all things are quite silent

The Choirs of Pembroke College, Cambridge Anna Lapwood All Things Are Quite Silent

1  All Things Are Quite Silent Trad. arr. Kerry Andrew 4.10 2 Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Elizabeth Poston 3.45 3 O Nata Lux Anna Lapwood 4.03 4 In the Stillness Sally Beamish 2.19 5 Into Thy Hands Jonathan Dove 5.45 6 Media Vita Kerensa Briggs 3.02 7 And the Swallow Caroline Shaw 4.02 8 The Water of Tyne Elizabeth Poston 2.38 9 Iustorum Animae Matthew Martin 2.29 10 Peace I Leave with You Amy Beach 1.39 11 Grandmother Moon Eleanor Daley 3.48 12 Ave Maria Rebecca Clarke 2.29 13 Upon Your Heart Eleanor Daley 3.54 14 Agnus Dei Imogen Holst 3.10 15 Mother of God John Tavener 3.02 16 Abendlied Josef Rheinberger 2.54 17 Sing to the Moon Laura Mvula 3.36

Total timings 56.46

The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge (all tracks) The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12–15) Anna Lapwood, conductor 4 Introduction

Two years ago I had supper with and for me as a conductor, and it a colleague who showed me a was also recorded just a year after spreadsheet of choral music by our Girls’ Choir was founded. It is female composers. I started to look a recording of some of the Choirs’ at scores and found lots of amazing favourite music, some of which pieces and new voices, and realised happens to have been written by how much music we had been women and some by men. It’s my missing both as performers and hope that by continuing to showcase within the work of the Chapel and this wonderful music alongside more College. Eventually I decided that we well known and equally excellent would include at least one piece by a contemporary choral music, it will be female composer in every service for performed by more and more choirs the foreseeable future to help their across the UK and worldwide and writing to be explored. appreciated for what it is. It is, first and foremost, good music. This album is the first commercial release both for The Choirs of Pembroke College, Cambridge,

5 6 composers in every service, but Jonathan Dove’s Into Thy Hands found there was an obstacle in my was written in 1996 to be sung at Programme notes path when it came to music written the burial site of Sir Edmund Rich for just tenors and basses. We were in Pontigny, France, on the 750th singing a men’s voices compline, anniversary of his canonization. Rich The disc opens with Kerry Andrew’s happened upon the words of the and so I decided to write a piece was one of the great scholars of the atmospheric setting of the folksong carol while in the US, she proceeded that would fill that gap, which I then 13th century, and died near Pontigny All Things Are Quite Silent. She to write a melody to fit it in the style rearranged for the entire Choir for in 1243. Into thy hands combines originally wrote this to perform of a folk tune. Indeed, one can hear this recording. The piece starts and two prayers of Sir Edmund; the by herself using a loop station, definite similarities between this ends with a single note, a beam that first is an expansion of Compline gradually layering the sounds of the piece and her setting of The Water expands into a warm glow for the Responsary ‘Into thy hands O Lord’, sea with fragments of the tune that of Tyne which comes later in this second statement of the opening whilst the second talks of pilgrimage she found in an old book of English CD. In a letter to the Rev. Ronald de sentence where it is given a chorale- and eternity. The Abbey in Ponigny is folksongs. The dark text of the song Poe Silk in 1986, Poston said of the esque treatment. exceptionally resonant, and so Dove explores a girl who loses her love to tune to Jesus Christ the Apple Tree describes how he ‘imagined that For her charming carol In the the sea, and the sounds of the sea 'The Spirit bloweth where it listith. the echo would be part of the piece, Stillness, Sally Beamish chooses a are ever-present throughout the I wrote it down immediately and and set the first prayer spaciously, text by Katrina Shepherd depicting piece. Whilst the last verse seems inevitably, almost without thinking, allowing for the sound of each the ‘hushed rapture of a small parish superficially optimistic, eventually the on the nearest scrap to hand at the phrase to reverberate.’ The second church in a snowbound landscape.’ voice of the girl is overwhelmed by time, which happened to be a garage prayer, meanwhile, he describes as For so many of us who live and work the cracking, swirling and whistling of bill.’ It was first heard broadcast on being a ‘calm processional which in the world of choral music, it is the sea and her love is lost forever. BBC One’s Carols from Kings in 1967, does not reach an ending, but this moment Shepherd describes the year it was published, and has simply, in trust, surrenders itself.’ Jesus Christ the Apple Tree is that we look forward to every year remained a firm favourite ever since. arguably Elizabeth Poston’s most at Christmas. Beamish writes simply famous and successful work. It I originally wrote O Nata Lux for our and homophonically throughout, started life as a short song in regular services at Pembroke; I was leaving room for expression through her Children’s Song Book; having looking to include music by female the text alone.

7 8 The composer Caroline Shaw was musical relationship with Ralph the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Vaughan Williams and Peter Warlock. Prize for Music for her composition In the case of The Water of Tyne, the Partita for 8 voices, and is also folk song is sung by a girl lamenting possibly the only choral composer the fact that her love is on the who can say she has collaborated opposite bank of the River Tyne. with Kanye West. Her music is The following piece on the CD renowned for its use of extended tells a different tale of heartbreak, vocal techniques, the most basic written in memory of the composer’s of which can be heard in And the friend who took his own life having Swallow, a setting of Psalm 84 which learnt of his diagnosis of terminal ends with the singers evoking the cancer. The beauty of Matthew sound of autumn rains. Shaw spoke Martin’s Iustorum Animae lies in of how she was thinking of the Syrian its simplicity and restraint. Whilst refugee crisis as she composed the originally written for just the ‘men’s work; ‘There’s a yearning for a home The text of Media Vita is attributed John Sheppard. Briggs describes voices’ of the choir, assumed to be that feels very relevant today. The to Notker, a learned Benedictine how ‘The piece draws inspiration alto, tenor and bass, the inclusion of second verse is: “The sparrow found of St. Gall who died in 912. The from both the intensity and ebb and the ladies of the choir singing low in a house and the swallow her nest, story goes that he composed it flow found within Sheppard’s work their register gives this piece an even where she may place her young” while watching workmen build the and the text itself. False relations greater sense of depth of sorrow. bridge of Matinsbruck, in so doing and imitative writing remain but which is just a beautiful image of a Amy Beach is best known for her risking their lives. Kerensa Briggs’ these ideas are incorporated into bird trying to keep her children safe – orchestral music, having earned atmospheric setting of the text was a rich harmonic language and people trying to keep their family safe.’ the accolade of writing the first commissioned by Siglo de Oro and reflective sonority, depicting an The Water of Tyne is one of symphony to be composed and Patrick Allies in 2015 to celebrate awareness of death in life alongside Elizabeth Poston’s lesser known published by an American woman. 500 years since the birth of the a hope for redemption or salvation.’ works. Her interest in folk songs is A prodigious pianist from an early English Renaissance composer perhaps no surprise given her close age, Beach was grateful that her 9 10 parents refused offers of concert to be published. A British composer tours for the young musician, born in 1886, Clarke studied with allowing her to focus on continued Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal musical development at a European College of Music, London, and had Conservatory near Boston. Her a long career as a violist before responsary Peace I Leave with You moving to New York. Whilst Clarke was published in 1891, the year was initially known for composing before her most successful choral chamber music, she was amongst work, the Mass in E flat. a group of students at RCM who encouraged Ralph Vaughan Williams The composer Eleanor Daley has to lead them in singing Palestrina’s become a favourite of the Choirs music in the early 1910s. The in recent years. The first piece of influence of this study of Palestrina hers on this disc is Grandmother can be clearly seen in her Ave Maria Moon, a setting of a mystical text by in its constant allusions to the a Mi’kmaq poet, Mary Louise Martin, Renaissance style through balanced who lives on a small island in British into the life of the College Choir; Ralph Vaughan Williams, with whom writing and graceful linear content, Columbia. The text describes the it has been sung at numerous Holst was studying at the time. The always responsive to the sensitivities beauty and tranquillity of a full moon weddings and funerals in the College influence of Vaughan Williams’s Mass of the text. on a clear night; Daley stated how Chapel, and is always one of the final in G minor can clearly be felt, and the words were so evocative that Upon Your Heart is the first piece pieces that Choir members sing in yet Holst still preserves her own ‘when I first heard them, I was utterly of Eleanor Daley’s encountered by their final service before graduation. distinctive voice, particularly in the Agnus Dei, heard here. smitten, and knew that I needed to the Choir. It was written in 1999, and Imogen Holst wrote her Mass in set them to music at some point!’ was commissioned by Dr. Thomas A minor in 1927 when she was John Tavener’s setting of Mother Porter, dedicated to his wife for their Before the second of Eleanor Daley’s just 20 years old. At the time, of God is a perfect miniature that 45th wedding anniversary. Daley’s pieces, we hear Rebecca Clarke’s Holst was studying at the Royal forms part of a much longer work. attractive and accessible writing has setting of the Marian text Ave Maria, College of Music and the Mass Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple: The led to this piece embedding itself one of the first of her choral works was written under the guidance of all-night vigil was commissioned 11 12 for the Temple Church in London, her success as an R&B singer, and was designed to engage the few people know that she studied listener in a symbolic journey from composition at the Birmingham darkness to light. Mother of God is Conservatoire. Her song Sing to an incredibly simple yet beautiful the Moon was the title track from anthem marked to be sung ‘hushed', her first album released in 2013, with infinite tenderness. making the top 10 in the UK albums chart. Laura recorded an orchestral Josef Rheinberger’s Abendlied version of Sing To The Moon with the sets text from Luke 24:29. This is Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley the same text used in the famous and she wrote this haunting choral hymn ‘Abide with me, fast falls the arrangement for the Eric Whitacre eventide’. These are the words Singers. Encouraged by Eric, the spoken by two disciples to the premiere was her first experience stranger they met on the road as a choral conductor. Sing to the to Emmaus; they encourage the Moon was performed by the BBC stranger to stay with them so that Singers at the last night of the they can protect him, not knowing Proms in 2019. Laura fragments that he is the risen Jesus. This the writing in the verses to give a display of humanity and kindness is sense of the shattered soul at the a fitting end to our exploration of the centre of the piece, contrasting with stillness and quietness of faith and the close-textured homophony of contemplation. the choruses, comforting us in the As a Choir, we do regular popular knowledge that singing has the collaborations and so it seemed power to turn the tide. fitting to include a little encore to Notes by Anna Lapwood the main body of the disc. While Laura Mvula is world-famous for 13 14 I missed of all; but now I see ‘Tis found in Christ the apple tree. 4. In the Stillness COMPOSER: Sally Beamish Texts & Translations I’m weary with my former toil, Here I will sit and rest awhile: TEXT: Katrina Shepherd Under the shadow I will be In the stillness of a church Where Although my love’s gone I will not be Of Jesus Christ the apple tree. candles glow, 1. All Things Are Quite Silent cast down, This fruit doth make my soul to thrive, In the softness of a fall Of fresh white snow, COMPOSER: Trad. arr. Kerry Andrew Who knows but my sailor may once It keeps my dying faith alive; In the brightness of the stars That shine TEXT: Traditional more return. Which makes my soul in haste to be this night, And may make me amends for all trouble All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest, With Jesus Christ the apple tree. In the calmness of a pool Of healing light, and strife, When me and my love were snug in our nest, In the clearness of a choir That softly sings, And my true love and I might be happy When a bold set of ruffians, they entered In the oneness of a hush Of angels’ wings, for life. 3. O Nata Lux out cave, In the mildness of a night By stable bare, And they forced my dear jewel to plough COMPOSER: Anna Lapwood In the quietness of a lull Near cradle fair, the salt wave. TEXT: Cantiones Sacrae, 1575 2. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree There’s a patience as we wait For a new morn, I begged hard for my sailor, as though COMPOSER: Elizabeth Poston O Nata Lux de Lumine And the presence of a child Soon to be born. I begged for life, TEXT: Divine Hymns or Spiritual Jesu redemptory saeculi They’d not listen to me although a fond wife, Songs, 1784 Dignare clemens supplicum Saying ‘the king, he needs sailors, to the Laudes precesque sumere. 5. Into Thy Hands The tree of life my soul hath seen, sea he must go,’ COMPOSER: Jonathan Dove Laden with fruit, and always green: O Light, born of Light, And they’ve left me lamenting in sorrow TEXT: Two prayers of St Edmund of The trees of nature fruitless be Jesus, Redeemer of the world, and woe. Abingdon Compared with Christ the apple tree. mercifully receive the prayer Through green fields and meadows, we oft and praises of your suppliants. Into thy hands O Lord and Father His beauty doth all things excel: times did walk, We commend our souls and our bodies By faith I know, but ne’er can tell And sweet conversation of love we had talked, Our parents and our homes The glory which I now can see With the birds in the woodland so sweetly friends and kindred. did sing, In Jesus Christ the apple tree. Into thy hands O Lord and Father And the lovely thrushes’ voices made the For happiness I long have sought, We commend our benefactors and valleys to ring. And pleasure dearly I have bought: brethren departed. 15 16 Into thy hands O Lord and Father, Sancte et misericors Salvator Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori: We commend all thy people faithfully amarae morti ne tradas nos 8. The Water of Tyne Illi autem sunt in pace believing, COMPOSER: arr. Elizabeth Poston In the midst of life we are in death. The souls of the righteous are in the hand all who need thy pity and protection Whom can we seek as our helper TEXT: Traditional of God, Enlighten us with thy holy grace, but you, Lord, I cannot get to my love if I would dee, and the torment of death shall not and suffer us never more to be separated who on account of our sins are justly angry? The water of Tyne runs between him and me, touch them. from thee, Holy God, Holy and strong, And here I must stand with a tear in my e’e, In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: Holy and merciful saviour, but they are in peace. Into thy hands O Lord Jesus Christ Both sighing and sickly my sweetheart to see. may you not deliver us to the bitterness of death. mercifully grant to me O where is the boatman? My bonny hinny! that the rest of my pilgrimage may be O where is the boatman? bring him to me, 10. Peace I Leave with You directed according to thy will, To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey, 7. And the Swallow COMPOSER: Amy Beach that the rest of my life may be completed And I will remember the boatman and thee. COMPOSER: Caroline Shaw TEXT: John iv.27 in thee TEXT: Psalm 84 O bring me a boatman, I’ll give any money, and my soul may deserve to enjoy thee Peace I leave with you, my peace I give And you for your trouble rewarded shall be, who art eternal life. How beloved is your dwelling place, unto you. To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey, Into thy hands. O Lord of hosts Not as the world giveth give I unto you. Or scull him across the rough river to me. my soul yearns, faints, Let not your heart be troubled. my heart and my flesh cry I cannot get to my love if I would dee, 6. Media Vita The water of Tyne runs between him The sparrow found a house COMPOSER: Kerensa Briggs and me, 11. Grandmother Moon and the swallow, her nest, TEXT: Antiphona de Morte And here I must stand with a tear in my e’e, COMPOSER: Eleanor Daley where she may raise her young Both sighing and sickly my sweetheart to see. TEXT: Mary Louise Martin Media vita in morte sumus They pass through the valley of bakka quem quaerimus adjutorem She looks into and beyond my soul they make it a place of springs niste, Domine? the lacy cedar boughs creating her shadows the autumn rains also cover it with pools 9. Iustorum Animae Qui pro pecatis nostris cedar ones weave design of midnight canvas COMPOSER: Matthew Martin juste iras ceris she looks into and beyond my soul. TEXT: Wisdom 3, vv.1-3 Sancte Deus she a powerful sacred hoop, Sancte fortis Iustorum animae in manu Dei sunt, a hoop of full light, Et non tanget illos tormentum litiae, simplicity against the ebony blues and blacks

17 18 of night sky land and crystal Lamb of God, you take away the sins star people 13. Upon Your Heart of the world, 17. Sing to the Moon she looks into and beyond my soul COMPOSER: Eleanor Daley have mercy on us. COMPOSER & TEXT: Laura Mvula her round face of translucent beauty and light TEXT: Song of Solomon 8:6, 7 and Lamb of God, you take away the sins Hey there you shattered in a thousand pieces quiet pow’rs speak out in her name… of the world, John 15:9-12 weepin’ in the darkest night we’lalin have mercy on us. Set me as a seal upon your heart, Hey there you try’na stand upon your own Lamb of God, you take away the sins (We’lalin means ‘welcome’ in Mi’kmaq.) as a seal upon your arm, two feet and stumblin’ through the sky of the world, for love is strong as death. grant us peace. Hey you a broken soul, hey there hold on 12. Ave Maria Many waters cannot quench love, soon will be mornin’ COMPOSER: Rebecca Clarke neither can the floods drown it. 15. Mother of God Sing to the moon and the stars will shine TEXT: Hail Mary prayer If you keep my commandments, you shall over you, lead you to the other side COMPOSER: Sir John Tavener abide in my love, Sing to the moon and the stars will shine Ave Maria Gratia plena, TEXT: Mikhail Lermontov Love one another as I have loved you, over you, heaven’s gonna turn the tide. Dominus tecum. Then shall your joy be complete. Mother of God, here I stand now praying, Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Hey there you drownin’ in a helpless feelin’ Before this icon of your radiant brightness, Et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Set me as a seal upon your heart, buried under deeper ground Not praying to be saved from a battlefield, Sancta Maria, Regina Coeli, as a seal upon your arm, Hey you a broken soul, hey there soon will Not giving thanks, nor seeking forgiveness Dulcis et pia, for love is strong as death. be mornin’ For the sins of my soul, nor for all the souls. O Mater Dei. Numb, joyless and desolate on earth, Sing to the moon and the stars will shine Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, But for her alone, whom I wholly give you. over you lead you to the other side ora pro nobis ut cum electis te videamus. 14. Agnus Dei Sing to the moon and the stars will shine COMPOSER: Imogen Holst Hail Mary, full of grace, over you heaven’s gonna turn the tide. TEXT: John 1:29 the Lord is with thee; 16. Abendlied blessed art thou among women, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata munti, COMPOSER: Josef Rheinberger and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. miserere nobis. TEXT: Luke 24:29 Holy Mary, Queen of heaven Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata munti, Blieb bei uns, den es will Abend warden, sweet and merciful, O Mother of God, miserere nobis. und der Tag hat sich geneiget. pray for us sinners, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccara mundi, dona that with the elect we may gaze. nobis pacem. Bide with us, for evening draws on, And the day will soon be over. 19 20 The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

SOPRANO: varied ranges of choral endeavours Ellie Walder, Annie Mackley, Evie among Oxbridge choirs. Alongside Parker, Zoe Peyton-Jones, Hannah their primary responsibility of Artists Lewis, Mabel Hoskins, Emily Strand contributing to worship in the ALTO: College’s Chapel, they engage in Lily Rivers, Lakshmi Piette, Harriet regular artistic collaborations, media appearances and outreach work. The Choirs of Pembroke College, Cambridge Caisley, Sophie Pether, Anna Lawrence, Kirsty Ryall In Cambridge, the Chapel Choir sings services and concerts as part of the The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir TENOR: Owen Saldanha, Sam MacDonald, broad portfolio comprising Music Campbell McLauchlan, Alex Hume, at Pembroke. In addition to regular Anna Lapwood Will Bosworth, Jago Thornton weekly services, the Choir has at least one major concert per term, BASS: often performing classical master Matthew Anketell, Jeremy Cowen, works. In recent years, highlights Toby Chesser, Rory Dyer, George from concerts in Cambridge have Cook, Joe Beadle, Charlie Hicks included Bach’s Magnificat, Fauré’s Directed by Anna Lapwood, The Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria. They Chapel Choir of Pembroke College also sing a termly concert at St. has one of the most exciting and Martin-in-the-Fields, most recently

22 performing Allegri’s Miserere by music teachers to help train the candlelight alongside pieces from next generation of teachers. This is their upcoming album. made possible through an ongoing collaboration with the Muze Trust, In December 2019, Pembroke Chapel with whom Director of Music Anna Choir was featured in ‘Britain’s Lapwood travels to Zambia every Christmas Story’ with Gareth Malone year to continue developing the on BBC One. Other collaborations Choir’s relationship with Zambian include recordings at Abbey Road musical communities. Studios with Grammy-award winning composer Christopher Tin (2020), Just as with international outreach with singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin work, the Choir can also be found and concert appearances with Eric hosting Cambridge-based events Idle and the Swingle Singers. designed to make singing as accessible as possible within the Outreach work is an integral aspect local community. As part of the of the Chapel Choir’s tours. Pembroke Festival of Voice, the Choir Their most recent tour took relationship between Pembroke works alongside the Pembroke runs annual ‘Come-and-Sing’ events, them to Thailand and featured College and Pembroke House, a Academy of Music to help bring providing local singers the chance musical workshops with over settlement and church in Walworth musical opportunities to as many to sing major works alongside the 500 schoolchildren, a visit to (London). In addition to seasonal children as possible. Chapel Choir and Pembroke’s Choral Pattaya Orphanage and a series of joint services alternating between Society, the Pembroke Singers. DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: Anna Lapwood workshops at the Noh Bo Academy, Cambridge and London the choir Once a term, the Choir hosts local a school for displaced children at schoolchildren to give them the the Thai-Burmese border. Every chance to experience high quality three years, the Choir travels to www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/music/chapel-choir music-making and sing alongside Zambia to run music workshops INSTAGRAM: @PembrokeChoir the Chapel Choir. The Choir is also for local schoolchildren and to FACEBOOK: facebook.com/pembrokechoir heavily involved in the flourishing work in collaboration with Zambian TWITTER: @pembrokechoir 23 24 The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir Anna Lapwood Director of Music

The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir Anna Lapwood is a trailblazing she established the Pembroke College was founded in October 2018 and musician. As a broadcaster she Girls’ Choir for girls aged 11 to 18 to has quickly gained a reputation as is a regular contributor to BBC inspire them to explore Church music, one of the UK’s leading girls’ choirs. Radio 3 and hosts a live, weekly and runs the annual Cambridge Made up of 18 girls aged 11–18, classical music show on BBC Radio Organ Experience for Girls. Her non- the Choir sings twice a week in the Cambridgeshire. This year she makes stop Bach-a-thon performance of the College Chapel, as well as regularly her TV presenting debut, hosting complete works of J.S. Bach had an singing alongside the Chapel Choir. BBC Four's coverage of BBC Young all-female team of organists in its They made their London concert Musician 2020. Alongside her work second year and is now an annual debut at St Martin-in-the-Fields in as a conductor, Director of Music fixture in the Pembroke calendar. 2019, singing music heard on this and public speaker, she performs an Multiple other initiatives for musicians CD. Alongside concerts and services, extensive number of organ recitals of all ages and gender include the they have sung for TV broadcasts on some of the greatest instruments on BBC One and recorded at the across Europe each season. world-famous Abbey Road studios Appointed Director of Music at with Grammy award winning Pembroke College at Cambridge composer Christopher Tin. University in 2016 aged just 21, The Choir is grateful for the she conducts the Pembroke College continued support of our patron, Chapel Choir. Anna’s passion to Emma Johnson MBE. support girls and women in music shines through every aspect of her MUSIC ADMINISTRATOR: Kate Williams © Hugh Warwick work, especially at Pembroke. In 2018

25 26 introduction of a choir designed to Singers as part of the BBC Proms backgrounds. As a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Music. Anna teach sightreading skills to singers, Inspire programme in 2019. She has Muze Trust, a charity committed has a tremendous zest for life, open to all. In January 2020, Anna led choral workshops around the to making music accessible to extraordinary work ethic and was appointed a Bye-Fellow at world with recent events in Thailand, children and young adults in Zambia, passion for multiple genres of Pembroke College. Perth WA, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Anna works in Zambia regularly music. She has collaborated with Lusaka. A strong advocate for music and leads the Muze Pembroke Katy B at London Fashion Week Beyond her work at Pembroke, education at home and abroad, Music Exchange Programme. and worked with Tom Chaplin as Anna is increasingly in demand she specialises in bringing music arranger and conductor for the choir as a conductor, directing the BBC Anna is a highly distinguished to children from impoverished on a recording project at Abbey concert organist. Awarded an Organ Road Studios. As a singer, Anna Scholarship at Magdalen College, was a member of Gareth Malone’s Oxford, from where she graduated professional ensemble, Voices, with a first class degree, she was the with whom she has released two first female in the College’s 560- year albums, performed at the Classical history to be given the Scholarship. Brit Awards, Royal Variety Show, the Performances have taken her to the National Eisteddfod of Wales and Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival in multiple TV performances. Hall (London), St Thomas Church (New York), and across the UK and Having spent some years being Europe on recital tours. In 2019, encouraged to “play like a man” and Anna opened the BAFTA TV awards with a dedication to her art and on the organ of the Royal Festival Hall. mission that belied her years, Anna is now humbled to find that she is Formerly Principal Harpist for an inspiration to many young women the National Youth Orchestra and amused that they have adopted of Great Britain and the Junior her hashtag, #playlikeagirl. Academy Symphony Orchestra, © Hugh Warwick she also studied piano, violin, viola and composition at the Junior 27 28 Christine Hansen Donor Thanks and Acknowledgements

A polymath, Christine Hansen at Pembroke, as well as committing Pembroke College and its Master, Adrian Peacock, for his limitless wrote her first poem at age 4 and to piano performance at her beloved Lord Chris Smith, for their continued patience and gentle advice all the won her first professional piano Aldeburgh Festival. Her further support of Music at Pembroke. way through from choosing competition at age 9. She continued support of the great educational Christine Hansen for the repertoire to the final master. to perform and win competitions, efforts of Pembroke College included generous donation that made Lucy Taylor, Daniel Joy and Alison and then attended l’Ecole normale the underwriting of this disc and the this recording possible. Daniels for their work with all of the de musique de Paris. She also took support of the Time and the Place Claire Long and Meg Davies of singers over the course of the year. private composition lessons with Campaign. Dr. Hansen divides her Music Productions, for their tireless Kate Williams, for all her amazing Nadia Boulanger. When at Pembroke time between the United States and support every step of the way. administrative and personal support College (1990), she regularly England, where she is often found throughout the recording and over performed in College and composed jabbering about spies and the arts Signum, for believing in the work the course of the last two years. music for the College prayer. She was at various places in St. James’s. She of the Pembroke Choirs and this a senior broadcast music and theatre lives with two Pomeranians and her wonderful music. critic for Public Radio in the United Yorkshire spouse, James Bottomley States. While a career Intellectual (St. Johns 1985). Property attorney and diplomat introducing the United Nations and the poorest countries to open source (free) technology, her true language remained music and the arts. Dr. Hansen established prizes for outstanding students in the arts

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