Welcome
You may know me from my time with The King’s Singers. Or as a composer and arranger (writing as Grayston Ives). Or through my work at Oxford with Magdalen College Choir. Or you might have stumbled across this by accident. All are welcome!
If you’re interested in my music, you’ll find a comprehensive Catalogue. Some pieces are published, the rest are available from me. Perhaps you are considering a commission? Contact details are provided. I’ll be happy to hear from you.
News
Selected Recordings
MISSA AEDIS CHRISTI
“a simple yet beautifully constructed Mass for SATB and Organ which uses flowing plainchant-like melodies throughout.”
GRAYSTON IVES
“Ives exquisite score is played to perfection by the Britten Sinfonia… A treasure of a disc, superbly engineered”
HUBERT PARRY
“I was glad is hugely expansive and majestic. Its grandeur enhanced by its use of Ives’ arrangement.”
GRAYSTON IVES
“Ives’s ear encompasses shimmering dissonance, jazzy close harmonies and festive pomp”
Compositions
Grayston Ives’s work, consisting mainly of sacred and secular music for choir, is widely performed in the UK and worldwide, many pieces having become standards of the repertoire – There is A Land of Pure Delight, Listen Sweet Dove, The Edington Service, amongst others.
His Canterbury Te Deum (1991) for SATB and brass quintet was commissioned for the enthronement of George Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury. He was also commissioned to write the centre-piece anthem, The Gift of Grace, for the national commemoration service marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, held at Westminster Abbey in 2007. Westminster Abbey later commissioned three new arrangements of music by Hubert Parry (I was glad, Hear my words, ye people, and the Coronation Te Deum) for a recording released in 2015. Other notable commissions include Intrada for solo organ, written in 1977 for the service of thanksgiving to mark the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Receiving the Lambeth DMus 2008
