Edwin Hillier who matriculated at Christ's in 2007, wrote a new composition for the College Choir to sing at the Annual College Advent Carol service.  Edwin, who studies composition with Giles Swayne, chose words of the celebrated poet Iris Murdoch, to set to music:

December

‘When the dark hawberries hang down and drip like blood

And the old man's beard has climbed up high in the wood                             

And the golden bracken has been broken by the snows                                         

And Jesus Christ has come again to heal and pardon,                                     

Then the little Robin follows me through the garden,                                           

In the dark days his breast is like a rose’

The setting is for full choir, soprano solo and oboe. The soloist for the premiere performance was Rachel Thomas and the oboeist was Alex Shannon.