choral music for 
​         minds, bodies, spirits

New Publication & New Recording
​DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS
Exciting news!   Santa Barbara Music Publishing has selected my setting of Down by the Salley Gardens as their "featured new release" for March 2023.

Below, you can hear Ensemble Altera's entrancing rendition of the beloved Irish folksong.  They are fantastic at creating an atmosphere!  
If you don't already know about the up-and-coming Ensemble Altera and their immensely talented director, Christopher Lowrey, I hope you'll check them out.  Awesome!
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New Recording & New Music: 
​SONG OF MY HEART
Ensemble Altera has also recorded a lush and transporting performance of my new choral song cycle, Song of My Heart.  

Years back, I became captivated by the story of Elizabeth Wright Shippee, a Wheaton student in the 1930s who wrote poems in the woodlands near her family's farm in Foster, RI.  Elizabeth's celebration of nature's cycles of life and death, Song of My Heart, becomes poignantly bittersweet in the context of her premature death by car crash at age 21, as she and friends drove home from a Boston Symphony concert. 

Inspired by Elizabeth's poetry, I chose four of her nature poems to set for choir, flute and piano. The work has become of song of my own heart, and  I invite you to enjoy Ensemble Altera's evocative rendition. 
As you can see from the recording session photos, these works can be performed by chamber choirs as well as larger groups.