A New Carol for our time has seen the light! Christmas as it once started out: with three refugees! Today we have millions. Composer Fredrik Sixten says: “I saw the need of a song that can relate to this great tragedy that occurs in front of our eyes while we soon are celebrating Christmas. New […]
New Publications
New SATB Title by Anthony Kouri Williams from Colla Voce Music
Click the cover image to listen to and view the score in its entirety. NEW RELEASE: “Beyond This Day”, by Anthony Kouri Williams, is a simple, straight-forward composition with a deep, not-so-simple message. Written in the style of a folk hymn or spiritual, the repeating harmonic patterns and short melodic motives make this work accessible […]
“Musica Sacra a Roma”
7th Musica Eterna International Choir Festival & Competition (link) Please find attached the interview made with Piroska Horváth, project director of meeting music, which was published in the Italian “Cronache Corali” (Choral Chronicle). Piroska talked to Rita Nuti and Dodo Versino about how was born the idea of Musica Eterna Roma. For further inspiration […]
*NEW RELEASE* Ave Maris Stella (SSAA a cappella) – FREE – with demo video
Hello from Down Under! Here’s my new setting of Ave Maris Stella, in which sections of newly-composed chordal material alternate with passages of the original plainsong. No divisi – no staggered breathing – will therefore be quite workable for a quartet. Overall, the piece is direct and uncomplicated. The text remains the primary focus, and I’m […]
O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM – SA and string quartet
Hello conductors and ChoralNet users, my new setting of O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM for SA and String Quartet is now available at Alliance Music Pub. Have a look and order HERE The previous SA version was with piano and Cello. Listen HERE The original setting was for SATB, a cappella. Listen HERE […]
A Choral Response/Expression to “Laudato si” – Be Praised My Lord by Teresa Cobarrubia Yoder
Be Praised My Lord (2015) by Teresa Cobarrubia Yoder is a prayerful expression and musical response to Pope Francis’ encyclical on ecology, Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home (June 18, 2015). The lyrics, derived from the encyclical’s title, are from St. Francis of Assisi’s poem and prayer, “Canticle of the Creatures/Sun” – God is praised for all […]