Music

Seven short pieces united by a four-note motif, to go with Victoria Field’s poetry on Chalk & Flint, inspired by the landscape of the Cross-Channel Geopark. We performed them twice in Samphire Hoe.

The melody of 'O Vis Aeternitatis' by Hildegard of Bingen I performed live in St. Peter's Church Canterbury UK on 27 October 2023 on soprano saxophone with backing track. Poetry by Victoria Field after Hildegard's lyrics.

O Roma Nobilis – A Pilgrim’s Progress is a cycle of poems and music designed for sacred spaces, created by Victoria Field and Eduard Heyning. It has been performed in September 2022 in St Martin's Church, Canterbury; St Mary’s Church, Patrixbourne; St Margaret’s Church, Womenswold; St Andrew’s Church, Shepherdswell; and in St Mary’s Church, Dover, as part of the Kent Pilgrims' Festival, and at the Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, Cornwall, for the Falmouth Poetry Group.  

The poetry and poetic prose were drawn on historic texts such as the account of Archbishop Sigeric’s journey in the tenth century from Canterbury to Rome along the Via Francigena, the 12^th century poem O Roma Nobilis, as well as other pilgrim literature such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The music reflected the words, the way, the walk, by weaving together the melody of O Roma Nobilis with other songs of seeking and searching, from medieval music, latin-american, cool jazz to hard rock.

Seven short pieces for clarinet/saxophone and Sibelius sampler on the phases of the moon for an online event of poetry and music on 28 January 2021: AT THE RISING OF THE MOON.

In February 2020 I performed seven musical meditations at a poetry reading by Derek Sellen, Mary Anne Smith and Victoria Field, at Rochester Cathedral UK. Under lockdown I recreated the music at home. 

Music & poetry by Victoria  Field  &  Eduard  Heyning.

We've made a set of twelve poems and songs for the Remembrance of World War I November 1918 Armistice. It was live performed in St. John's Church, Notting Hill, with the artwork of Lillie Pirvellie, and in St. Stephen's Church, Canterbury, in November 2018.