Phillip Matty wins the Clare College Carols Composition Competition

Phillip Matty wins the Clare College Carols Composition Competition

Phillip Matty has won the Clare College Carol Composition Competition 2024 with his setting of "A baby sleeps," a new poem written by Master of Clare Loretta Minghella OBE. 

The adjudicators, William Vann, Director of Music at London’s Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and Graham Ross, Director of Music and Fellow at Clare, "unanimously agreed that the score had a clear compositional voice, was carefully crafted, and was idiomatically written for voices."

Phillip is studying for an MPhil in Composition at Clare College, Cambridge, and also a bass in the Chapel Choir.

Phillip’s "A Baby Sleeps" will be premièred by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge at the Clare College Advent Carol Services on Thursday 28 November and Sunday 1 December, and LiveStreamed on the Choir’s YouTube channel.

Facebook Page of the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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