New Music

Opus Anglicanum has a tradition of commissioning composers for new work in addition to commissioning arrangements for its programming.

commissioned for:

2010 Gordon Crosse SPRING AWAKENING for 'Joyful Return'

2009 Sasha Johnson Manning 'The Trees', arranged from her Manchester Carols

2008 Sally Beamish 'Sea Psalm' (Sea Music)

2008 David Bednall, 'Put out into the Deep'(Sea Music)

2008 Sasha Johnson Manning 'The Sea Woman' (Sea Music)

2007 David Bednall 'From you have I been absent in the Spring' (The Sonnets)

2006 Howard Skempton: 'And there was war in heaven' (Battles & Borders)

2004 Patrick Larley: Columcille 'The Island'

2003 Judith Bingham: Uppon First Sight of New-England 'The Journey'

2003 Malcolm Archer: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills 'The Journey'

2001 Gabriel Jackson: I am the Rose of Sharon 'The Song of Songs'

2000 Judith Bingham: A Necklace of Light 'Bede'

1999 Patrick Larley: Antiphon 'Angels & Archangels'
 

We also gave the first performance of:

Gavin Bryars: A Saxon Riddle
 

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