All works are unpublished unless stated.
For more information about any of the compositions, please contact Gareth.

Complete Catalogue

Work Author of Text Voicing Premiere
A Carol From Flanders
Frederick Niven (1878-1944) SATB
A Christmas Pudding
Anonymous SSA
A Christmas Suite
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Various SSS or SSA/Harp/Organ 09/12/2021 Temple Church Choir, London Harpist: Anne Denholm Organist: Charles Andrews It's Christmas - Merry Christmas! Hodie Christus Natus Est "On Oaten Pipes"; Anon. from the Coventry Mysteries The Preparation of the Manger "Dormi, Jesu"; Hieronymus Wierix (1553-1619) trans. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Preparation of the Feast "The Boar's Head In Hand Bring I"; trad., taken from William Henry Husk’s “Songs Of The Nativity Being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern” (1868) "Wartime Christmas"; Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) "Goodnight!"; Gareth Treseder (1985-)
A Mass For Trebles
Trad. SS/Organ 25/10/2020 Temple Church, London
A Song Was Heard At Christmas
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Reverend Timothy Dudley Smith (1926-) SATB 18/12/2009 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Gorseinon Youth Choir
A Spot
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) SSA
After A Reading Of Darkwater
Elizabeth Curtis Holman (b. 1879) SSA
And I Saw A New Heaven
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Revelations 21: 1-5 SSAATTBB 29/11/2015 St James' Old Cathedral, Australia 15/05/2016 UK Premiere: English Choral Experience Camerata in St Cross, Winchester
Angelus ad Virginem
Anonymous/Medieval Carol Solo Oboe, Solo Clarinet, SSA, Organ, Strings 15/12/2015 Wimbledon High School Senior Choir
Ave Maria
Trad. SSS or SSA 16/10/2011 St Michael’s Cornhill
Ave Verum
Pope Innocent VI (1282/1295-1362) SSA, TTB or ATB 07/08/2011 St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey
Away In A Manger
arr. Traditional SATB
Beauty That Is Never Old
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Soprano Solo/SATB
Beloved
Song Of Solomon 1: 1-4 SSAA 07/04/2019; The Chamber Choir Of Wales
Bethle'm Baby
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB 06/12/2009 St Paul’s Church, Swansea
Blessed Be That Maid Marie
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. text c. 15th Century SSATB 18/12/2012 Recorded by the BBC Singers; broadcast on BBC Radio 3
C'est entre nous
Professor Michel DeGuy (1930-) Tenor Solo/Piano 14/02/2013 All Saints' Church, Oystermouth, Swansea Gareth Treseder and Glenn Crooks
Calon Lân, or Pure in Heart
Daniel James (1848-1920); English performance translation by Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB/Piano Traditional melody by John Hughes (1872-1914); arranged by Gareth Treseder (1985-)
Certum tenentes ordinem, or Holding Fast To Our Order Fixed
Frankish Hymnal no 23; 6th-9th Century; trans. Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB
Christ's Nativity, or Awake, Glad Heart, Get Up and Sing
Henry Vaughan (1621-95) SAATBB
Clywch Swn, or A Sound
Cyril Jones; trans. Gareth Treseder SATB/Piano 09/07/2022; Commissioned by The Brecon Singers
Come, And Let Us Return To The Lord
Stainer & Bell
Hosea 6: v 1 - 6 Tenor Solo/SSAATTBB/Organ 10/03/2019 Temple Church, London
Core Sonnets
Matteo Dalle Fratte (1979-) SATB Un'Idillico Rapimento; La Melagrane; Regina Degl'Inferni
Coventry Carol
Trad. SATB, SSAA, ATBarB, TTBB, SA and Piano
Ein Feste Burg, or A Safe Stronghold
Martin Luther (1483-1546) trans. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Trebles/Baritone/Organ 11/11/2014 Temple Church Choir Co-commission with Lars Schwarze
En Natus Est Emanuel, Dominus
Michael Praetorius (1857-1621) SSA
Exaudi Deus, orationem meam
The Vulgate: Psalm 95: 8 and Psalm 54: 2-3 SSATB
Expectans Expectavi
Charles H Sorley (1895-1915) SSAATTBB
Exultet coelum laudibus
Office Hymn for the Common of Apostles SSATB
Feast Of the Ascension, 1949
John Bradburne (1921-1979) SATB/Organ 25/09/2021; Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester; John Bradburne Centenary Concert; Bury Choral Society; commissioned by the John Bradburne Memorial Society
God from on high hath dwelt: A Hymn
Charles Coffin (1679-1749) SATB
Haec Dies
Trad. Easter Antiphon SATB
Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Johann Heerman (1585-1647) trans. Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATBarB 22/03/2015 Deutscher Chor London, Hampton Court Palace
Holy God, We Show Forth Here
Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) SATB/Organ or Piano 15/06/2014 St James’ Old Cathedral, Australia
Holy Night, Blessed Night
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SSAT or SATB SSAT: 05/12/2015 Holy Trinity Sloane Square, Nonsuch Singers SATB: 05/12/2020 Carols From The Garden, The Minney Singers
Hope: An Addison Song Cycle
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Mezzo Soprano/Piano 26/05/2015; St Bride's Church Fleet Street Premiered by Eleanor Minney and Michael Waldron "When rising from the bed of death"; "The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare"; "On The Lady Manchester"; "How Are Thy Servants Blessed, O Lord"; Hope
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Psalm 121 SSAATTBB
Il est né le divin Enfant
Trad. SATB
In Flanders Fields: A War Cantata
Various SATB/Baritone Solo/Organ 18/03/2017 commissioned and premiered by Eltham Choral Society 11/11/2018 US Premiere given by Harvard University Choir; broadcast on WHRB radio "The Rouse", "On Receiving News Of The War", Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918); "In Flanders Fields", John McCrae (1872-1918); "Rain", Edward Thomas (1878-1917); "Evening in England", Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917); "Gethsemane", Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919); "As Bronze May Be Much Beautified (The Last Post)", Wilfred Owen (1893-1918); "Soldier From The Wars Returning", A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Intimité plus grande avec les astres
Professor Michel DeGuy (1930-) Tenor Solo/Piano 18/06/2019 Borough New Music Festival; St George the Martyr, Borough High Street, London Graham Neal and Matthew Schellhorn
Jesu, The Very Thought Of Thee
Bernard of Clairvaux, C12 trans. Edward Caswall (1814-1878) SATB 18/11/2012 All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street
Let the Merry Church Bells Ring!
John Henry Kurzenknabe (1840-1927) SATB
Like As The Hart
Psalm 42: 1-3 SSAATB 21/02/2017 St Martin in the Fields, London; premiered by the Nonsuch Singers
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?
William Blake (1757-1827) SATB 10/07/2021; The Antioch Ensemble and Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir; Church Of Our Most Holy Redeemer Exmouth Market, London
Love
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 & 13 Soprano Solo/SATB 12/08/2010 St John’s Church, Callwen
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G
SATB/Baritone Solo/Organ 03/05/2023 Manchester Cathedral Choir; premiere broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum/Nunc Dimittis Servum Tuum
Recorder Quintet 24/01/2024 Studio Fontegara, Japan
Mass in D♭
Trad. Soprano Solo/Tenor Solo/SSAATTBB 04/11/2006 University of Bristol Church Choir, St Paul’s Church, Bristol
Mass in G
Trad. SATB 08/05/2005 Clifton Cathedral Winner of the Clifton Cathedral Composition Competition 2005
Never Weather Beaten Sail
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Thomas Campion (1567-1620) SATB 23/06/2012 St Alban’s Church, Westbury Park, Bristol; 30/11/2014 Redland Green Community Chorus, St Paul’s Parish Church, K Street, Washington
Non Nobis Domine
SATB 01/05/2023 St Martin in the Fields, London The Monteverdi Choir
Nothing Will Die
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) SATB
Notre Pere
The Lord's Prayer (French) SATB 10/04/2020 St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey
Nunc Gaudet Maria
Trad. text c. 15th Century SATB
O Gladdening Light
Phos Hilaron (late C3/early C4) SATB/Organ 06/07/2013 St Alban’s Church, Westbury Park, Bristol, Redland Green Community Chorus
O Lord, The House Of My Soul Is Narrow
St Augustine of Hippo (AD354-430) SATB 06/03/2016 St Michael’s Cornhill Choir
O magnum mysterium
Anon. SSATTB 09/12/2007 St Paul’s Church, Swansea; 23/12/2014 Radio Lancashire Broadcast by Blackburn Cathedral Choir
O Men From The Fields
Melody by Arnold Cooke
Padraic Colum SATB 3/12/2022; Swansea's Brangwyn Hall; Swansea Philharmonic Choir directed by Jonathan Rogers
O Merciful God
The Book Of Common Prayer AATB 08/09/2013 St James’ Old Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia
O Salutaris Hostia, or Jesus, True Victim on the Cross
Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274); English performance translation by Gareth Treseder (1985-) ATB
O Thou Who Camest From Above
Charles Wesley (1707-1788) SATB/Organ Melody by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)
O Virgo Splendens
Llibre Vermell de Montserrat SSAATTBB Premiered and recorded by the Exon Singers for their CD "Before The Ending Of The Day", released on the Rubicon label
O What Their Joy
Peter Abelard, C12; trans J M Neale (1818-1866) SSAATTBB
Of The Father's Heart Begotten, or Corde Natus Est Parentis
English: R F Davies (1866-1937); Latin: Prudentius (348-413) SATB
On Christmas Day in the Morning
RSCM
Michael Perry (1942-1996) SA/Men RSCM Carols for Sopranos, Altos and Lower Voices; available to peruse through the online Flipbook via the link below (p191, thumbnail 199)
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight
Rt. Rev. C. W. Stubbs (1845-1912) SSAA 13/12/2018 Farnham Youth Choir, Farnham Maltings Bridge Square, Farnham, England, GU9 7QR
Otche nash
The Lord's Prayer (Ukrainian) SATB 10/05/2022 St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey Premiered in the "Dona Nobis Pacem" fundraiser to support the DEC's Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
The Lord's Prayer (English) Tenor Solo/TTBB 01/02/2019; The Chamber Choir Of Wales
Out Of The Depths
Psalm 130: 1-5 BB/Piano, or BB/Organ
Preces and Responses in D major
SATB
Rejoice, O Land, In God Thy Might
Robert Bridges (1844-1930) SATB Including material by Virgil Oliver Stamps (1892-1940)
Requiem in d
Trad. SSAATTBB 28/01/2006 University of Bristol Church Choir, St Paul’s Church, Bristol
Requiem Ordinary Mass For Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
ATB Premiered by the King's Chapel of the Savoy Choir on Sunday 18th September 2022
Ring Out, Ye Wild And Merry Bells
Anon. SSA
Salve Regina
Anon. SATB 16/06/2019; Farm Street Church, London
Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge
Christian Adolf Overbeck (1755-1821) Soprano Solo/Tenor Solo/SATB October 2015; recorded by Deutscher Chor London
Shine Upon Our Minds, O Lord
Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) SSA
Sing to the Lord Glad Hymns Of Praise
R.S. Hawker (1804-75) SATB 22/05/2016 St Margaret's Westminster Abbey, for my daughter's baptism
Sleeping Babe in a Bethle’m Stall
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB
Suo Gân
Robert Bryan (1858-1920) Soprano Solo/SATB St Bride's Fleet Street, London 17/12/2016
Sweet Spirit, Comfort Me
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) SATB 22/06/2013 Wigmore Hall, London, Berkshire Youth Choir; 20/06/2014 Gloucester Cathedral Choir (liturgical premiere)
The Beautiful Mother
Anon; trans. Hans van der Velden (1937-2005) SSAATTBB
The Beautiful Poetry of Wales Volume One
Various SSATB 10/07/2016 Swansea Bach Choir, All Saints Church, Oystermouth, Swansea Gower Festival "To the Spring" by Rev Evan Evans (1795-1855) "The Nightingale" by Rev John Blackwell (1797-1840) "The Lily and the Rose" by Rev Daniel Evans (1792-1846) "Farewell to Wales" by Felicia Dorothy Hemans (1793-1835)
The Easter Bells Are Ringing!
Ida Lilliard Reed (1865-1951) SATB May also be performed as "The Christmas Bells Are Ringing!"
The Lord's My Shepherd
Francis Rowe (1650) SSATB 15/10/2011 Margam Abbey, Swansea, The Ariosa Singers; 10/11/2013 St James’ Old Cathedral, Australia (liturgical premiere)
The Minstrels
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) SATTB Wednesday 21st December 2016; BBC Singers commission, premiered at St Paul's Knightsbridge, London
The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy Mass in G
SATB Premiered by the King's Chapel of the Savoy Choir (formerly the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy Choir) on Sunday 3rd July 2022; the work includes the melody of the British National Anthem, attributed to John Bull (1562/63-1628)
The Sea and the Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) SATB
The sleep of the infant Jesus, or Le sommeil de l'Enfant Jesu
Written in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
François-Auguste Gevaert (1828-1908); trans by Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB; SSA; AATB; ATTB; TTBB; Unison Voices with accompaniment
The Snow Lay On The Ground
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. SSA/Organ 17/12/2014 Wimbledon High School Choir “Acapella”
The Songs I Had
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Soprano and Tenor Solo/SATB/Handbells/Piano/Chamber Orchestra or Organ 02/08/2019 Three Choirs Festival
The Strife Is O'er
Anon. c. 12th Century; trans. Francis Potts (1832 - 1909) ATTB 23/03/2008 Bristol Cathedral
These Strangers In A Foreign World (Hine ma tov)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) SATB 21/09/2018 Selected to be performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by James Morgan, in a concert presented by BASCA and the BBC Singers entitled “The Refugee Experience”; St Paul's Church Knightsbridge; broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. SATB 22/12/2014 Gorseinon Youth Choir, Penuel Chapel, Loughor, Swansea; 04/01/2015 St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey (liturgical premiere)
Twas In A Bethlehem Manger
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SSATB
Vater Unser im Himmel
The Lord's Prayer (German) SSAATTBB
Von guten Mächten
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) SATB 19/05/2013 St Alban’s Cathedral, Deutscher Chor London
What Child Is This?
W Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) SATBarB 13/12/2015 St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey
Wo mên zai tiên shang de fu/Our Lord God and Father In Heaven
The Lord's Prayer (Mandarin) SATB

Christmas Works

Work Author of Text Voicing Premiere
A Carol From Flanders
Frederick Niven (1878-1944) SATB
A Christmas Pudding
(1 min 30)
Anonymous SSA
A Christmas Suite
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Various SSS or SSA/Harp/Organ 09/12/2021 Temple Church Choir, London Harpist: Anne Denholm Organist: Charles Andrews It's Christmas - Merry Christmas! Hodie Christus Natus Est "On Oaten Pipes"; Anon. from the Coventry Mysteries The Preparation of the Manger "Dormi, Jesu"; Hieronymus Wierix (1553-1619) trans. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Preparation of the Feast "The Boar's Head In Hand Bring I"; trad., taken from William Henry Husk’s “Songs Of The Nativity Being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern” (1868) "Wartime Christmas"; Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) "Goodnight!"; Gareth Treseder (1985-)
A Song Was Heard at Christmas
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Reverend Timothy Dudley Smith (1926-) SATB 18/12/2009 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Gorseinon Youth Choir
Angelus ad Virginem
Anonymous/Medieval Carol Solo Oboe, Solo Clarinet, SSA, Organ, Strings 15/12/2015 Wimbledon High School Senior Choir
Bethle’m Baby
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB 06/12/2009 St Paul’s Church, Swansea
Blessed be that Maid Marie
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. text c. 15th Century SSATB 18/12/2012 Recorded by the BBC Singers; broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Christ’s Nativity, or Awake, Glad Heart, Get Up And Sing
Henry Vaughan (1621-95) SAATBB
Coventry Carol
Trad. SATB, SSAA, ATBarB, TTBB, SA and Piano
En Natus Est Emanuel, Dominus
Michael Praetorius (1857-1621) SSA TBC
God from on high hath dwelt: A Hymn
Charles Coffin (1679-1749) SATB
Holy Night, Blessed Night
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SSAT or SATB SSAT: 05/12/2015 Holy Trinity Sloane Square, Nonsuch Singers SATB: 05/12/2020 Carols From The Garden, The Minney Singers
Il est né le divin Enfant
Trad. SATB
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?
William Blake (1757-1827) SATB The Antioch Ensemble and Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir; Church Of Our Most Holy Redeemer Exmouth Market, London; 10/07/2021
Nunc Gaudet Maria
Trad. text c. 15th Century SATB
O magnum mysterium
Anon. SSATTB 09/12/2007 St Paul’s Church, Swansea; 23/12/2014 Radio Lancashire Broadcast by Blackburn Cathedral Choir
O Men From The Fields
Melody by Arnold Cooke
Padraic Colum SATB 3/12/2022; Swansea's Brangwyn Hall; Swansea Philharmonic Choir directed by Jonathan Rogers
Of The Father's Heart Begotten, or Corde Natus Est Parentis
English: R F Davies (1866-1937); Latin: Prudentius (348-413) SATB
On Christmas Day in the Morning
RSCM
Michael Perry (1942-1996) SA/Men RSCM Carols for Sopranos, Altos and Lower Voices; available to peruse through the online Flipbook via the link below (p191, thumbnail 199)
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight
2 min 30
Rt. Rev. C. W. Stubbs (1845-1912) SSAA 13/12/2018 Farnham Youth Choir, Farnham Maltings Bridge Square, Farnham, England, GU9 7QR
Ring Out, Ye Wild And Merry Bells
Anon. SSA
Sleeping Babe in a Bethle’m Stall
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB
Suo Gân
Robert Bryan (1858-1920) Soprano Solo/SATB St Bride's Fleet Street, London 17/12/2016
The sleep of the infant Jesus, or Le sommeil de l'Enfant Jesu
Written in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
François-Auguste Gevaert (1828-1908); trans by Gareth Treseder (1985-) SATB; SSA; AATB; ATTB; TTBB; Unison Voices with accompaniment
The Snow Lay On The Ground
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. SSA/Organ or Piano 17/12/2014 Wimbledon High School Choir “Acapella”
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
Published by Boosey & Hawkes
Trad. SATB 22/12/2014 Gorseinon Youth Choir, Penuel Chapel, Loughor, Swansea; 04/01/2015 St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey (liturgical premiere)
Twas in a Bethlehem Manger
Gareth Treseder (1985-) SSATB
What Child Is This?
W Chatterton Dix (1837-1898) SATBarB 13/12/2015 St Margaret’s Church Westminster Abbey