JPrideauxMusic
Jubilate Deo (2010)
Winner of the BUMS Chamber Choir Composition Competition.
In my setting of the Jubilate Deo text, I wanted to portray the joyful and rejoicing imagery from the text coupled with the 'neo-gregorian' style that is often heard with modern settings of Latin texts.
The setting begins with a slow building chord, opening up through the sections of the choir before moving to the main motif of the piece; an energetic and rhythmic motif that is built up from fifths that symmetrically move towards and away from eachother, creating that past and familiar sound-world connected with the Church.
"...a delightful mix of crunchy clusters and rhythmic replies."
- Ricardo Mopsy-Tuppett - Octogenrian
Premiered by Bristol University Chamber Choir on 26th February 2011 in St. George's Concert Hall, Bristol.
Other performances:-
Bristol University Chamber Choir - Kaiser Willheim Church, Berlin (Easter 2011)
Swansea Philharmonic Choir - St. Mary's Church (Christmas 2016)
2011 - Written for BUMS
Chamber Choir Composition Competition.
Performed by Bristol University Chamber Choir on 26th February 2011 in St. George's Concert Hall, Bristol.
Recording of Jubilate Deo from Berlin during
BUMS UoB Chamber Tour of Berlin in Easter 2011.
Recording by Bethan Waters.
December 2016.
Performed by Swansea Philharmonic Choir on 3rd December 2016 in St. Mary's Church, Swansea.