Composition
Composition
Away from performance, Jack is an avid composer, particularly of vocal music. He enjoys crafting melody, taking inspiration from some of his favourite performance repertoire in setting poetry and sacred texts.
His choral work May the Mind of Christ has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 & 4 and is published by the Church Music Society (Oxford University Press) and his song Bright Sunlight came runner-up in the Sarah Leonard song composing competition. He has also written songs commissioned by and performed at the Oxford International Song Festival.
An adept improviser on piano and organ from a young age, Jack pursued composition as a principal study for his undergraduate degree on the Manchester ‘joint-course’ between the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music where he studied under Adam Gorb and Emily Howard. His music is also strongly inspired by former teacher and renowned choirmaster Neil Cox.
for SATB with optional organ
This short anthem or introit by Jack Redman uses verses from Kate B. Wilkinson's touching hymn 'May the mind of Christ my Saviour', first published in 1925. Scored for SATB, it may be sung unaccompanied or with light organ accompaniment, with the lower voices humming in the second verse. The work was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' in 2018.
Improvisations
Jack’s improvisations can be found on SoundCloud.
Many of these are recorded on his family piano on which he first learnt, a 1926 Boyd Coronet.