Cantemus Chamber Chorus, conducted by Jane Ring Frank, presents “Wit & Wisdom” – programme includes the Hallelujah Chorus from Messyah

Paul plays piano with Hertfordshire Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by David Temple - programme includes James McCarthy's One Giant Leap (world première) and Vaughan Williams' Toward the Unknown Region and Serenade to Music

Cantemus Chamber Chorus, conducted by Jane Ring Frank, presents “Wit & Wisdom” – programme includes the Hallelujah Chorus from Messyah

Cantemus Chamber Chorus, conducted by Jane Ring Frank, presents “Wit & Wisdom” – programme includes the Hallelujah Chorus from Messyah

Clonakilty Voices, conducted by Seán Ruddy, sing Paul's Elbow arrangement

Clonakilty Voices, conducted by Seán Ruddy, sing Paul's Elbow arrangement

One of the pieces receiving its UK premiere is I would rather die than hate you, commissioned last year by the University of California Berkeley Alumni Chorus, with these words by Martin Luther King:

... hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love… Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love… So this morning, as I look into your eyes, and into the eyes of all of my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you, “I love you. I would rather die than hate you”.

Also being heard for the first time in concert is the bilingual love-song Quanto sei bella, setting words from the Song of Songs, simultaneously in Italian and in English. Other sacred pieces include The Finchley Service, The Lord my pasture shall prepare, and God be in my head.

From Paul’s work in the area of musical theatre and opera is an excerpt from The Crab That Played With The Sea, based on Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories.

There are choral versions of the beautiful songs Bless This House, Cry me a River and Goin’ Home, while the 70s and 80s are represented by arrangements of Waterloo (ABBA) and Nothing’s gonna stop us now (Starship). For fans of public transport, we have The Slow Train and Transport of Delight (Flanders & Swann) and Jay Foreman and Jon Gracey’s youtube hit Every Tube Station (whose lyrics are… well, every tube station).

The two choirs will be alternately conducted or accompanied by Jane Hopkins and Paul Ayres. And, while the singers have a breather, Jane and Paul perform a piano duet: Mostly Bach’s Toccata and Fugue. This is Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor. But not quite.

An all-day event: the first ever live performance of the completed Orgelbüchlein Project: music by 118 contemporary composers (including Paul) and 45 pieces by Bach

The Shoreham Singers, under the direction of Dale Wills, perform Paul's All creatures of our God and King (for choir, brass and percussion) 

Four of Paul's arrangements feature in Voxcetera's programme. Jane Hopkins conducts.

Rory Wainwright Johnston conducts Cantores Olicanae - programme includes Paul's arrangement of The White Cliffs of Dover

Paul gives a solo recital: programme includes pieces by J S Bach, music by the astronomer William Herschel, and some of Paul’s own classical re-interpretations of Beatles songs...

Epworth Choir's summer concert features four of Paul's arrangements, of songs by Flanders & Swann, Handel, Dvorak, and good old Trad! Michael Waldron conducts, with Laurence Williams at the piano.

Paul accompanies Concordia Voices, conducted by Jack Apperley - music by Brahms and Vaughan Williams

Worthing Choral Society, conducted by Aedan Kerney, gives the UK premiere of Paul's The Harmony of Heaven and Earth

Upton Community Choir, directed by Clare Newbould, sings Paul's arrangement of a Welsh lullaby, in Welsh, in Wales...

Paul conducts City Chorus's summer concert - programme includes Fauré's Requiem

Bluebirds choir, conducted by Lauren Raison, sing Paul's Elbow arrangement

Oxford City Singers, under Jenny Legg's direction, feature Paul's arrangement of One Day Like This in their two performances, at 2pm and at 7pm 

Paul gives an informal recital/demonstration on the pipe organ in the Long Hall of Blenheim Palace

Paul gives a lunchtime recital

Paul gives a lunchtime recital

Paul gives a solo recital

premiere of a new musical for year 5 children (work-in-progress) very loosely based on John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River

Paul conducts City Chorus's Christmas concert

Paul leads a singing open day with City Chorus

Paul conducts City Chorus, in the choir's 100th anniversary concert: Mozart Coronation Mass, Handel Zadok the Priest, and other works

Paul conducts City Chorus - music by Sullivan, with and without Gilbert!

Paul conducts City Chorus in a Christmas programme