Paul Patterson - Commissioned 2005
Amidst a large and varied output, his contribution to the choral repertoire stands out, and his flair in producing works which are both challenging and accessible for both performers and listeners has resulted in a series of highly regarded large-scale choral works which have spread his name all over the world, notably the Massof the Sea(1983), Stabat Mater(1986), Te Deum(1988), Magnificat(1993), and more recently Hell�s Angels(1998) and the Millenium Mass(2000).
Patterson's music has been performed by many orchestras in the UK and abroad, most notably the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. John's, Smith Square, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the European Community Chamber Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hague Residentie Orchestra, the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Caracas Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Conductors who have championed his music include Norman de Mar, Klaus Tennstedt, Franz Welser-Most, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Richard Hickox, Barry Wordsworth, Nicholas Cleobury, Owain Arwel Hughes, Geoffrey Simon, Richard Pittman, Elgar Howarth, John Lubbock, Howard Williams and Ronald Spigelman.