Available at NoteNova.com

This is a new carol with words and music by Karen McAulay. It is a joyous celebration of Christ’s birth with a human touch, considering likely responses of those involved in the first Christmas. It is performed by the composer at the piano and sung by Ruth Carlyle.

Singing “Glory” - Karen McAulay, 2021

Coventry Carol demo 13th Dec

Auld Lang Shite

Hear Me - Radio Edit

Hear Me (Radio Edit)

For Ella Jarman-Pinto
Matthew Lee Knowles 
March 2022

SCORE: https://www.scribd.com/document/564683224/For-Ella-Jarman-Pinto

For Ella Jarman-Pinto

The idea for this piece came from a conversation/argument with a friend about which hymn tunes are 'bangers' (yes I'm aware how nerdy this is). I loved that we had very different but equally passionate opinions and so I decided to compose something which used two of our favourite tunes as the source material. 

The result was a light-hearted and exciting piece, radically different in tone from the original melodies, and as occasionally ludicrous as the conversation that inspired it.

For the purists, there is also a version for Organ.

Two-Tune Toccata

Three songs inspired in different ways by thinking about the environment. 

I wrote Beauty as a teenager; this is somewhat rewritten but the main tunes are the same, as are about 50% of the words. The other two songs were written after it was pointed out to me by Hazel Watson of Watson and Lockett commented on the dearth of folk music engaging with the ecological crisis. I set myself the challenge of writing a song that plays on folk tropes but accidentally wrote two. 

Recording and mixing aren't my fortes. I could spend ages trying to get these better, without achieving much, so I've posted them in rough and ready form as demos, because it's the songwriting I really want to share.

Carbon Kings demo

A recording of members of the Hartt Chamber Choir singing my work "Hand in hand", conducted by Edward Bolkovac from May 2nd, 2014.

Hand in hand

Short three-part motet - lyrics from "Carmina Gadelica", translated from the Gaelic by Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912). Available for ATB or SABar - suitable for small choirs or a trio of mixed voices. 
Sheet music at www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk/scores/scores-for-sale/ 
Recorded by Matthew Curtis of choraltracks.com - thanks!

God to Enfold Me

Good King Wenceslas - an arrangement for 3-part choir (SABar), sung by the Mackintosh Choir, Glasgow, directed by Paul Keohone. 

If you'd like to order a copy for your own choir, you can see the score at http://www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/goodkingwenceslasSAB.pdf . The cost is £1.50 per copy, or £25 for a PDF to print your own copies (as many as you want) - email chris@hutchingsmusic.co.uk to place an order.

Good King Wenceslas, arr. Hutchings - sung by Mackintosh Choir, Glasgow

Winner of the 2014 ACDA-PA Choral Composition Contest

Get the sheet music: www.caseyrule.com/music/works/draw-on-sweet-night/

performed by the Penn State Glee Club
Dr. Christopher Kiver, director
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Center for the Performing 

Text:

Draw on, Sweet Night, friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
that unto thee I consecrate it wholly.
Sweet Night, draw on
My griefs when they be told to shades
and darkness find some ease from paining,
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.

Get the sheet music

"Draw On, Sweet Night" - performed by the Penn State Glee Club

"Everywhere"
Music from Lehigh University Choir Tours
Steven Sametz, Director

Including music from:
Tour of Germany and the Czech Republic, 2005
Lincoln Center, 2006
Tour of Austria and Hungary, 2003
Tour of China, 2007

La Villanella

A Radio Borders recording of Health in Harmony in their  2019 Christmas is Coming concert. From Melrose Parish Church.

Health in Harmony 2019 Christmas is Coming concert

Summer will come again (20th Dec. 2020)

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Chris Hutchings is a Scottish composer based in Edinburgh, specialising in works for choir. His works have been performed by the National Youth Choir of Scotland, New London Singers, Cappella Nova, Scottish Voices, the Edinburgh Quartet, Daniel's Beard, Pure Brass, and a wide variety of professional and amateur groups around the world. He has received commissions from several groups in the UK and USA. Recent prizes include the Murau Music Festival Composition prize in 2019 and Kantos Choir's composition prize in 2021. 

For more details, see http://www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk for details of upcoming performances, score samples, free arrangements, and more recordings.

Videos, many with scores, at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7ao4fKMuVXVz0la0r0VrQ/

Good King Wenceslas, arr. Hutchings - sung by Mackintosh Choir, Glasgow

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