Repertoire -- 2001-2002 to present

For another project I'm compiling the repertoire I've conducted. It's not complete information, but close and I'm putting it together in a different way. Interesting to look back to see what I've actually done!

Blogger did interesting things with formatting from MS Word, but I can live with that. I've started with the most recent period, after I left academic life as Director of Choral Activities and conductor of the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in 2001. More will come later.

Here goes:

2009-2010

October 4, 2009—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

Due Corale -- Ildebrando Pizzetti

Three Encounters (World Premiere) -- Trent Worthington

Choruses from ‘The Lark’ -- Leonard Bernstein

Special guests, “The Pre-Tenors”

October 9, 2009 – UNT Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra (period instruments)

Beatus Vir --  Antonio Vivaldi

November 10, 2009—UNT Chamber Choir

Jephte --  Carissimi

Figures de Danse -- Lionel Daunais

Five Hebrew Love Songs -- Eric Whitacre

Ave Maris Stella -- Otto Olsson

La-ba-lin-da -- Bruce Sled

November 20, 2009—UNT Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra (period instruments)

Missa Brevis in F (K. 192) -- Mozart

December 13, 2009—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

Besides carols, we commissioned and premiered a major new piece by Allan Bevan, Fowre Thowsand Wynter, for soprano soloist, narrator, choir, and chamber orchestra (about 35 minutes)

March 23, 2010—UNT Chamber Choir

Missa Quinta -- Orban

(besides these concerts, the UNT Chamber Choir also joined with other UNT choirs for Orff’s Carmina Burana in the fall and the Verdi Requiem in the spring, as well as providing the choir for one of the UNT DMA student’s recital)

April 2, 2010—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

Ein Deutsches Requiem -- Johannes Brahms

(in the version for piano four-hands)

(in the Spring I prepared the Collegium Singers for a performance of the Bach Mass in B Minor, conducted by Lyle Nordstrom)

2008-2009

September 29, 2008—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

3 Motets (Os justi, Ave Maria, Tota pulchra es Maria) -- Anton Bruckner

Mass in G Minor -- Ralph Vaughan Williams

Harmoniemesse -- F.J. Haydn

November 2, 2008—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

Figures de danse -- Lionel Daunais

Liebeslieder Walzer --  Johannes Brahms

An Angel Embraced Me (premiere) -- Trent Worthington

Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’ -- Benjamin Britten

Liebeslieder Polkas -- P.D.Q. Bach

Nov. 15 & 6, 2008 – Music Director and Conductor for a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Edmonton for the Festival of Ideas (part of the University of Alberta’s centennial) – all period-instrument orchestra from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, NY, and Ann Arbor – Ellen Hargis, stage director

December 13, 2008—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton, AB)

A variety of carols and Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata

January 25, 2009—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) --  One World, Many Voices

Music from around the world, both folk and world music

March 27, 2009—Exultate Chamber Choir (Toronto)

Mixed program with several premiere performances

April 10, 2009—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Good Friday Concert

Victoria Requiem

Rutter Requiem

April 14, 2009—Allegro Baroque (Spokane, WA)

Handel Messiah (complete with period instruments)

May 1 & 3—Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati

I shared a program with Brett Scott—repertoire was Bernstein’s Choruses from ‘The Lark’ Daunais’ Figure de danse, and Paul Crabtree’s 5 Romantic Miniatures from “The Simpsons”

May 19, 2009—CCM Chamber Choir, University of Cincinnati

I was guest teaching for 4 weeks at CCM and did a program with the Chamber Choir that included two Mendelssohn motets and Brahms Zigeunerlieder

2007-2008

September 30, 2007—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)  Haydn Mass Series V

Schöpfungsmesse -- F.J. Haydn

A Schubertiad (solo Lieder, works for women’s, men’s and mixed choir) -- Schubert

Due North -- Stephen Chatman

December 16, 2007—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)  A Pro Coro Christmas

A variety of carols and other music with guests Pro Coro Brass and members of three University choirs for Rutter’s Gloria

During 2008 I spent two periods of time in Sweden, preparing works for the Swedish Radio Choir and conducting their Spring Concert:

Week of January 21, 2008 – prepare Swedish Radio Choir for a program they will do jointly with the Latvian Radio Choir under Kaspars Putnins: Pizzetti Requiem, Penderecki Stabat Mater and Agnus Dei, Pärt The Beatitudes

Week of January 28 – prepare Radio Choir for Bach St. Matthew Passion for a Good Friday performance with the Radio Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Daniel Harding

Rachmaninov The Bells and numbers 1 & 3 of Three Russian Songs (op. 41), for a performance conducted by Jukka-Pekka Sarasate

February 24, 2008—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)                                                                                       One Earth, Many Voices

Biegga Luothe -- Jan Sandström

Songs of the British Isles (arr. Holst, Vaughan Williams, Quick, McGlynn)

Gamelan -- R. Murray Schafer

Set of French Canadian Folk Songs

Past Life Melodies -- Sarah Hopkins

Arrangements of Music by Piazzolla

Set of English Canadian Folk Songs

Three Spirituals (arr. Martin, Luboff)

March 9, 2008—The Seattle Bach Choir

I substituted for an ill friend, taking the last four rehearsals and a performance with the Seattle Bach Choir—mixed program (Brahms motet, Hawley Madrigals, etc.)

March 21, 2008—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Good Friday at the Winspear

3 works with Bass solo -- Pavel Chesnokov

All-Night Vigil -- Sergei Rachmaninov

Back to Sweden:

First week in April – prepare Radio Choir for Verdi Four Sacred Pieces, which they’ll do with their Chief Conductor, Peter Dijkstra in combination with the Netherlands Chamber Choir – also for repertoire the choir will do on their own for their tour in the Netherlands by Werle, Sandström, and Holten

Week of April 21 – begin preparation for the Spring concert and also for Brahms Requiem for a tour with Valeri Gergiev and the Rotterdam Philharmonic

May 9, 2008 – Guest conduct the Radio Choir for their Spring Concert, a lighter program shared with a Swedish jazz duo; Radio Choir sings British music (Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Stanford, etc.), two of John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals, and some traditional Swedish spring songs

2006-2007

I spent the fall quarter as Guest Professor at the University of Cincinnati, teaching and conducting the CCM Chorale. Most the semester was spent on Karel Husa’s An American Te Deum, which was performed with the Wind Symphony, Rodney Winther conducting. Then we performed on the CCM Feast of Carols program.

October 8, 2006—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Haydn Mass Series IV

Jeux de Cordes -- Lionel Daunais

Figures de Danse

Missa Quinta -- György Orbán

Heiligmesse -- F. J. Haydn

December 17, 2006—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Christmas

A variety of carols and other music with guests Jubiloso Handbell Choir and Caesar Zmyslowski, guitar

January 14, 2007—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Moving the Soul

Lobet den Herrn -- J.S. Bach

Four Eulogies -- John Estacio

Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine -- Eric Whitacre

Hymn to the Creator of Light -- John Rutter

Songs and Sonnets -- George Shearing

I was in Sweden from March 5-16, 2007 – prepared the Swedish Radio Choir for Wagner Parsifal (Valeri Gergiev, conductor); a cappella works by Sandström, Jennefelt, Olsson, Hillborg (for a tour with Peter Dijkstra); Beethoven Gloria and Sanctus from the Mass in C and the Choral Fantasy (for the Mostly Mozart Festival in NY); and Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (for a performance in Norrkoping)

April 6, 2007—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Good Friday at the Winspear

Nou goth sonne under wode -- Allan Bevan

Requiem -- Gabriel Faure

I was the first non-Canadian invited to conduct the National Youth Choir, which is a 40-voice group up to age 25 organized from across Canada. They rehearse intensively, then do a short tour which culminates in a performance at Podium, the every-two-year conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors:

May 8-21, 2006 – Canadian National Youth Choir Tour, British Columbia 
Der Geisthilft -- J.S. Bach 
Mass -- Frank Martin 
Figures de danse -- Lionel Daunais 
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine -- Eric Whitacre 
The Garden (premiere) -- Allan Bevan 
Alberta Cowboy Songs -- Trent Worthington

2005-2006

October 2, 2005—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Haydn Mass Series III

Veni Sancte Spiritus -- Michael Haydn

Pater Noster -- Jacob Handl

Pater Noster -- Franz Liszt

Os Justi -- Anton Bruckner

Missa Brevis -- Zoltan Kodaly

Maria Theresa Mass -- F.J. Haydn

October 22 & 23, 2005—Choral Arts (Seattle)

Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae -- Mäntyjärvi

All Night Vigil/Vespers -- Sergei Rachmaninoff

November 6, 2005 – Mid-America Productions, Carnegie Hall, NYC

Mass in Time of War -- F.J. Haydn

December 4, 2005—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Christmas

A variety of carols and other music with guests Jubiloso Handbell Choir and Cantillon Children’s Choirs

December 16, 17 & 18, 2005—Choral Arts (Seattle)—Christmas Concert                                                                                                                                  

Various, including Clausen’s Magnificat, Paulus’ Pilgrim’s Hymn, Holman’s Deck the Halls, and Walton’s All This Time.

January, 22, 2006—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)

God is Our Refuge (K. 20) -- Mozart

Canons:  O du eselhafter Peierl, / Ihr süsses Lied singt die Nachtigal

Misera, dove son!/Ah! Non son io che parlo (Soprano and orchestra)

Canons: Bona nox! Bist a rechte Ox / Leck mich / V’amo di core teneramente

Per Questa bella mano (Bass soloist, Double bass, and orchestra)

Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra

Coronation Mass

March 25 & 26, 2006—Choral Arts (Seattle) Farewell Concert

Crucifixus -- Antonio Lotti

Kyrie (from Cantus Missae, Op. 109) -- Gabriel Rheinberger

Warum ist das Licht gegeben? (Op. 74, no. 1) -- Johannes Brahms

Hymn to the Creator of Light -- John Rutter

The Best of Rooms -- Randall Thompson

Felices ter -- Randall Thompson

Antiphon -- Randall Thompson

Concerto for Choir (Movement I) -- Alfred Schnittke

Ave Maria (from Two Motets) -- Gottfrid Berg

Bogoroditse Devo (from the Vespers) -- Sergei Rachmaninoff

April 14, 2006—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Good Friday at the Winspear

Mass in B Minor -- J.S. Bach

2004-2005

September 18 & 19, 2004—Choral Arts (Seattle)  English Cathedral Splendors

Faire is the Heaven -- William Harris

Hymn of St. Columba -- Benjamin Britten

Antiphon

Magnificat, Op. 164 -- Charles Villiers Stanford

Nunc Dimittis -- Gustav Holst

Behold, the tabernacle of God -- Healy Willan

Rise up, My Love

A Hymn to the Mother of God -- John Tavener

Like as the Hart -- Herbert Howells

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale)

Hymn to the Creator of Light -- John Rutter

October 3, 2004—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)  Haydn Mass Series II

Then Farewell, World -- Allan Bevan

V prirode (5 Songs) -- Antonin Dvorak

Psalm 23 -- Antonin Dvorak

Five Hebrew Love Songs -- Eric Whitacre

Missa in tempore belli -- Franz Joseph Haydn

December 12, 2004—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Christmas

A variety of carols and other music with guests the Jubiloso Handbell Choir and Caesar Zmyslowski, guitar

December 17, 18, 19, 2004—Choral Arts (Seattle) Christmas Treasures

O Come, O Come Emmanuel -- arr. Shaw/Parker

Gabriel’s Message -- Eleanor Daley

Joseph, lieber, Joseph mein -- Michael Praetorius

Singet Frisch und Wohlgemuth -- Hugo Distler

The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem -- arr. Ralph Johnson

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day -- John Gardner

The Lamb -- John Tavener

O Magnum Mysterium -- Morten Lauridsen

I Saw Three Ships -- arr. Shaw/Parker

What Sweeter Music -- John Rutter

The Holly and the Ivy --  Jonathan Willcocks

Glory! -- Moses Hogan

March 25, 2005—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Good Friday at the Winspear

Exsultate, Jubilate -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode (World Premiere) -- Allan Bevan

Requiem -- Mozart

April 24, 2005—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Carmina Burana

Svadebka (Les Noces) -- Igor Stravinsky

Carmina Burana -- Carl Orff

May 14 & 15, 2005—Choral Arts (Seattle) American Voices

Concerto for Piano & Chorus, “The Twelve Months” -- Peter Schickele

Let us Move -- Mark O’Connor

Five Hebrew Love Songs -- Eric Whitacre

Five Romantic Miniatures from “The Simpsons” -- Paul Crabtree

Three American Folksongs -- Richard Nance

May 31, 2005—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Northern Connections

(concert shared with the Norwegian Solists Choir, cond. Grete Pedersen, Grete conducted combined choirs in the Nystedt and I conducted the Raminsh—the rest of the repertoire was conducted by me with Pro Coro only)

Canticum calamitatis maritimae -- Jaako Mäntyjärvi

Suite de Lorca, op. 72 -- Einojuhani Rautavaara

Ave Verum Corpus --  Imant Raminsh

Five Hebrew Love Songs -- Eric Whitacre

O Crux -- Knut Nystedt

June 2-5—Pro Coro Canada Northern Voices Festival and Tour in Toronto & Montreal

Independent Concerts, plus Gala Concert with Norwegian Soloists, Latvian Radio Choir, and Elora Festival Singers, Tonu Kaljuste conducting: Schafer Death of Shalana (premiere), Tavener Invocation (premiere), Gorecki Totus tuus, Rachmaninoff Vespers portion of All-Night Vigil

2003-2004

September 13 & 14, 2003—Choral Arts (Seattle) Americana

The Best of Rooms -- Randall Thompson

The Odes of Horace

Reincarnations -- Samuel Barber

Three Spirituals -- Moses Hogan

The Light of Stars -- Randall Thompson

Psalm 36 --Richard Nance

Two Herbert Settings -- Randall Thompson

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen -- arr. Shaw/Parker

Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair -- arr. Norman Luboff

Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal -- arr. Alice Parker

Alleluia -- Randall Thompson

September 28, 2003—Pro Coro Canada  Haydn Mass Series I

Der Geisthilft -- Bach

In the Night We Shall Go In -- Imant Raminsh

Smile, O Voluptous, Cool-Breathed Earth

Ave Verum Corpus

Nelson Mass -- Franz Josef Haydn

December 14, 2003—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Christmas

A variety of carols and other music, including the premiere of a new work by Allan Gilliland

December 19, 20, 21, 2003—Choral Arts (Seattle)  A Choral and Organ Holiday

Various carols and Christmas works

February 1, 2004—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Magic Songs

Warum ist das Licht gegeben -- Johannes Brahms

Magic Songs -- R. Murray Schafer

Ella Sunlight -- John Estacio

Soldier’s Cry -- Trent Worthington

Sept Chansons -- Francis Poulenc

Then Farewell World -- Allan Bevan

Cowboy Songs -- Trent Worthington

February 14 & 15, 2004—Choral Arts (Seattle) Roses in Winter

Sept Chansons -- Francis Poulenc

Alnight by the Rose -- Karen Thomas

Go, Lovely Rose -- Halsey Stevens

Five Hebrew Love Songs -- Eric Whitacre

Six Madrigals -- William Hawley

Liebeslieder Polkas -- P.D.Q. Bach

February 29, 2004 Gala Concert for Canadian Voices Festival in Toronto

Tonu Kaljuste, conducting PC, Elmer Iseler Singers, Elora Festival Singers, Studio de Musique Ancienna de Montreal, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, & Vancouver Chamber Choir in: Nystedt Miserere, and the World Premiere of R. Murray Schafer’s The Fall into Light – Pro Coro also did its own program with works selected from the 2-1 program

April 9, 2004—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Passion & Resurrection

O sacrum convivium! -- Olivier Messiaen

Ubi caritas -- Maurice Duruflé

Passion and Resurrection -- Ivan Moody

2002-2003

September 29, 2002—Pro Coro Canada

Mass for a New Millennium -- Richard Nance

Two Setting from ”In Memoriam Leonard Bernstein” -- Srul Irving Glick

 Chichester Psalms -- Leonard Bernstein

November 11-15, 2002 – Swedish Radio Choir, Stockholm, Sweden

Madrigali -- Morten Lauridsen

Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine -- Eric Whitacre

Le pont mirabeau -- Lionel Daunais

December 8, 2002—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Family Christmas

A variety of carols and other music, including Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata and the premiere of a new work commissioned for Pro Coro by Allan Bevan.

 

January 18 & 19, 2003—Choral Arts (Seattle) Tenth Anniversary Concert

Kyrie (from Cantus Missae) -- Gabriel Rheinberger

Crucifixus -- Antonio Lotti

Ave Maria -- Gottfrid Berg

Bogoroditse Devo (from the All-Night Vigil) -- Sergei Rachmaninoff

Madrigali -- Morten Lauridsen

Movement IV from Concerto for Choir -- Alfred Schnittke

Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine -- Eric Whitacre

Le pont mirabeau -- Lionel Daunais

Londonderry Air -- arr. Percy Grainger

Kung Liljekonvalje -- David Wikander

O jungfrun hon går i ringen -- Hugo Alfvén

Deep River -- arr. Norman Luboff

March 16, 2003 – Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton)

Svyati -- John Tavener

All-Night Vigil -- Sergei Rachmaninoff

April 18, 2003—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Music of Consolation

Phoenix -- Peter Hallock

Lenten Motets -- Francis Poulenc

Organ Concerto (Jeremy Spurgeon, Organist) -- Francis Poulenc

Requiem -- Maurice Duruflé

2001-2002

October 7, 2001—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) From Bach and Brahms to Jazz

Komm, Jesu, Komm -- J.S. Bach

Warum ist das Licht gegeben --  Johannes Brahms

Faire is the Heaven -- William H. Harris

Four Alberta Folksongs -- arr. Trent Worthington (premiere—cond. by arranger)

Raua needmine (The Curse of Iron) -- Veljo Tormis

Songs and Sonnets -- George Shearing

October 20 & 21, 2001—Choral Arts (Seattle) A Tribute to James Holloway

Der Geisthilft unsrer Schwachheit auf -- J.S. Bach

Warum ist das Licht gegeben -- Johannes Brahms

Faire is the Heaven -- William H. Harris

Fancies -- Sven-Eric Johanson

Hymn to the Creator of Light -- John Rutter

Requiem -- Herbert Howells

Two excerpts from ‘Music to Hear’ -- George Shearing

It Was a Lover and His Lass -- P.D.Q. Bach

November 2, 2001 – Alberta University Honour Choir, Edmonton, Alberta 
Come, Mighty Father, Mighty Lord (from Theodora) -- G.F. Handel 
Tristis est anima mea -- Johann Kuhnau 
Nunc Dimittis -- Gustav Holst 
Silverly -- Bruce Ruddell 
Le pont Mirabeau -- Lionel Daunais 
I’m Gonna Sing ‘til the Spirit Moves my Heart -- Moses Hogan

December 9, 2001—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) A Pro Coro Family Christmas

A variety of carols and other music

December 21 & 22, 2001—Choral Arts (Seattle) A Choral Arts Christmas

Lo, How a Rose -- arr. Daniel Gawthrop

O Come, All Ye Faithful -- arr. Jackson Berkey

Sweet was the Song -- arr. René Clausen

Lux Aurumque -- Eric Whitacre

Jing-ga-lye-ya -- Bruce Sled

El Rorro -- arr. Jeffrey Van

Silent Night -- arr. Jeffrey Van

Joseph, lieber Joseph mein! -- Johan Walther

Singet Frisch und Wohlgemuth -- Hugo Distler

Rockin’ Jerusalem -- Robert Morris

Ave Maris Stella -- Bror Samuelson

Jeg er saa glad -- arr. Paul Christiansen

Magnificat -- Richard Nance

Away in A Manger. -- arr. Jeffrey Van

Jul, Jul, Strålande Jul! -- Gustaf Nordqvist

Welcome, Yule! -- C. Hubert Parry

Still, Still, Still -- arr. Norman Luboff

Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King -- Moses Hogan

January 27, 2002—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Carmina Burana

Blessed -- Allan Gilliland (commissioned work—premiere)

Hesperides (choir and 2 harps) Malcolm Forsyth

Carmina Burana (version for 2 pianos & percussion)-- Carl Orff

March 2 & 3, 2002—Choral Arts (Seattle) Schnittke Choir Concerto

Svyati -- John Tavener

Phoenix -- Peter Hallock

Concerto for Choir -- Alfred Schnittke

March 29, 2002—Pro Coro Canada (Edmonton) Music of Consolation

Requiem -- Herbert Howells

Requiem -- John Rutter

Requiem -- Gabriel Fauré

May 4 & 5, 2002—Choral Arts (Seattle) Spring Concert

Leonardo & His Flying Machine -- Eric Whitacre

trees -- Lars Johan Werle

Insalata Italiana -- arr. Genée

Songs & Sonnets -- George Shearing