Richard Shephard
Richard James Shephard
Education and musical career
Shephard was a
As a composer, he wrote
Shephard received commissions from numerous associations including the
In November 2009, Shephard was commissioned to write a piece for the commemoration of Henry Purcell's three hundred and fiftieth birthday by The National Centre of Early Music, Ode on the 350th Birthday of Mr Henry Purcell. The piece was performed in the Royal Albert Hall by five hundred school children who make up the Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir which won the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year in 2008. Howard Goodall co-hosted the event.[13]
In 1999 Shephard received a commission to write for the York Mystery Plays Millennium
Career in education
As well as Shephard's prolific musical career, he also had a distinguished career in education. He became Head of Music at Godolphin School at the early age of 24, and then Deputy Head at Salisbury Cathedral School.
He was appointed
He died on 20 February 2021 at the age of 71, one month short of his 72nd birthday.[21]
Selected works
Choral
Eucharistic settings:
- The Addington Service
- The Wiltshire Service
- Gloucester Cathedral
- Tisbury Service
- The Woodard Service
- The St Matthew's Service (for St Matthew's Church, Northampton)
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, for:
- Salisbury Cathedral
- Hereford Cathedral
- Liverpool Cathedral
- Lionel Dakers in memoriam
- Llandaff Cathedral
- Gloucester Cathedral
Anthems
- Let us now praise famous men
- The old order changeth
- Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
- The strife is o’er
- A Vision of Wheels
- O for a thousand tongues
- Last verses
- Never weather beaten sail
- Jesu dulcis memoria
- And didst thou travel light
- The birds
- Prayer for a new mother
- Let him who seeks
- We give immortal praise
- And when the builders
- Open for me the gates of righteousness
- Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house
- Adam lay y-bounden
- Who shall ascend
- Te Deum
- Out of the stillness
- The Secret of Christ
- Crossing the bar
- Jubilate Deo (for the celebrations on the 450th anniversary of the founding of Christ College, Brecon)
Opera
- The Turncoat
- The Dove and the Eagle
- Caedmon
- Good King Wenceslas
- The Shepherds' Play
- St Nicholas
Musicals
- All for Alice
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Wind in the Willows
- Pride and Prejudice
- Solemn Parody
- Ernest
- A Christmas Carol
- Eek!
- Emil and the Detectives
Orchestral
- Overture – Mayday
- The Musicians of Bremen
- Six Shakespeare Songs
- Guildhall March
Oratorio
- Jonah
- Requiem
- St Luke Passion
- There Was Such Beauty (1991, Gloucester Cathedral)
- Christmas cantata
- Purcell birthday cantata (for the Albert Hall Schools Prom 2009)
References
- ^ a b "York church music composer Richard Shephard honoured by Queen". BBC News. 16 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
- ^ "New role for Paralympian and brewery boss". The Northern Echo. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
- ^ a b c "Richard Shephard", Department of Music, University of York (23 December 2009). Retrieved on 21 June 2010. Archived 30 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Grevlos, L: The Chamber Operas of Richard James Shephard based on Sacred Legends, pp 13, 200. University of Northern Colorado (2005).
- ^ Haydn, Lewis (16 June 2012). "Former Lord Mayor among those named in Queen's Birthday Honours list". York Press. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
- ^ Darkers, L: SCM: Past, Present...and Future, The Musical Times, Vol. 128, No. 1732, June 1987.
- ^ Grevlos, L: The Chamber Operas of Richard James Shephard based on Sacred Legends, pp 23–7. University of Northern Colorado (2005).
- ^ Richard Shephard, Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (November 1992). Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ Grevlos, L: The Chamber Operas of Richard James Shephard based on Sacred Legends, pp 5,28,32. University of Northern Colorado (2005).
- ^ a b c "Other information—Chamberlain" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Dean and Chapter of York Minster (2010). Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ Grevlos, L: The Chamber Operas of Richard James Shephard based on Sacred Legends, page 32. University of Northern Colorado (2005).
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "500 York Primary School Children to sing in the Schools Prom", National Centre for Early Music (20 October 2009). Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ Grevlos, L: The Chamber Operas of Richard James Shephard based on Sacred Legends, page 29. University of Northern Colorado (2005).
- ISBN 978-1-903942-75-8.
- ^ http://www.rmjs.co.uk/composer/cshephard.htm [dead link]
- ^ Page, Ann; "York, The Minster School" Archived 25 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Of Choristers. Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ Donaldson, Alex; "Message from the Headmaster", The Minster School (2008). Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ "Who’s Who At York Minster—People who assist the Dean and Chapter", Dean and Chapter of York Minster (2010). Retrieved on 21 June 2010.
- ^ New Deputy Lieutenants for North Yorkshire
- ^ Composer and ex-Minster School head Richard Shephard MBE has died
External links
- http://www.sjmp.com (St. James Music Press)
- https://www.rscmshop.com/rscm-composers/richard-shephard.html (The Royal School of Church Music)
- Richard Shephard discography at Discogs