Factus Est Repente to be performed as part of LFCCM 2018

Sarah’s Pentecost motet, Factus Est Repente, has been selected for performance in 2018’s London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, and will be sung as the motet in Solemn Mass in St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, on 20th May. This will be the piece’s fourth performance, and its London premiere, after its first performance in 2016 by the Chapel Choir of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, and two performances in 2017 by Granta Chorale (one in Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel and the other in Saffron Hall).

Sicut Cervus shortlisted for Buckfast Abbey’s Choral Composition Competition

Sarah’s setting of Sicut Cervus has been shortlisted for Buckfast Abbey’s Young Composers’ Competition. The competition forms part of a nine-day Festival of Sacred Music in April, which commemorates a thousand years since the Abbey’s foundation; Sarah wanted to reflect this long history in her setting, which references monastic chant and church modes. All the finalists’ pieces will be premiered on 19th April alongside the first performance of Matthew Martin’s new commission setting the same text, Sicut Cervus.