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EBU Christmas Broadcast Premiere
A new organ work by Dr Thomas Hyde (Lecturer at Worcester College) will receive its premiere on 19 December as part of a BBC Singers concert at St Paul's Knightsbridge. Improvisation on 'Puer Natus' will be performed by Stephen Farr, Director of Music both at St Paul’s Church Knightsbridge and at Worcester College. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and throughout Europe as part of the European Broadcasting Union's annual relay of Christmas music from
across the world.
The full programme is: JAMES MACMILLAN In splendoribus sanctorum TALLIS Missa puer natus est nobis THOMAS HYDE Improvisation on 'Puer Natus' (World Premiere) GABRIEL JACKSON Ane Sang of the birth of Christ SIR JOHN TAVENER God is with us JUDITH BINGHAM Incarnation with Shepherds Dancing. The BBC Singers are conducted by Paul Brough, with Stephen Farr, organ.
Tom Hyde read Music at St Anne's before taking the MMus at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was also Manson Junior Fellow in Composition. He returned to Oxford to study for a DPhil in composition. He has composed for choir, stage, chamber groups and orchestra. His opera That Man Stephen Ward (2008) was commissioned by the Hampstead and Highgate Festival. 'Though it may be too early to announce a new theatrical talent, Hyde in the meantime is certainly one to be watched.' (Opera)