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258 RSCM Carols for Sopranos, Altos and Unison Lower Voices Alexander L’Estrange
Alexander L’Estrange is a British composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and choral animateur of international acclaim. A Master of Arts music graduate of Oxford University, he has been dubbed “the added 9th of choral music,” a nod to his consummate fusion of the British choral tradition with jazz. Best known for his award-winning Zimbe! series of 40-minute works for SATB choir, unison children’s choir and jazz quintet, he is the go-to arranger for world-class vocal groups.
Sarah MacDonald
Sarah MacDonald MA FRCO ARSCM is Director of Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Director of the Girl Choristers at Ely Cathedral. She has been at Selwyn since 1999, and was the first woman to hold such a post in an Oxbridge Chapel. She studied in the Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto and at the University of Cambridge. Her teachers included Leon Fleisher, Marek Jablonski, John Tuttle, and David Sanger. She leads a busy international career conducting, playing, writing, recording, and composing.
Piers Maxim
Piers Maxim was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Composing music since he was seven years old, he had works published while still at school. Highlights over the years include commissions for a National Children’s Home celebration in Winchester Cathedral and for the Millennium Eve Service of Celebration in Southwark Cathedral. Recent compositions include the choral- symphonic works Song of the Silent Land (Maine, USA) and The Musket Ball (Greenwich, UK). Piers is Director of Music and Organist at Great Malvern Priory, and Music Director of Elgar Chorale of Worcester.
Philip Moore
Philip Moore held posts at Eton College, Canterbury Cathedral and Guildford Cathedral, before succeeding Dr Francis Jackson at York Minster in 1983. He is
a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. He retired from the Minster in 2008 and was appointed Organist Emeritus and awarded, by the Archbishop of York, the Order of St William of York. He also has an honorary doctorate from
the University of York and was given the Cranmer Award for Worship from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He now enjoys life as an itinerant organist but spends much of his time composing.
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