Featured Composer

Singers at LMC events cover a wide range of repertoire by many different composers. Each year, we nominate a composer from the British choral tradition and select works which will receive particular attention on the courses.

Our featured composer for 2012 is Sir Ernest Bullock (1890 – 1979), who was the organist of Westminster Abbey (1928 – 1941) and Director of the Royal College of Music (1952 – 1960). His anthem Give us the Wings of Faith is a staple of cathedral and church music-lists, but his other works deserve to be better known. In the summer of 2012 The LMC performed some of his unaccompanied motets, his anthem O for a Closer Walk, and his Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D.

In 2011 our featured composer was Sir Edward Bairstow (1874 - 1946), organist of York Minster from 1913 until his death. Ernest Bullock was Edward Bairstow's assistant and pupil while Bairstow was the organist of Leeds Parish Church (1906-1913). Our singers have recorded and performed a number of his works, including the anthems I Sat Down Under his Shadow, Blessed City, Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence and Save Us O Lord.

Composer in Residence

The LMC publishes a small number of works by some of the UK's most talented young choral composers, including pieces commissioned as part of the Composer in Residence scheme.
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Our Staff

The work of the LMC is supported by a number of specialist teaching staff, including Alistair Dixon (Chapelle du Roi), Adrian Lucas (Worcester Cathedral), Jon Grave (Chichester University) and Richard Smith (director of the LMC). Click to read more

Recordings

  • Edward Bairstow:

    Let all Mortal Flesh   

  • Edward Bairstow:

    Blessed City, Heavenly Salem   

  • Edward Bairstow:

    Save Us, O Lord   
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