Artistic Director Vince Peterson commissioned inaugural Composer-in-Residence Jeffrey Parola to write an unaccompanied SATB piece for Choral Chameleon’s 2009 winter concert ‘Choose Something Like a Star’. Jeff’s setting of the Robert Frost poem, ‘Stars’ became an instant favorite of singers and audience alike and was performed as recently as our 2014 winter concert ‘Mysterium’. When Choral […]
New Recordings
New recording of The Beasts, a new opera for Christmas
The Beasts is a chamber opera in one act, scored for five male voices (two tenors, two baritones and a bass) and one soprano. (One of the tenor roles could easily be transposed up an octave and made another female role.) The orchestra is one violin, one viola, and one cello. The music and libretto is […]
New recording of O Magnum Mysterium by Tom Council
Here is a new recording of my O Magnum Mysterium for TTBB a cappella by the choir of Orthodox Theological Seminary in Bucharest. Listen and follow the score at Colla Voce Music (2nd recording) http://www.collavoce.com/catalog/item/o-magnum-mysterium-15-95960 Thank you.
Christmas in Medieval England (Live) (Blue Heron/Scott Metcalfe)
Christmas in Medieval England Recorded Live in Cambridge in 2013 Buy now (Bandcamp) > Sarum plainchant Angelus ad virginem Gabriel fram Heven-KingCarols: Hayl Mary, Ther is no rose of swych vertu, Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse, Ecce quod natura, Ave rex angelorum, Nowel syng we bothe al and som, Nova, Nova! Ave fit ex EvaJohn Dunstaple (d. […]
Exultate Chamber Singers releases new CD, “Winter Paths”
Exultate Chamber Singers of Toronto, celebrating their 35th season, proudly announces the release of a new CD, “Winter Paths,” featuring music for the Christmas season by Canadian composers, including Sirett, King, Snelgrove, Hatfield, Healey, Evans, Jeff Enns, Mizen, Patriquin, Henderson and Daley. In addition, the CD includes Morton Lauridsen’s choral cycle, “Mid-Winter Songs,” with collaborative pianist, Mark Ramsay. […]
CARMINA SLOVENICA: CD TOXIC PSALMS
CD TOXIC PSALMS Ultimate Collective experience … the true highlight is the singing … (Opera World) … electric in its musical style … (New York Times) … a sonically thrilling … (New York Music Daily) … jaw-droppingly gorgeous singing … (New York Observer) … an overwhelming aural and visual experience … (Theatre Mania) The almost sinister thought “I’ll tell you. You’re young, but you’re one […]