Welcome The Star
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20 Christmas Anthems by Ian Higginson
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"Here is a series of publications well worth a look at: expertly crafted, imaginative, practical and within the scope of most choirs and organists. Ian Higginson is a composer not afraid to write a simple, unaffected melody that choirs will find grateful and rewarding to sing."
John Rutter
ANTHEMS
Gabriel’s Voice
Crown of Light
There Is No Rose
Welcome The Star (A Scottish Carol)
In Dulci Jubilo
King Jesus Hath a Garden
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Love Came Down at Christmas
My Dancing Day
Sans Day Carol
See Him Born The Divine Christ-Child
Sussex Carol
Sweet Baby, Sleep
The Holly and the Ivy
Christmas Joy
With One Voice
Deck The Hall
Everybody’s Christmas Dream
A Ragtime Carol
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
REVIEWS
About My Dancing Day
"An original and charmingly attractive arrangement of this well known and oft arranged carol, which is both well laid out for the voices, and skillfully orchestrated. I commend it most warmly".
Ian Tracey - Chorus Master Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
"...It's so good that it deserves to be sung anyway."
John Mansfield - URC Guild
About Christmas Joy, Everybody's Christmas Dream and A Ragtime Carol
"These three carols would bring the house down at concerts"
About A Ragtime Carol
"This is fun! ... It would certainly go down well at a carol concert or even a service..."
John Mansfield URC Guild
About Gabriel's Voice
" ...an excellent piece of writing."
Ivor Jones - Methodist Recorder
About There is No Rose
"...lovely setting...a delightful musical miniature...suitable for concert and Church singing..."
News and Views NAC Magazine
About Love Came Down At Christmas
"An effective and beautiful setting..."
John Mansfield URC Guild
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Ian Higginson was born on Merseyside and moved to Gloucestershire in 1983. He studied conducting with the late Dr Melville Cook, Jonathan Delmar and Sir David Willcocks and studied the organ with Ian Tracey and John Scott. He holds Fellowships from both the London College of Music and Trinity College, London.
Ian is Conductor and Artistic Director of Jubilate Chamber Choir and the English Concertante Orchestra, Director of Music for the University of Gloucestershire, Conductor and Musical Director of Cheltenham Choral Society and Organist and Director of Music for the Parish of Prestbury. He has also held the position of Organist to the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and has been invited to conduct choral workshops in the UK and the USA.
Ian has composed and arranged a wide range of music which has been published Boosey & Hawkes, Animus and Parish Publications. Much of his music has won critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic and has been selected as set works for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music examination board and competitive music festivals around the country. His music is frequently performed by many notable organisations and at prestigious events including the Piccolo Spoleto Festival USA, the Three Choirs Festivals, the City of Glasgow Chorus, the CBSO (Chorus and Orchestra) and by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra at their Christmas concerts. In addition, Ian and his wife Janine run a music publishing and recording company for classical music.
