The livestream of #ChoirsForEcocideLaw is still online if you have time to watch! 2 hours long - first hour is music, 2nd hour is mostly panel discussion (mixture of Finnish and English) with one final song at the end. https://www.youtube.com/live/rjze3hN9mSc?si=5Kkj3OLQf8cHMXX7

I'm in Helsinki and about to go to a rehearsal of 1000 singers. And they're doing my piece. Crikey. Anyone who's at Musiikkitalo for #ChoirsForEcocideLaw, come say hi!

Today's bit of self-promotion: "The Rules" for flexible 2-part choir and piano! This is part of #ChoirsForEcocideLaw (the concert I'm going to see in a few weeks in Finland with 1000 people singing it, yikes) and was premiered at our Creative Scotland funded #ChoirsForClimate concert in March 2023. Just found a performance of the Choirs For Ecocide Law full programme on YouTube which I didn't know about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrkvTwu0Ps&t=605s - a big thank you to the Koblenz University Choir in Germany!

"Hope", with music by Merzi Rajala, is a soulful, catchy setting of Emily Dickinson's famous poem, which will leave you humming it every time you read it from now on! Written as part of the #ChoirsForEcocideLaw project, this piece shows the value and indestructibility of hope in the time of climate crisis. https://youtu.be/gaB9ny4dP10
#choir #choral #ChoralMusic #NewMusic #Composer #ChoirsForClimate

I loved all the pieces we sang at the #ChoirsForClimate concert, but this one is the most important to me personally. https://youtu.be/bhuk9j8pvrs Part of the #ChoirsForEcocideLaw project "The Rules" is a dark and intense piece - maybe the angriest I've ever written.
"All the rules say you can keep on taking water till the well runs dry
All the rules say there’s a fine but you can pay it when your stocks get high..." #NewMusic #Choir #Choral #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency