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Wednesday, 3rd June 2026 #AveVerum #crowdfunder #DebutAlbums #LFCCM I am walking for Ave Verum, track 2 on the choral album. Ave Verum was written for Sophie and Laurence on their wedding, 15 October 2021. It takes 16thC polyphony into a 21stC sound world. The rich choral resonances are created layering the simple motifs of Byrd's famous setting of the Ave Verum some 500 years earlier. In the final section, the oscillating figures for O dulcis and O pie create a soft bed fo

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

After chairing a lunch discussing AI with an MP, I took solace in St Michael’s Cornhill