New Publications

David Baker’s “World of Small” features very tender text and fashions a striking portrait of British Columbia’s most famous painter. Dr. Larry Nickel has written a wonderful choral arrangement of this beautiful piece. Enjoy! Available at Cypress Choral Music Publishing https://cypresschoral.com/composers/larry-nickel/world-of-small/

The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) has organized four international choral composition competitions since this project was created in 2010. The aim of these competitions is to promote the creation and distribution of new, innovative, and accessible choral repertoire. IFCM announces its Fifth International Competition for Choral Composition to promote new works in choral music […]

Twas The Night Before Christmas   Brad Ross, composer, says: “I was in an antique shop and there was an old pamphlet sitting on a table with a big happy illustration of Santa on the cover. I opened it up and started to read it to myself. (It had been a while since I had […]

Dr. Larry Nickel has written another beautiful piece to words of hope by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Night Shall Be Filled with Music” features long singable lines in sweet spot vocal registers. Enjoy! Available at Cypress Choral Music Publishing https://cypresschoral.com/composers/larry-nickel/night-shall-be-filled-with-music-2/

I’m happy to announce that there is now a piano/vocal arrangement of Genesis, a dynamic setting of five chapters from the bible that uniquely casts them in the first-person. e.g. Creation is from God’s POV; the story of Eden is from the Serpent’s and The Tower of Babel from the workers. The piece in it’s […]

On September 30, 2021, I sold my first 5 copies of the Christmas Cantata! It’s called “New Wine in Old Wineskins – Ten Christmas Carols Set to New Tunes” Anyone who purchases 5 copies of “Old Wine in New Wineskins” in either the Print version or the Electronic Version, has permission to reproduce as many […]