[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] When a nervous singer turns up to your choir or someone comes to your singing workshop who’s never sung in public before, it’s all too easy for th...

A recent performance of my "O magnum mysterium" with vocal ensemble sirventes berlin under the direction of Stefan Schuck. It is available through my website at http://cschurch.net/en/compositions/choir/o-magnum-mysterium/ and will be published by Carus-V...  moreA recent performance of my "O magnum mysterium" with vocal ensemble sirventes berlin under the direction of Stefan Schuck. It is available through my website at http://cschurch.net/en/compositions/choir/o-magnum-mysterium/ and will be published by Carus-Verlag in July 2016. Program Note: It is difficult to follow with (yet) another setting of this famous text that has inspired so many composers over the centuries. In my attempt, “O magnum mysterium” returns three times after the first statement, in a similar gesture but each time shifted to a new tonality with even more flats. Thus, the listener gets ever more pulled into this magnificient text until the piece culminates in a jubilant “Alleluia” in C-major, having come full-circle back to very first harmony we heard. Choralnet.com Silver Platter Award Winner  less

Sergey Khvoshchinsky Text: Corinthians,13 Choral piece for Soprano solo and choir a cappella. Text: Corinthians, 13 Performed by From Age to Age. "Right now three things remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love".

The Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers (EURS) has a new director. Rory Wilson, an experienced choral conductor from Edinburgh, has been appointed and has begun work with the choir towards our first concert under his direction in November 2018, b...  moreThe Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers (EURS) has a new director. Rory Wilson, an experienced choral conductor from Edinburgh, has been appointed and has begun work with the choir towards our first concert under his direction in November 2018, based around the Fire Songs of Morten Lauridsen, pairing his settings with settings of the same or similar texts by Renaissance composers.  

Cantores Celestes Women's choir Kelly Galbraith, Director Concert: Dec 2, 2017 www.cantorescelestes.com

Score (for the original higher voice setting in The European Sacred Music book) https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/4422853?aff_id=175705 Lotti's 8 part setting of the Crucifixus sung by the dwsChorale, transposed down for men's voices Crucifixus ...  moreScore (for the original higher voice setting in The European Sacred Music book) https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/4422853?aff_id=175705 Lotti's 8 part setting of the Crucifixus sung by the dwsChorale, transposed down for men's voices Crucifixus etiam pro nobis; sub Pontio Pilato passus et sepultus est. Translation He was crucified also for us, under Pontius Pilate he suffered and was buried.  

12th International Chamber choir Competition Marktoberdorf, Germany, www.modfestivals.org; June 10-15, 2011; Live recording; This is a service of Choral Festival Network www.choralfestivalnetwork.org; Competition Round 2, June 12

Sung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977 Here the strong mallow strikes her slimy root, Here the dull night-shade hangs her deadly fruit; On hills of dust the henbane's faded green, and pencill'd flower of sickly scent is seen; He...  moreSung by us at a singing course in Nottingham in 1977 Here the strong mallow strikes her slimy root, Here the dull night-shade hangs her deadly fruit; On hills of dust the henbane's faded green, and pencill'd flower of sickly scent is seen; Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom, Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume. At the wall's base the fiery nettle springs, With fruit globose and fierce with poison'd stings; In every chink delights the fern to grow, With glossy leaf and tawny bloom below: The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spread Partake the nature of their fenny bed. These, with our sea-weeds, rolling up and down, form the contracted flora of our town.  less

Orpheus Chamber Singers, a professional adult mixed choir, was founded with the express purpose of providing exceptional performances of traditional and innovative chamber choral music from the past six centuries. Since our first concert in 1995, Orpheus ...  moreOrpheus Chamber Singers, a professional adult mixed choir, was founded with the express purpose of providing exceptional performances of traditional and innovative chamber choral music from the past six centuries. Since our first concert in 1995, Orpheus has presented a multi-concert subscription series each year to great critical acclaim. Orpheus has performed throughout the Dallas-fort Worth area at venues including the regional conference of the American Choral Directors Association, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Kimbell Museum of Art, UT-Southwestern Medical Center, Children’s Medical Center-Dallas, and numerous public schools. Collaborations over its 30-year history have included Ars Lyrica Houston, Gramophone Award-winning Baroque scholar John Butt, Texas Camerata, jazz pianist Eric Barnes, hand drummer and international percussionist Jamal Mohamed, tanpura player Vatsal Dave, and many other outstanding instrumentalists. Founding Artistic Director Donald Krehbiel retired from Orpheus after 27 seasons w...    less

"Baba Yetu" choir at the II competion of youth choirs. Nettuno (Italy), november 2014