In December 2024, I Sing the Birth had its first performances in Perth, Canberra and Antwerp by three of its four commissioners. Hugh Lydon’s Aquinas College Schola Cantorum gave the actual premiere with Aaron Powell (electric guitar) and two weeks later Luminescence Children’s Choir sang the piece under AJ America with Theo Carbo. A week after that, in Antwerp Cathedral, nearly a thousand people heard the Flanders Boys Choir, conducted by Dieter van Handenhoven, perform it with guitarist Nico Couck.
Listen here to the performance by Luminescence Children’s Choir. The piece has since been revised and a new score will shortly be available.
Photo above by Anni Heino: The Flanders Boys Choir in Antwerp Cathedral prior to their performance of I Sing the Birth. Behind them, Rubens’s altarpiece The Elevation of the Cross (1610).