Marco Galvani

Marco Galvani’s Stella Caeli, a motet for unaccompanied SATB Choir responding to Walter Lambe’s setting of the same anonymous text, was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for The Eton Choirbook and its Legacy of Sacred Music. The programme featured four new commissions based on the iconic music manuscript, the Eton Choirbook, by Galvani, Sir James MacMillan, Phillip Cooke and Joseph Phibbs. The world premiere of this programme was held in Eton College Chapel in May 2018, performed by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen.

On 2 November 2018, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen released Star of Heaven: The Eton Choirbook Legacy on their CORO label, which featured these Genesis Foundation commissions.

Marco Galvani is a composer based in London. His choral, operatic, and instrumental music has been performed throughout the UK, Europe, and America. Marco’s choral works are published by Edition Peters, and have been commissioned by ensembles such as The Sixteen, Sansara Chamber Choir, The Arcadian Singers, and Salisbury Cathedral Choir. Marco’s instrumental music has been performed by CHROMA, Oxford University String Ensemble, and the Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra. His first chamber opera ‘Rothschild’s Violin’ led David Threasher to describe Marco as a ‘compositional voice of genuine promise’ in the Oxford Culture Review.

To listen to Star of Heaven, click here.