Selected works / Choral
Ave maris stella
- Forces
- SS (upper voices) & organ
- Duration
- c. 7′30″
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- Latin
- Text
- Marian hymn
- Suited to
- Marian, General
- Difficulty
- Written to stretch an upper-voice choir without putting it off new music
- Written for
- Choir & Organ magazine, for the Girl Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
- First performance
- The Girl Choir of Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, March 2013
- Availability
- Available from the composer
Commissioned at the end of 2011 by Choir & Organ magazine for the Girl Choir of Salisbury Cathedral, as part of the magazine’s new-music series in partnership with the cathedral, and written the following year. It has since been taken up by upper-voice choirs further afield, including at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Performing copies are available directly from Andrew by contacting him at email@andrewcusworth.com. This work is priced at £40 for a digital copy with permission to print unlimited copies for one named ensemble. Also available at a significant discount as part of a collection of 13 choral works. Prices are subject to change.
If you are performing this work, do let Andrew know so it can be added to the map.
What others have said
It provided an excellent example of a responsible, learned composer whose work is at once of our own time and of the great continuum of composers.