New Recordings

Santa Bárbara Bendita is my tribute to the mine, to Asturias, and to a shared cultural memory.   In this symphonic-choral project, I sought to transform one of the most powerful songs of our tradition into a larger form for orchestra, mixed choir, and miners’ choir, while preserving the truth and emotional weight of the […]

Please do yourself a treat and come hear the new demo recording, with voices of Cantamus, of David Avshalomov’s “Do You Believe in Angels?”. www.davidavshalomov.com/musical-works/Chorus. Scored for mature children’s or treble chorus and high strings. 9 minutes. An ecstatic, transcendently beautiful, melodious and harmonically rich setting, this lyrical work, first bright, then dark, finally luminous, […]

I am excited to share these spectacular World Premiere recordings of my settings of William Blake’s “The Tyger” and “The Lamb,” sung by Kari Turunen and the Vancouver Chamber Choir on Nov 28: https://youtu.be/kvDPtvKSygo. Choirs interested in obtaining scores of “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” for performance can visit Cypress Choral Music: https://cypresschoral.com/composers/david-rain/. Tyger, Tyger, […]

“Trittico Liquentiano” by Giorgio Susana is about the character, history and meaning of the river Livenza, which runs to the sea right next to the festival location of Venezia in Musica, the town of Caorle! https://www.ph-publishers.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=191&products_id=787 See for yourself how well the piece suits the river – just come to our festival! Dates: October 23 […]

I am delighted to offer to you this wonderful performance of my composition ‘Lord, Make Me An Instrument Of Thy Peace’ performed by Collegedale Adventist Church Choir and Southern Adventist University Choir, with orchestra. It was my great pleasure to visit them (just outside Chattanooga TN) and conduct them. What a great music programme this […]

new album released Karmina Šilec: STABAT MATER preformed by ensemble !Kebataola! STABAT MATER is inspired by Marie Guyart (1599–1672), known as the Mary of Incarnation. Marie was a wife, mother, nun, spiritual advisor, mystic, entrepreneur, colonialist, and the first female missionary outside Europe. She played a key role in spreading Catholicism in New France and […]