The Redhill Passion
Kenneth Tay and the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir presents The Redhill Passion (2025), a musical retelling of the legendary tale of Bukit Merah, where a clever boy saves his village from deadly swordfish.
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
11 March 2025, 6.10pm
One World One Music
World Premieres of two specially commissioned works for the Ensemble Musikus Diestedde, directed by Raúl Huesca Valverde and Karl Garette Melegrito: Ama Namin (2024) and Salmo 23 (2024).
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, 17 May 2025
Kirche Sankt Winfried Bonn, 18 May 2025
CD Release
This album showcases sacred Scottish choral music, much of it little known, from the repertoire of the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, directed by Katy Lavinia Cooper.
Ave Regina Caelorum (2021) is featured amongst the esteemed company of compositions by James MacMillan, Rory Boyle, Janet Beat, Ronald Stevenson and Kenneth Elliot.
UPCOMING
EVENtS
11 April 2025
Royal Musical Association Study Day: Choral Singing and the Transnational
Held in Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
11 April 2025
Prelude to Holy Week: Choral and Organ Contemplations
Miserere (world premiere)
St Andrews Madrigal Group, dir. Michael Chamberlain
Glasgow Cathedral
17-18 May 2025
ONE WORLD ONE MUSIC
Ama Namin and Salmo 23 (commissioned work, world premieres)
Ensemble Musikus Diestedde, dir. Raúl Huesca Valverde and Karl Garette Melegrito
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, 17 May 2025
Kirche Sankt Winfried Bonn, 18 May 2025
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Recent
events
2025
28 March 2025
Sean Nelis: Requiem
Choral Preludes of Patrem Parit Filia and Flame
in association with the Society for Creative Progress
St Joseph’s Parish Church Blantyre, Glasgow
11 March 2025
Choral Contemplations VI:
The Redhill Passion (world premiere)
University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
organist: Kevin Bowyer; soloists: Euan McDonald, Alex White, Gabby McCann
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
26 January 2025
Organ Music in a Different Light!
Perpaduan (world premiere), performed by Isaac Koh (organ)
Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
10 January 2025
An Auld Alliance – Choral Music from Scotland
Duo Seraphim (world premiere)
The Marian Consort, dir. Rory McCleery
Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2024
10 December 2024
Advent Carol Service
O Emmanuel from Lux Luminosa (world premiere)
University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
6 December 2024
Fridays at One with the RCS Choir – O love that will not let me go
Awen Ensemble
dir. Eden Devaney
3 December 2024
Choral Contemplations III: Choral Music for Advent
Segala Lembah-lembah from Lux Luminosa and Patrem Parit Filia (world premiere)
University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
21 September 2024
Gala Concert – Sang Nila Utama
Vocabella Ladies Choir, dir. Marcus Lee
Methodist Charles Wesley Recital Hall, Medan
Ken Steven International Choral Festival
31 August 2024
resonance: celebrating the contemporary choral music of asia
Excelsis, guest dir. Jennifer Tham
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne Victoria 3000
17 August 2024
SingSpire: Music from the Malay Archipelago – Sang Nila Utama
Vocabella Ladies Choir, dir. Marcus Lee
SOTA Concert Hall, Singapore
14-21 July 2024
European Seminar for Choral Composers
masterclass and understudy with Giovanni Bonato
Aosta, Italy
20 June 2024
Choral Music for the Solstice – Summer Full of Flowers (world premiere); Two Psalm Preludes
University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper, org. Kevin Bowyer
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
27 May 2024
Flow Gently – Air and Kiss from Celtic Shores (world premiere); Improvisation on Lobe Den Herren and Crimond (world premiere)
joint concert between Vokalensemble Crescendo and University of Glagsow Medics Music Society
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
26 May 2024
Sunday@Seven Concert Series – Can there be any day but this? (UK premiere)
Helensburgh Parish Church
19 May 2024
Lux et Amor – Sang Nila Utama (commissioned work, world premiere)
Vocabella Ladies Choir, dir. Marcus Lee
SOTA Concert Hall
15 May 2024
Organ Recital – Two Psalm Preludes
performed by Kevin Bowyer
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
9 May 2024
Sacred Sounds and Thoughts – O love that will not let me go; To See a World (UK Premieres by Awen Ensemble)
Two Psalm Preludes (on organ with Kevin Bowyer)
St Patrick’s Church, Glasgow
24 April 2024
When David Heard – The Lamb
Echo Vocal Ensemble, dir. Sarah Latto
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
23 April 2024
When David Heard – The Lamb (UK Premiere)
Echo Vocal Ensemble, dir. Sarah Latto
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
14 April 2024
SCA Gala Concert – Ave Regina Caelorum
Singapore Choral Artists, dir. Nelson Kwei
SOTA Concert Hall
23 February 2024
Musica Scotia Study Day – Presentation and Discussion on Lux Luminosa
Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh
13 February 2024
Choral Contemplations V – Fly me to the moon (arr.)
performed by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
30 January 2024
Choral Contemplations IV: Celtic Choral Connections – Caledonia
performed by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
19 January 2024
Organ Voluntary – Aureum Xylographum
performed by Jeremy Wan
Guilford Cathedral
2023
15 December 2023
Christmas with ROS – Rorate Coeli (first public performance)
performed by Resonance of Singapore
SOTA Concert Hall
10 December 2023
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols – Segala Lembah-lembah from Lux Luminosa
performed by University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
9 December 2023
Christmas Concert – Segala Lembah-lembah from Lux Luminosa
performed by University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
Crichton Memorial Church
9 December 2023
Voices A Festival of Song – O love that will not let me go (world premiere)
performed by Voices Festival Choir, dir. Yong Chee Foon
Esplanade Concourse
5 December 2023
Advent Carol Service – O Oriens from Lux Luminosa
performed by University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
2 December 2023
A Feast! – The Angels Came From Heaven High
performed by The Arcadian Singers
Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford
16 November 2023
Keys2: A Concert of New Piano and Organ Music – Two Psalm Preludes
performed by Michael Chamberlain
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Stevenson Concert Hall
14 November 2023
Choral Contemplations III: The Approach of Advent – selected movements from Lux Luminosa (world premiere)
performed by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, dir. Katy Cooper
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
14 November 2023
Prelude to Advent – It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (world premiere)
performed by Raffles Singers, dir. Toh Ban Sheng
SOTA Concert Hall
08 November 2023
Lunchtime Concert Series – Two Psalm Preludes for Organ (world premiere)
performed by Michael Chamberlain
Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews
07 November 2023
Choral Evensong – Canticles from Lux Luminosa (world premiere)
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
01 November 2023
Choral Contemplations II: Egon Altdorf – Aureum Xylographum (world premiere)
performed by Jonathan Smith
University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
22 October 2023
A Dash of Rouge – 偶雨
performed by the Singapore Choral Artists, dir. Nelson Kwei
SOTA Concert Hall
23 May 2023
Tre Voci – Can there be any day but this? (commissioned work, world premiere)
performed by the Singapore Symphony Choruses, dir. Wong Lai Foon
Victoria Concert Hall
19 March 2023
ONE with André van der Merwe – Flowers of the Forest
performed by One Chamber Choir, dir. Lim Ai Hooi
SOTA Concert Hall
HIGHLIGHTS
The Marian Consort
Duo Seraphim (2024) received its world premiere with the award-winning ensemble in a programme of sumptuous Scottish Renaissance polyphony and new music by composers living and working in Scotland.
Organ Music in a Different Light
Perpaduan (2024), a commissioned work by the SSO Organ series, was performed by Isaac Koh on the Klais Pipe Organ of the Victoria Concert Hall.
26 January 2025, in Singapore.
Echo Vocal Ensemble
with BBC Radio 3
The Echo Vocal Ensemble, directed by Sarah Latto, presented The Lamb (2022) at their live showcase, hosted by Sean Rafferty, on In Tune.
Singapore Symphony Choruses
Can there be any day but this? (2023), commissioned by the Singapore Symphony Choruses for their first live standalone concert as a trio, received its world premiere on 27th May 2023.
World Symposium on Choral Music 2023
Ave Regina Caelorum (2021) was featured in the Southeast Asian reading session led by Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng at the WSCM in April 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.
Bartók Rojak: 7 Pieces from Mikrokosmos
The performance of a string transcription of selected movements from Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos was conducted by Hiew Tzejia, with soloists Huixin Hu and Paul Docherty.
Multi-Generation Choir Diestedde
A collaboration with Raúl Huesca Valverde, Karl Garette Melegrito and Ernest Cho in an open rehearsal in Wadersloh, Germany.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
A collaboration with wildlife artist Chew Choon on his painting, Wild Yak on the Tibetan Plateau, birthed a choral composition, To See a World (2022).
Ensemble Altera Composition Competition
The Lamb (2022) was shortlisted among the top 10 submissions for a composition competition by one of the fastest rising professional choirs in the United States.