The Peter Tranchell Foundation
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The Peter Tranchell Foundation
@peter-tranchell.uk
About the life and work of the British composer Peter Tranchell
Tranchell bar of the day for 15/01/2026 features an unusual tempo
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 14 Jan 2025
January 14, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 13/01/2026...
January 13, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 12/01/2026 involves the organist's fists...
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 11/01/2026 may contain code
January 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 10/01/2026 - one for the gourmands...
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 09/01/2026...
January 9, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 08/01/2026 ...
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 07/01/2026. Just add carnyx?
January 7, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 06/01/2026 features whistling...
January 6, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Bar of the day 05/01/2026 is for SSATB and organ...
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Tranchell bar of the day for 04/01/2026 should not be too hard to identify, even if it's quite hard to sing!...
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Happy New Year from the Peter Tranchell Foundation... this year we'll post a "bar of the day", every day(!?), selected randomly from something in the archives... here's our first
January 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Did you know Peter Tranchell wrote the music for several of the triennial Cambridge Greek Plays? Here's a couple of photos from 1959 - The Antigone of Sophocles, and the programme
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
An unpublished and rather lovely hymn tune from Peter Tranchell, 1970, words "And now our Father", tune "Old Winchester Hill", found in the archives today...
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We're very excited to announce that the great Piers Lane
#PiersLane will play Peter Tranchell's Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order in the "Twice a Kiss" concert Saturday 18 April 2026.
Tickets peter-tranchell.uk/the-2026-pet...
Photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
3 hours till the deadline in this years Peter Tranchell Foundation composition prize... exciting - how many more entries will arrive?
September 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
One week to the deadline for submissions in the 2025 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize... peter-tranchell.uk/the-peter-tr...
September 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Can anyone help identify who played piano in the 1955 May Week St. Catharine's College Cambridge production of Tranchell's "Twice a Kiss"? We know Peter Le Huray played the electronic organ part, and the pianist was the College organ scholar... but who was it?
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Good to hear The Dance Before the Ark from Honegger’s King David on BBCR3 Private Passions today with Ursula Jones – the Alleluias regularly featured in Caius Choir recitals in Peter Tranchell’s time
August 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Composers... how about a duet for piano and organ? 50 days to the deadline in the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2025. £500 prize and première performance - find out more peter-tranchell.uk/the-peter-tr...
August 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Ferrabosco Singers will perform Peter Tranchell's St. Michael's Mass at Tewkesbury Abbey Sung Eucharist 10:30 Sunday 10th August.
Free score peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
RIP Roger Norrington, who led the orchestra in the Cambridge premiere of Peter Tranchell's Zuleika in 1954
July 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The opening phrase in Peter Tranchell's 'Aye, Aye, Lucian!', a Fantasy for male-voice chorus and solos with piano accompaniment, based on the 'Vera Historia' of Lucian of Samosata, c 125 AD.
June 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Dog That Sat - Peter Tranchell's part-song setting of a newspaper article about an abandoned dog, features in this exciting concert with @icchamberchoir.bsky.social Thursday 19 June 7.30pm, St Luke's Church, Chelsea, conducted by @patrickallies.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM