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I'm so excited to be able to finally share my new Christmas piece: Follow the Star.
Please ENJOY and share widely.

To the listeners: I hope you'll want to make this music part of your soundtrack to the festive season.

To the singers and conductors: If you and your choir would like to snap up the opportunity to give the UK premiere of Follow the Star, please get in touch.

Follow the Star is an original choral work that brings a fresh energy to the timeless story of Christmas. This unique and evocative setting for mixed voice choir draws together rich harmonic dissonance, flowing vocal lines, and imaginative word play to create a captivating piece that choirs will relish performing.

Written for SATB (with divisi), the piece is set across three key sections. The first, hushed and magical, sets the scene for the moment of the arrival of the Baby Jesus, capturing the emotions, reflections and atmosphere of being in the presence of a new born baby.

The mood then shifts to creating a sense of expectation with momentum building through textural and rhythmic variation as the melody is passed around different voices, before building to a joy-filled, euphoric finale that encapsulates the excitement, wonder and hope of Christmas.

Elizabeth Drury: Soprano
Imogen Russell: Soprano
Clemmie Franks: Alto
Lucy Ballard: Alto
Colin Danskin: Tenor
Matt Pope: Tenor
Ben Davies: Bass
Jonny Howard: Bass
Conductor: Will Dawes
Producer: Adrian Hunter
Composer: Jenny Mahler