29 May 2007

I am off to Rattwig in northern Sweden next week to direct a boys' choir course. Some 400 boys will be on the course and we will be working towards a concert at the end of the course with orchestra including Vivaldi's "Gloria", Mendelssohn "Hear my Prayer" and two of my own pieces.

On Sunday I am filming a BBC TV Songs of Praise special about the nation's top ten hymns. I shall be talking to Aled Jones about each of the hymns chosen by the viewers. This should be broadcast later in the summer.

I have just set a hymn by George Herbert to music to be published by the RSCM in a new hymnal this autumn.

9 May 2007

The re-issued All Angels album is now available, featuring some new tracks including my arrangement of "Make me a channel of your peace" which was broadcast on BBC 1 at the Festival of Remembrance from the Albert Hall. I directed the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on these new tracks.

Working on a new composition and some arrangements for All Angels and the BBC.

BBC Daily Service on Wednesday 16 May with Paul Leddington Wright.

Organ recital at St Chad's, Shrewsbury on Friday 18 May.