New Recordings

The Choir of Somerville College, one of the best mixed-voice choirs in the University of Oxford, is proud to announce the release of its new album ‘REQUIEM AETERNAM’ (Stone Records 5060192780208), a recording of two works written in 1947 as a response to World War II: Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem (version for choir, organ and cello) […]

Greetings, I am happy to present you with my composition for SSAATB choir and cello solo and would be interested in your impressions on it. “Whom My Soul Loveth” was composed on the Hebrew Biblical text of Song of Songs 3, 1 and commissioned in 2009 by Kammerchor Aachen in Germany. In case you find this work fitting […]

http://tonusperegrinus.1equalmusic.com/Details/618?Title=music-from-the-eton-choirbook   ALLMUSIC August 2012 on music from the Eton Choirbook: “This exemplary album by the British chamber choir TONUS PEREGRINUS, led by its founder Antony Pitts, includes seven works of Renaissance polyphony and plainchant from the surviving 64 pieces from the Eton Choirbook, which dates from around 1500. It’s a mixed ensemble rather than the choir of men […]

This past Sunday I made a video of the recent great performance by the Cascadian Chorale of my choral setting of my father’s poem, “And the Wind.”  Gary Cannon is conducting.  The URL for the video is:  http://youtu.be/R1nmlpL8_Lg   “And the Wind” is the third of “Three Gnostic Poems,” a group of three works setting […]

Dear colleagues:  I have a new website that includes audio clips of most of my music: kirkemechem.com. Communications to me should be by email () rather than Facebook. Thanks. –Kirke Mechem.

Click to watch the video:    WILLIAM BYRD – AVE VERUM CORPUS                                                                                       […]