dear members of ACDA composer, I would like to invite you to discover the excellent Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir who has been recording a number of my pieces dedicated to the choir for some time now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhck1bhNheY&list=PLvbHlp1mVwIW2GDgR9qJ7V9z2FbPzKzv9 Jean-Christophe Rosaz http://www.jeanchristopherosaz.eu
HOPE for SAATB Chorus (2024) | Text by Emily Dickinson
HOPE was composed this year for a call for scores for the Atlanta Master Chorale. While it was not chosen, this brief, attractive, easy-to-perform choral work awaits a world premiere performance Click here to view and hear a scrolling score music video of HOPE on YouTube which was created using the NotePerformer sound engine. Click […]
Berkshire Choral Opens 2025 Apprentice Applications
Applications are open for Berkshire Choral International’s two free educational programs for undergraduate and graduate level music students. BCI’s Frank Nemhauser Apprentice Program is a free program designed for career-track singers and choral conductors enrolled in undergraduate or advanced degree programs. Apprentice opportunities in Summer 2025 include Amherst MA (Rob Istad conducting Haydn, Brahms, Runestad); […]
Musica International – Favorite Piece of November 2024
The Favorite Piece of Musica for November 2024 is “Shine, little light” by David Massong (Germany) published by Helbling Musikverlag KG in 2023.A soft piece for four voices, ideal to give a light of hope to those who doubt. Find all the details about this piece at https://www.musicanet.org/fr/cdc/202411/ Video illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZT5AuuLVXw Musica International is a […]
Melissa Dunphy in St. Louis
Philadelphia-based composer, Melissa Dunphy, travels to St. Louis (MO) for the first performance of her arrangement of “Hurt” by Trent Reznor. This exploration of drug addiction and psychological despair was a powerful song of its time (1994) and best known through interpretations by both Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash. The new version is scored […]
Wyandot’s Realm (Huron Carol) – by Andrew Balfour
The “Huron Carol” is Canada’s oldest Christmas song, written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Huron Tribe in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wyandat people; the song’s original Huron title is “Jesous Ahatonhia” (“Jesus, he is born”). The beloved carol has […]