Pavane Choral

Kevin Memley's exquisite a cappella writing has captured our hearts many times. He does not disappoint with this classic Latin text. The place of sacred mystery is honored richly with the harmonic col...

Brian Tate wants to help bring us all together and uses his imaginative music and community- building texts to make it happen. Each vocal part gets their own statement and they sequence together into...

It is the poetry of the King James version that places this sacred text into the concert program. That, and the exquisite setting that Jonathan Adams, a revered high school choral teacher, offers. Kno...

The Randy Stenson International Series launches with this stunning a cappella motet by Alejandro Consolacion. Based in Japan, Randy leads seminars throughout Asia and hears beautiful choral music most...

This Chassidic Nigun brings a Jewish cultural tradition to the choral community with history and fun. The song without words uses a syllable sound with historic roots that are explained in the perform...

This fabulous Christmas piece rings with energy and joy. Ripe with antiphonal qualities, the piece opens with a brief fanfare and proceeds to celebrate the season. A wonderful holiday concert opener f...

The initial musical theme that begins this piece becomes almost a passacaglia, repeating throughout the piece. But with Kevin's artistic touches it becomes the eternal light that the text expresses, e...

South Korea and the United States have a beautiful relationship and share many values, one of which is undeniably our love of great choral music. Sowol Kim is admired as the founder of modern Korean p...

Jesse Beulke is a relatively new name yet his writing deserves notice. Selected for the David Dickau Signature Series, this piece may bring him the appropriate attention. The text is quite traditional...

Who doesn't remember musical moments in their past, when singing became transcendent and the moment became a memory never to be forgotten? Henry Van Dyke's poem recalls that time and Matthew Emery, th...

Selected for the Magen Solomon series, this dreamy setting is beautiful and distinctive. The magic of this arrangement is in the creativity of the harmonies. An excellent Christmas selection for high...

Guy Forbes gave us O Nata Lux many years ago and we have patiently waited for its sequel. Now we have it, a stunning setting of There Is No Rose that delivers exactly what we hoped for. It is a beauti...

Best known for his settings of Filipino folksongs, George Hernandez has this time selected a familiar French carol to display his superb craftsmanship. The bell sounds resonate beautifully and the ent...

Stacey Gibbs is perhaps the most popular arranger of traditional spirituals today. Creative ideas with harmony and rhythmic accompaniment make his treatments stand out. Choirs enjoy the familiar tunes...

High school choral director, Jonathan Adams, has composed a number of beautiful a cappella pieces. This setting of Ecclesiastes 3:11 contains those yummy suspensions and cadences that choirs yearn for...

Canadian composer Matthew Emery is a name to watch. This piece was chosen as the winner of the 2012 Nova Scotia Choral Federation Choral Competition. Last year Pavane published his When the Sun Comes...

Jesse Beulke is a young American composer in his first year of college, yet this, his first published piece, demonstrates a musical maturity well beyond his years. Selected for the David Dickau Signat...

In only a few short years Richard Burchard has become recognized as one of the new, great choral composers in America. His sonorities are often thick but always rich and satisfying. His melodies are m...

Kane Bradley is a Junior and Senior high choral director and a relatively new composer on the scene. His De Profundis employs minimalism and contemporary harmonies that are quite compelling. He builds...

George Hernandez has become the recognized expert in a cappella choral arrangements of Filipino folk music. This delightful Tagalog tune is a playful love song. The bouncy vocal accompaniment figures...

Christina Rossetti wrote a wonderful text that has inspired many great composers to set her text to music. David Dickau is one of today's most celebrated composers and he has brought new loveliness to...

Memley has set this thoughtful 19th century Barnes' poem in a contemporary madrigal style. Pensive moments cadence on stunning chords, gentle dissonances provoke the listener's ears, woven together in...

Eric Saari from North Dakota State University has captured Walt Whitman's text about sunset with vivid 21st century hues. Bursts of color unfold in words and sound creating pictures in your mind. High...

Matthew Emery is an emerging composer that writes with a maturity beyond his age. This imaginative setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem brings a freshness as real as the smells after a summer rain...

In the past few years Stacey Gibbs has become recognized as an excellent arranger of spirituals. His settings have been performed at numerous ACDA National and Regional conventions. Witness is one of...