Timothy Noon

Evocation To A Friend

Evocation to a Friend was commissioned for the Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral on behalf of Befrienders International (now Befrienders Worldwide). The text is by David Race and explores themes of friendship and hope. The music grows in intensity over a cyclic harmonic pattern, with repeating melodic fragments arranged across the four voices creating a hypnotic effect. After a bleak and reflective interlude in the middle, the music unwinds to a peaceful conclusion.

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Timothy Noon (b. 1974) is Director of Music at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand. He received his musical education as a chorister at Hereford Cathedral and subsequently as Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. Following appointments at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and Canterbury Cathedral, he became Organist and Master of the Choristers at St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, and then Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, before moving to his present position in 2011.