Video Information

• Choir: Boston Children's Chorus
• Piece: Finding A Home
• Composer:  Sydney Guillaume
• Conductor:  Sydney Guillaume
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   sydneyguillaume.com/produ...  
• Genres: Folk/Ethnic, Contemporary, Haitian
• Premier Choir and Young Men's Ensemble of the Boston Children's Chorus present "Finding A Home" by Sydney Guillaume. The world premiere of this piece was at our Lift Every Voice: At The Table virtual concert on Sunday, May 30, 2021. Our singers composed t...  morePremier Choir and Young Men's Ensemble of the Boston Children's Chorus present "Finding A Home" by Sydney Guillaume. The world premiere of this piece was at our Lift Every Voice: At The Table virtual concert on Sunday, May 30, 2021. Our singers composed this piece with Sydney Guillaume as part of our Opus Nuovo initiative. Watch the full concert at live.bostonchildrenschorus.org.
  
  About Opus Nuovo:
  This season, we launched an ongoing commissioning project as a commitment to a diverse and inclusive approach to choral programming. Through this innovation, we are seeking to broaden the landscape of the choral repertoire for both student and professional choirs. Over the next three years, our singers will collaborate with ten global composers to facilitate the creation of a collection of new choral works which, aligned with BCC’s vision of cultural equity, represent a truly diverse spectrum of global musical styles and approaches. This season, our upper choir singers worked with Jazzmeia Horn, Sydney Guillaume, and Layth Sidiq to produce three new works for the BCC Opus Nuovo composition initiative; Lower choir singers collaborated with composer Omar Shahryar in a student-led songwriting project.
  
  About Sydney Guillaume:
  Praised by the Miami Herald for their “impressive maturity and striking melodic distinction”, Sydney Guillaume’s compositions are known to be intricate, challenging, and yet highly spirited. They promote human values and are full of heart and passion. His compositions continually enthrall choirs everywhere and have been performed around the world. They have been featured at numerous conferences and international festivals like the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the World Choir Games, and Ireland’s Cork International Choral Festival. He is an active member of the choral community as a composer, singer, clinician, and conductor. In 2017, he was honored by the top music school in Haiti for his “great contribution in the expansion and the promot...    less