John Sturt - Composer
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Composer, copyist, and singer. Special features include humanism and an aversion to tea and coffee!
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The John Sturt starter kit:
- Composer of warm and fuzzy noise
- Singer of things
- Struggling artist
- Agnostic
- Pro LGBTQ+
- Wants to be quietly kind in a world that's too loud
- Hypernerd
- Strong opinions about notation
- Composer of warm and fuzzy noise
- Singer of things
- Struggling artist
- Agnostic
- Pro LGBTQ+
- Wants to be quietly kind in a world that's too loud
- Hypernerd
- Strong opinions about notation
It's here - whether you want it or dread it, my Anglican Chant setting of the Halloween classic "Spooky Scary Skeletons" is out now!
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Spooky Scary Skeletons, but its Anglican Chant
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
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October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's here - whether you want it or dread it, my Anglican Chant setting of the Halloween classic "Spooky Scary Skeletons" is out now!
youtu.be/bcIIBU89Zww?...
youtu.be/bcIIBU89Zww?...
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
In the last month, I have typeset music for a large institution, had my first media music project, and added yet more movements to my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".
Today, I started on my new commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, due to be premiered in the summer of next year.
Today, I started on my new commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, due to be premiered in the summer of next year.
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the last month, I have typeset music for a large institution, had my first media music project, and added yet more movements to my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".
Today, I started on my new commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, due to be premiered in the summer of next year.
Today, I started on my new commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, due to be premiered in the summer of next year.
The start of a new chapter: I'm now writing music for video games! This is part 1 of my 2025 showreel, with fantasy music shown alongside game footage from Baldur's Gate 3
youtu.be/mCE7WRS5h-s?...
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Fantasy - John Sturt Video Game Music Reel 2025
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
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August 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The start of a new chapter: I'm now writing music for video games! This is part 1 of my 2025 showreel, with fantasy music shown alongside game footage from Baldur's Gate 3
youtu.be/mCE7WRS5h-s?...
youtu.be/mCE7WRS5h-s?...
The Fruits of Summer are blooming and falling off the tree in the form of more concerts (including my Albert Hall Debut), new pieces, typesetting projects a-plenty, and hopefully more content to keep you guys abreast of what I am getting up to!
#composer #contemporarycomposer
#composer #contemporarycomposer
July 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Fruits of Summer are blooming and falling off the tree in the form of more concerts (including my Albert Hall Debut), new pieces, typesetting projects a-plenty, and hopefully more content to keep you guys abreast of what I am getting up to!
#composer #contemporarycomposer
#composer #contemporarycomposer
Smiles all around at St George's Church Hanover Square! Couldn't have asked for a better premiere with Mengyao on the piano and Sarah on the flute.
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Smiles all around at St George's Church Hanover Square! Couldn't have asked for a better premiere with Mengyao on the piano and Sarah on the flute.
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of performing in the premiere of my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" - I'm very grateful for the lovely reception it got from the audience, and for the playing of the fantastic flautist Sarah Marine and the perfect piano playing of Mengyao Guo!
May 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of performing in the premiere of my setting of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" - I'm very grateful for the lovely reception it got from the audience, and for the playing of the fantastic flautist Sarah Marine and the perfect piano playing of Mengyao Guo!
Spring is definitely here - no better excuse to finally set Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" to music. It flew from my head onto the page with such force that I'm a bit breathless!
#composer #choral #choir #comtemporarymusic
#composer #choral #choir #comtemporarymusic
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Spring is definitely here - no better excuse to finally set Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" to music. It flew from my head onto the page with such force that I'm a bit breathless!
#composer #choral #choir #comtemporarymusic
#composer #choral #choir #comtemporarymusic
A brand new piece is in the works: as Spring is now blooming around our ears, I thought I'd write a set of springtime songs for choir, and this is the first of them.
I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.
I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.
April 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A brand new piece is in the works: as Spring is now blooming around our ears, I thought I'd write a set of springtime songs for choir, and this is the first of them.
I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.
I don't know how many are going to be, but I'm very excited for chasing after poems and feeling where inspiration takes me.
My new website, www.johnsturtcomposer.co.uk, is now online! If you'd like to find out more about my music, go check it out!
John Sturt Composer
www.johnsturtcomposer.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My new website, www.johnsturtcomposer.co.uk, is now online! If you'd like to find out more about my music, go check it out!
*Website offline*
My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"
youtu.be/pH9AUk7QasE?...
My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"
youtu.be/pH9AUk7QasE?...
Quem Quaeris Magdalena - John Sturt - Hi Lo Singers
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
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March 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
*Website offline*
My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"
youtu.be/pH9AUk7QasE?...
My website is going dark for maintenance for a couple days, all for the good cause of redesigning and reinvigorating it. In the meantime, as it's lent for those who observe it, why not listen to my Easter Anthem "Quem Quaeris Magdalena?"
youtu.be/pH9AUk7QasE?...
Everybody, both orchestra and children, is giving heart and soul at the premiere of "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart in Stamford". Toi toi toi everyone!
March 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Everybody, both orchestra and children, is giving heart and soul at the premiere of "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart in Stamford". Toi toi toi everyone!
Very excited to be travelling up to see my premiere with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, charting the history of music's most lovable rogue, Mozart. Toi toi toi everybody!
March 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Very excited to be travelling up to see my premiere with the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, charting the history of music's most lovable rogue, Mozart. Toi toi toi everybody!
NEW PREMIERE!
6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!
Very very excited!
6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!
Very very excited!
March 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW PREMIERE!
6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!
Very very excited!
6pm 22nd March, Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
I'm pleased to announce the premiere of my commission from the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, "A Young Person's Guide to Mozart". Full of cheeky anecdotes, it traces the story of music's most lovable rogue!
Very very excited!
My first concert for a long while, seeing my sister Jenny perform the solo in Bruch's Kol Nidrai with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra - was a fantastic performance, and I feel very proud of her!
March 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My first concert for a long while, seeing my sister Jenny perform the solo in Bruch's Kol Nidrai with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra - was a fantastic performance, and I feel very proud of her!
Hello everybody! After months of work, I am proud to show my string arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦
youtu.be/FW5as3E9-g4?...
The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦
youtu.be/FW5as3E9-g4?...
Rachmaninoff - Nunc Dimittis from All Night Vigil - Arranged for Strings (Score Video)
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
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March 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Hello everybody! After months of work, I am proud to show my string arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦
youtu.be/FW5as3E9-g4?...
The piece is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukranii! 🇺🇦
youtu.be/FW5as3E9-g4?...
9 days until release...
(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)
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(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)
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February 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
9 days until release...
(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)
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(Image courtesy of the Ukrainian Data Battalion)
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Today, I have finished mixing the recording of my arrangement of the Nunc Dimittis from Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil. All set for release on 24th February, the anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
February 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today, I have finished mixing the recording of my arrangement of the Nunc Dimittis from Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil. All set for release on 24th February, the anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.
COMING SOON:
On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
January 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
COMING SOON:
On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
On February 24th, I will be releasing a recording of my string arrangement of Rachmaninov's Nunc Dimittis from the All Night Vigil.
My arrangement was premiered in the summer of 2023, and is dedicated to the nation and people of Ukraine.
We'll, I've done it again - another Anglican Chant setting: this time, it's Wham's last Christmas.
Complete with accusations of blasphemy!
youtu.be/dYt0PYtyFIA?...
Complete with accusations of blasphemy!
youtu.be/dYt0PYtyFIA?...
Wham! Last Christmas, but it's Anglican Chant
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
youtu.be
December 27, 2024 at 12:39 AM
We'll, I've done it again - another Anglican Chant setting: this time, it's Wham's last Christmas.
Complete with accusations of blasphemy!
youtu.be/dYt0PYtyFIA?...
Complete with accusations of blasphemy!
youtu.be/dYt0PYtyFIA?...
For the morning crowd, here's another Christmas Song set to an Anglican chant: Let It Snow.
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
Let It Snow, but it's Anglican Chant
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 11:26 AM
For the morning crowd, here's another Christmas Song set to an Anglican chant: Let It Snow.
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
Forgive me for I have sinned...again...in the pursuit of festive fun. Introducing yet another Christmas Song I have set to Anglican Chant: the perennial classic Let It Snow.
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
Let It Snow, but it's Anglican Chant
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Forgive me for I have sinned...again...in the pursuit of festive fun. Introducing yet another Christmas Song I have set to Anglican Chant: the perennial classic Let It Snow.
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
youtu.be/8DkHy2z4toQ?...
Goodness gracious, you guys appreciate my madness far beyond what I thought possible! Thank you very much for watching my Anglican chant adaptation of a Christmas classic.
December 13, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Goodness gracious, you guys appreciate my madness far beyond what I thought possible! Thank you very much for watching my Anglican chant adaptation of a Christmas classic.
Ever wondered what All I Want For Christmas Is You would sound like in Anglican Chant? Well, now's your chance to find out!
youtu.be/TmxxTuFCR9c?...
youtu.be/TmxxTuFCR9c?...
All I Want For Christmas Is You, but it's Anglican Chant
YouTube video by John Sturt - Composer
youtu.be
December 10, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Ever wondered what All I Want For Christmas Is You would sound like in Anglican Chant? Well, now's your chance to find out!
youtu.be/TmxxTuFCR9c?...
youtu.be/TmxxTuFCR9c?...
For the morning crowd, my latest choral recording: O beatus ortus ille.
Dramatis personae:
Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)
on.soundcloud.com/fHPmk
Dramatis personae:
Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)
on.soundcloud.com/fHPmk
O Beatus Ortus Ille
Adapted from a verse of the Latin Hymn
on.soundcloud.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:38 AM
For the morning crowd, my latest choral recording: O beatus ortus ille.
Dramatis personae:
Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)
on.soundcloud.com/fHPmk
Dramatis personae:
Ana Stahlmann and Amy Summers (Sopranos)
Alexis Hutchinson and Garreth Romain (Altos)
Danny Traves and Andrew Woodmansey (Tenors)
John Sturt and Dominic Veall (Basses)
on.soundcloud.com/fHPmk