All Commissions
The Genesis Foundation is the largest commissioner of sacred music works in the UK, having brought into being 30 choral works in 21 years.
Sacred Music
2025
From a specially commissioned cycle of poems by Robert Willis entitled Angels Unawares:
The Call of Gideon – Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
The Call of Isaiah – Millicent B. James
The Song of James the Son of Zebede – Lucy Walker
2022
Cecilia McDowall – O Lord Make thy Servant, Elizabeth *
2021
Eoghan Desmond – Nothing in vain *
Lisa Robertson – …a link in a chain… *
Anna Semple – A Meditation *
Sir James MacMillan – Nothing in vain *
Will Todd – I Shall Be An Angel of Peace *
2020
Sir James MacMillan – Except the Lord build the house
2019
Bob Chilcott – O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me
Sir James MacMillan – Le grand Inconnu *
Angus McPhee – Panem Nostrum… Ave Maria *
2018
Phillip Cooke – Ave Maria, Mater Dei *
Marco Galvani – Stella caeli *
Sir James MacMillan – O virgo prudentissima *
Joseph Phibbs – Nesciens Mater *
Stephen Hough – Hallowed *
2016
Sir James MacMillan – Stabat mater *
Will Todd – Whisper Him My Name *
(commissioned in honour of John Studzinski’s 60th birthday)
2014
Alissa Firsova – Stabat mater *
Tõnu Kõrvits – Stabat mater *
Matthew Martin – Stabat mater *
2011
Ruth Byrchmore – The Dark Night *
Ruth Byrchmore – Prayer of St. Teresa of Ávila *
Tarik O’Regan – fleeting, God *
Tarik O’Regan – Beloved, all things ceased
Roderick Williams – O Guiding Night *
Roderick Williams – Let nothing trouble you *
2008
Sir James MacMillan – Padre Pio’s Prayer *
Roxanna Panufnik – Stay with me *
Will Todd – Stay with me, Lord *
2006
Will Todd – Among Angels * (commissioned in honour of John Studzinski’s 50th birthday)
1998
Roxanna Panufnik – Westminster Mass
*commissions for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen
Genesis Opera Project
2008
Isidora Žebeljan – The Marathon Family
2006
David Bruce & Anna Reynolds – Push!
Emily Hall & Kit Peel – Sante
2003
Jurgen Simpson & Simon Doyle – Thwaite
Paul Frehner & Angela Murphy – Sirius on Earth
Jonathan Mills & Dorothy Porter – The Eternity Man
Isidora Žebeljan – Zora D
Other commissions
2023
Bob Chilcott – Harry Birthday to Ya
2019
Sir James MacMillan – Sing on, Sweet Thrush
2014
Naomi Alderman – The Sun Stands Still
2012
Greta Alfaro – A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance
2010
Chris Levine – LIGHT
2003
Isidora Žebeljan – Song of Traveller in the Night, Minstrel’s Dance
