear my setting of the poem “Advent Calendar” by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury: https://soundcloud.com/simon-42-1/advent-calendar It was broadcast by the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, as part of their Advent Carol Service a few years ago on BBC Radio 3.  If anyone is interested in possibly performing it, please […]

Christmas is around the corner and this lively part song is perfect for the season! Fun to sing and set in multiple voicings making it accessible for almost any choral ensemble.

Looking for a jolly Christmas piece for upper voices for your holiday concert or carol service? Then take a look at “Sweet Chiming Christmas Bells”, arranged in 3 parts for SSA and piano by Gordon Thornett. This traditional song incorporates the words of “While shepherds watched their flocks by night”, and the arrangement includes references […]

After the moving premiere performance of this newly commissioned piece ‘We are a Single Voice’ at the Voices Yorkshire Gala Concert last Saturday 14th September in Yorkshire performed by almost 200 singers, we have now released it as a PDF download for SATB choir with piano or organ accompaniment… if you click through to the […]

Setting the stirring poem “The Wild Swans at Coole” by W. B. Yeats, Christopher Matthews has crafted a striking new work for SSA voices and piano. Originally planned as a companion piece to his ever-popular “The Arrow and the Song,” Christopher soon realized that Yeats’ poem allowed for, and even required a deeper, more expansive […]