Award-winning composer Christopher Churcher is one of the UK’s most exciting young voices in classical music. His “shimmering” (The Scotsman) and “extraordinarily assured” (Choir & Organ Magazine) music is earning international acclaim for his distinctive musical style, which fuses a communicative harmonic language with striking natural imagery and aesthetics. Christopher is currently studying composition under the mentorship of Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Moonrise brings together works written between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one while studying at the University of Oxford and singing with Somerville College Choir.
Performed by the choir under Will Dawes, the album presents both a cappella and piano accompanied pieces—from music for Advent to works celebrating queer identity, and secular settings reflecting on light and the passing of day. It is an intimate and assured collection, moving between moments of contemplative stillness and radiant, lyrical choral writing.
Moonrise offers a compelling first introduction to Churcher’s developing voice, alive with clarity, warmth, and immediacy of expression.
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Beijing Premiere of "Everything is Going to Be All Right"Fri 17 JulTsinghua University
Hemiola performs "A Lament for Lost Words"Sat 04 JulSt Botolph's Church
Moonrise Album LaunchSun 10 MaySomerville College Chapel
Premiere of "A Lament for Lost Words" by The Delius SingersSat 14 MarMagdalen College Chapel
