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Friday, 15th of May 2026 #composing #NationalCurriculum #MatthewColeridge #BreathOfLife #LFCCM #GCSEmusic At a concert of Matthew Coleridge’s wonderful Breath Of Life, premiered last year and just released as an album. This work started as a setting of psalms, then expanded to take in texts from Christopher Smart, Khalil Gibran and John Muir. One of Matthew’s many talents is word-setting and this shines through especially the words of Rig Veda – Arise! The Breath, the Lif

Monday, 11th of May 2026 #LondonFestivalOfContemporaryChurchMusic #RorateCaeli #SouthwarkCathedral Looking forward to the LFCCM Festival Singers singing my Rorate Caelie tomorrow at Southwark Cathedral. And nice to be on the billing with all these wonderful composers. London Festival of Contemporary Church Music has a great record of selecting and performing good, new music. To Me Always Richard Barnard Lighten our darkness David T Shingler Praise the Lord, all you nation

That’s a first! A 100-strong choir of powerful voices singing Parsons Ave Maria. The final Amen was joyous.