New Music Opus Anglicanum has a tradition of commissioning composers for new work in addition to commissioning arrangements for its programming.
for 2008 Sally Beamish a 15 minute work for 'Put out into the Deep' David Bednall, a 5 minute work for 'Put out into the Deep' Sasha Johnson Manning 'The Sea Woman' for 'Put out into the Deep' 2007 David Bednall 'From you I have been absent in the spring' (Sonnet 98) for 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' 2006 Howard Skempton: And there was war in heaven 'Battles & Borders' 2004 Patrick Larley: Columcille 'The Island' 2003 Judith Bingham: Uppon First Sight of New-England 'The Journey' Malcolm Archer: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills 'The Journey' 2001Gabriel Jackson: I am the Rose of Sharon 'The Song of Songs' 2000 Judith Bingham: A Necklace of Light 'Bede' 1999 Patrick Larley: Antiphon 'Angels & Archangels'
We also gave the first performance of: Gavin Bryars: A Saxon Riddle
