Three Brand-New Choral Works to Celebrate Love and Human Connection Imagine this: One day you receive a digital book with three brand-new scores, ready to be performed for the very first time in history. Three exclusive choral works — one fast, one moderate, and one slow — thoughtfully crafted to be easy to prepare, emotionally […]
NaperVoice begins its fourth season and invites new paid and volunteer singers and paid interns to audition
NaperVoice, Naperville’s unique philanthropic choir, is set to begin its fourth season in September 2025. Philip Spencer, a graduate of the Yale University School of Music, is the Founding Conductor. In its first three seasons the choir, comprised of 36 singers from more than 20 Chicago-area communities, performed six sold-out concerts and donated over $15,000 […]
TAKE A SMILE for SSA chorus and piano by Ivo Antognini
Dear conductor, I’m happy to announce that my new piece “TAKE A SMILE” on a poem by Gandhi is now available at Edition ICOT. It’s a five minutes piece for treble voices (SSA with some divisi) and piano. Giving someone a smile is something very simple, but how often do we do this? Love should […]
The Choral Director’s Toolbox This Week
In Episode 24 of The Choral Director’s Toolbox, host Dr. William Baker reflects on The Predicament of Beethoven, sharing insights into the composer’s life, suffering, and faith as revealed through his music. Drawing from major biographies and personal letters, Dr. Baker explores how Beethoven’s deafness, illness, and isolation shaped both his human journey and his sacred vocation as a composer. This […]
“The Song of the Star” at Marktoberdorf
Hi everyone I wanted to share with you a recent performance of my piece “The Song of the Star” with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie under the direction of Florian Helgath. It was sung at the opening concert of the famour choir competition in Marktoberdorf, Germany. Towards the end, the piece features a passage where the audience […]
9 New Compositions Added to the PROJECT : ENCORE Contemporary Choral Catalog
We are proud to announce this quarter’s choral compositions accepted into the PROJECT : ENCORE Catalog of Contemporary Choral Music: Kites by D cGeoffrey Bell The Risk of Birth by Tara Mack * Peace Trilogy by Edward David Messerschmidt* Ave Maria by Patti Drennan Psalm 100 by Joseph Eckman Ekklesia by Michael Markowski * O […]