'Missa Maris' - Premiere of new Mass setting

Father Dominic White, OP

On Monday 9th December, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Choir directed by Associate Director of Music, Sam Barrett, gave the first performance of a new Mass by Father Dominic White, OP, Prior of Blackfriars, Oxford. Father Dominic, an accomplished pianist and organist, has had his choral compositions performed by the Choirs of Clare College, Cambridge and the Ordinariate Church in London's west end.   

The Mass was preceded by a public 'conversation' between Father Dominic and Nigel Kerry, Director of Music, which enabled parishioners to discover how the new Mass came to be composed and the inspiration behind it.