In the bleak mid-winter: Vocal score (Voice Junction) - Tapa blanda

for SATB, piano, and percussion This is a funk, gospel-tinged, harmonically innovative arrangement of the popular Christina Rossetti carol In the bleak mid-winter for mixed voices, with piano, shaker, and tambourine accompaniment and solo opportunities.

Pete Churchill is a composer, pianist, singer, and teacher. He taught for almost twenty years at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and in 2000 became Professor of Jazz Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his freelance career, he has worked as the British accompanist for jazz-singer Mark Murphy, as a musical director in the West End, and as conductor with the Kenny Wheeler Big Band. As an educator and choral director, Pete has taught at the Sibelius Academy (Finland), at the University of Queensland (Brisbane), and, on behalf of ABRSM, in SE Asia and Hong Kong. His own choir, 'The London Vocal Project', have performed alongside jazz artists such as Dame Cleo Laine and Bobby McFerrin. In 2007 he received the Parliamentary Award for Services to Jazz Education.