Commissioning new music is part of our ethos at New Cambridge Singers. [...]

​To discover out what pieces we have commissioned over the years, please see below,

If you would like to hear New Cambridge Singers commission new works of music, you can make a donation to the NCS New Music Fund.

Tim Watts: A Spell to Lure Apollo

Arrangement: SATB choir and guitar​​
Text: Poem by Conrad Celtis (translated by Alex Wong)

First Performance: 18 March 2022
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Paul Newton-Jackson: Then the Angel Showed Me the River...

Arrangement: SATB, Renaissance brass ensemble, audience chorus​​
Text: Revelation 22:1

First performance: 01 April 2017
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Funded by the Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts, the RVW Trust​​ and generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Giles Swayne: Everybloom

Arrangement: SATB and viol consort
​Text: Ulysses by James Joyce

First performance: 01 April 2017
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Funded by the Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts, the RVW Trust​​ and generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Christopher Brown: Star Songs

Arrangement: SATB choir
​Text: Bob Devereux

First performance: 22 June 2013
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

David Bedford: The Soft Stars that Shine at Night

Arrangement: SATB choir and organ
​Text: Poems by Kenneth Patchen and Tony Harrison

First performance: 08 July 2012
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​Funded jointly by Making Music and generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Rory Boyle: His Name is Time

Arrangement: SATB choir and cello
​Text: Poems by Rabindranath Tagore​

First performance: 12 November 2011
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Alicia Grant: Fire

Arrangement: SATB choir and piano
​Text: Dorothea Mackellar​

First performance: 02 March 2010
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​Funded by the generous donation of Hatty Harris.

Christopher Brown: Sunlight on a Pale Green Ocean

Arrangement: SATB choir
​Text: Poems by Henry Marsh​

First performance: 24 May 2008
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Kelly Crandell: Waves and Imitations

Arrangement: SSATBB choir, harp, organ and percussion​
​Text: Book of Psalms

First performance: 27 June 2007
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Six Composers: Adam Lay Ybounden

Arrangements by ​Joseph Atkins, Christopher Brown, Timothy Brown, Ruth Byrchmore, John Webb and Philip White

Arrangement: SATB choir
​Text: Anonymous (15th Century)

First performance: 09 December 2006
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Peter Maxwell Davies: The Kestrel Road

Arrangement: SATB choir and piano
​Text: Poems by George Mackay Brown

First performance: 31 October 2005
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​Funded jointly by Making Music and generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

John Webb: Lux Aeterna

Arrangement: SATB choir
​Text: Anonymous (Communion Antiphon)

First performance: 14 June 2003
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​Funded by generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund.

Paul Agutter: Ave Maris Stella

Arrangement: SATB choir
​Text: Anonymous (Marian Hymn)

First performance: 14 June 2003
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Winner of the Koestler Award (2002).

Richard Rodney Bennett: The Glory and the Dream

Arrangement: SATB choir and organ
​Text: Imitations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

First performance: 03 March 2001
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​Funded by Eastern Arts Board and generous donations to the NCS New Music Fund and from other choirs from around the globe