Secular Unaccompanied Concert Music

The Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey is now marked with cemeteries; particularly striking are the graves of Australian and New Zealand infantry which are marked with epitaphs provided by the families

The poem by noted author Nathan Brown provides a wealth of musical inspiration which the composer tapped into for this choral setting. Using text painting, this loosely forms a musical shape that parallels

In this fragment from Christina Rossetti's poem Mirage, the poet commands her breaking heart to "lie still and break," the grief of a lost love changing her life and the world forever. This

This beautiful a cappella arrangement was commissioned by Cantus for their album A Harvest Home. Written as a companion piece to the setting of Simple Gifts, this arrangement sounds traditionally

The iconic poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is set here in a lilting and gentle composition that may be performed by an ensemble or by a full choir. Peaceful, serene, and comforting, this was commissioned by

A nonsense song which allows for simple staging where the singers make the nonsense syllables into a language which only they can understand. They may be argumentative, friendly, confrontational,

This work is an a cappella SATB divisi unaccomapnied setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The text remembers a departed friend through the seasons of the year. All of nature's elements are in

The third movement from a set of four contrasting memorial dances for unaccompanied mixed chorus. The touching text by Emily Dickinson is set to music in the form of an expressive sarabande. Suite

This is the central movement of Angel of Light, a cantata based on Shaker themes; however, this particular movement is not sacred at all. Employing a Shaker tune with vocables, this piece takes the

The first movement from a set of four contrasting memorial dances for unaccompanied mixed chorus. The text by Nathaniel Schlott is paired with music in the form and feel of a rather jaunty saltarello,

The second movement from a set of four contrasting memorial dances for unaccompanied mixed chorus. The text, from Isaiah 40, is set to a courtly gavotte in a minor modality. Suite Remembrance,