Commissions
In 2020, Emmanuel Music embarked on a new series of motet commissions from composers John Harbison, Yehudi Wyner, Kati Agócs, and Jonathan Bailey Holland to perform at BachFest Leipzig alongside a work by Omar Najmi. Commissioned motets have now become part of the annual cycle of motets presented in our Sunday services at Emmanuel Church; they are designed to reflect on the themes of the weekly cantata and to connect past and present. Since the start of this series we have commissioned and premiered over 25 new works.