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- Gabriel Jackson -
Photo: Joel Garthwaite
Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda in 1962. After three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Jackson went on to study composition with Richard Blackford and with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. His music is regularly performed, recorded, and broadcast worldwide. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, his liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of many of Britain’s leading cathedral and collegiate choirs, and his music has been commissioned and performed by many of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, among them The Sixteen, the Latvian Radio Choir, the Tallis Scholars, the Bavarian Radio Choir, and the Swedish Radio Choir. In 2003 he won the liturgical category at the inaugural British Composer Awards with O Doctor optime, and won two further prizes in the choral category with The Spacious Firmament in 2009 and Airplane Cantata in 2012.
From 2010 to 2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers, producing a series of substantial pieces for the group including a virtuoso four-movement Choral Symphony. In April 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, had its first performance in the college chapel. May 2015 saw the premiere, at the Latvian National Opera, of his half-hour piece for soprano, choir, and orchestra, Spring Rounds, commissioned by the Riga-based youth choir Kamer. Recent projects include a series of choral pieces for Norwich Cathedral Choir, the St Louis Chamber Chorus, the Royal College of Music Junior Department, and Oslo Cathedral Youth Choir. Jackson’s music can be heard on over 70 recordings including seven discs devoted exclusively to his work on Delphian Records, Hyperion, Regent Records and Signum Classics.
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- Choral Works: Sacred -
The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ Solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB & 10 players
Countless and wonderful are the ways to praise God SATB & string orchestra Vocal scores on hire/rental
9780193400887
Conductor’s score and parts on hire/rental 9780193395275 This piece sets part two of the poet Doris Kareva’s collection ‘Shape of Time’, which she describes as ‘a message of hope through beauty’. In this work Jackson contrasts busy, vibrant string writing, which he uses to illustrate the striking images in Kareva’s poem, with sustained vocal lines, resulting in a work that is both static and ecstatic. 9 minutes
9780193356191
13 minutes
9780193390072
17 minutes
Commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, this hour-long work for soloists, choir, and 10 players is divided into seven movements, beginning with Palm Sunday. Jackson’s setting takes material from each of the four Gospel narratives, interspersed with Latin hymns and English texts by poets associated with Merton College over the centuries including Edmund Blunden and T. S. Eliot. 60 minutes
Vocal score
9780193364875
Vocal score on hire/rental
9780193376793
Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and traditions, Jackson has created a work which embraces a wide-ranging perspective on human mortality. Each movement is given a different character and musical style, and the result is a unique, sublime work which cannot fail to impress. 30 minutes
9780193385863
Written in 2004, Jackson harks back to the time of the Eton Choirbook with this expansive polyphonic Salve Regina, with its intricate and delicate interspersions in English decorating the celebrated Latin hymn in praise of Mary. He sets the words thoughtfully with climaxes and resolutions, contemplative passages, and grandiose fanfare-like moments. 13 minutes
Missa Sanctae Margaretae 9780193377554
Missa Sanctae Margaretae is a stunning new setting of the Missa Brevis, showcasing Jackson’s mesmerizing choral writing. The accessible choral lines move through a variety of textures and harmonies. The idiomatic organ accompaniment brings additional flavour to the music, sometimes answering the choral lines, sometimes offsetting them with fast, rhythmic passages. Ideal for use in services and concerts. 12 minutes
Missa Triueriensis
Sanctum est verum lumen 40-part unaccompanied SATBarB Vocal scores on hire/rental
9780193385849
9780193355996
Sanctum est verum lumen was written as a companion piece to Spem in alium to celebrate the Tallis quincentenary. Jackson explores a variety of ways of combining the forty voices: there are massive contrapuntal tuttis, antiphonal exchanges between groups of singers, huge monolithic chords, and an ‘über gimel’ for the eight sopranos alone. The piece is essentially about light, and the text, though funereal in origin, is radiantly optimistic and invites a variety of ways of evoking that sense of light in music. 10 minutes
Missa Triueriensis was written to celebrate Jackson’s father’s 75th birthday in 2005. A setting of the Mass in Latin, written for the Truro Cathedral Choir. 12 minutes
Conductor’s score and parts on hire/rental 9780193394810
SSAATTBB unaccompanied
Mass for All Saints is a captivating setting of the Latin Missa brevis. The accessible choral lines, idiomatic organ part, and colourful harmonies make this an ideal work for choirs looking for a fresh take on familiar words.
SATB unaccompanied
9780193404717
Salve Regina 2
Mass for All Saints
SATB & organ
Vocal score on hire/rental
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This major work was commissioned by St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures often unusually pareddown. By turns fiery and exuberant, and inward and numinous, the music includes a huge variety of textures and techniques, including flowing melismas, luminous key changes, and pure homophony. A work of great power that will appeal to committed concert and church choirs.
SATB, congregation (or semi-chorus), & organ
9780193404236
Requiem
Edinburgh Mass SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Vocal score on sale
Seven Advent Antiphons SATB unaccompanied
Cantus Maris Baltici 9780193408265
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193377530
These attractive settings of the ancient Latin Advent Antiphons will be of interest to any choir seeking imaginative material for Advent or Christmas performances. Within a largely diatonic style, Jackson deploys rich and varied harmonies, and the music traverses a wide canvas between contemplative stillness and bursts of rhythmic energy.
Jackson’s Cantus Maris Baltici (‘Songs of the Baltic Sea’) is a rich and imaginative setting of poems from each of the three Baltic countries. It displays innovative choral textures and is a rewarding piece for any advanced choir. It was commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and premiered in California in the summer of 2009.
16 minutes
10 minutes
The Spacious Firmament
Choral Symphony
SATB, brass quintet, & organ
24-part unaccompanied SATB
Vocal score
9780193363236
Vocal scores on hire/rental
Brass parts
9780193363212
A choral celebration of London, written for The BBC Singers, Choral Symphony explores all sides of this city, from the grandiose architecture and the bustling life of Fleet Street, to the darker aspects of today’s poorer neighbourhoods. Jackson takes his texts from a wide range of poets, from Oscar Wilde to contemporary street rapper, George the Poet.
Setting Joseph Addison’s much-loved text, Jackson explores the use of vivid imagery the poem provides through this dramatic medium. In his celebrated style, Jackson accompanies imaginative choral writing with bright fanfares for the two trumpets, dancing chorales for the brass, coruscating figuration from the organ, and solo horn whoops over whispering arpeggios. Only at the end do all the forces unite for the first time in a clanging, celebratory conclusion. 11 minutes
To the Field of Stars SATB, percussion & cello Vocal score
9780193409811
Choral and instrumental parts on hire/rental
9780193376427
A work for choir, cello, and percussion celebrating the 400th anniversary of Tomas de Victoria’s death and the pilgrimage trail to Santigo de Compostella. 30 minutes
9780193394681
24 minutes
Rigwreck SATB (with multiple divisions: 6, 3, 3, 3) unaccompanied
9780193397828
Rigwreck sets a text by poet Pierre Joris on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Frequent vocal divisions into multiple parts, a wide range of dynamic expression, spoken lines, and powerful word-painting highlight the poem’s emphasis on humanity’s responsibility for the natural world. 15 minutes
Ruchill Linn SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193379749
Ruchill Linn sets a text by the Perthshire poet Robin Bell. ‘Linn’ means waterfall and the poem meditates on a still spring evening at dusk. The piece is illustrative, with aqueous, tumbling vocal figuration, and plaintive bird song. 9 minutes
Spring Rounds
- Choral Works: Secular -
Solo soprano, SATB & orchestra
Airplane Cantata SATB & pianola Vocal score and pianola piano roll on hire/rental
9780193382688
Using texts from a variety of sources (poems, eye witness accounts, musings, and factual statements) this unique work is a true celebration of the pioneering years of aviation. The pianola, with its almost limitless capabilities, creates a flurry of multi-textured layers which weave around the choral parts to create complex rhythmical patterns, typical of Jackson’s compositional style. 15 minutes
Vocal score
9780193418967
Conductor’s score and parts in hire/rental
9780193410787
Vocal score on hire/rental
9780193408203
Described by Latvian newspaper Diena as ‘the most carefully developed orchestral party’, Spring Rounds is a significant work that is rich in variety and orchestral colours. Jackson has selected texts by a multiplicity of authors, from the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Carew to contemporary writer Billy Collins, to create a profound and interesting reflection on the titular season. 30 minutes
- Choral Leaflets: Sacred -
But let my due feet never fail SATB (with divisions) & organ 7 minutes
A Prayer of King Henry VI SATB unaccompanied
9780193359048
3 minutes
Cantate Domino
Adoro te devote
5 minutes
SATB unaccompanied
SATB (with divisions) & organ 9780193392489
3 minutes
9780193361683
9780193505087
9780193415690
9780193439061
Felices ter et amplius SATB double choir unaccompanied
9780193410817
6 minutes
Angeli, archangeli 9780193361713
7 minutes
The Glory of the Lord SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193376502
2 minutes
Ave Dei patris filia 9780193385498
8 minutes
Holy is the true light SATB unaccompanied
9780193407244
3 minutes
Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris 9780193404847
9 minutes
Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland SATB unaccompanied
9780193382664
8 minutes
Ave Maria 9780193355491
7 minutes
Hymn to the Trinity (Honor, Virtus, et Potestas) SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193355507
6 minutes
Ave, Regina caelorum SATB & electric guitar Vocal score
9780193375734
Electric guitar part
9780193412521
11 minutes
9780193392472
5 minutes
5 minutes
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Ecce Venio Cito SSATB unaccompanied
Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ
SSAATTBB unaccompanied
9780193439078
4 minutes
4.5 minutes
SSATB unaccompanied
Creator of the stars of night SATB & organ
All shall be Amen
for SSATB unaccompanied
9780193369368
3.5 minutes
3 minutes
SATB & organ
The Christ-child SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Ah, mine heart
SATB unaccompanied
9780193439085
8 minutes
6 minutes
SSAATB unaccompanied
9780193402843
Cecilia Virgo 6S 6A 6T 6B unaccompanied
Aeterna caeli gloria SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193395749
I look from afar SSATB unaccompanied 3 minutes
9780193439757
I say that we are wound with mercy
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Truro Service)
SATB & organ
SATB unaccompanied
9780193403277
6 minutes
7 minutes
In all his works
Now I have known, O Lord
ATTBB unaccompanied
9780193376410
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
4 minutes
7 minutes
In memoriam
Nowell sing we
SATB unaccompanied
9780193403703
SATB unaccompanied
4 minutes
2 minutes
In the beginning was the Word
O Clavis David
SATB (with divisions) & organ
9780193368781
SATB unaccompanied
11 minutes
3 minutes
Ite Missa Est
O Doctor Optime
ATBarB unaccompanied
9780193395268
SSATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
2 minutes
3 minutes
Jesu, Rex admirabilis
O fear the Lord
SATB & organ
9780193371644
SATB unaccompanied
5 minutes
3 minutes
Justorum animae
O quam gloriosum
SATB unaccompanied
9780193368705
SATB & organ
4 minutes
5 minutes
Lamentations of Jeremiah
O sacrum convivium
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193388376
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
8 minutes
6.5 minutes
The Land of Spices
O salutaris hostia
Trebles & organ
9780193371651
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
4 minutes
2.5 minutes
Let us all rejoice in the Lord
O thou that art the light
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193365759
SATB unaccompanied
2.5 minutes
3 minutes
Luce coruscas (herself a rose)
Oculi omnium
SATB (with divisi)
9780193392465
SATB unaccompanied
9 minutes
3 minutes
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Tewkesbury Service)
Orbis patrator optime
SATB & organ 11 minutes
9780193360136
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 5 minutes
9780193439238
9780193355538
9780193359529
9780193388345
9780193385856
9780193505094
9780193410800
9780193505100
9780193411463
9780193439191
9780193366008
9780193359383
Preces and Responses SATB unaccompanied
Two Pentecost Motets 9780193355545
SATB unaccompanied
7 minutes
7 minutes
Salus aeterna
Ubi caritas
SATB unaccompanied
9780193439092
SATB unaccompanied
5 minutes
6 minutes
Salve Regina
Vidi aquam
SATB unaccompanied
9780193355552
SSATB & organ
5 minutes
4 minutes
Solitude/Vientuliba
Vox clara ecce intonat
SATB double choir
9780193415928
7 minutes
9780193417311
9780193379817
9780193407633
4 minutes
Tantum ergo SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
SATB & soprano saxophone
9780193404854
9780193411470
- Choral Leaflets: Secular -
3.5 minutes
A ship with unfurled sails Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury SSAATTBB unaccompanied
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 9780193387263
9780193369245
6 minutes
8 minutes
According to Seneca Thou whose birth
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Upper voices & organ
10 minutes
9780193359895
9780193379756
3 minutes
Am Abend Three Prayers, with a vision of light SATB unaccompanied (with divisions)
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 7 minutes 9780193395732
16.5 minutes
I am the voice of the wind SATB (divisi) unaccompanied
To Morning SSATB unaccompanied
9780193361775
In Nomine Domini SATB & ensemble
Tomorrow go ye forth 9780193439764
Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire/rental
2 minutes
10 minutes
Tota pulchra es
in the half-light of dusk
SATB unaccompanied 5.5 minutes
9780193378490
5 minutes
2 minutes
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193408258
9780193388321
SATB unaccompanied 7 minutes
9780193373556
9780193393066
La musique Solo soprano & SATB
- Recordings -
9780193395725
10 minutes
Vox Clara Music by Gabriel Jackson
Lux Mortuorum SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193355521
7 minutes
Truro Cathedral Choir Christopher Gray Regent REGCD479
Not no faceless Angel SATB, cello & flute
Not no faceless angel
Vocal score
9780193365995
Choral music by Gabriel Jackson
Cello part
9780193412514
Polyphony Stephen Layton Hyperion CDA67708
9 minutes
Our flags are wafting in hope and grief SATB unaccompanied
9780193403284
5 minutes
Sacred Choral Works
Song (I gaze upon you) SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193360488
3.5 minutes
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Matthew Owens Delphian DCD34027
The Spacious Firmament 2 SATB & trumpet
Sacred Choral Works II - Beyond the stars
9780193368675
7 minutes
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Duncan Ferguson Delphian DCD34106
The Voice of the Bard SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193361690
6 minutes
Three Shakespeare Songs SATB with divisions, unaccompanied
9780193413474
8 minutes
Airplane Cantata BBC Singers David Hill and James Morgan Signum SIGCD381
To Music SATB unaccompanied
9780193366015
3 minutes
A ship with unfurled sails The State Choir Latvija Marias Sirmais Hyperion CDA67976
Winter heavens SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
9780193382671
6 minutes
Requiem Vasari Singers Jeremy Backhouse Naxos 8573049
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