Rising star Armenian-British composer and pianist Kristina Arekelyan is the winner of the 2010 BBC Proms Young Composers Competition. She completed her PhD in Composition at King’s College London where she was a student of Joseph Fort. Her compositions have already been featured on the BBC Proms and she has collaborated with the BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. For the ensemble’s first recording conducted by Joseph Fort, the Choir of King’s College London presents an album dedicated to works for Christmas by Arekelyan. The centerpiece A Christmas Offering is a ten-movement work for choir and harp and was written as a companion piece for Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Nine additional seasonal choral selections complete the album, five of which include piano accompaniment by the composer.