Prayer (2020)

Prayer was written in 2020 during the Covid lockdown period, it was commissioned by Oliver Zeffman as one of Eight Songs of Isolation for a premiere recording with Sarah Connolly and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Oliver Zeffman. I came across Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Prayer’ and was struck by the beauty and hope in its many different prayers. It is not a religious poem but one that speaks of finding joy and hope in small things, something that felt vital and important during the period that I wrote this song.