Quiet Ascension was one of my very first organ compositions. I was fascinated with the organ’s ability to sustain pitches indefinitely and let single changing pitch at a time be the guiding principal for this piece. The resulting harmonies are not groundbreaking, but certainly move in a direction that I was not expecting. The return of the A material shifts all the content down a stave, now allowing the pedals to cover what was previously played in the left hand, and freeing up a hand to play a new descant on top of the original material.

It is a treat to have this composition, simple but near and dear to me, published in OUP’s Lent and Easter Anthology, Vol.2 which you can purchase at the link below: