Ren� Clausen and Stephen Paulus are two of the biggest names in American choral music of the last few decades. Clausen is best known as the Artistic Director of the annual Concordia Christmas Concerts, and as an outstanding teacher and conductor. Paulus has composed more than 600 works - from operas and large-scale oratorios to accessible arrangements of carols and folk songs. He was the first American composer to write for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge. In the singers of Royal Holloway Choir both composers find worthy new champions.