Thus Spake the Mother (2024) 00:03:30
SSA choir
Commissioned by the William & Mary Barksdale Treble Chorus.
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Ode to Hope (2024) 00:07:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. A highly relevant chorus from Antigone on the pitfalls of hope is set to rich harmonies for advanced chorus.
Pipe Down (2023) 00:03:30
SATB choir, piano
Commissioned by ACDA Eastern. An empowering song with text by Caitlin Vincent that encourages young people to reject being silenced and raise their voices together.
A Slice of Pie (2023) 00:04:00
SATB choir, piano, drumset
Commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia. A new jazz standard for choir, composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, about the bitter-sweetness of love and pie. Poetry by West Philadelphia activist Feminista Jones.
N-400 Erasure Songs (2023) 00:13:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by Cantus; SATB arrangement commissioned by the South Bend Chamber Singers. The texts for these songs were taken from the U.S. application for naturalization, as modified into erasure poetry by three immigrants, and span the range of emotions felt when moving to this country.
Nothing Gold Can Stay (2023) 00:02:00
SAB choir
Commissioned by Singing City Choir of Philadelphia for the Singing City Songbook. A short work suitable for community chorus, setting poetry by Robert Frost.
Change (2023) 00:04:00
SSAB children's chorus, piano
Commissioned by the Lake Superior Youth Chorus. The children in the choir were asked to give their thoughts on the topic of "changing the world," which were then woven into the text of this inspiring work for young singers.
You Birth the Seeds (2023) 00:05:00
SATB choir, piano
Commissioned by the Alexandria Choral Society. Zeina Azzam's evocative poetry offers strength and wisdom to the next generation in this inspiring song for mixed community chorus and piano.
Work (2023) 00:03:45
TTBB choir
Commissioned by the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Chancel Choir. TTBB arrangement commissioned by Cantus. The text, adapted from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, addresses a path out of despair and meaninglessness through working with love.
Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2022) 00:02:30
TTBB choir
Commissioned by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir. A rhythmic setting of Lola Ridge poetry that taps into primal memories of infancy, with fragmented impressions of fire and flickering shadows. Originally for treble chorus, this version is arranged for men's voices.
American DREAMers: #UnitedWeDream (2022) 00:03:00
SAB choir
Commissioned by PhilHarmonia. The final movement of American DREAMers, this uplifting chorale is suitable for a wide range of choirs and occasions.
Halcyon Days (2022) 3:30
TTBB choir
Commissioned by Voces8. Arrangement commissioned by Chor Leoni. This work, suitable for any winter concert, creates a period of calm during winter storms where we reflect on what we have lost but rise up to face the new year with joy and grace.
Songs for the People (2022) 5:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by Seattle Pro Musica. A hymn to the power of music to energize, heal, and bring communities together, setting words by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper.
The Canticle of Hannah (2022) 00:09:30
SATB choir, piano
Commissioned by Singing City Philadelphia. Two songs about one of America's unsung female leaders: Hannah Callowhill Penn, the second wife of William Penn, who ran the colony of Pennsylvania as Acting Proprietor from 1712-1726. Texts taken from her letters, and Proverbs 31.
SATOR (2022) 00:03:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by Skylark Vocal Ensemble. A setting of the Latin words in the "Sator" cryptogram for intermediate to advanced chorus, with hidden meanings woven into the music.
Mel et Lac (2022) 00:04:30
SSA choir, SSA soloists
Commissioned by University of Cincinnati and Highlands High School. Hildegard of Bingen's luscious words are woven into a duet between a treble choir and a trio of advanced soloists.
I Am the World (2022) 00:07:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the BBC Singers. Propelled forward by repeated motives on the text I Shall Arise, this exciting concert work sets a poem from Dora Sigerson Shorter. Affirming and brimming with confidence, it builds to a thrilling ending.
The Cat and the Moon (2022) 00:04:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Washington & Lee University Singers. A setting of Yeats' mysterious and magic-filled poem about Maud Gonne's cat, Minnaloushe, and his relationship to the moon.
Waves of Gallipoli (2021) 00:05:00
TTBB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. TTBB arrangement commissioned by Chor Leoni. Through texts from the epitaphs on gravestones in a cemetery at the WWI battle site and poetry by Leon Gellert, a Gallipoli veteran, this song evokes the lapping waves of the Aegean and the devastation of war.
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for St. Paul's Burlingame (2021) 00:07:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Choir of St. Paul's, Burlingame. A heartfelt setting of the traditional text from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
New Dreams (2021) 00:05:00
SSA choir
Commissioned by La Caccina. Questions inspired by the work of activist Grace Lee Boggs are presented in this work for intermediate to advanced treble chorus.
At Water's Edge (2021) 00:04:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by Westminster Kantorei, this setting of Psalm 137 serves as an expression of longing for home in a time of displacement and uncertainty.
We Are the Music Makers (2021) 00:05:00
SATB choir, piano
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. A thoughtful and expressive setting of the well-known Arthur O'Shaughnessy text.
N-400 Erasure Songs (2021) 00:13:00
TTBB choir
Commissioned by Cantus. The texts for these songs were taken from the U.S. application for naturalization, as modified into erasure poetry by three immigrants, and span the range of emotions felt when moving to this country.
When the Time Comes (2021) 00:04:00
TTBB choir, solo soprano
Commissioned by Central Bucks High School West Men's Choir. The lyrics for this moving song were taken from an interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in which she discusses her legacy and dedication to public service. Featuring a solo soprano voice.
Remember the Ladies (2021) 00:03:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Museum of the American Revolution for their 2020-2021 special exhibition When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776-1807.
Grown Wild (2021) 00:05:00
SSA choir, violin, piano
Commissioned by Concord Women's Chorus. A warm song for treble choir that explores our relationship to our childhood self and celebrates growth.
Sailing Away (2021) 00:04:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the University of Missouri University Singers. A rollicking shanty-like song about love and loss for intermediate mixed chorus, with lyrics from largely forgotten late-19th-century Missourian poet Isabel Grimes Richey.
Jack and the Beanstalk (2021) 20:00
SSA children's choir, baritone, orchestra, narrator
Commissioned by the Immaculata Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus. A dramatic, fun retelling of the fairy tale for youth chorus, with guest baritone(s) in the role of the giant.
Amendment: Pledging Allegiance (2020) 00:03:00
SATB choir, cello
Commissioned by a consortium of choirs, founding commission by Chorosynthesis Singers, Santa Monica College, & Connecticut College. Excerpted from the multimovement work Amendment, this song sets text from three historical women in a message of hope for future equality.
Lamb of God (2020) 00:01:00
SATB choir, cantor
Commissioned by the Association of Anglican Musicians. A fraction anthem suitable for congregational singing with a solo cantor.
Amendment: Righting Our Wrongs (2020) 00:19:00
SATB choir, cello
Commissioned by a consortium of choirs, founding commission by Chorosynthesis Singers, Santa Monica College, & Connecticut College. A multimovement exploration of America's unfinished journey toward universal suffrage, inspired by the anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
The Gonzales Cantata (2020) 00:40:00
SSAT choir, soloists, organ
A cantata based on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales. Called "the coolest thing you will ever see on this show" by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. More information at the Gonzales Cantata website.
A Slice of Pie (2020) 00:04:00
SATB choir, trumpet, bass, drumset
Commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia. A new jazz standard for choir, composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, about the bitter-sweetness of love and pie. Poetry by West Philadelphia activist Feminista Jones.
Halcyon Days (2020) 00:03:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by Voces8. This work, suitable for any winter concert, creates a period of calm during winter storms where we reflect on what we have lost but rise up to face the new year with joy and grace.
Set Myself Free (2020) 00:04:00
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Amuse Singers. A new text by Jacqueline Goldfinger commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment in this confidant feminist song for intermediate treble chorus.
Lola Ridge Songs: It's strange about stars... (2020) 00:03:00
TTBB choir
A short setting of poetry by Lola Ridge, arranged in this version for Cantus, this song is not only about stars, but the hope and healing they represent.
Mabel Lee, 1912 (2020) 00:03:15
SATB choir
Commissioned by Classical Movements. Composed in honor of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896-1966), an activist known for mobilizing support for women's suffrage among New York's Chinese immigrant community, this song sets poignant and uplifting poetry by Esther Lin.
Witch-Wife (2020) 00:03:00
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Choir Matrix Women's Ensemble. Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1917 love poem sounds surprisingly contemporary in this wistful folk-like setting for intermediate treble chorus.
Eight of Swords (2019) 00:05:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by National Concerts, SJSU Choraliers, and Kirby Chamber Singers. An empowering song inspired by the tarot card illustration by Pamela Coleman Smith, with text by Charles Anthony Silvestri.
The Apotheosis of Apollo (2019) 00:05:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by The Thirteen with the support of Clinton Kelly. A song for advanced chamber choir celebrating the unifying impact of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.
Waves of Gallipoli (2019) 00:05:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. TTBB arrangement commissioned by Chor Leoni. Through texts from the epitaphs on gravestones in a cemetery at the WWI battle site and poetry by Leon Gellert, a Gallipoli veteran, this song evokes the lapping waves of the Aegean and the devastation of war.
a survival plan of sorts (2019) 00:03:30
SSAA choir
Commissioned by the Susquehanna University Chamber Singers. A setting of poetry by Amanda Lovelace, with a message of resilience and triumph for those who love libraries.
a survival plan of sorts (2019) 00:03:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Susquehanna University Chamber Singers. A setting of poetry by Amanda Lovelace, with a message of resilience and triumph for those who love libraries.
Work (2019) 00:03:45
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Chancel Choir. The text, adapted from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, addresses a path out of despair and meaninglessness through working with love; a message that has as much relevance to today's world as that of a century ago.
LISTEN (2019) 10:00:00
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Resonance Ensemble. Two movements set testimony by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, confronting singers and listeners with their challenging, powerful, and heartbreaking words.
Four Poems of Nikita Gill: Me Too (2018) 00:02:00
SSA choir
Commissioned by McNeese State University. Originally a trio for three solo treble voices, this canon-based short feminist work can also be performed by SSA choir.
Suite Remembrance: Mourning into Dancing (2018) 00:01:30
double SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The final song in a set of four contrasting “memorial dances” for unaccompanied mixed chorus is a joyful gigue celebrating the end of mourning, with a text adapted from Psalm 30.
Suite Remembrance: If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (2018) 00:04:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The third song in a set of four contrasting “memorial dances” for unaccompanied mixed chorus is an expressive sarabande setting of a touching text by Emily Dickinson.
Suite Remembrance: All Flesh Is Grass (2018) 00:01:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The second song in a set of four contrasting “memorial dances” for unaccompanied mixed chorus, featuring text from Isaiah 40 and a modal gavotte melody.
Suite Remembrance: Todtentanz (2018) 00:01:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The first songs in a set of four contrasting “memorial dances” for unaccompanied mixed chorus, with a 1701 text about the equalizing nature of death set as a jaunty minor saltarello.
Lola Ridge Songs (2018) 00:15:00
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Acalanes High School, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and Cornell University Chorus. A collection of four songs for intermediate treble choir, setting poetry by Lola Ridge which recognizes our relationship to darkness and light in memory and dreams.
American DREAMers: #UnitedWeDream (2018) 00:03:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by PhilHarmonia. The final movement of American DREAMers, this uplifting chorale is suitable for a wide range of choirs and occasions.
If Thou Wilt Be Perfect (2018) 00:04:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by St. Peter’s Choir, St. Louis, Missouri. An anthem that uses as its central text one of the Gospel’s best-known, yet least commonly sung, verses: “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Lola Ridge Songs: It isn't a dream... (2018) 00:04:00
SSAA choir
Commissioned by the Cornell University Chorus. Part of a collection of Lola Ridge settings, this powerful song for advanced treble chorus delves into the buried trauma in a nightmare.
Suite Remembrance (2018) 00:08:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. A set of four contrasting “memorial dances” for unaccompanied mixed chorus, with movements ranging from energetic to lyrical and moving.
American DREAMers (2018) 00:25:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by PhilHarmonia (Mitos Andaya Hart, director). A varied multi-movement work setting the words of immigrants from diverse backgrounds who were brought to America as children.
Wild Embers (2017) 00:03:30
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Acalanes Bella Voce. With folk harmonies reminiscent of the American West and driving body percussion, this setting of a powerful feminist text by poet Nikita Gill has become a favorite of treble choirs.
A New Heart (2017) 00:03:00
SAB choir, piano
Commissioned by Third Baptist Church, St. Louis. A versatile anthem which sets a verse from Ezekiel, suitable for a wide variety of choirs.
The Elements of the Sun Broke into Song (2016) 00:03:30
ATTBB choir
Commissioned by Opus Anglicanum. A contemporary madrigal for advanced chamber singers, filled with text painting, heralding the sun as it gives light to the world.
The Day of Resurrection (2016) 00:03:00
double SATB choir
Commissioned for the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. A dynamic and triumphal setting of excerpts from the Paschal Canon by John of Damascus with lively and driving rhythms.
Lola Ridge Songs: Different kinds of shadows (2015) 00:04:30
SSAA choir
Commissioned by Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. A setting for intermediate treble choir of poetry by Lola Ridge which explores our relationship to shadows, both comforting and frightening.
Alpha and Omega (2015) 00:05:30
double SATB choir
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. An awe-filled celebration of hope for a rejuvenated city, with text from "The Pilgrim's Progress" and the Book of Revelation.
O Oriens (2015) 00:04:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. Although the O Antiphons text was originally intended for Advent, this work is relevant to secular performance on the theme of calling for light in a time of darkness, and is one of Dunphy's most performed works.
Lola Ridge Songs: Shadows over a cradle... (2015) 00:02:30
SSAA choir
Commissioned by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir. A rhythmic setting of Lola Ridge poetry that taps into primal memories of infancy, with fragmented impressions of fire and flickering shadows.
Lola Ridge Songs: It's strange about stars... (2014) 00:03:00
SSAA choir
A short setting of poetry by Lola Ridge for intermediate treble choir, this song is not only about stars, but the hope and healing they represent.
The Oath of Allegiance (2014) 00:08:30
SATB choir
Commissioned by Volti. A setting of the United States Oath of Allegiance taken by all immigrants on becoming citizens, for advanced chorus.
Jack and the Beanstalk (2012) 20:00
SSA children's choir, baritone, chamber orchestra, narrator
Commissioned by the Immaculata Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus. A dramatic, fun retelling of the fairy tale for youth chorus, with guest baritone(s) in the role of the giant.
Together (2012) 6:00
SATB choir
Commissioned by the Whitman College Chamber Singers. A setting of Acts 2:44-46 for a cappella choir, with a surprising collectivist message.
What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach? (2012) 07:00
TTBB choir
Arranged for Chanticleer. A moving choral setting for advanced TTBB chorus of public testimony given before the Maine Senate by WWII veteran Phillip Spooner in a 2009 hearing to discuss the Marriage Equality Bill.
Jack and the Beanstalk (2011) 20:00
SSA children's choir, baritone, string quartet, keyboard, small percussion, narrator
Commissioned by the Immaculata Symphony Orchestra and the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus. A dramatic, fun retelling of the fairy tale for youth chorus, with guest baritone(s) in the role of the giant. A compact arrangement for smaller instrumental forces than the original full orchestral version.
What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach? (2010) 07:00
SATB choir
A moving choral setting for advanced mixed chorus of public testimony given before the Maine Senate by WWII veteran Phillip Spooner in a 2009 hearing to discuss the Marriage Equality Bill.
The Gonzales Cantata (2010) 40:00
SSAT choir, soloists, piano
A cantata based on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales. Called "the coolest thing you will ever see on this show" by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. More information at the Gonzales Cantata website.
The Gonzales Cantata (2009) 40:00
SSAT choir, soloists, strings, harpsichord
A cantata based on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales. Called "the coolest thing you will ever see on this show" by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. More information at the Gonzales Cantata website.
The Closer Madrigal (2000) 4:00
SATB choir
The Nine Inch Nails song reimagined as a Renaissance madrigal for the 2000 University of New South Wales Med Revue, complete with "fa la la"s and "hey nonny non"s.