Greetings and Welcome!
This is the official website for J.A.C. Redford, composer of music for voice, orchestra and chamber ensembles, for recordings, the theatre and films. Here you can find information about J.A.C. Redford, purchase CDs featuring his music, and order sheet music, scores, and parts for performance of his works through Plough Down Sillion Music.
What's New?
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, 18 February 2012, 8PM - Pomona, CA
The Millennium Consort Singers, directed by Martin Neary, former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey in London, will perform my Napili Bay, 2PM on a program with works by Copland, Howells, Morley, Stanford, Tippett, and the world premiere of Tom Flaherty's Water Ruminations.
Pomona College Department of Music
Bridges Hall of Music
150 E. 4th St
Claremont, CA 91711
Admission is free with open seating.
www.performingartslive.com/Events/A-Choral-Celebration-12212011124311
Saturday, 10 March 2012, 8PM - San Juan Capistrano, CA
The de Angelis Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Matthew Gray, will perform a newly commissioned work on a thematic program focusing on music inspired by music. Other composers featured will be di Lassus, Morley, Tomkins, Weelkes, Bob Chilcott and Elliot Carter.
Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano
31520 Camino Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
General Admission: $25
Student w/ID & Senior (65 or older): $20
www.deangelisensemble.org/
Friday, 16 March 2012, 10:30AM - Seattle, WA
The Pacific Lutheran University Chorale, under the direction of Brian Galante, will perform three movements from my choral cycle, love is the every only god, at the Northwestern Division convention of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).
Town Hall
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: $5
www.nwacda.org/conference%20leadin-2012-B.html
For more information about the PLU Chorale and its performances of my cycle on tour in Texas:
www.galantemusic.com/chorale/tour.html
Monday, 30 April 2012, 7:30PM - Salt Lake City, UT
Utah Chamber Artists, led by Artistic Director Barlow Bradford, will perform my settings of three Wordsworth nocturnes, Night Pieces, in a concert entitled Poetry & Music. The concert also features Walt Whitman settings by Barlow Bradford and premieres of music by Tarik O’Regan.
Libby Gardner Concert Hall
School of Music
The University of Utah
1375 East President's Circle
204 David P. Gardner Hall
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0030
Adults: $17.50
Students: $12
www.utahchamberartists.org/?page_id=92
Recent Work
FILM:
In 2011, I orchestrated the scores for six films: Cristiada and Black Gold for James Horner, Phineas & Ferb the Movie: Across the Second Dimension for Danny Jacob, and The Help, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Iron Lady for Thomas Newman. Visit www.imdb.com or www.imdb.com/name/nm0002370/ for more information about these films and composers.
2011 PREMIERES:
Venite
Jubilate Deo
For their twentieth anniversary concert on May 2nd, Barlow Bradford and Utah Chamber Artists commissioned and premiered these settings for choir and orchestra of two morning canticles from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
I Saw the Cherubim
O Sapientia
These two choral works were commissioned by the C. S. Lewis Foundation for performance at its Oxbridge 2011 summer conference. I Saw the Cherubim, a combined setting of two sonnets by Oxford painter and poet Roger Wagner, premiered at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on July 29th, accompanied by the City of Oxford Orchestra. O Sapientia, for a cappella choir, was composed to a sonnet written by Cambridge priest, poet and professor, Malcolm Guite. It premiered on August 2nd at Great St. Mary’s Church in Cambridge.
Rest Now, My Sister
While developing May’s commission, Utah Chamber Artists encouraged me to set to music a sonnet I had written in the course of coming to terms with my sister-in-law’s 2010 murder. I combined this poem with fragments of the requiem liturgy to create Rest Now, My Sister, a work for choir and orchestra which was premiered on September 19th and 20th at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake, the city where Kristine lived and died.
Confessiones
This song cycle, a setting of texts from St. Augustine’s autobiography composed in 2010, was premiered on October 21st and 26th at Westmont College and Biola University by mezzo-soprano Kate Butler, accompanied by my daughter-in-law, Elizabeth King Redford.
RECORDINGS:
In 2011, I wrote and conducted half a dozen orchestral arrangements for Joy: An Irish Christmas by Keith & Kristyn Getty. Visit www.gettymusic.com/ for detail.
PUBLICATIONS:
If you're interested in rental or purchase of my arrangements for Joshua Bell's Voice of the Violin or At Home with Friends recordings, please contact rhonda@jacredford.com.
If you're interested in performing my music, please link to my Concert, Chamber,Choral Works page or contact rhonda@jacredford.com. For commissions, please contact jac@jacredford.com.
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