Janet Wheeler (b. 1957)
Composer; Choral Conductor
Works published by MoV
Alleluia, I heard a voice
(SATB (some divisi))
Alleluia, I heard a voice (SATB (some divisi))
This is a setting for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB with some divided soprano) of Revelation 19:1 and 6, a text familiar from the Renaissance setting by Thomas Weelkes. This version begins with slow-moving contemplative music expanding from a unison C. The central section is more lively, sometimes syncopated, and is built around a series of ostinati, some in canon, in the lower and then middle voices. The ending returns to the opening music, converging on the unison C to finish. Written in 2004, the piece has received many performances in the UK, France and Belgium. Its up-beat style, coupled with a sensitivity to the text, means it sits as well in a summer concert of part-songs and spirituals as in Evensong. (MazeMusic)
Alleluia, I heard a voice (SATB (some divisi))
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Janet Wheeler (b. 1957)
Janet Wheeler read music at Cambridge and combines her composing career with a busy schedule of choral conducting. Sacred music includes Beati Quorum Via (Homage to Stanford), commissioned by Sonoro, and We Sing to God, the Spring of Mirth (Friends of Cathedral Music competition winner), sung at the Three Choirs Festival opening service in 2019. Her Responses are sung regularly at Gloucester Cathedral, the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, and in Oxford and Cambridge college chapels. Wheeler also composes larger works for chorus and orchestra. I Sing, and Ever Shall, commissioned by Southampton Philharmonic Choir, has proved popular elsewhere.
In 2018 she wrote Imagine It! for the National Youth Choir and virtuoso percussionists O Duo. The Cries of Music was commissioned as test piece for the inaugural London International Choral Conducting Competition. Farnham Youth Choir performed A Poison Tree at the 2019 European Choir Games. (MazeMusic)