Welcome to Wheatsheaf, a non-profit publishing house for modern Catholic music.
Our music is designed to be versatile according to your community’s needs and resources, equally at home with guitar accompaniment or organ and four-part choir.
To help you in your choice of music, sample PDF files and audio clips accompany most of the pieces available for sale. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash installed to view/hear these files.
Chris (CJ) Olding has been a church musician for over twenty five years, serving as organist, cantor or musical director at a number of parishes in south Hampshire and London, UK. He also spent five years as a chorister, organist and assistant to the Master of Music at St Marie’s Cathedral, Sheffield. Chris is currently an organist and a Musical Co-ordinator at St Bede’s church, Basingstoke.
Chris is a proficient accompanist, pianist and guitarist. He also composes organ and liturgical vocal music in both traditional and, increasingly, contemporary styles. Chris specialises in developing small choirs and music groups and encouraging reluctant congregations to sing!
I’ve been composing for over fifteen years, but only when attending a recent stewardship course did I think about making my work available. I was struck by the parable of the talents (Matthew 25) – a reminder that as Christians, our gifts come from God and we are called to share them in his service.