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Photo of Musical DirectorWe are active exponents of C20/C21 music, and have forged relationships with leading British composers such as John Tavener, Geoffrey Burgon, Howard Skempton, Tarik O'Regan and John Woolrich, who described us on Radio 3 as "that superb choir".

The choir has commissioned a number of new works and won awards from the PRS Foundation for New Music, Making Music and The Holst Foundation for outstanding enterprise in choral music. It has made a total of fifteen first recordings. Its numerous premieres are as follows:

Julian Allwood: Mettimi come un sigillo
London Premiere
Gavin Bryars: On Photography
London Premiere
Geoffrey Burgon: The First World
Geoffrey Burgon: Five love songs
London premieres
Diana Burrell: Come Holy Ghost
Diana Burrell: Creator of the stars of night
London premieres
Julian Butcher: Come, everyone that thirsteth
World Premiere
Antonin Dvorak: Dmitrij (concert performance)
London premiere
Aidan Fisher: Allu Mari
Elysian Singers commission
Philip Glass: Three Songs (1984)
UK premiere
Henryk Górecki: Three Lullabies Op.47
Henryk Górecki: Miserere Op.44
London premieres and first broadcast performances
Henryk Górecki: Songs of Rodziny Katynskie
UK premiere
Andrew Hugill: Les Origines Humaines
(more details on Andrew Hugill's website)
Elysian Singers commission
Erich Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (concert performance)
UK premiere
Jeffrey Lewis: Recordatio
World premiere
James Macmillan: Invocation
London premiere
Peter Maxwell Davies: Corpus Christi with cat and mouse
Peter Maxwell Davies: O verbum patris
London Premieres
Philippe Mazé: Trois motets pour un temps de pénitence
UK Premieres
Per Nørgård : D'Monstrantz Vöögeli
Per Nørgård : Halleluja - vor Gud er forrykt!
British Premieres
'...excellently performed by the Elysian Singers under Sam Laughton...' (Keith Potter, The Independent, July 2000)
Tarik O'Regan: Ave Maria
London and Irish Premieres
Tarik O'Regan: Bring rest, sweet dreaming child
Elysian Singers commission
Tarik O'Regan: Dorchester Canticles
London Premiere
Tarik O'Regan: Surrexit Christus (sound track on home page)
London,Irish and Basque/Spanish Premieres
Michael Parsons: Farthest North
World premiere
Malcolm Singer: Psalms of Ascent
Elysian Singers commission
Howard Skempton: Roundels of the Year
Elysian Singers commission
Howard Skempton: The Flight of Song
Howard Skempton: Song at the year's turning
London Premieres
John Tavener: Many Years
World premiere
James Whitbourn: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis
London premiere
John Woolrich: Over the sea
Elysian Singers commission

For further information about contemporary British choral music,
you may find the British Music Information Centre website useful.

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