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Sheet Music Over Piano

COMPOSITIONS

Welcome to the portfolio of Eleanor Dunnet.
Here you can stay up to date with her latest developments and find a list of her musical work.
Please get in touch to request a perusal score if you are interested in performing her music with your choir.

LIST OF WORKS

STABAT MATER (2024)

String Orchestra, Flute, Mixed Choir (SATB), Alto, Tenor, and Bass Soloists

First performed by the Christi Consort on Saturday 9th November 2024 in St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen. Strings: Emma Donald, Aaron McGregor, Ewa Bartmann, Samuel Nealon, Callum Young. Flute: Catherine O'Rourke. Alto: Faith Ockwell. Tenor: Michael Muoneke. Bass: Zak McCullough. Conductor: Sam Paul

ALL SHALL BE WELL (2024)

SATB

Commissioned by Will Sims for the Chapel Choir of Robinson College, Cambridge. Recording with Prima Facie, March 2024. First performance Sunday 12th May 2024 as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. Italian premiere in the Duomo di Milano on Saturday 22nd June 2024. CD release with Prima Facie Records 6th December 2024

O PASTOR ANIMARUM (2023)

SATB

Commissioned by Rory Wilson for the Calton Consort, Edinburgh. First performance Saturday 4th November 2023 in the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

ASSUMPTA EST MARIA (2023)

SATB + Organ

Dedicated to Simon Jackson and the Peterhouse Chapel Choir

SONG OF THE JASMINE FAIRY (2023)

Contemporary ensemble

Written for Any Enemy (North East New Music Ensemble). First performance 30th March 2023 in King's Pavilion, Aberdeen. Inspired by poetry and artwork by Cicely Mary Barker

MY SOUL AT LIBERTY (2023)

TTBB

Written for the Svanholm Singers. Workshopped on Friday 17th March 2023

EXHALE (2022)

String Trio + Mixed Choir

Commissioned for the BBC Music and Meditation Podcast. Recorded by the BBC Singers and members of the BBC Symphony and Concert Orchestras at Maida Vale Studios, London, in November 2022. Podcast release date Wednesday 8th March 2023. Broadcast on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' and 'Essential Classics' programmes

WILD MOUNTAIN (2022)

SATB

Commissioned by the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir. First performances Saturday 25th February 2023 in St Andrews Cathedral, Thursday 2nd March at Cowdray Hall, and Saturday 18th March in St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen

SICUT CERVUS (2022)

SATB

Commissioned by Adam Meehan-Staines for the Chamber and Chapel Choirs of Marlborough College. First performance Sunday 26th February 2023

REGINA CAELI (2022)

SSAA + Flutes

Premiere by the Christi Consort on Saturday 9th November 2024. Flutes: Catherine O'Rourke, Heather Evans, Kirsty Young, Juliette Dinning

SEA FOAM (2022)

SSAA

Upper voices setting of a poem by Teresa Hooley. Workshopped in October 2024 with Composer Choir, University of Aberdeen

MAGNIFICAT (2021)

SATB-SATB double choir

Written as part of PhD project

O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM (2021)

SATB (with divisi)

Workshopped by The Marian Consort, Aberdeen, November 2021 and premiered on Saturday 9th November 2024 by the Christi Consort in St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen

PRECES AND RESPONSES (2020)

SATB

First performed by the choir of St George’s Cathedral, Kingston, ON, Canada, May 2021

HUSH, MY DEAR ONE (2019)

SATB / SSAA (adapted)

Commissioned by the choir of St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft. SATB first performed in St Margaret's Church, December 2019. SSAA first performed in St John's Church, Bury St Edmunds, July 2022.

EXHILARATION IS THE BREEZE (2019)

SSA (with divisi)

Commissioned by Cleeberg choir, Germany. First performed in 2019.

BEFORE ACTION (2018)

SATB + Organ

Written for St Edmundsbury Cathedral composition competition

SUMMER SONG (2018)

SATB

Commissioned by Kammerchor Akzente, Germany. First performed in 2018.

THE BANKS OF THE DEVON (2018)

SATB

Commissioned by Kammerchor Akzente, Germany. First performed in 2018.

A GREAT AND MIGHTY WONDER (2017)

SATB

Commissioned by the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers

CANTATE DOMINO (2017)

SATB

Commissioned by the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers to celebrate their 50th anniversary. First performed on 11th March 2017 in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh

MASS FOR ADVENT AND LENT (2015)

SATB

Written for the University of Leeds Chamber Choir and submitted as part of MA Music Psychology with Composition degree portfolio

IN DREAMS (2014)

Voice + Piano

Setting of the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD (2014)

Voice + Piano

Setting of the poem by William Wordsworth

VIDENTES STELLAM (2013)

SAATB

Written for the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers and the Edinburgh University Singers. First performed at the University Carol Service in the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, December 2013

POUR MA MÈRE (2013)

Voice + Piano

Three French songs

O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM (2012)

SATB

Written for the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers and the Edinburgh University Singers. First performed at the University Carol Service in the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, December 2012

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