John Sturt - Composer

YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Fantasy - John Sturt Video Game Music Reel 2025

The start of a new chapter: I'm now writing music for video games! This is part 1 of my 2025 showreel, with fantasy music shown alongside game footage from Baldur's Gate 3

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The Fruits of Summer are blooming and falling off the tree in the form of more concerts (including my Albert Hall Debut), new pieces, typesetting projects a-plenty, and hopefully more content to keep you guys abreast of what I am getting up to!

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Smiles all around at St George's Church Hanover Square! Couldn't have asked for a better premiere with Mengyao on the piano and Sarah on the flute.

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of performing in the premiere of my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" - I'm very grateful for the lovely reception it got from the audience, and for the playing of the fantastic flautist Sarah Marine and the perfect piano playing of Mengyao Guo!

Spring is definitely here - no better excuse to finally set Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" to music. It flew from my head onto the page with such force that I'm a bit breathless!

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A brand new piece is in the works: as Spring is now blooming around our ears, I thought I'd write a set of springtime songs for choir, and this is the first of them.

I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.

My new website, www.johnsturtcomposer.co.uk, is now online! If you'd like to find out more about my music, go check it out!

YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Quem Quaeris Magdalena - John Sturt - Hi Lo Singers

*Website offline*

My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"

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An orchestra and a choir of children singing John Sturt's music on its premiere

Everybody, both orchestra and children, is giving heart and soul at the premiere of "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart in Stamford". Toi toi toi everyone!

Very excited to be travelling up to see my premiere with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, charting the history of music's most lovable rogue, Mozart. Toi toi toi everybody!

NEW PREMIERE!

6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford

I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!

Very very excited!

My first concert for a long while, seeing my sister Jenny perform the solo in Bruch's Kol Nidrai with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra - was a fantastic performance, and I feel very proud of her!

No problem!

Go get em, guys!

YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Rachmaninoff - Nunc Dimittis from All Night Vigil - Arranged for Strings (Score Video)

Hello everybody! After months of work, I am proud to show my string arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.

The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.

Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦

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9 days until release...

(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)

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Today, I have finished mixing the recording of my arrangement of the Nunc Dimittis from Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil. All set for release on 24th February, the anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

COMING SOON:

On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.

My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.

YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Wham! Last Christmas, but it's Anglican Chant

We'll, I've done it again - another Anglican Chant setting: this time, it's Wham's last Christmas.

Complete with accusations of blasphemy!

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YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Let It Snow, but it's Anglican Chant

For the morning crowd, here's another Christmas Song set to an Anglican chant: Let It Snow.

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YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer Let It Snow, but it's Anglican Chant

Forgive me for I have sinned...again...in the pursuit of festive fun. Introducing yet another Christmas Song I have set to Anglican Chant: the perennial classic Let It Snow.

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Goodness gracious, you guys appreciate my madness far beyond what I thought possible! Thank you very much for watching my Anglican chant adaptation of a Christmas classic.

Brilliant stuff, gentlemen - looking forward to listening!

YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer All I Want For Christmas Is You, but it's Anglican Chant

Ever wondered what All I Want For Christmas Is You would sound like in Anglican Chant? Well, now's your chance to find out!

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O Beatus Ortus Ille Adapted from a verse of the Latin Hymn

For the morning crowd, my latest choral recording: O beatus ortus ille.

Dramatis personae:

Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)

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O Beatus Ortus Ille Adapted from a verse of the Latin Hymn

Announcing my latest choral recording: O beatus ortus ille, featuring the lovely voices of:

Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)

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It begins.

Don't get harked.

#harkageddon

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Adsurge Sol! (live) This voluntary was written for the organist of Peterborough Cathedral, Chris Strange. This recording is from the premiere of the work on 10th July 2024 in Peterborough Cathedral, played by its dedicat

Missing the sun a bit? Well, have I got the perfect piece for you! Treat yourself to a bit of musical vitamin D with Adsurge Sol, written for organ and played by Chris Strange of Peterborough Cathedral!

(I sound like a health commercial, and I'm sorry)

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I love discovering a song and then listening to it 70 times in 48 hours 😈

Gorgeous music and very well sung!