I have a large catalogue of pieces designed specifically with young singers in mind.

The vast majority are orchestrated (a Voice/Piano score is also available) and many of these pieces have been commissioned by organisations including Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Children's Classic Concerts, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the BBC and have featured both on live TV broadcasts and CD.  Click on the links for sample pages or mp3s.

 

For more information please contact me here.

 

• A Maranoa Lullaby  (PDF) Aborigine melody
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Voices.Str

• A Noah Medley (PDF) (One more river / Please, Noah / Who built the Ark? )  Trad. / Holdstock Instrumentation:  1122.2000.Voices(2pt).Str

• A Young Austrian    Austrian cumulative song  (great with audiences too!)
  Instrumentation:  2222.2210.SnDrTriWhistleCabasa.Timps.Str

• Aiken Drum (PDF), Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1121.0000.Voice.Str

• Al shlosha (PDF),  Allan Naplan
  Instrumentation:  2222.2210.SusCym.T.Voice(2pt).Str

• Ally Bally Bee (PDF,) (MP3) (Coulter's Candy)
  Instrumentation: 1111,2000,UniVoices,Str

• Ave Verum, G. Faure
  Instrumentation: 1122.2000.2pt Voices.Str

• Ballad of Santy Anno, Crocker 
  Instrumentation: 1112.2000Perc(Cast)Timps.TBarB. Str

• Big City, Lin Marsh
  Instrumentation: 2222.2000.Perc(SnDrumTri)Timps.2ptVoices.Str

• Bonie wee thing (PDF), Ken Johnston
  Instrumentation:  1121.2000.Voice(2pt).Str

• Bought me a Cat (PDF),  Trad. American, with echoes of Copland!
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Str

• Brian O'Linn, Trad Irish arr. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.UniVoices.Str.

• Calypso Carol, Perry arr. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1121.2000Perc(SusCymMaraccasTambSteelDr)Timp.UniVoices.Str

• Child of God Emily Crocker
  Instrumentation: 2222.2210.TambTriGlock.Timps.Str. Scored for TBarB voices

• Consider the Penguin (The Penguin Song) (MP3) Kevin Stannard/ Lucy Rhu
  Instrumentation: 2222.2000.Voice.Str

• Dem Bones Spiritual, available with two orchestrations:
  Full version Instrumentation:  1+Picc222.2210.Xylo.T.Voice(2pt).Str
  Reduced version Instrumentation (PDF):  1+Picc121.2100.Xylo.Voice(2pt).Str

• Dreamer, Eilers orch. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.3ptVoices.Str

• Drunken Sailor (PDF), Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.SideDrum.Voice(2pt).Str

• Frere Jacques (PDF), Traditional French melody
  Instrumentation:  1121.0000.Glock.Voice(2pt).Str

• Frog Song, The (PDF), Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1211.2000.Voice.Str

• Gonna rise up singin', Johnston orch. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 2121.2000.2ptVoicesStr

• Grandma Grunts, American Trad. arr. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.UniVoicesStr.

• Hear the wind (PDF), Emily Crocker
  Instrumentation:  1112.2000.T.Voice(2pt).Str

• Here I am, Fowler orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1121.2000.Perc(Glock)Harp.UniVoicesStr

• Hey, Escher!, Barry Russell
  Instrumentation:  2222.2210.Voices(2pt).Str

• I once went a-courting (PDF), Sheena Philips
  Instrumentation:  1122.2010.SnDrYri.Cym.3pt TBarBVoices.Str

• I'll tell my Ma (PDF), Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1Picc111.2000.XylSnDr.Str

• I'm gonna sing (PDF) (Medley: I'm gonna sing, O when the saints, Swing low), Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Voice(3pt).Str

• I'm a little wrong note  Arthur Askey
  Instrumentation:  1+Picc222.2210.TriCym.T.Voice.Str

• In the bleak midwinter, Tom Race orch Doughty
  Instruemtnation: 1121.2000.Perc(SusCym)Timps.UniVoices.Str

• John Kanaka,  Australian traditional song
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Voices.Str

• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
  Instrumentation:  1121.0000.2ptVoices.Str

• Land of the silver birch
  Instrumentation:  1112.2000.Voice.Str

• Lil Liza Jane/ I've been to Harlem 
  Instrumentation:  Voices(2pt), Pf

• Lobster Quadrille, The, Johnston orch. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.2ptVoices.Str.

• Mary had a baby, (PDF) Spiritual
  Instrumentation:  Voices.Pf (See also orchestral version for adult voices here)

• Michael Finnigan Medley (PDF) arr. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.TimpsPerc(SnDrCastaTambTri)3ptVoices.Str.

• Mountains of Mourne, The,   Traditional Irish song
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Str

• Nearly There, Tom Cunningham
  Instrumentation:  1112.2000.SusCym.Timps.Str.

• Non nobis, Domine, Byrd/Wagner
  Instrumentation:  0202.2000.2ptVoices.Str    
  REVISED SCORING 1111.2000.Voice(2pt).Str

• O give thanks, Rogers orch Doughty
  Instrumentation:  2222.2000.Timps.2ptVoices.

• O whistle and I'll came tae ye, Trad arr. Johnston orch Doughty
  PiccFl222.2230.Voices.Str

• Old Molly Hare, Traditional
  Instrumentation:  2pt Voices.Pf

• On a train, Lin Marsh
  Instrumentation:  1021.0000.TrainWhistShaker/SandBlk.Voice.Str

• One more river, Jan Holdstock     SEE ALSO A Noah Medley above
  Instrumentation:  1122.2000.Voice(2pt).Str

• Panis Angelicus (MP3), Cesar Franck
  Instrumentation:  Voices(2pt).Harp.Strings

• Penguin Song, The (Consider the Penguin) Kevin Stannard/ Lucy Rhu
  Instrumentation: 2222.2000.Voice.Str

• Pitter, patter, Lin Marsh
  Instrumentation:  1122.2000.Voice.Str

• Please, Noah,  Jan Holdstock  
  Instrumentation (original version):  1121.0000.Voice(2pt).Str
  SEE ALSO A Noah Medley above

• Rocky Mountain,
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.Voice (2pt).Str

• Salley Gardens, Irish air arr. Gormley orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.3ptTBarB.Str.

• Shoshone Love Song, Emerson
  Instrumentation:  2020.0000.TBarB.Str  OR  2122.2000.TBarB.Str

• Silence and the song, The, Patterson orch. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 2121.2000.Perc(TriGlock)TimpsHp.2ptVoices.Str

• SIng to him a song of love, Spevacek orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.Perc(SusCymGlock)Timps.3ptVoicesStr

• Siyahamba (PDF), African song
  Instrumentation:  1111.2000.Tamb.Voice.Str

• Spiritual (Nobody knows) Ken Johnston
  Instrumentation:  Voice.Pf.Str

• Suo-gan, Trad Welsh arr.Rowley orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1121.2000.Perc(GlockSusCym)UniVoices.Str

• There was an Old Woman, Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1+Picc222.2000.XylGlockSnDr.Voice.Str

• Three note samba, Johnston orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1121.Perc(ClavesMaraCongas)2ptVoices.Str

• Three Craws, The, (MP3) Trad. arr. Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.Uni Voices Str

• Throw it out the window, Michael Rosen
  Instrumentation:  1(Picc)121.2000.SnDr.Voice.Str

• Wayfarin' Stranger, Appalachian arr. Unterseher orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: 1111.2000.Pf.SABVoices

• Welcome Yule, Mathias orch Doughty
  Instrumentation: Picc.1222.2000TimpsPerc(SusCymSnDrTambGlockTri).SSAVoices.Str

• When I was one, Traditional
  Instrumentation:  1112.2000.SnDrWdBlk.Voice.Str

• Whistle down the wind, A Lloyd Webber
  Instrumentation:  1122.2000.SusCym.Glock.T.Voice.Str

• Whole World Medley (He's got the whole world, Good news, chariots a'comin', Go tell Aunt Rhody)
  Instrumentation:  1121.2000.Kit.Voice(3pt).Str

• Why we sing, Greg Gilpin
  Instrumentation:  2222.2210.SnDrCymTriMarkTrGloDrSet.Timps.3ptVoic.Str,

• Wind that shakes the barley, The, Ken Johnson
  Instrumentation:  1110.0000.Hp.3ptVoices.Str