Biographical Information

The mainstay of Antony le Fleming’s output is choral music, but he has also published a variety of instrumental works. His Serenade for Strings (1994) was shortlisted in an international competition; in 1996 he came 3rd and a year later, 1st in the English Poetry & Song Society Competition. Over the past ten years he has responded to a steady flow of commissions and his music has been broadcast on BBC Radio. He also produced works for younger musicians, and has been a copious arranger in many musical styles, from Jazz Fiddle to transcriptions for the Academy of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields.

1997 saw the release of a CD devoted to his choral and instrumental music, Some Shadows of Eternity (Meridian CDE 84360) featuring the Oxford Pro Musica Singers and the St Cecilia Players.

 
 
His recent output includes settings of contemporary female poets Like some Distant Lighthouse for soprano, horn and piano and Belloc’s Cautionary Tales – Matilda for singers, piano and percussion (Goodmusic). The millennium commission Cry Out on Time, has been launched to acclaim by the Chiltern Choir and recorded on CD by the New Cambridge Singers, while the revised version of the Three Christmas Motets has been premiered at Dartington. Further commissions have included the Endellion Festival cantata, St Endellienta, (2004) and Everyone Sang, which marked the 20th anniversary of the East of England Singers (2005). The same year, the Centre for Young Musicians Chamber Orchestra won the orchestral section award at the NFMY with Partita No.4.

 
 
In recent months, ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Nunc Dimittis’ have been performed, to great acclaim, in the USA , and Antony has completed an unaccompanied Missa Brevis for Nottingham Cathedral and a version of ‘Rejoice in the Lord’ for Preston Candover Parish Church.

In 2012, Antony set Rowan Williams’ “Advent Calendar” which was premiered by Birmingham Cathedral Choir. Another new work from last year is “Paean” for organ, published by Encore Publications.

Antony le Fleming is unashamedly an English Romantic whose striking expressive impact derives from a combination of sensitivity to subject matter, versatility of technique and harmonic piquancy.