RECORDINGS.
MONTEIRO:
CHORAL MUSIC
Happenstance Singers
Matthew Swann, Director
Monteiro: Choral Music brings together a selection of sacred works by J A Monteiro, recorded by the Happenstance Singers under the direction of Matthew Swann. At the centre of the programme are selected movements from Seven Last Words, a setting of the final words of Christ on the cross. Limehouse Mass is a setting written for the Church of Our Lady Immaculate & St Frederick, London. And Ruth said unfolds in long lyrical lines, while Away in a manger offers a gentle reimagining of the familiar carol.
J A MONTEIRO
MONTEIRO:
CHORAL MUSIC
Happenstance Singers
Matthew Swann, Director
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J A MONTEIRO
AND RUTH SAID
Happenstance Singers
Matthew Swann, Director
J A MONTEIRO
AVE MARIA
Leoma Monteiro, Soprano
James Gough, Organ
Happenstance Singers
Matthew Swann, Director
SCORES.
For more information about scores, including how to obtain copies, and to see a preview of selected scores, please follow the link below.
Joe Monteiro, who publishes as J A Monteiro, is a composer and arranger of choral music.
His works have been recorded by the Ulysses Arts label. Limehouse Mass was released in 2025. Two further albums, Seven Last Words and Monteiro: Choral Music, are scheduled for release in 2026.
Choral works include motets, Mass and psalm settings, and arrangements of hymns and carols. His organ work Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem was performed at Southwark Cathedral in 2024 and subsequently recorded.
He is Director of Music at the Church of Our Lady Immaculate & St Frederick, London. He graduated from the University of Oxford, where he wrote for the chapel choir of St Hugh’s College.
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