Music for SATB/Mixed Voices

by Olivia Sparkhall. A Motet for SATB. 
Digital off-print available here: https://www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk/digital-offprints/
Appears within this anthology: https://www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk/volume-1-satb-anthems/
View perusal score here: https://issuu.com/sparkhall/docs/sparkhall_dona_nobis_pacem
Further information here: https://oliviasparkhall.wixsite.com/sparkhallo/dona-nobis-pacem

Dona nobis pacem

A new work for SATB (no divisi), this was written at the suggestion of my publisher, to provide a straight-forward, direct piece that captures something of a spirit of renewal as choirs come back together and sing. Intentionally restrained, the piece provides a satisfying harmonic journey, is contemporary without being impenetrable, and a performance is achievable on a modest amount of rehearsal.

We pray for a renewal of our faith and that, in all the tensions and confusion of this present time, we may continue to trust in your name, and find your love in strength and peace.
We pray that your Church may grow in faith, so that sharing Christ’s suffering and death, we may share in the glory of his resurrection. Gillian Rogers.

The Romsey Singers, conducted by Philip Lawson, Romsey Abbey. 9 April, 2022.

A Renewal of Faith

Winner of the Three Choirs Festival Composition Competition, ‘Hear, O ye kings’ is a short anthem for SATB, suitable for use as an introit. Hereford Cathedral Voluntary Choir had just 15 minutes to rehearse each of the shortlisted pieces from scratch before workshop recordings were made. Copies (and perusal score) available from https://www.encorepublications.com/publications.shtml#sparkhall_o

Hear, O ye kings

Hear, O ye kings by Olivia Sparkhall (workshop recording)

As part of the liturgy of Palm Sunday, in the Church of England, the congregation join in with the reading of the Passion, taking the part of ‘the crowd.’ It was the congregation’s shouts of ‘crucify him’ that acted as a catalyst for this setting of Crucifixus.

Crucifixus

Biography – Olivia Sparkhall
Olivia Sparkhall is a composer and arranger, primarily of choral music, who is based in South West England. Her compositions have been performed in the UK, and abroad, including on BBC One’s Songs of Praise programmes and on BBC Radio 3. Olivia is published by Encore Publications, Chichester Music Press, Tim Knight Music, Lindsay Music, and within the Kassian Choral Series of Banks Music Publications both as composer, and as arranger and editor of choral music by women composers from the past. She is part of the series research and editorial team for the Multitude of Voyces CIC Sacred Music by Women Composers set of anthologies, as well as contributing original compositions and arrangements to each of the three volumes.

Crucifixus

Olivia Sparkhall - composer