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NEW ALBUM

The Nativity

Patrick’s eleventh album featuring the premiere recordings of twenty new Christmas works, including the two collections The Nativity and Four Christmas Motets which tell the Christmas story …

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Illumina

A beautifully controlled performance of Patrick’s Illumina has just been released by the Sequoias Chamber Singers and their director John M Sorber at the University of Southern California …

MUSIC CATALOGUE

Latest works

With over 160 pieces of music available in the music catalogue, including Christmas themes, choral, orchestral, chamber, ensemble and solo works, there is something to suit all musical tastes  …

ABOUT PATRICK

Known across the world for his haunting melodies and beautiful harmonies, Patrick Hawes is recognised as a leading contemporary composer and a torchbearer of the English musical tradition.

His vast and varied catalogue encompasses everything from small-scale piano and chamber works to full-scale symphonies and epic choral works.

He has collaborated with some of the world’s finest musicians and performed in iconic venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

His eleventh album has just been released and he is currently writing an opera based on the children’s book Gobbolino, The Wich’s Cat and an oratorio for the Grammy-award-winning Houston Chamber Choir entitled The Son of Man.

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FEATURED ALBUM

The Nativity

Patrick has teamed up with the excellent Voce Chamber Choir of Connecticut to create an album of twenty brand-new Christmas choral works. Specially written for the choir, the first collection and album title, sets words by Patrick’s poet brother Andrew. The Nativity, for unaccompanied choir, moves through the Christmas nativity scene exploring the drama of this momentous moment in human history. For the second collection, Patrick has set Four Christmas Motets; the fragile ancient poetry giving rise to tender and heartfelt music for unaccompanied choir…

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MEMORABLE MOMENTS

Church Times

"First the coathanger, then the music." Patrick's interview in the Christmas Double Edition, out now.

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