A Light Has Dawned

A Light Has Dawned  was commissioned by Cantorum Chamber Choir and director Anita Banbury for their Christmas concert, 2020.

Drawing upon verses from Isaiah 9 and a Collect from the New Zealand Anglican Prayer Book, A Light Has Dawned celebrates the victory of light over darkness on the occasion of Christmas. Beginning in the murky shadows of “deep darkness,” the gradual rise of ‘light’ can be heard emerging throughout the music in dancing Scottish snaps and cluster chords. The slow dawn gives light to the message of joy at its climax: “to us a child is given.”