Dominick DiOrio

Trailblazers have mapped the course of American music as much as American history. The Houston Chamber Choir opens their season with a gathering of these singular voices from the dearly loved Spirituals and folksongs of Stephen Foster to “Clapping Music” by pioneer Steve Reich and “Fly Away I” by the brilliant young composer Caroline Shaw, a Shepherd School graduate and Pulitzer Prize-winner. Also featuring my work, I Am, for mixed chorus and soprano on a text of Mary Elizabeth Frye.

Simon Carrington leads a group of conducting fellows in a concert with the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Choral Conducting Workshop Choir, including a performance of my work We Dance! for a cappella chorus (with added djembe!).

American conductors Kimberly Dunn Adams (Western Michigan University, USA) and Dominick DiOrio (Indiana University, USA) present a session on American choral music of the 20th and 21st century featuring a curated collection of works in diverse styles by living composers.  Notable composers featured in the session will include Ysaye Barnwell, Abbie Betinis, Chen Yi, David Conte, Shawn Crouch, Dominick DiOrio, Stacey Gibbs, Cristian Grases, Sydney Guillaume, Jocelyn Hagen, Jake Runestad, and Zachary Wadsworth. Attendees will receive complimentary scores as part of the interactive session, which will include a combination of lecture, listening, and singing.

Offered July 27 at 9:30h and July 29 at 11:00h.

The Vox Nova Chamber Choir and director Shannon Chase perform a program of music by many contemporary composers including Clausen, Arnesen, Paulus, and Sandström, with David Lang's The National Anthems as a centerpiece. Also included are performances of my works I Am and Alleluia.

Resonance Ensemble closes its eighth season on Saturday, June 24th, showcasing the poignant and captivating works of local area artists at the beautiful contemporary art center, Yale Union in music that emphasizes the resilience of the human spirit and its need to heal and transform. Among the works included for this concert will be Only in Falling, a major composition by Portland composer Renée Favand-See commissioned by Resonance in 2014. The five-movement setting of Wendell Berry poems movingly captures the emotional power of the composer’s poignant voyage following the death of her newborn son, Owen. The choir will also perform new works by American composers Dominick DiOrio (You Do Not Walk Alone), Jake Runestad, and Steven Sametz.

Rachel Carlson and the Six Degree Singers perform my work Cuckoo, Cuckoo on their season-ending Shakespeare program.

Evensong with St. Paul’s Choir, including choral music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, and Herbert Sumsion, followed by a concert of voice and harp music featuring bass-baritone Ben Thorburn and Colleen Potter Thorburn, harpist.

The 30-minute voice and harp program includes a wide range of beautiful music, including:
– 19th-century Romances by French harpist-composer François-Joseph Naderman
– “O bien aimée” by harpist-composer Marcel Grandjany
– “Rise up, my love” by choral conductor and composer Dominick DiOrio
– American folk songs

Ben Thorburn is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Chowan University in North Carolina. Colleen Potter Thorburn teaches harp at Virginia Commonwealth University and at Liberty University. The concert is a preview of a recital the Thorburns will be presenting at the American Harp Society’s National Summer Institute at St. Olaf College on June 27.

Rachel Carlson and the Six Degree Singers perform my work Cuckoo, Cuckoo on their season-ending Shakespeare program.

A survey of a cappella settings of Shakespeare’s famous words by composers from the Renaissance to the present, including my work Cuckoo, Cuckoo.

The theme of Resound Ensemble's Spring concert is best captured in one word,  Ai'yu, which evokes the spirit of transcendence. Used mainly in Egyptian cultures, this word serves as an exclamation meaning "astonishing!" and "marvelous!" during times of great joy. Our program includes such works worthy of this exclamation, such as Arvo Pärt's Magnificat, Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, and works by contemporary composers such as Dominick DiOrio's I Am, and Ola Gjeilo's Northern Lights. Our composer-in-residence this year is Bay Area-composer, Anne Hege. We will perform the West Coast-premiere of her piece, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

The Madison Chamber Choir presents a concert that includes Dominick Argento's Walden Pond and my own original work, I Am, for soprano and SATB chorus. Facebook event. Suggested donation: $10.

Cantus Novus performs a concert of love songs and works reveling in the joy of spring, including We Dance for chorus a cappella. Tickets and more information.

Cantus Novus performs a concert of love songs and works reveling in the joy of spring, including We Dance for chorus a cappella. Tickets and more information.

The Texas State University Chorale, mezzo-soprano Soon Cho, and conductor Joey Martin premiere All Is, my new work for mixed chorus, mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano on Misha Penton's original poem First Day.

The Hofstra Univeristy Chamber Choir Spring Tour includes performances of my work A Dome of Many-Colorued Glass for chorus and marimba, featuring percussionist Bryan Wysocki and conductor David Fryling.

The choirs at Northern Illinois University sing a selection of my original music for their Spring concert, including I Am, You Do Not Walk Alone, Cuckoo Cuckoo, An Irish Blessing, and We Dance. Free.

Michael McGaghie and the Macalester Chorale premiere my new commissioned work The Ghost's Story for mixed chorus and marimba.

The University of Tennessee at Martin Contemporary Music Group will perform my work Flames Will Grow, featurning soprano Rebekah Mansfield, saxophonist Jeremy Jackson, and pianist Stephen Downing. Free.

NOTUS' final concert program of the year features music by Shawn Crouch (The Light of Common Day), Lansing McLoskey (Zealot Canticle), Chen Yi (Spring Rain), Hyo-Won Woo (Pal-So-Seong: Eight Laughing Voices), and a world premiere performance of a new commissioned work Popping Bubbles by IU faculty composer Don Freund. The concert will also feature performances of the winning works from the NOTUS Student Composition Contest and my work You Do Not Walk Alone.

NOTUS sings a program at Anderson University including works by Shawn Crouch, Lansing McLoskey, Jeffrey Parola, Chen Yi, Luciano Berio, Hyo-Won Woo, and a world premiere performance of Popping Bubbles by IU faculty composer Don Freund. It will also include my work You Do Not Walk Alone.

Jason Sabino and the Oregon Chorale perform my work You Do Not Walk Alone as part of their concert "Response to Strife," featuring Gorecki's Miserere. More information and tickets.

It’s not a combination that’s heard often: chorus with marimba, celesta, harp, fingersnaps, handclaps, bells, gong, and other percussion. The Providence Singers will perform works by contemporary American composers Dan Forrest, Dominick DiOrio (Alleluia), Eric Whitacre, and a new work by Michael Galib, the Singers assistant conductor. Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Charles Ives’ Psalm 90, an extraordinarily modern piece from 1923, complete the program.

Alleluia performances:

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 7:30 pm
Peachtree Christian Church
1580 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

SUNDAY, MARCH 12. 6:00 pm
South Lake Wales Church of God
210 Presidents Drive
Lake Wales, Florida 33859

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 7:00 pm
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
222 East Harris Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 7:00 pm
New Life Sanctuary
940 Harry Driggers Blvd
Brunswick, Georgia 31525

THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 7:00 pm
Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica
6520 Frederica Rd
Saint Simons Island, Georgia 31522

FRIDAY, MARCH 17. 7:30 pm
Journey Point Church of God
1267 Middle Tennessee Blvd
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 7:30 pm
Dayspring Church of God
1060 Smiley Ave
Cincinnati, Ohio 45240

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 6:00 pm
HOME CONCERT
Park Place Church of God
501 College Drive
Anderson, Indiana 46012

SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 3:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church
512 7th Street
Columbus, Indiana 47201

In addition to Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados, Karen P. Thomas and Seattle Pro Musica perform my work Peace, I leave with you in their program devoted to unity and social justice. More information and tickets.

Phillip Swan and the Lawrence University Concert Choir perfom We Dance.

Earl Rivers and the CCM Chamber Choir perform my works A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass and We Dance as part of the Choral Showcase featuring the Chamber Choir, Chorale, Men's and Women's Choruses, and the Cincinnati Children's Choir. The program also includes William Byrd's Great Service.

Mark Jennings and the Truman State University Cantoria perform my Alleluia as part of their program at the Missouri Music Educators Association annual conference.

Joe Miller and the Westminster Choir perform I Am as part of their southeast tour of the United States.

Joe Miller and the Westminster Choir perform I Am as part of their southeast tour of the United States, at this special performance of the Florida Music Educators Association annual conference in Tampa, Florida.

Joe Miller and the Westminster Choir perform I Am as part of their southeast tour of the United States.

Joe Miller and the Westminster Choir perform I Am as part of their southeast tour of the United States.

Journey to Bethlehem this Christmas to experience the wonder and awe of the nativity with Conrad Susa’s Carols & Lullabies. Conductors Philip Brunelle & G. Phillip Shoultz III lead the VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers in a program of songs and carols that will also include a performance of my Alleluia for chorus and marimba. Information and tickets.

Robert Simpson and the tenors and basses of the Houston Chamber Choir before my carol Verbum caro factum est for their annual holiday concerts at the Villa de Matel in Houston.

Robert Simpson and the tenors and basses of the Houston Chamber Choir before my carol Verbum caro factum est for their annual holiday concerts at the Villa de Matel in Houston.

Journey to Bethlehem this Christmas to experience the wonder and awe of the nativity with Conrad Susa’s Carols & Lullabies. Conductors Philip Brunelle & G. Phillip Shoultz III lead the VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers in a program of songs and carols that will also include a performance of my Alleluia for chorus and marimba. Information and tickets.

Mark Jennings and the Truman State University Cantoria perform my Alleluia as part of their holiday choral program.

Alice Cavanaugh and the Suffolk Singers perform my Alleluia for chorus and marimba with percussionist Abby Fischer. Free.

The Tennessee All Northwest Jr. High Honor Choir performs my work An Irish Blessing under the direction of Bradley Almquist.

Michael Porter and the Boise State University Meistersingers perform my work We Dance as part of their Fall Choral Collage program. More information and tickets.

Christian Lane and the All Saints Parish Choir perform a Choral Evensong that features my work Ode to Purcell.

The Chorale of Southwest Baptist University with director James Tarrant performs my work We Dance as part of their home concert.

Joe Miller and The Westminster Choir perform my work I Am as part of their program "A Thousand Years to Live." Featuring Chloe Elzey, soprano.

The Pro Arte Singers Fall Concert features the Charis Chamber Voices and a performance of my work I Am for soprano and mixed chorus. Tickets and more information.

Eric Stark and the Butler Chorale perform Ding Dong Bell, my work for mixed chorus, tenor solo, violin, bass clarinet, and vibraphone on a text from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

Jeffrey Benson and the San Jose State University Concert Choir perform my Shakespeare work, Ding Dong Bell, as part of their Fall concert performance.

Featuring new works setting Oscar Wilde’s poems from the winners of this year’s The Esoterics POLYPHONOS competition: Kenji Oh, Casey Rule, and Gordon Williamson, as well as new works by Dominick DiOrio (The Visible World) and Eric Banks.

Trent Patterson and the Webster University Chamber Singers perform my work Ode to Purcell as part of their Fall Choral Concert. $5 or free for students with ID.

Sunshine City Opera's Inaugural Concert; With approximately an hour of new music for voice and piano, the audience will experience a buffet of sounds ranging from the avant garde to the melodically sublime. Come sample some of the best that living composers have to offer the field of opera!

PERFORMANCES BY:
Katherine Stenzel, soprano; Thea Lobo, mezzo
Eunmi Ko, music director and piano

MUSIC:
The Little Blue One, by Dominick DiOrio, scenes 5, 6, 7 & 10
The Ten-Block Walk, by Erin Huelskamp, scenes 1, 2 & 7
Amor, by Yalil Guerra
Glimpses, by Hoàng Phó, movements 2, 4 & 5 - winner of the USF Call for Scores
Idolos del sueño, by Ileana Perez Velazquez, movements 1 & 3
Grand Is The Seen, by Ingrid Stölzel
Between Sunsets, by Hilary Tann

Tickets $25 general admission / $20 students and seniors; PURCHASE TICKETS: http://www.thestudioat620.org/ticket-sales

*This concert will be featured as part of the St. Pete Arts Festival: http://www.spfestival.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/sunshinecityopera/
 

The Willow Consort and Danny Purtell perform I Am as part of their Prague tour. Free performances.

• Saturday, July 23, 2016, 12pm: St. Barbara's Cathedral - Kutná Hora
• Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 6pm: Church of St. Salvator - Prague
• Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 2pm: Church of St. Martin in the Wall - Old Town / Prague

Noted conductor Rollo Dilworth leads the combined forces of the invited choirs in a festival presentation to include my work We Dance! for the Notes of Joy 2016 Austria Choir Festival. 

Rachel Carlson and the Six Degree Singers give a concert including repertoire of Barber, Childs, Galián, Howe, Mäntyjärvi, and more! Included on the concert is my O Virtus Sapientiae, a concert motet based on Hildegard's original chant featuring three virtuosic soprano solos and a cappella chorus.  

The Miami University Men's Glee Club (Jeremy Jones, director) and Ars Veritas (Jakob Patriksson, director) perform a joint concert in the magnificent church of Oskar Fredrik in Gothenburg. Featured on the concert will be the premiere of my Verbum Caro Factum Est for male chorus, sung by the ensembles together. A professional recording will follow soon after in Varnhem.

Mike Raunick and the North Central High School Concert Choir perform We Dance as part of their Spring choir concert.

The Kansas City Chorale and artistic director Charles Bruffy perform a program of songs derived from Shakespeare’s plays, interwoven with portions of his texts performed by professional actors from the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Scenes from The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth will come to life in song. The program will include the premiere of my new work Cuckoo, Cuckoo, commissioned by the KCC with support from ACFEA and Chorus America.

The Brown University Chorus and Fred Jodry present works for chorus and percussion, with special guest Brian Calhoon. Featuring Hoag"s Cicada Songs, Jean Berger's Brazilian Psalm, and my Alleluia for chorus and marimba. Tickets at the door are $10 for general admission, and $3 for students. More information. 

Mike Raunick and the North Central High School Concert Choir perform We Dance for the ISSMA State Qualifying contest.

A performance of music that draws inspiration from rivers, including folk songs such as Shenandoah, Shall we gather at the river, Down to the river to pray; spirituals such as Moses Hogan arrangements of Wade in the Water and Deep River; international repertoire that includes Japanese and African river songs; as well as Holst Hymn to the Water with harp and Water Night by American contemporary composer Eric Whitacre. The concert will include my work Awake Her Not for chorus and flute. Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, free for students and children

The Arizona All-State Choir, under the direction of Rollo Dilworth, will perform my work We Dance! during their concert on April 23 on the campus of Northern Arizona University. 

Jeremy Jones and a select group of men from the Miami University Men's Glee Club welcome guest conductor Jakob Patriksson to Oxford a preview concert in celebration of their upcoming summer tour to Sweden and partnership with Swedish male ensemble Ars Veritas. I am honored that they will preview my new commissioned work for their combined venture on this occasion: Verbum Caro Factum Est, an a cappella carol for TTBB ensemble on a 16th century tune from the Piae Cantiones of 1582. The performance will be premiered officially this summer in Sweden and then recorded by the combined ensembles. 

Soprano Maggie Finnegan is featured in a delightful musical evening exploring songs by contemporary American composers in a program including works by Juliana Hall, Lembit Beecher, Lonnie Hevia, Dominick DiOrio and Scott Pender. My thrilling mini-opera/art song/monodrama The Captured Goddess will be performed.

The NIU Chamber Choir, conductor Eric Johnson, and marimbist Mike Mixtacki perform my Alleluia for chorus and marimba as part of their March concert. Free.

NOTUS is honored to be one of the few college/university ensembles invited to perform at the Central Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Chicago. The program will include the "Passacaglia" from Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 voices, Jocelyn Hagen's soft blink of amber light (with flute, clarinet, marimba, and piano), the world premiere of The Giver of Stars by Sven-David Sandström, Alex Berko's Forgiven Tears (winner of the ACDA Raymond Brock Memorial Student Composition Prize), and my own Alleluia for chorus and marimba.

Seraphic Fire is pleased to offer an encore presentation of Mozart's signature opus, with a completion commissioned by Seraphic Fire featuring three newly-composed movements by young American composer Gregory Spears. “A completion that offers more musical rewards… [it] drew on hundreds of years of music history, with echoes of Bach and Mozart, glowing Romantic harmonies, glints of contemporary dissonance, and the effective use of timpani” (South Florida Classical Review). The concert will include a performance of my work I Am for chorus and soprano solo, featuring Molly Quinn. Tickets and more information. 

Seraphic Fire is pleased to offer an encore presentation of Mozart's signature opus, with a completion commissioned by Seraphic Fire featuring three newly-composed movements by young American composer Gregory Spears. “A completion that offers more musical rewards… [it] drew on hundreds of years of music history, with echoes of Bach and Mozart, glowing Romantic harmonies, glints of contemporary dissonance, and the effective use of timpani” (South Florida Classical Review). The concert will include a performance of my work I Am for chorus and soprano solo, featuring Molly Quinn. Tickets and more information. 

Seraphic Fire is pleased to offer an encore presentation of Mozart's signature opus, with a completion commissioned by Seraphic Fire featuring three newly-composed movements by young American composer Gregory Spears. “A completion that offers more musical rewards… [it] drew on hundreds of years of music history, with echoes of Bach and Mozart, glowing Romantic harmonies, glints of contemporary dissonance, and the effective use of timpani” (South Florida Classical Review). The concert will include a performance of my work I Am for chorus and soprano solo, featuring Molly Quinn. Tickets and more information. 

Under the direction of Brett Robison, the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association Middle Level All-State Choir performs by An Irish Blessing for chorus and piano.

The Princeton Glee Club will give the premiere of Chronos Suite on Themes of Purcell, my new commissioned work for chorus and Baroque orchestra, featuring texts of Herbert, Raleigh, and Milton and re-interpreted music from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

The McGill University Chorus sings a program of Nocturnes with music by Eric Whitacre, Daniel Elder, Gyorgy Ligeti, Dominick Argento, Jake Runestad, Blake Henson, Morten Lauridsen, and Josef Rheinberger. My own Alleluia for chorus and marimba closes the program!

Kent Hatteberg conducts the Collegiate Chorale and Cardinal Singers in a choral concert for the University of Louisville's week-long New Music Festival. In addition to repertoire by Penderecki, Esenvalds, and others, the Collegiate Chorale will sing my Alleluia for chorus and marimba; Alyssa Dewey, percussionist.

I am delighted to be invited by my dear friend Bruce Neswick to lead the wonderful Trinity Choir at the Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. In addition to music of Harris, Stainer, and Britten, I will share my lovely anthem I give you a new commandment with the gathered congregants. 

NOTUS is delighted to perform a student work as part of the annual Midwest Composers Symposium Opening Concert, featuring composers from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the Universities of Iowa and Michigan. NOTUS will premiere Jared Hedges' Psalm 10 for a cappella chorus. Free admission.

Michaella Calzaretta, DM student in choral conducting, will give her recital with NOTUS. Repertoire includes Arvo Pärt (Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten), Nico Muhly (Bright Mass with Canons), and Benjamin Britten (Ad majorem Dei gloriam). Free admission.

Gregory Ristow and the Interlochen Singers perform my work for treble voices, 2 violins, viola, and piano, Leave My Heart Its Songs on their final summer concert. Free admission.

Dominick is honored to be the commissioned composer for the TCDA Middle School and Junior High School Honor Choir at the 2015 Annual Conference. His new work, An Irish Blessing, will be premiered by the Honor Choir and guest conductor and composer Andrea Ramsey.

Corigliano - Fern Hill
Barber - Knoxville, Summer of 1915
Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams - Five Mystical Songs

The IU Summer Chorus & Orchestra bring you an enchanting evening of music inspired by the seasons and the majesty of music. Featuring student soloists Lesley Friend (Knoxville), Annie Chester (Fern Hill), Erik Krohg (Five Mystical Songs), and a quartet of Tiffany Williams, Courtney Jameson, Alonza Lawrence, and Bruno Sandes (Serenade), this melodic and lush romantic repertoire is a perfect capstone to a July summer evening!

Tickets are $10 general / $5 students and can purchased in advance from the IU Box Office.

Capturing the spirit, beauty, and enduring strength of femininity at work preserved in the folklore and statue of Molly Malone as it contrasts sharply with the realities of a male-dominated world, this concert weaves a tale of female grace and accomplishment translated through their male counterparts’ voices, provides moments of euphoric repose, and in DiOrio’s And the Barriers Had Vanished, navigates the listener through “the many facets of love in hiding.”

I am honored that the Macalester Concert Choir has chosen to perform my You Do Not Walk Alone as part of their annual graduation exercises in St. Paul, Minnesota!

Chicago Choral Artists and Michael Costello will perform my work A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass as part of their 2014-2015 season, with concerts in Chicago and River Forest.

NOTUS is thrilled to be presenting a concert of three world-premiere works: DiOrio's own Stravinsky Refracted, made possible with a grant from the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music; the first-prize winner of the 2015 NOTUS Student Composition Contest; and P.Q. Phan's monumental new work for chorus and ensemble, A Vietnamese Requiem.

The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble, and Choir perform at Lincoln Center / Alice Tully Hall, in a program featuring the world premiere of my enthusiastically succinct new work, We Dance! for mixed chorus a cappella. Janet Galván conducts the Ithaca College Choir for the performance, in addition to works by Jake Runestad, Eric Barnum, Ko Matsushita, and Eriks Esenvalds. If you are in NYC, please come to my Lincoln Center Premiere!

The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble, and Choir preview their program for their upcoming Lincoln Center / Alice Tully Hall performance  on April 17th. The Ithaca College Choir's performance will feature the world premiere of my enthusiastically succinct new work, We Dance! for mixed chorus a cappella. Janet Galván conducts the Ithaca College Choir, Steve Peterson the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann the Contemporary Ensemble.

The great group of singers from Hollins University perform my Leave My Heart Its Songs as part of their Spring performance in duPont Chapel. Free admission.

Inspiravi sings a concert featuring my Ode to Purcell as well as music of Daniel Brinsmead, Matthew Brown, Ola Gjeilo, Sydney Guillaume, Seth Houston, Zachary Neufeld, Jake Runestad, and Mari Valverde. 

Quaver (“Not Your Parents’ Viol Consort”) pays homage to the rich tradition of Tenebrae with music from the Renaissance to the modern day based on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and light up the darkness with Corrette’s fiery suite for four bass viols, “Le Phénix.” The performance includes my own Passion Music for 4 violas da gamba on themes of Penderecki. Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/848639

The Macalester Choirs perform works by Barber, Lauridsen, Corigliano, and others, including a new commission by Dominick DiOrio, You Do Not Walk Alone.  Michael McGaghie conducts.

As a part of the celebration of their fiftieth-anniversary season, the Cincinnati Boychoir has commissioned Dominick to write a twenty-minute choral-orchestral work that will receive its first performance on March 6, 2015 - the anniversary of the Boychoir's first rehearsal in 1965. The six-movement work is entitled HORIZON SYMPHONY and is comprised of poetry by Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and an anonymous poet from the twelfth century; scored for male voices, including male trebles, altos, tenors, and basses, the work also calls for a full chamber orchestra with several percussionists, harps, brass, and strings. The work was conceived in part as a companion piece to Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms; Bernstein's work, which also turns 50 in 2015, was written for the choir of men and boys at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England.

NOTUS has been invited to be the Featured Ensemble-in-Residence for the inaugural Composers Track at the American Choral Directors Association National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. They will perform during the College/University Reading Session on Wednesday and also during the Student Composer Masterclass on Thursday.

Brandon Elliott and the Choral Arts Intiative perform Absence in California as part of an eclectic program of new music. St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach; Sunday February 22nd at 4pm.