Jamie W. Hall Wins the Kantos Carol Competition 2025

 

Jamie W. Hall

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Jamie W. Hall Wins the Kantos Carol Competition 2025

The Kantos Chamber Choir has announced that Jamie W. Hall has won the Kantos Carol Competition 2025.

His winning entry was ‘Balulalow’ which was premiered at Candlelit Carols with Kantos performances December 12, 2025

Hall states: 

“The aim with this setting was to combine the quiet warmth and intimacy that exists between mother and newborn, with a joyful bubbling-over of love, not simply of parent towards child, but the love of all believers for the infant Christ.”

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Gregory Wanamaker Is the Winner of the Kantos Carol Competition 2024

 

Gregory Wanamaker Is the Winner of the Kantos Carol Competition 2024

On December 2, 2024, the Kantos Chamber Choir announced the winner via their social media. Gregory Wanamaker won for his "Stella Nuova" with words by Garth Bardsley.

Of his piece, Greg says: "In its original form, Stella Nuova is the final movement of Laude!, my collaboration with Garth Bardsley resulting in a group of three settings of songs devoted to the Christmas season.


According to Kantos, "from the 13th-century Laudario di Cortona. Originally for chorus and orchestra, it was premiered in New York in 2014. Garth’s words supplement the original 13th century Italian
text with beautiful thoughts of hope and reflection."

"I have created this a cappella version of Stella Nuova in celebration of the 10th anniversary of its premiere," say Wanamaker.

Kantos perform "Stella Nuova" at Carols from Kantos in December 2024.

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