Secular Choral

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America the Beautiful for SATB choir a cappella or with optional accompaniment

This new, original setting of America the Beautiful reflects a wide range of emotions including drama, passion, and tenderness. Although the melody and harmonies are new, there are deliberate echoes of the well-known hymn by Samuel A. Ward.


Endymion for SATB or SSAA choir and piano or string orchestra

This is a setting of the Oscar Wilde poem “Endymion” based on a story from Greek mythology of a beautiful shepherd boy who captures the affection of the moon goddess, Selene.


If We Were A Movie for SSAA voices a cappella with optional body percussion

An SSAA a cappella arrangement of the super catchy song If We Were A Movie from Disney’s Hannah Montana.


Someone To Watch Over Me for SSAA choir, a cappella

My arrangement of the Gershwin classic for SSAA voices a cappella. It remains faithful to the standard version with a few tweaks of my own.


Sonnet 73 for SSA choir and piano

This is a setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 for treble voices (SSA) and piano. “That time of year thou mayst in me behold…”


Three Northumbrian Folk Songs for SSA choir, a cappella

These are arrangements of three folk songs from the northeastern region of England: The Water of Tyne, Bonny at Morn, & Bobby Shaftoe. They may be sung as a set or individually.