Sacred Choral Concert Music

Commissioned as a contemporary response to Thomas Tallis' Latin anthem Loquebantur variis linguis, this a cappella anthem uses verses from the Psalms to pick up on the theme of many tongues

Using the traditional Latin text, this modern a cappella concert work for divisi treble choir expresses the thought "Look to the light and you will never see the shadows."

Featuring a bittersweet text filled with hope and sadness by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Black American son of emancipated slaves, this arrangement draws on spiritual, gospel, and blues styles to create a

This piece takes William Byrd's famous motet and reimagines it for three unaccompanied choirs. Using plainsong against canon and dense layering that gives it an ancient texture, this challenging selection

A VOCES8 a cappella setting of Gabriel Faure's famous Pie Jesu, taken from his Requiem. In this arrangement, the famous melody is framed at the start and end by atmospheric plainsong.

Written primarily for the an anthology of Scandinavian music, this piece evolves calmly but with a strong momentum in a large dramatic arc across its three-part structure. With clear part-writing and

For treble voices and piano, this setting of the first verse of the original Ubi Caritas plainsong in Latin and English begins in unison and expands to independent vocal lines that both complement

This piece has a dance-like feel and lilt to it, both in the lyric writing and the switching between a duple and triple feel in the 6/8 meter.

A reflection on Thomas Tallis' Te lucis ante terminum. In each verse the Latin is sung in strict two-part canon: first in the tenor and bass, then in the soprano and alto, and finally in the alto

This is one of the two motets in a contemporary response to Zarlino's treatise Le istitutioni harmoniche. This work uses text from the communion antiphon but may be sung throughout the year for

Composed using both Latin and English, Psalm 100 was co-commissioned by Texas Tech University Choir and the Iowa State Singers. Concise and filled with hope, it seeks to fuse the craft and savor of

The timeless prayer by Saint Francis of Assisi is treated with reverence and musical mastery in this classic setting. Also available in TTBB.