for SATB unaccompanied Pete Churchill's thrilling arrangement of this traditional Cornish carol has a gentle South African feel and features 'scat' singing and chromatic shifts in harmony. The traditional melody in 6/8 time is set against a jazz-waltz rhythm, giving a contemporary twist to this Christmas classic.
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Confidence will be the name of the game if your singers take on Pete Churchill's Sans Day Carol. They will need to be able to subdivide six quavers into 3/4 or 6/8 and switch constantly between the two (anyone with a feel for jazz or swing will have no trouble here.) Variety is achieved by changes in tempo and some interesting harmonic diversions - the home key of E flat is briefly abandoned for visits to G and B majors. This piece is really well crafted; the vocal ranges are easy and there is not a divisi in sight. The composer is, among other things, professor of jazz composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Evidently. * Jeremy Jackman, Choir & Organ, September 2019 *
Pete Churchill is a composer, pianist, singer, and teacher. He taught for almost twenty years at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and in 2000 became Professor of Jazz Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his freelance career, he has worked as the British accompanist for jazz-singer Mark Murphy, as a musical director in the West End, and as conductor with the Kenny Wheeler Big Band. As an educator and choral director, Pete has taught at the Sibelius Academy (Finland), at the University of Queensland (Brisbane), and, on behalf of ABRSM, in SE Asia and Hong Kong. His own choir, 'The London Vocal Project', have performed alongside jazz artists such as Dame Cleo Laine and Bobby McFerrin. In 2007 he received the Parliamentary Award for Services to Jazz Education.
