Carol Competition - Short List Announced

We are delighted to announce the short-listed carols in our Sing a New Song Christmas carol writing competition. We had a very high number of entries (129 in total) and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered!

Our thanks go to Jenny Sumerling and Tom Cunningham, who drew up our initial short-list of 18 carols and to Bob Chilcott, James MacMillan and Simon Woods, who selected the final six.

The final six carols are:

'Light a Candle' by Ian Assersohn
'Behold, the Great Creator' by John Lawson Baker
'This Endris Night' by Stef Conner
'There’s a Song in the Air' by John Hearne
'All this Night Bright Angels Sing' by Owain Park
'The Virgin’s Song' by Hermione Roff

The inital shortlist of 18 also included:

'Up! Good Christian Folk' by Amy Bebbington
'Adoration' by Stephen H Duro
'Sing Today' by Brian Evans
'Baloo, Lammy, Balulalow' by Christopher Field
'Dieu Vous Garde' by Michael Goldthorpe
'Quem Pastores Laudavere' by Anne Marshall
'Rorate Coeli' by Christopher Maxim
'Balulalow 'by Julia Plumptre
'Away in a Manger' by Steve Richer
'Lute-Book Lullaby' by Rosemary Robinson
'Midwinter Carol' by Diana Sanders
'As Joseph was a-walking' by Alan Smith

Congratulations to all the above composers, who were selected from a strong field of candidates!

The final six carols can be heard in a concert on Saturday 27th November at 7.30 pm at St Cuthbert’s Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, at which the winner and runner-up will be announced. We will also present the Caledonian Hilton Audience Prize to the composer whose carol is selected by the audience on the night.

We are grateful to Sir Tom and Lady Farmer for their sponsorship of Sing a New Song.