Paul Ritchie

Copies of \’Come, adore this wondrous presence\’ are now available from RSCM Direct by clicking on this link. The anthem will be sung during the June 2016 RSCM Ripon & Leeds Choir Festival for St Barnabas Day along with a new setting by Paul Ritchie […]

Leo Terlouw, an organist and teacher based in Papendrecht in the Netherlands, has uploaded a recording of Paul Ritchie\’s organ Partita on Psalm 136 to YouTube. The recording was made on a Gebr. Van Vulpen house organ built in Utrecht in 1974, and can be accessed

GIA have published Paul Ritchie\’s anthem based on Ralph Vaughan Williams hymn tune \’Down Ampney\’. The anthem begins and ends with a choral fanfare based on a traditional African prayer invoking the Holy Spirit, and with the verses of \’Come down, O love divine\’ as the

GIA held a series of Reading Sessions during the summer at which several new pieces from their extensive catalogue of choral music were introduced, including Paul Ritchie\’s setting of the American hymn \’Christ for the world we sing\’. To see a video of one of the Reading

GIA will be hosting ten summer reading sessions featuring new choral music from their extensive catalogue. Participants will each receive a complimentary packet of twenty five pieces, and this year Paul Ritchie\’s anthem \’Christ for the world we sing\’ will be included. The sessions will

Paul Ritchie has begun work on a setting of the eucharistic texts from Common Worship Order One. The music will be suitable for congregational singing, and will have parts scored for SATB choir, and the accompaniment will be playable on the organ or other keyboard instruments.

During 2015 the Parish Church of St Cuthbert in Norham, Northumberland, celebrates 850 years of worship within it\’s ancient walls, and as part of the ongoing celebrations the choir has commissioned Paul Ritchie to compose an anthem to be sung at the Sunday morning service on

Shaun Turnbull, Assistant Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral, will play the Prelude Fugue and Passacaglia as the concluding voluntary at the 4pm Choral Evensong on Sunday 28th June. This early work, completed in 2007, began life many years before as three short sketches. These were subsequently

RSCM Northumbria invites choir members to sing Choral Evensong with the Cathedral Choir in St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne, on Sunday 14th June. Rehearsals start at 3:00pm and the service is at 6:00pm. The music will include Paul Ritchie\’s anthem \’As the deer\’, the

Two interesting performances of \’The Strife is O\’er\’ took place in California during April. The chamber choir Ensemble XXI directed by Jeffrey H Rickard included the anthem in a service of Choral Evensong for Eastertide which took place in the chapel of Redlands University, and