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

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 and to encourage innovation in choral writing which fits the needs of a 21st-century choir. We are looking for compositions that combine originality, imagination, and creativity within the context of contemporary global themes.

Rules and Regulations

Deadline for applications is 15 January 2022.

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

NIGHT SHALL BE FILLED WITH MUSIC

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 full orchestration is for soloists, chorus, brass & percussion and is going to be released by Edition Peters next year. It can be performed as a whole or as individual movements. For a perusal score and live recording, please contact me. I guarantee it will blow the roof off of your venue – figuratively, that is.

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 copies as you need for performance of the work by your organization.  With this purchase you also have permission, royalty free, to record, reproduce and sell or give away copies of the performance to people in your organization. (Church, school, club etc.)

Five copies (minimum order) costs $105. I receive 50% of the payment for every digital sale of 5 copies ($52.50) and 25% of the payment for every printed sale of 5 copies. ($26.25). For every sale, my wife and I have decided to donate 50% of what we receive ($26.50 digital and $13.16 printed) to Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit that invites people to come in and pack meals that are sent all over the world to help the hungry. Learn more about them at
http://fmsc.org

If you would like to see and hear the cantata, it is at
https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/welcome.jsp
and in the search bar type kemppainen

If you click the little page icon under the word “preview”
you and both see and hear the score, though you have
to scroll to keep up with the music.
There is also a pause button if you wish to stop and read the Christmas carol histories.