Annabel has written more than forty choral works to date, as well as instrumental music. Choral pieces include introits, anthems, music for Christmas and Easter, and a Latin Mass setting for upper voices. There are also three sets of canticles for Evensong, and two settings of the Preces and Responses with Lord’s Prayer. Instrumental music includes works for piano, organ, cello and organ, and string trio.
Some recent performances
April 2023 – Jesu dulcis memoria, sung at Choral Eucharist by the choir of Holy Sepulchre Church, London.
February 2023 – Evening Service in D, sung by the St David’s Singers (Exeter) in Evensong at Exeter Cathedral.
December 2022 – There did an Angel sing, performed by King’s Voices in ‘Carols by Candlelight’ concert at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.
November 2022 – Round me falls the night, performed by the HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars, in Choral Evensong from Bolton Parish Church, recorded and broadcast on Radio 3.
October 2022 – Evening Service in D, sung by the St David’s Singers (Exeter) in Evensong at Hereford Cathedral.
September 2022 – The tide rises, the tide falls (for string trio), specially composed for an evening of words and music, and performed by the Clifton String Trio at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival.
Annabel Rooney, composer 