Concert archive

Sunday 25 July 2010

Newstead Singers
Lesley Cooper, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Would like to meet
(from Lonely Hearts)

Saturday 24 July 2010

Newstead Singers
Lesley Cooper, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Would like to meet
(from Lonely Hearts)

Summer Concert

Surrey County Youth Orchestra
Peter Currie, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed

Friday 23 July 2010

Summer Concert

Surrey County Youth Orchestra
Peter Currie, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed

Thursday 22 July 2010

Conwy Festival

Ave Maria - Music for Mary
The Marian Consort

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Alma Redemptoris Mater (premiere)

Summer Concert

Surrey County Youth Orchestra
Peter Currie, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Newstead Singers
Lesley Cooper, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Would like to meet
(from Lonely Hearts)

Summer Concert

Surrey County Youth Orchestra
Peter Currie, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed

Sunday 18 July 2010

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Ed Kemp-Luck, piano
George Vass, conductor

Benjamin Britten Choral Dances from Gloriana, Op 53
Cecilia McDowall After the Rain
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Dark eye'd Sailor
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lover's Ghost
Ralph Vaughan Williams Just as the Tide was flowing
Bob Chilcott Londonderry Air
E J Moeran Songs of Springtime
Michael Tippett Five Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time'
Gabriel Jackson Song (I gaze upon you)
Edward Elgar As torrents in Summer
Edward Elgar The Fountain
Edward Elgar My Love dwelt in a Northern Land
Bob Chilcott Irish Blessing
Cecilia McDowall A Fancy of Folksongs

Thursday 15 July 2010

Summer Music

London Concord Singers
Malcolm Cottle, conductor

Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David
Hassler: Missa Octava a 8
Palestrina: Sanctificavit Moyses
de Lassus: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Wood: Hail Gladdening Light
Jackson: Cecilia Virgo
Howells: Salve Regina
McDowall: Deus, qui claro lumine
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Sunday 11 July 2010

Newstead Singers
Lesley Cooper, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Would like to meet (from Lonely Hearts)

Saturday 10 July 2010

Zomeravondconcert

Epsom Choral Society
Robin Kimber, conductor

programme to include works by:
Byrd, Tallis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Lassus, Purcell, Schubert, Finzi, Cjilcott
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my redeemer liveth

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Evensong

The Choir of Liverpool Cathedral
David Poulter, Director of Music

Service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Aurea Luce

Sunday 27 June 2010

Evensong

The Choir of Liverpool Cathedral
David Poulter, Director of Music

Service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Aurea Luce (premiere)

Aurea Luce has been commissioned by the Friends of Liverpool Cathedral to celebrate 100 years since the Lady Chapel (the first part of the cathedral to be built) was consecrated. The text is by Elpis, wife of the philospher, Boethius.

Saturday 19 June 2010

Epsom Choral Society
Robin Kimber conductor
Marion Lea accompanist

Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Lauridsen: Nocturnes
Cecilia McDowall: A Fancy of Folksongs
John Rutter: Madrigals

Sunday 13 June 2010

Solemn Vespers & Benediction

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Martin Baker, Director of Music

Service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Deus, portus pacis

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Two pianos, eight hands, forty digits

Piano 40

Smetana: Rondo
Edmund Jolliffe: Carnival
James Wilson: Grimoire
Andrew Peggie: Octo-Paganini
Cecilia McDowall: Piano Forte
Janet Beat: Dynamism
Moscheles: Grand Duo

Wednesday 2 June 2010

Choral Evensong

The Choir of St John's College, Durham
George Richford, conductor

Responses: Leighton
Canticles - Cecilia McDowall St Martin's Canticles
Anthem - Cecilia McDowall: Jesu, the very thought of Thee (premiere)

Sunday 23 May 2010

Morning Concert

The Backman Trio
Frida Backman, violin
Ruth Beedham, cello
Marcus Andrews, piano


Beethoven: Piano Trio no. 5 in D major Ghost, Op.70 no.1
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Trio in C minor, H.79
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op.66

Saturday 22 May 2010

Vocal Ensemble
Philip Colman, conductor
Trinity College of Music

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Would like to meet (Lonely Hearts)

Friday 21 May 2010

Surrey County Youth Orchestra
Peter Currie, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed

More information to follow

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Lendvai String Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Time Between Tides (Second performance)

Based on the poem, Cliff Fall, by Sean Street

Sunday 16 May 2010

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

St Pancras Church Festival Choir
Christopher Batchelor, conductor
Preacher: The Revd Canon Roger Royle, Broadcaster

Choral Evensong

Responses: McDowall (lfccm premiere 2010)
Introit: Bingham: Prayer (lp)
Canticles: Campkin: Service in G
Anthem: Ambler: As they were looking

BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong - London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

The Choir of St Pancras Parish Church
Christopher Batchelor, conductor

Responses: Batchelor
Introit: Walker Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit (lfccm10),
Magnificat: Andrew St Pancras Canticle,
(lfccm commission 2010)
Nunc Dimittis: Andrew (Dusk Songs),
Anthem: Grier Now the Son of Man has been
glorified (Ascension Sequence),
Voluntary: McDowall Sounding heaven and earth
(lfccm commission 2010)

Repeat of last Wednesday's Choral Evensong, BBC Radio 3

Saturday 15 May 2010

Choral Evensong

The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Tim Byram-Wigfield, conductor
The Right Revd John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford


Cecilia McDowall: Psallite Domino - premiere(commissioned by the Reverend Dr Hugh White in celebration of the life and work of the Reverend Dr Maurice Frost, former Vicar of Deddington.)

Psallite Domino is an event in the Deddington Maurice Frost Festival. The festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of the completion of his Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient & Modern by the Reverend Maurice Frost, DD, former Vicar of Deddington.

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Choral Evensong

The Choir of St Pancras Parish Church
Christopher Batchelor, conductor

Responses: Batchelor
Introit: Walker Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit (lfccm10),
Magnificat: Andrew St Pancras Canticle,
Nunc Dimittis: Andrew (Dusk Songs),
Anthem: Grier Now the Son of Man has been
glorified (Ascension Sequence),
Voluntary: McDowall Sounding heaven and earth

Choral Evensong BBC R3 live broadcast

Saturday 8 May 2010

Ambleside and District Choral Society
Fiona Weakley, soprano
Anne-Marie Kerr, contralto
South Cumbria Ensemble
Wendy Cann, leader
John Cooper Green, conductor

Handel: Foundling Hospital Anthem
(including the "Hallelujah" chorus)
Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Vivaldi: Gloria

Sunday 25 April 2010

University Singers of the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music
Gabrielle Dietrich, conductor

programme to include:
Bela Bartok: Four Slovak Songs
Johannes Brahms: O schone Nacht
Gustav Holst: I Love my Love
Morten Lauridsen:selections from Four Madrigals on Renaissance Texts
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Robert Schumann: Zigeunerleben

Michael Buchanan, trombone
Jennifer Hughes. piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Skerry and Fjord

Thursday 22 April 2010

Peak Music Society

Sally Pryce Ensemble
Juliette Bausor: Flute
Sarah Williamson: clarinet
Elizabeth Cooney, Bea Lovejoy Violins
Nick Bootiman: viola
Adrian Bradbury: cello
Sally Pryce: harp

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Dream City

Sunday 18 April 2010

Afternoon concert

Peter Fisher (vln) and Peter Hewitt (pno)

programme to include:
Mozart: Sonata K304
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me?
Brahms: Op 100

Saturday 17 April 2010

Concordia Voices and
Ensemble Adastra
Neil Ferris, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Peteris Vasks: Pater noster
Handel: Dixit dominus

Thursday 15 April 2010

Leith Hill Musical Festival 2010

Leith Hill Music Festival
The first day of the 2010 Festival features Division 2 choirs (Buckland and Betchworth, Mickleham, Shalford, Beare Green and Newdigate) under the direction of Festival Conductor Brian Kay

Schubert: Mass in C
Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella

Music in the Village

Lendvai String Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Time Between Tides (world premiere)

Friday 9 April 2010

The 1st Spanish Flute Convention

Susan Milan, flute
Andrew Ball, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: The Moon Dances

Thursday 25 March 2010

London Concord Singers,
Malcolm Cottle, conductor

Meyerbeer: Psalm 91
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my redeemer liveth
Romuald Twardowski: O Salutaris Hostia
Romuald Twardowski: Lauda Sion
Weelkes: When David heard
Tomkins: When David Heard
Ramsey: When David Heard
Eric Whitacre: When David heard
Kodály: Jésus és a Kufárok (Jesus and the Traders)

Bude Music Society

English Piano Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms

Sunday 21 March 2010

Oakham Chamber Choir
Peter Davis, conductor

Mozart Requiem
programme also to include:
Philip Moore: Bonhoeffer motets
Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stella

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
George Vass conductor
Edward Kemp-Luck organ

William Walton: Jubilate Deo
Tarik O’Regan: Two Motets from 'Sequence from St Wulfstan'
Cecilia McDowall: Ad lucem: a canticle of light
Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full final Sacrifice, Op 26
Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum, Op 32
Rihards Dubra: Hail, Queen of Heaven
John Rutter: Ave Maria
Gabriel Jackson: Song (I gaze upon you)
Edward Elgar: Give unto the Lord, Op 74

Friday 19 March 2010

Con Anima
Paul Mealor, conductor

programme to include:
music by Orlando Gibbons
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Regina, Ave Maria, Regina Caeli

Saturday 13 March 2010

Bushey Symphony Orchestra 35th Anniversary Season

Anna Beryl, cello
Hannah Marcinowicz, saxophone
Choir of Parmiter's School, Garston
Bushey Symphony Orchestra
George Vass, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No 32 in G, K318
Tarik O'Regan: And there was a great calm
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 33
Michael Torke: Saxophone Concerto
Cecilia McDowall: Lonely Hearts
Bizet: Suite - Jeux d'Enfants

Fluitkwartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Hotfoot

Friday 12 March 2010

2010 ACDA - Southern Division Conference

University of Alabama at Birmingham Concert Choir
Dr. Philip L. Copeland, conductor


Spiritus domini (chant)
Peteris Vasks: Mate Saule
William Byrd: Sacerdotes domini
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Jaako Mantyjarvi: Death May Dissolve Me
Zoltan Kodaly: Esti dal
Vytautas Miškinis: Nunc dimittis

Sunday 7 March 2010

Virginia Chorale
Scott Williamson, conductor

programme to include:
Hildegard: In principio omnes
Fanny Mendelssohn: Abendlich
Williametta Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Faith York: Snow
Deborah Mason: Whitman Interlude (premiere)
Judith Shatin: Adonai Roi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Chen Yi: Sakura, Sakura
Clare Maclean: Hope There Is
Eleanor Daley: Requiem
Giselle Wyers: Goodbye
Emma Lou Diemer: Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

EARS WIDE OPEN: Celebrating Women in Music
with Bellissima! Women's choral ensemble and the Young Singers Project

Saturday 6 March 2010

A suitable job for a woman

The Meljon Singers
Janette Ruocco, conductor

programme to include works by:
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Regina
Libby Larsen
Miriam Mackie
Janette Ruocco
Judith Weir

Ears wide open: Celebrating women in music

Virginia Chorale
Scott Williamson, conductor

programme to include:
Hildegard: In principio omnes
Fanny Mendelssohn: Abendlich
Williametta Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Faith York: Snow
Deborah Mason: Whitman Interlude (premiere)
Judith Shatin: Adonai Roi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Chen Yi: Sakura, Sakura
Clare Maclean: Hope There Is
Eleanor Daley: Requiem
Giselle Wyers: Goodbye
Emma Lou Diemer: Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

EARS WIDE OPEN: Celebrating Women in Music
with Bellissima! Women's choral ensemble and the Young Singers Project

Vocal Sensations

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, members of the RSNO Chorus and massed choirs from North East Scotland
David Danzmayr, conductor (RSNO assistant conductor)

Orff: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Cecilia McDowall: After the Rain (premiere)
Verdi: Va pensiero from Nabucco
Verdi: Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside from Aida

Come and enjoy a wonderful hour-long performance of some of the greatest vocal music ever written. Performed by the RSNO Chorus together with local singers and accompanied by the RSNO, this is sure to be an uplifting and fitting conclusion to the Orchestra’s week in the Aberdeen area.

Friday 5 March 2010

Ears wide open: Celebrating women in music

Virginia Chorale
Scott Williamson, conductor

programme to include:
Hildegard: In principio omnes
Fanny Mendelssohn: Abendlich
Williametta Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Faith York: Snow
Deborah Mason: Whitman Interlude (premiere)
Judith Shatin: Adonai Roi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Chen Yi: Sakura, Sakura
Clare Maclean: Hope There Is
Eleanor Daley: Requiem
Giselle Wyers: Goodbye
Emma Lou Diemer: Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

EARS WIDE OPEN: Celebrating Women in Music
with Bellissima! Women's choral ensemble and the Young Singers Project

Monday 1 March 2010

Lunchtime concert

Paul Archibald, trumpet, Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter

Sunday 28 February 2010

Fluitkwartet

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Saturday 27 February 2010

Ave Maria

Paragon Singers
Keith Bennett, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli

Saturday 20 February 2010

Lunchtime Recital

Michel Sedgwick, trumpet, Guy Llewellyn, horn,
Christopher Lawrence, tuba


Programme to include works by:
Trygve Madsen: Divertimento for Horn, Tuba and Piano Op.43
Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter
Paul Dukas: Villanelle
Trygve Madsen: The Mysterious Barricades II (Op.82)

Saturday 13 February 2010

Choral Evensong

The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
Andrew Carwood, conductor

Responses: Spicer
Introit: Notre Père - Duruflé
Canticles: Jesus Service - Mathias
Psalm: 139
Anthem: Deus portus pacis - Cecilia McDowall
Hymn 114

Sunday 7 February 2010

Afternoon Concert

Haruko Motohashi, violin, Masachi Nishiyama, piano

Elgar: Idylle Op.4 No.1
Elgar: Pastourelle Op.4 No.2
Elgar: Virelai Op.4 No.3
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.4 Op.23 in A minor
Handel: Violin Sonata No.5 in G minor Op.1 No.10
Schubert: Rondo Brilliante

Thursday 28 January 2010

Lunchtime concert

Sheida Davis (cello) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include:
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Martinu and
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Lunchtime concert

Sheida Davis (cello) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include:
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Martinu and
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Sunday 24 January 2010

When Poetry Sings

Colorado Conductor's Chorus
Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Grace Asquith, accompanist

Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Handel: Haste thee, nymph (L’Allegro)
Aaron Copland: Lark
Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs
Ned Rorem: Tears (From an Unknown Past)
Antonio Estevez: Mata del anima sola

Newark Brass Festival 2010

Michael Buchanan (trombone) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include the premiere of:
Cecilia McDowall: Skerry and Fjord
(a Newark Brass Festival commission for Michael Buchanan, the overall winner of the Newark Brass Festival 2009)
Newark Town Band with Paul Archibald
Trio D'art: Paul Archibald (trumpet) John Kenny (trombone) Helen Reid (piano)

John Reeman: Four Miniatures for trumpet, trombone and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Le temps viendra

The programme will be hosted by Judy Theobold from BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Blenheim Concerts (first of the new season)

Quintabile, brass quintet

programme to include:
Tylman Susato arr John Iveson: Renaissance Dances
Werner Pirchner: L'Homme au marteau dans la poche
George Frederick Handel: arr Walter BarnesLargo from Xerses
Kerry Turner: Ricochet for Brass Quintet
Malcolm Arnold: Quintet For Brass Op.73
Cecilia McDowall: Bells in the Air
Joseph Horovitz: Music Hall Suite
Lou Pollack arr Paul Nagle:That's a Plenty!

Saturday 23 January 2010

Postponed:
John Aley, trumpet, Martha Fischer, piano

The programme features:
Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata for piccolo trumpet and harpsichord
Robert Russell Bennett: Rose Variations for trumpet and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Framed for trumpet and piano (American premiere)
John Stevens: Sonata for trumpet and piano

When Poetry Sings

Colorado Conductor's Chorus
Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Grace Asquith, accompanist

Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Handel: Haste thee, nymph (L’Allegro)
Aaron Copland: Lark
Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs
Ned Rorem: Tears (From an Unknown Past)
Antonio Estevez: Mata del anima sola (1916-88)

The Colorado Conductors’ Chorus was founded in the Fall of 2008 by an enthusiastic group of Denver-area choral professionals interested in rehearsing and performing quality choral music at a high artistic level.

Friday 22 January 2010

Haydn Reloaded

Matthew Schellhorn, piano

performs miniatures on Haydn’s name by Debussy, Widor, d'Indy, Dukas, Ravel, Hahn,
and
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Tim Watts, Michael Zev Gordon, Jeremy Thurlow, Colin Riley, Cecilia McDowall, plus Haydn

Thursday 24 December 2009

Christmas Eve

Canterbury Choir
Garmon Ashby, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est
with brass quintet, percussion and organ

Christmas Eve

St Philp's Singers
Garmon Ashby, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est
with brass quintet, percussion and organ

Tuesday 22 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Monday 21 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Sunday 20 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Saturday 19 December 2009

Arnside Choral Society
Tracie Penwarden, soprano
Ian Allan, conductor

programme to include:
Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Christmas by Candlelight

Surrey Brass
Levon Parikian, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

a festive programme of seasonal music, words and song.

Family Christmas Concert

Congleton Choral Society
Polyphonic Brass
Nicholas Concannon, conductor

Christus Natus Est - A Cantata for Christmas - programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est, a cantata for Christmas
Extracts from Messiah
Community carols for audience and choir

Christmas Concert

Renaissance Voices
Harold Stover, conductor

This year’s program features music from the Renaissance by Byrd, Palestrina, and Guerrero; 20th Century English classics by Vaughan Williams, Howells, and Parry; the Maine premiere of a new work by Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli; traditional carols and, of course, seasonal readings shared by members of Renaissance Voices.

Epworth Choir Charity Christmas Concert

Epworth Choir
Katherine Dienes-Williams, guest conductor (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Guildford Cathedral),
organ and brass

programme to include:
Carols Old and New, featuring
John Rutter: Jesus Child,
Joy to the World
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est a cantata for Christmas)

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Friday 18 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium (premiere)
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Monday 14 December 2009

Taunton’s College Choir, Community Choir and Orchestra
Jane Higgins, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Sunday 13 December 2009

Montrose & Distrct Choral Society
Ralph Jamieson, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est, a cantata for Christmas

Saturday 12 December 2009

Christmas Concert 2009

Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society
Andrew Lowen, conductor

For 2009 our Christmas Concert will be accompanied by a brass group. It will contain our usual mix of favourites and audience carols (including Andrew's arrangement of Bob Chilcott's Nova Nova); and this year will include works for a children's choir (Cecilia McDowall's Christmas Cantata, Christus Natus Est, and John Rutter's Donkey Carol).

Glenrothes Choral Society Christmas Concert

Glenrothes Choral Society

Christmas music old and new. Includes -
Pergolesi: Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Durante and many more old favourites.

This Worldes Joie

St Albans Chamber Choir
John Gibbons, conductor

Mendelssohn: Im Advent
Nicholas Hare: Welcome Redemption's Dawn
Arnold Bax: This Worldes Joie
Richard Pygott (died 1552): Quid petis, 0 fili?
Arnold Bax: I sing of a maiden that is makeless
John Gibbons: Angel's Message
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation
Paul Spicer: How love bleeds (Four Carols for Dark Times)
Silent night arr. John Gibbons

Friday 11 December 2009

Christmas Concert

Giggleswick School Choir
Darren Everhart, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Thursday 10 December 2009

Giggleswick School Choir
Darren Everhart, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Monday 7 December 2009

Lunchtime concert

The Backman Trio
Frida Backman, violin
Ruth Beedham, cello
Marcus Andrews, piano

John Ireland: Phantasie Trio
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C minor

Saturday 5 December 2009

Winter concert

The Addison Singers
David Wordsworth, conductor

programme to include;
Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat

Music for a Winter's Evening

Cantemus, Alan Moore, conductor

programme to include works by Poulenc, Kenneth Leighton, Schütz, Victoria, Bach, Lassus,
Cecilia McDowall, Britten and Darke

Sunday 29 November 2009

Advent Service of Lessons and Carols

Canto Deo Chamber Choir
Jonathan Brown, conductor

service to include;
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation

Saturday 28 November 2009

Piano 40:
2 pianos, 4 pianists, 40 digits

programme to include:
Charles Camilleri: Divertimento
Edmund Joliffe: Carnival
Cecilia McDowall: Piano Forty
Andrew Peggie: Octo-Pagainni
Brian Chapple: Burlesque
Smetana: Rondo
Moscheles: Grand Duo

Advent Vigil

Canto Deo Chamber Choir
Jonathan Brown, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation

Sunday 22 November 2009

Woking Concert Society

Helen Reid, piano

Alexander Skryabin: Six Preludes from Op. 11
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Robert Schumann: Faschingswank aus Wien Op. 26
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A flat Op. 110
Claude Debussy: Nocturne; L'Île Joyeuse

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Festival of St. Cecilia, Musicians Benevolent Fund

The Choirs of St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral
Andrew Carwood, Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral

Festival service to include the
Musicians Benevolent Fund new anthem:
Cecilia McDowall: Deus, portus pacis
(world premiere)

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Piano Trio Society

English Piano Trio

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms

Sunday 15 November 2009

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Concert Choir
Philip Copeland, conductor


programme to include:
William Byrd: Haec Dies
Zoltan Kodaly: Esti dal
Vytautas Miškinis, Toivo Tuula,Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli
a diverse programme of music from five centuries and five nations

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Concert Choir
Philip Copeland, conductor

programme to include:
William Byrd: Haec Dies
Zoltan Kodaly: Esti dal
Vytautas Miškinis, Toivo Tuula,Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli
a diverse programme of music from five centuries and five nations

Friday 13 November 2009

Derby Chamber Music

Helen Reid, piano

Janacek: In the Mists
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26 (Viennese Carnival)
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Debussy: Nocturne in D flat
Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse

Thursday 12 November 2009

Cambridge Festival

Matthew Schellhorn, piano
John McMunn, tenor
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Britten: Still falls the rain, for tenor, horn and piano
Britten: Now sleeps the Crimson Petal, for tenor, horn and piano
Haydn: Variations in F minor, for piano
Jeremy Thurlow: Unbidden Visions, for tenor, horn and piano (world premiere)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Michael Zev Gordon, Cecilia McDowall, Colin Riley, Jeremy Thurlow, Tim Watts: Homage to Haydn, for piano (world premiere)
Mendelssohn: Selected songs for tenor and piano
Schubert: Auf dem Strom, for tenor, horn and piano

Chaconne Brass 25th Anniversary Concert

Chaconne Brass
Avirbhav Verma

Dowland: Lute songs (arr Chaconne and Matthew Allsop)
Emily White: Tripudium
Matthew Allsop: Shaping the Invisible, for quintet and electro-acoustic tape
Cecilia McDowall: Tango Oscuro
Jacob van Eyck (arr Torbjorn Hultmark): Doen Daphne d’over schoone Maeght
Edward Longstaff: Symphony for Brass
Torbjörn Hultmark: A Lullaby, for quintet and electro-acoustic tape (BBC Commission, World Première)
Mark Kesel: Nachna, for quintet and tabla
Torbjörn Hultmark: An Iberian Draft (after the 2nd movement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez)
Plus arrangements and improvisations with tabla and guitar

To be broadcast on BBC Hear and Now

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Music for Remembrance Day

Oakham Chamber Choir
Peter Davis, conductor

programme to include:
Handel: De torrente in via bibet (Dixit Dominus)
Angus McPhee: Agnus Dei
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Midday Music

The Backman Trio
Frida Backman, violin
Ruth Beedham, cello
Marcus Andrews, piano

John Ireland: Phantasie Trio
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C minor

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Haydn Anniversary Concert

Estherhazy Singers of London
Daniel Moult, organ
Esther Jones, conductor

Haydn: Creation Mass
Cecilia McDowall: Thy voice, o Harmony, is divine (London premiere)
Motets by Bruckner and Mendelssohn

Sunday 1 November 2009

The 2009 British Horn Festival

Horns Aloud

Cecilia McDowall: new work for horn quartet, Nocturne:
1. Distance and Moon
2. Under the brim of his hat

Early evening recital

Haruko Motohashi, violin, Masachi Nishiyama, piano

Schubert: Rondo Brilliante
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?
Britten: Three pieces from the Suite op.6
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in G Major Op.96, no.10

Saturday 31 October 2009

Rebecca Rudge, soprano,
Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B flat (Kleine Orgelmesse)
Cecilia McDowall Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Other choral works by Mozart

Friday 30 October 2009

Rebecca Rudge, soprano,
Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B flat (Kleine Orgelmesse)
Cecilia McDowall Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Other choral works by Mozart

Saturday 24 October 2009

Hoddesdon Music Society

Helen Reid, piano

Scriabin: Six Preludes
Cecilia McDowall: Colour in the Keyboard Schumann: Carnival Jest
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse

Meditations

Rebecca Rudge, soprano, Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Mozart: Divertimento in F, K138
Cecilia McDowall: Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light (commissioned by Alan McGlynn for the St Albans Choral Society - world premiere).
Haydn: Missa Brevis in B flat, 'Little Organ Mass
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane
Finzi: In terra pax, Op 38

Sunday 18 October 2009

Canterbury Festival

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Edward Kemp-Luck, organ
George Vass, conductor

Bach: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV118
Tarik O’Regan: Three Motets from Sequence for St Wulfstan
Brahms: Geistliches Lied, Op 30
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my Redeemer liveth
Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden Bruckner: Three Motets (Ave Maria,Locus iste, Christus factus est)
Joe Duddell: The Realside
Mozart Motet: Ave verum corpus, K618
John McCabe: The Evening Watch
Bach: Motet: Lobet den Herrn, BWV230

Afternoon concert

Martin Smith, violin
Sarah Down, piano

Janacek: Sonata for violin and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin
Brahms: Violin Sonata no 1 in G Major, Op.78

Saturday 17 October 2009

Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts

James Kreiling, piano

David Matthews: Two Dionysus Dithyrambs op94
John McCabe: Tenebrae
Cecilia McDowall: Shades of Solace; Vespers in Venice
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts; still thriving in its 50th anniversary year. The 50th Festival takes place from 9th to 18th October, 2009.

Thursday 15 October 2009

80th Anniversary Season - Gloucester Music Society

Zephyr
A programme to celebrates the 70th birthday of John McCabe and the centenary of the birth of Gilbert Vinter.

Holst: Wind Quintet Op 14 in Ab major
Cecilia McDowall: Winter Music
Paul Patterson: Westerly Winds Op 84
Gilbert Vinter: Two Miniatures
John McCabe: Postcards for Wind Quintet
Malcolm Arnold: Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
Norman Hallam: Dance Suite

Saturday 3 October 2009

Morning concert

Martin Smith, violin

Janacek: Sonata for violin and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin
Brahms: Violin Sonata no 1 in G Major, Op.78

Saturday 26 September 2009

Matthew Schellhorn

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard

Thursday 17 September 2009

Haruko Motohashi, violin, Masachi Nishiyama, piano

Elgar: Chanson de Nuit/Matin
Beethoven: Violin sonata in D Major, Op.12 no.1
Prokofiev: Five melodies for violin and piano, Op.35bis
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?
Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major

Monday 31 August 2009

Presteigne Festival

Gemma Rosefield, cello
Gretel Dowdeswell, piano

Felix Mendelssohn: Variations Concertantes, Op17
Huw Watkins: Cello Sonatain C, Op 102 No1
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels
Bohuslav Martinu: Variations on a theme of Rossini

Sunday 30 August 2009

Presteigne Festival Eucharist

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Edward Kemp-Luck, organ
George Vass, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Introit: I have done is was mine to do
William Mathias: Missa Aedis Christi, Op 92
John McCabe: The Evening Watch
William Harris: Faire is the heaven
William Mathias: Let the people praise thee, O God, Op 87

Saturday 29 August 2009

Presteigne Festival

Pippa Goss, soprano
Catherine King, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Michael Bundy, bass
Richard Watkins, horn
City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Presteigne Festival Orchestra
George Vass, conductor

John McCabe: Red Leaves
Huw Watkins: Nocturne for horn and small orchestra
Cecilia McDowall: Laudate
Joseph Haydn: Mass in Time of War

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Summer series of organ concerts

Daniel Bishop, organ

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546
Herbert Howells: Psalm Prelude 'Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord' Set 2 No 1
Henry Purcell: Trumpet Voluntary in D
Cecilia McDowall: Hornpipe from '6 Pastiches'
Charles-Marie Widor: Toccata from 'Symphony No 5', Op 42

A lunchtime concert showcasing the talents of the organists of St Saviour’s Church and from around the country.

Monday 10 August 2009

Dartington International Summer School

Trio D'Art: Paul Archibald, trumpet, John Kenny, trombone and Helen Reid, piano

Cecilia McDowall: Le Temps Viendra (premiere for trumpet, trombone and piano)
programme to include works by David Robertson (world première, Somei Satoh, Hikari, Daniel Schnyder and Damase

Sunday 2 August 2009

London Concord Singers
Malcolm Cottle, conductor

Giovanni Gabrieli: Deus qui Beatum Marcum
Peter Philips: O Crux, splendidor
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria; Christus Factus Est
Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Judith Bingham: The Darkness is no Darkness
Jonathan Dove: I am the Day
Haward Helvey: Three Teasdale Madrigals
Cecilia McDowall Regina Coeli

Saturday 1 August 2009

London Concord Singers
Malcom Cottle, conductor

Giovanni Gabrieli: Deus qui Beatum Marcum
Peter Philips: O Crux, splendidor
Orlandus Lassus: Missa Ad imitationem Vinum bonum: Kyrie/Credo/Agnus
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria; Christus Factus Est
Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Judith Bingham: The Darkness is no Darkness
Jonathan Dove: I am the Day
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Coeli

Friday 24 July 2009

Concert in aid of the church restoration fund

The Cavendish Singers
Manvinder Rattan, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: O, No John (A Fancy of Folksongs)

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Conwy Classical Music Festival

Isd Trio (soprano, flute and piano)

Cecilia McDowall: Four Shakespeare Songs

Tuesday 14 July 2009

King Leo: the eco-musical

St Andrew's CE Primary School Choir
Paul Withams, conductor

Cecilia McDowall King Leo

Monday 13 July 2009

King Leo: the eco-musical

St Andrew's CE Primary School Choir
Paul Withams, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: King Leo

Saturday 11 July 2009

King Leo: the eco-cantata

Chelmsford Youth Choirs
Simon Warne, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: King Leo; A Fancy of Folksongs
Alexander L'Strange: Loves Philosophy

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Magdalen College School Concert

The Oxford Sixth, Magdalen College School Choir
Jon Cullen, conductor
Hanover Band

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Thy voice, o Harmony, is divine (premiere)

Sunday 21 June 2009

Michel Sedgwick, trumpet
Maurice Hodges, piano

Torelli: Concerto in D
Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto

Thursday 18 June 2009

Bedford Park Festival

The Greenwich Trio (winners of the Solti Foundation Award)

Beethoven:Allegretto
Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No2 in C minor

Bring a picnic to have afterwards in the garden.

Sunday 14 June 2009

Andrew Bernardi, violin
Helen Reid, piano
Zoe Peate and the Amici Voices

Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?

Saturday 6 June 2009

London Pro Arte Choir
Robin Kimber, conductor

Bach Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Purcell They that go down
to the sea in ships

Tuesday 2 June 2009

Philip Haworth (oboe)

Cecilia McDowall: White Fox Woman
a mini opera for voice and oboe

Sunday 17 May 2009

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Sunday before Ascension
Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Ven. Dr Bill Jacobs

Introit: Hear my prayer, O Lord - Hugh Collins Rice,
Mass: Missa Brevis - Jonathan Dove (lp),
Motet: I know that my redeemer liveth - Cecilia McDowall (lp),
Voluntary: Scherzo on Gopsal - Alan Smith

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Sharon Reading (oboe)

Cecilia McDowall: White Fox Woman
a mini opera for voice and oboe

Tuesday 12 May 2009

In Praise of Women

Londinium
Madeleine Lovell, conductor

Byrd: Benedicta et venerabilis - Virgo Dei genitrix from Gradualia 1 -
Byrd: Gaude Maria from Gradualia 1
Duruflé: Tota pulchra es
Tarik O'Regan: Columba aspexit
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Grieg: Ave maris stella
Bruckner: Ave Maria
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli
Bennet: All creatures now
Morley: April is in my mistress' face
Farmer: Fair Phyllis
Elgar (from Part-songs, Op. 18): O Happy Eyes; My love dwelt in a Northern Land
Vaughan Williams (from Elizabethan Songs): The Willow Song; O Mistress Mine
Barber: Reincarnations (Mary Hynes; Anthony O Daly; The Coolin)
Whitacre: With a lily in your hand

Muse, Mother of God, Mistress: woman in all her guises is the beguiling subject of Londinium's concert In Praise of Women, which celebrates the inspirational role of the feminine for composers from the Renaissance to the present.

Starring a myriad of female characters, from the spotless Virgin to the cold-hearted mistress, In Praise of Women (conceived and conducted by Londinium's Musical Director Madeleine Lovell) is a musical feast, featuring motets and madrigals from the English Renaissance, sacred music by Rachmaninov, Grieg, Bruckner and Duruflé, part-songs by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber and Eric Whitacre, and works by contemporary composers Tarik O'Regan and Cecilia McDowall.

Saturday 9 May 2009

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music Opening Concert

7.15pm Pre-concert talk: Jonathan Harvey
8.00pm Opening Concert: A Celebration of the Choral Music of Jonathan Harvey,
The Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent, conductor


Jonathan Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost, The Royal banners forward go, How could the soul not take flight?
Roxanna Panufnik: Prayer
Cecilia McDowall: Deus qui claro lumine
Kerry Andrew: Dusk Songs

Monday 4 May 2009

Shipley Arts Festival

Trinity String Ensemble
Nic Pendlebury, conductor
Shipley String Academy
West Sussex County Youth Dance Company
Justine Reeves, choreographer

programme to include:
Strauss: Metamorphosen
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Cecilia McDowall: Great Hills

Sunday 3 May 2009

Addison Singers, Edward Kemp-Luck, organ, David Wordsworth, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stella

Solemn Mass

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral
Martin Baker, conductor

Cecilia McDowall A Canterbury Mass

Saturday 2 May 2009

Addison Singers, Edward Kemp-Luck, organ,
David Wordsworth, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stella

Monday 27 April 2009

Flute Quartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Sunday 26 April 2009

Flute Quartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Eucharist

Aurora Nova, Patrick Craig, conductor

Service to include:
Cecilia McDowall Rise heart; thy Lord is risen

Saturday 25 April 2009

Flute Quartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Sunday 19 April 2009

Lunchtime concert

Flute Quartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Saturday 18 April 2009

London Welsh Brass Ensemble

Anon Die bankelsangerlieder
Karl Jenkins Salm o Dewi Sant
Samuel Sheidt Suite
Howarth Pasce Tuos
Victor Ewald Symphony for Brass
Spiritual Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Horovitz Music Hall Suite
Traditional Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl
Cecilia McDowall Tango Oscuro
Paul Nagle The Roaring Twenties

Friday 17 April 2009

English Piano Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall The Colour of Blossoms

Thursday 16 April 2009

Leith Hill Music Festival

Epsom Choral Society
Robin Kimber, conductor

programme to include in 'own choice' category
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth

Saturday 11 April 2009

Easter night vigil

Choir of St James's, Sussex Gardens
Robin Kimber, conductor

Lassus Mass for double choir
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth (London premiere)

Saturday 4 April 2009

London Orpheus Choir
London Orpheus Orchestra
James Gaddarn, conductor

Antonín Dvorák Te Deum Op 103
Cecilia McDowall Ave Maris Stella
Gabriel Fauré Requiem Op 48
Francis Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor

Sunday 29 March 2009

Weibermusik

Ensemble Tityre

Cecilia McDowall Not just a place for flute, oboe/cor and piano

Friday 27 March 2009

Flute Quartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Thursday 26 March 2009

Peter Fisher, violin
Peter Hewitt, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Strange violin, are you following me?

Easter Concert

London Concord Singers
Malcolm Cottrell, conductor

Mendelssohn 100th psalm (Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Mendelssohn Nunc dimittis (Herr, nun lässet du deinen Diener fahren)
Mendelssohn Trauergesang
J.S. Bach Jesu, meine Freude
Claudio Monteverdi Lauda Jerusalem
Vittoria Alma Redemptoris Mater
Morales Sancta et immaculata Virginitas
Gesualdo Tristis est anima mea
Cecilia McDowall Regina Caeli

Sunday 22 March 2009

charity concert in aid of Houses for Heroes

Peter Fisher, violin
Peter Hewitt, piano


programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Strange violin, are you following me?

Saturday 21 March 2009

Epsom Choral Society

Brahms A German Requiem
Cecilia McDowall I know that my redeemer liveth (premiere)

Friday 20 March 2009

English Piano Trio

Haydn Trios in C and G minor Hob.XV:21 and 19
Beethoven Trio in C minor op.1 no.3
David Matthews All will grow Great and Powerful again (premiere)
Cecilia McDowall The Colour of Blossoms (premiere)
Joseph Phibbs The Palace of the Winds (premiere)

Monday 9 March 2009

Luton Music Club

Gemma Rosefield, cello
Simon Lepper, piano


Frescobaldi Toccata
Cecilia McDowall Falling Angels
Grieg Sonata in A minor Op 36
Chopin Sonata in G minor Op 65
Martinu Variations on a theme of Rossini

Sunday 8 March 2009

Weibermusik

Ensemble Tityre

Cecilia McDowall Not just a place for flute, oboe/cor and piano

Saturday 28 February 2009

David Sonin's Memorial Concert

Deborah Calland, trumpet
Jennifer Bate, organ
Sally Silver, soprano
Penelope Thwaite, piano
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Nicola Eimer, piano
Highgate Choral Society
Charles Owen, piano
Wihan quartet


Handel Let the bright seraphim (trumpet and organ)
Handel Eternal source of light divine (soprano)
Grainger Colonial song (piano)
Haydn Andante and variations (piano)
Cecilia McDowall Falling Angels (cello and piano)
Fauré In Paradisum (Requiem), Cantique de Jean Racine
Chopin Sonata no.3 in B minor (piano)
Schubert Impromptu op.142 no.3 (piano)
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor (organ)
Schubert Quintet 1st two movements
Parry I was glad

All proceeds will be donated to St. Luke's Hospice

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Rush Hour Concert

Emily Pettet, violin
Laura Cook, flute
Davey Berryman, flute
University of Surrey Chamber Orchestra

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.4
Cecilia McDowall Great Hills

Monday 9 February 2009

Bluecoat Concert

Christ's Hospital choir, orchestra, brass, wind and jazz ensemble

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall The night garden from Lonely Hearts

Sunday 25 January 2009

Mill Hill Music Club

Sonus Ensemble
Cunnold, soprano
Louisa Barry, mezzo-soprano
Merel van der Knoop, piano
Jezz James, tenor

Cecilia McDowall Shakespeare songs: How should I my truelove know?
First Rehearse

An exciting group of young, talented artistes performing an evening of songs from the operas and musicals all inspired by Shakespeare.

Saturday 17 January 2009

The Thorne Trio
Ilid Jones, oboe, Esther Sheridan, clarinet, Alex Thornloe, bassoon

Handel arr. A. Thorneloe Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Mozart Divertimento No. 4
Bach Suite III: Bourree 1 & II for Solo Bassoon
Gordon Jacob Preamble & Homage to J.S.B., from Five Pieces for Solo Clarinet
Cecilia McDowall Century Dances
Julius Fucik Stary brucoun
Haydn Divertimento No. 2 for Solo Oboe
Ibert Cinq Pieces en Trio
Britten Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, for Solo Oboe
Elgar Chanson du Matin
Stefan de Haan Divertimento

Friday 9 January 2009

Park Lane Group

Horns Aloud

Cecilia McDowall Distance and Moon for Horn Quartet

Lunchtime concert

Sian Phillips, violin
Per Rundberg, piano

Cecilia McDowall Strange violin, are you following me?

Wednesday 24 December 2008

Christmas concert


Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est (chamber orchestra version)

Tuesday 23 December 2008

Christmas concert

Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Saturday 20 December 2008

Angels we have heard on high

Northampton Bach Choir
Northampton High School Junior Choir+
Lee Dunleavy, conductor
Kate Miller, conductor+

Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est
with selections from Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Carols old and new

Alton Choral Society
Christopher Gardner, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Of a Rose

Christmas concert

Worthing Choral Society, Rose Setten, soprano,
Adrian Bawtree, conductor
with St Botolph's Church Choir
Salvation Army Band


programme to include
Cecilia McDowall Christus natus est

Wednesday 17 December 2008

Academy Voices, John Hancorn, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stella

Tuesday 16 December 2008

Christmas lunchtime concert

Trinity Boys Choir
David Swinson, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Christus natus est

Sunday 14 December 2008

Christmas Concert

Helensburgh Oratorio Choir
Martin Speller, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Saturday 13 December 2008

Christmas Carol Concert

Horsley Choral Society
David Wordsworth, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Angels for the Nativity

Christmas Classics

Sussex Voiceworks
Mardi Brass
Peter Farrant, conductor

to include: Handel's Messiah
and seasonal favourites by Mozart, Tavener, RVW and popular carols for all.
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

A dazzling array of seasonal favourites with traditional carol for all. Special guests will be one of London’s Premiere Brass Ensemble's MardiBrass who return by popular demand. Famous Christmas music from Handel's Messiah will feature alongside McDowall's joyous and powerful Christmas Cantata Christus Natus Est. V.Williams' dramatic Old Hundredth will open the programme to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of his death and marriage at All Saint's Church Hove in 1897.

Christmas Concert 2008

Harrow Choral Society
Brass, organ and percussion
Simon Williams, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Home for the Holidays

Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra,
Donald Kendrick, conductor



to include: Christmas carols old and new.
Cecilia McDowall: Angelus ad virginem (Christus natus est)

Royal College of Music Junior Department

Royal College of Music Choir
Royal College of Music Brass
Neil Ferris, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Sunday 7 December 2008

A Christmas Journey

The Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent, conductor



A Christmas Journey from the prophecies of Isaiah as set by Palestrina in the 16th Century, to the Annunciation as presented in very different ways by Cecilia McDowall and Bob Chilcott, to the Birth of Jesus with attendant Angels and Shepherds through to the arrival of the three Kings, as interpreted by Byrd, Victoria, Poulenc and others, this programme celebrates the whole Christmas story. The second half offers arrangements of popular Christmas melodies by composers ranging from Vaughan Williams to Andrew Carter, with a typically irreverent view from Tom Lehrer.

Saturday 6 December 2008

Christmas Concert

London Pro Arte Choir
conductor, Robin Kimber

Schubert: Mass in Eb
Cecilia McDowall: A Fancy of Folksongs

Advent Concert

The Hill Singers
Iestyn Evans, conductor

programme to include;
Christus natus est

Thursday 4 December 2008

Lunchtime recital

Damian Thantrey, baritone and Peter Hewitt, piano

Programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christmas Eve at Sea

Sunday 30 November 2008

Winter Solstice Concert

Camerata California
Ava DeLara
Daniel Canosa, conductor

Goecki, Totus Tuus
Puccini, Magnificat
Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
John Rutter, What Sweeter Music
Cecilia McDowall Christus natus est

Thursday 27 November 2008

Andover Music Club

The Thorne Trio

programme to include:
Century Dances

Sunday 23 November 2008

Choral Evensong

Choir of Exeter College
Alistair Reid, conductor
Revd Dr Laurence Whitley, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, preacher

Ayleward: Preces and Responses
Cecilia McDowall: St Martin's Canticles
MacMillan: Christus Vincit

Saturday 22 November 2008

St Cecilia's Day concert

Joanne Dexter, soprano
Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra Nova
Northampton Bach Choir
Lee Dunleavy, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat
William Alwyn Autumn Legend
John Rutter Magnificat

This concert compares and contrasts two different settings of the Magnificat, the song of praise of the Virgin Mary, by two living composers. Autumn Legend was written by the Northampton born composer William Alwyn for solo Cor Anglais and strings.

Monday 17 November 2008

10th anniversary of the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust

Wihan Quartet
Carducci Quartet
The Thorne Trio
Catriona Scott, clarinet, Gemma Rosefield, cello, Michael Dussek, piano

Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight (clarinet, cello and piano)

Sunday 16 November 2008

Solemn Mass

Westminster Cathedral Choir
Martin Baker, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: A Canterbury Mass

Saturday 15 November 2008

Spirit and Song

Sacramento State University Concert Choir
Donald Kendrick, conductor

programme to include:
Bob Chilcott The Making of the Drum
Cecilia McDowall: A Fancy of Folksongs

Wednesday 12 November 2008

John McCabe, piano

Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch
David Ellis: Old Willows
Casken: The Haunting Bough
Joubert: Piano Sonata No 2
Emily Howard: Sky and Water
Cecilia McDowall: Four Piano Solos
McCabe: Tenebrae

Sunday 9 November 2008

Caroline Whitaker (soprano)
Fine Arts String Orchestra
Warren Cohen, conductor

Handel: Concert Grosso Op.6 no.5
Cecilia McDowall: Four Shakespeare Songs for soprano and strings
Parry: Lady Radnor Suite

Friday 24 October 2008

Contemporary English Choral Church Music

Kantorei,
University of Iowa School of Music Choir
Dr Timothy Stalter, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Ave Regina, Regina Caeli
Gabriel Jackson: Three works
Paul Spicer: How Love Bleeds
Jonathan Harvey: The Angels
Howard Skempton: The Flight of Song

Saturday 18 October 2008

Little Missenden Festival

Gemma Rosefield, cello, Nicola Eimer, piano

Shostakovich Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams Six studies in English folk song
James Francis Brown Prospero’s Isle
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Sunday 12 October 2008

Meditations

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Jo Harris, trumpet
Edward Kemp-Luck, organ
George Vass, conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams Te Deum in G
Henry Purcell Trumpet Tune and Air
Cecilia McDowall: I have done
Frank Martin Mass for double choir
James MacMillan In splendoribus sanctorum
John Tavener Song for Athene
Cecilia McDowall: Three Antiphons
Michael Tippett Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
James Macmillan Magnificat

Friday 10 October 2008

Portsmouth Grammar School CD launch

The Portsmouth Chamber Choir
Andrew Cleary, conductor
London Mozart Players string quintet

CD A Song more Silent: New Works for Remembrance

Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Wednesday 8 October 2008

Song Festival

Sarah Poole, soprano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Bronte Song cycle, Retrospection, Poor Captive Dove, and Snow.

Friday 26 September 2008

Ave maris stella

Priory Singers
Richard Prince, conductor

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Monday 25 August 2008

Presteigne Festival

Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the keyboard

Friday 22 August 2008

Presteigne Festival

Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me?

Thursday 14 August 2008

Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Dominic Sewell: Rokeby Venus
Cecilia McDowall Keyboard is the colour

Friday 8 August 2008

Cambridge Summer Music Festival

Jinny Shaw, oboe
Okeanos

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Y Deryn Pur

23 July 2008 - 23 July 2008

Conwy Classical Music Festival

The Thorne Trio


programme to include:
Handel, Mozart, Schubert
Cecilia McDowall: Century Dances

Saturday 19 July 2008

The Maia Singers
John Pomphrey, conductor

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

Sunday 13 July 2008

Prize Giving Concert

programme to include:
Equal voice choir, conductor Simona Budd
Junior Trinity Choir, conductor Mark Griffiths
Big Band, conductor Barry Graham
Junior Trinity Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Morley

Cecilia McDowall Regina caeli
Lutoslawski, Copland

Friday 11 July 2008

Llangollen 2008

Cantatrici
John Walmsley, conductor,

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Crystal Spring (SSA)

Sunday 6 July 2008

Shipley Arts Festival

Bernardi Music Group, Andrew Bernardi, violin
John Parsons, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Descending Blue (premiere)

Friday 4 July 2008

V & A Friday Evening Concert

The Salmagundi Ensemble
Fiona Mitchell, clarinet
Leslie Boulin Raulet, violin
Cory Barger, bassoon
Michael Wigram, cello
Laura Garwin, trumpet
Eunice Chow, piano

Cecilia McDowall: Street Café
Georges Auric: Suite from Marlborough s'en va t'en guerre (UK premiere)
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen for violin and piano
James Stephenson: Thinking (world premiere)

Thursday 3 July 2008

Berkhamsted Collegiate School Prize Giving

Berkhamsted Collegiate School Choir
Peter Hopkins, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Towards the morning (premiere)
SATB a cappella

Wednesday 2 July 2008

The Northern Aldborough Festival

Jinny Shaw, oboe
Epsilon Quartet

Cecilia McDowall: Y Deryn Pur

Saturday 28 June 2008

Worthing Choral Society
Adrian Bawtree, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

Children's Music Theatre Group, Duxford
Arwen Gilbert, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Deep Waters, an eco opera, with libretto by Christie Dickason

Specially commissioned by the W11 Opera for a cast of over 80 children. An opera that is witty but with a dark edge, it has a serious issue at its heart - overfishing.

Woking Choral Society
Nicholas Steinitz, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

Friday 27 June 2008

Helen Reid, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the keyboard

Saturday 7 June 2008

Saxophone recital

Jenni Watson (saxophones)
Ben Powell (piano)

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Mein blaues Klavier
for soprano saxophone and piano

Tuesday 3 June 2008

Helen Sanger, trumpet

Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter

Thursday 29 May 2008

Elizabeth Mantle, soprano
Rianka Bouwemeester, piano

William Croft: A Hymn On Divine Musick
Vivaldi: Amor hai vinto (Largo)
Bach: Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süße (Coffee Cantata BWV 211)
Poulenc: Fiancaille Pour Rire
Cecilia McDowall: Radnor Songs

Tuesday 27 May 2008

English Music Festival

The London Chorus
Ronald Corp, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: The skies in their magnificence (premiere)

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Gala Fundraising Concert for the Presteigne Festival

Gemma Rosefield, cello
Nicola Eimer, piano

works by Brahms, Fauré, Martinu and Adrian Williams
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Sunday 18 May 2008

Choral Eucharist

Rt Revd Graeme Knowles, preacher

Robert Saxton: Locus iste
Cecilia McDowall: A Canterbury Mass
Graham Ross: O Sacrum Convivium
Gabriel Jackson: St Asaph Toccata

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Friday 16 May 2008

Lunchtime recital

Daniel Roberts, piano

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Vespers in Venice

Saturday 10 May 2008

'Welcome May' - a celebration of Spring

The Maia Singers
John Pomphrey, conductor

programme to include:
Alan Bullard: Welcome May (premiere, new orchestrated version)
Alan Bullard: Suite for recorder, harp and strings (premiere)
Antony Hopkins: Concerto for recorder (premiere)
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folksongs

Thursday 8 May 2008

Chamber Music at Christ Church

Catriona Scott, clarinet
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Michael Dussek, piano

Frederyk Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65
Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight (world première of a CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust commission)
Adam Gorb: Reconciliation
Johannes Brahms: Trio in A minor Op 114

Hampstead and Highgate Festival 2008 event HHF03

Monday 5 May 2008

Shipley Festival: King Leo

Cecilia McDowall: King Leo, an eco-cantata, librettist, Sarah Dawson (1993)

There's been a bungle in the jungle! King Leo is getting old. His sight is not great and his strength is on the wane ... so he makes the decision to take a year out from his responsibilities for the rainforest. What he needs is a place in the sun to rejuvenate and revitalise. He splits his kingdom between Panther, honourable but a bit too upfront with the truth, and Tiger a rampant rascal out to make a fast buck. Tiger speculates on his future as a property developer, cutting down the forest and selling off to the highest bidder. Naturally, the animals are wild with worry.

Will Tiger make the take-over total or will Panther, with some back up from Gaia, the earth guru, save the day, the forest and the planet ... ?

Saturday 3 May 2008

Shipley Arts Festival

Bernardi Music Group
conductors, Nic Pendlebury, David Wordsworth

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Cecilia McDowall: new work (premiere)

Thursday 1 May 2008

Ascension Day Choral Evensong

Cantate
Andrew Cleary, conductor

service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rise heart: thy Lord is risen (premiere)

Tuesday 29 April 2008

The Salmagundi Ensemble:

Fiona Mitchell, clarinet
Cory Barger, bassoon
Laura Garwin, trumpet
Leslie Boulin Raulet, violin
Michael Wigram, cello
Eunice Chow, piano


programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Street Café
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, op.52
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G Major
Bohuslav Martinů: La Revue de Cuisine

Sunday 27 April 2008

A concert for Cancerkin for people affected by breast cancer

Peter Fisher violin
Peter Hewitt piano

programme to include:
Kreisler, Prokofiev, Fauré, Castelnuovo Tedesco
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me? (premiere)

Friday 18 April 2008

City of London Sinfonia
Jo Cullen, conductor

Concert to include,
Cecilia McDowall: Great Hills
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 4
Britten: Simple Symphony
Grieg: Holberg Suite

Saturday 12 April 2008

Mozart Requiem and McDowall première

Charlotte Mobbs, soprano
Frances Bourne, mezzo soprano
Mark Dobell, tenor
Christopher Foster, bass
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Franz Schubert: Magnificat in C, D486
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Cecilia McDowall: Laudate (St Albans Choral Society commission - world première)
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

Sunday 30 March 2008

Sunday Worship BBC Radio 4

Cantate
Andrew Cleary, conductor

Morning service to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Rise heart: thy Lord is risen (premiere)

Saturday 29 March 2008

Addison Chamber Choir
David Wordsworth conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall:
Three Latin motets:
Ave Regina
Ave Maria
Regina Caeli

Thursday 20 March 2008

Live Music Now

Flutes en Route

The flute quartet present a program of works inspired by nature including music from Eugène Bozza's Quartet Jour d'ete a la montagne, Cecilia McDowall's: Hotfoot, Marc Berthomieu's Les Chats and Casterede's Flutes en Vacances. In association with Live Music Now Scotland.

Sunday 16 March 2008

Music for Easter on Palm Sunday

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Andrew Parnell, organ
George Vass, conductor

J S Bach: Motet - O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV118
Anton Bruckner: Christus factus est
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K618
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11
Cecilia McDowall: I have done what was mine to do
Frank Martin: Mass for double choir
Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden

Bollington Festival Choir
Donald Judge conductor


Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Mozart: Requiem

Saturday 8 March 2008

Spring Classics

David Adams violin
Bushey Symphony Orchestra
George Vass conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op63
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92

Friday 15 February 2008

Vesuvio Wind Quintet

Cecilia McDowall: Winter Music
works by by Milhaud and Grainger

Sunday 3 February 2008

ABCD Chor Fest

Newstead Singers
Lesley Cooper conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Lonely Hearts

Tuesday 15 January 2008

piano recital

Helen Reid, piano

Debussy: Preludes
Haydn: Fantasy
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Chopin: 2 Nocturnes
Gershwin: 3 Preludes

Wednesday 9 January 2008

lunchtime recital

Helen Reid, piano

Debussy: Preludes
Haydn: Fantasy
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Chopin: 2 Nocturnes
Gershwin: 3 Preludes

Monday 7 January 2008

Park Lane Concerts

Gemma Rosefield cello
Nicola Eimer piano

Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

lunchtime recital

Helen Reid, piano

Debussy: Preludes
Haydn: Fantasy
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard (London premiere)
Chopin: Two Nocturnes
Gershwin: Three Preludes

Tuesday 25 December 2007

Evensong

The Cathedral Choirs
The Ely Imps
The Ely Sinfonia
Paul Trepte, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Saturday 22 December 2007

Christmas concert in aid of Macmillan Nurses

Concord Singers
Mary Lock, conductor

Cecilia McDowall:
Now may we singen as it is

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

The Cathedral Choirs
The Ely Imps
The Ely Sinfonia
Paul Trepte, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Thursday 20 December 2007

Christmas Concert

St Aloysius College

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Joyful Company of Singers

Roderick Williams: O Adonai
Trad. French arr. Roderick Elms: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Brahms arr. Binkerd: Chorale Prelude: Es ist ein ros entsprungen
Praetorius/Sandstrom: Es ist ein' ros entsprungen
Herbert Howells: A Spotless Rose
J S Bach arr. Roderick Elms: Wachet auf ('Sleepers Awake')
Trad. Basque arr. Roderick Elms: Gabriel's Message
Arnold Bax: Five Fantasies on Polish Christmas Carols
Holst: Christmas Day
Handel: Messiah (excerpts)
Roger Quilter: A Children's Overture
Trad. French arr. Roderick Elms: Angels from the Realms of Glory
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Cornelius arr. Ivor Atkins: The Three Kings
J H Hopkins arr. Roderick Elms: We Three Kings of Orient Are
Trad. Czech arr. Roderick Elms: Rocking
Trad. arr. Roderick Elms: In Dulci Jubilo

Sunday 16 December 2007

The Starlight Christmas Tea Concert

Chancel Choir
Carillon Bell Choir
Keystone Brass Quintet

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Daniel Pinkham, John Rutter, David Willcocks

Christmas Carol Concert

The Hythe Singers
St Cuthbert's School Choir
conductor, Paul Plummer

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

South Chiltern Choral Society Christmas Concert

South Chiltern Choral Society
conductor: Gwyn Arch

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Saturday 15 December 2007

Christmas Carol Concert

South Holland Singers
Rodin Carter, conductor

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Christmas Concert

Concord Singers
Mary Lock, conductor
Bedford Choral Society


Cecilia McDowall:
Now may we singen as it is (premiere)

South Chiltern Choral Society Christmas Concert

South Chiltern Choral Society
conductor: Gwyn Arch

programme to include
Alan Bullard, A Feast of Christmas
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Reading Festival Chorus Christmas Concert

Reading Festival Chorus
Taplow Children's Choir
Janet Lincé, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Carols for choir and audience

Friday 14 December 2007

Portsmouth Grammar School Carol Service

To include:
Cecilia McDowall: Talking Turkeys!! (carol) (premiere)

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Dollar Academy Concert

Preparatory, Junior and Senior Choirs and Orchestra of Dollar Academy
Director of Music: John McGonigle

Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Sunday 9 December 2007

Seasonal Favourites

Reigate and Redhill Choral Society
Peter Farrant, conductor


Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
John Rutter: Magnificat
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

A fantastic mix of seasonal favourites to capture the true spirit of Christmas. John Rutter's festive Magnificat features alongside which topped the 2007 ClassicFM Hall of Fame and is performed as part of a season-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams' death in 2008. The concert will also feature a special guest appearance by British composer Cecilia McDowall, who will introduce her joyous Christmas cantata Christus Natus Est, which incorporates five popular Christmas carols. The concert also includes a wonderful selection of traditional carols for all.

Saturday 8 December 2007

Gala Christmas Concert

Consort Singers, the Women's Choir and the Consort Choir of the Loyola Marymount University Department of Music
Dr Mary Bredon, conductor

programme to include
Buxtehude Das neugeborne Kindelein
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Sing this Night

Soilhull Choral Society
with Choristers of St Thomas's, Stourbridge
Andrew Fletcher, conductor

Carols for all
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est