I am serious when I say this is one of the best things I've ever seen, please take three minutes of your life and it will be worth it
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I never dreamed I'd get my music streamed on twitch, but @cakejumper.bsky.social has just shown my cursed Anglican Chants on one of her streams. Thanks so much - you have now inflicted my brand of insanity among your most delightful crowd!
I've scored my first documentary film! Entitled "Steam Locos in Profile - Locomotion", it traces the history of one of the icons of the railway age, written and presented by the inimitable Chris Eden Green.
Huge thanks are due to Chris for giving me this opportunity!
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It's here - whether you want it or dread it, my Anglican Chant setting of the Halloween classic "Spooky Scary Skeletons" is out now!
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A page of Anglican Chant with the lyrics of the classic Halloween song "Spooky Scary Skeletons". The edges of the picture are out of focus, and the colour is a very cold blue.
Oh no - what horrible monster is on the horizon!? #halloween #anglicanchant #composer #singer
In the last month, I have typeset music for a large institution, had my first media music project, and added yet more movements to my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".
Today, I started on my new commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, due to be premiered in the summer of next year.
The start of a new chapter: I'm now writing music for video games! This is part 1 of my 2025 showreel, with fantasy music shown alongside game footage from Baldur's Gate 3
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The Fruits of Summer are blooming and falling off the tree in the form of more concerts (including my Albert Hall Debut), new pieces, typesetting projects a-plenty, and hopefully more content to keep you guys abreast of what I am getting up to!
#composer #contemporarycomposer
Smiles all around at St George's Church Hanover Square! Couldn't have asked for a better premiere with Mengyao on the piano and Sarah on the flute.
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of performing in the premiere of my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" - I'm very grateful for the lovely reception it got from the audience, and for the playing of the fantastic flautist Sarah Marine and the perfect piano playing of Mengyao Guo!
Spring is definitely here - no better excuse to finally set Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" to music. It flew from my head onto the page with such force that I'm a bit breathless!
#composer #choral #choir #comtemporarymusic
A brand new piece is in the works: as Spring is now blooming around our ears, I thought I'd write a set of springtime songs for choir, and this is the first of them.
I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.
My new website, www.johnsturtcomposer.co.uk, is now online! If you'd like to find out more about my music, go check it out!
*Website offline*
My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"
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An orchestra and a choir of children singing John Sturt's music on its premiere
Everybody, both orchestra and children, is giving heart and soul at the premiere of "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart in Stamford". Toi toi toi everyone!
Very excited to be travelling up to see my premiere with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, charting the history of music's most lovable rogue, Mozart. Toi toi toi everybody!
NEW PREMIERE!
6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!
Very very excited!
My first concert for a long while, seeing my sister Jenny perform the solo in Bruch's Kol Nidrai with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra - was a fantastic performance, and I feel very proud of her!
No problem!
Go get em, guys!
Hello everybody! After months of work, I am proud to show my string arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦
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9 days until release...
(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)
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Today, I have finished mixing the recording of my arrangement of the Nunc Dimittis from Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil. All set for release on 24th February, the anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
COMING SOON:
On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
We'll, I've done it again - another Anglican Chant setting: this time, it's Wham's last Christmas.
Complete with accusations of blasphemy!
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For the morning crowd, here's another Christmas Song set to an Anglican chant: Let It Snow.
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Forgive me for I have sinned...again...in the pursuit of festive fun. Introducing yet another Christmas Song I have set to Anglican Chant: the perennial classic Let It Snow.
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Goodness gracious, you guys appreciate my madness far beyond what I thought possible! Thank you very much for watching my Anglican chant adaptation of a Christmas classic.
Brilliant stuff, gentlemen - looking forward to listening!
Ever wondered what All I Want For Christmas Is You would sound like in Anglican Chant? Well, now's your chance to find out!
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