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Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioned Works

The Choral Arts Ensemble is committed to the creation of new choral works and in keeping with that has entered into 29 commissions since 1995. Composers are local, regional, national, experienced, new, men, women. The commissions come from CAE or individuals or the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club. We have also premiered pieces not commissioned by us and our Artistic Director will consider these new works as they arise.

Songs of Edgar Allan Poe – Scott Warner

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature.,
Premiere: May, 1996
First Place winner, 1997 Chatauqua Singers Regional Choral Composition Contest

Psalm Set (Psalms 46 & 130) – John Ferguson

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature.
Premiere: May, 1996
Published 1996, Augsburg Fortress, St. Olaf Choral Series 11-10748

The Canticle of Brother Sun – Daniel Kallman

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature & McKnight Foundation
Premiere: May, 1997

Prime – Jeffrey Van

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: May, 1997

To God All Praise and Glory – Carolyn Jennings

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: May, 1998
Published: 2000, Kjos (8921)

All This Night – Rene' Clausen

Commissioned for the Choral Arts Ensemble by Peter Dyck through the Rochester Area Foundation
Premiere: December, 1998
Published: 1999, Mark Foster Music Co., Rene Clausen Choral Series (MF 587)

O Magnum Mysterium – Daniel Kallman

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature
Premiere: December, 1999

Each Day – Stephen Paulus

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May, 2000
Active listing in Paulus Publications catalog

Ante Luciferum Genitus – Cary John Franklin

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: December, 2000

Melted into Dreams – Carol Barnett

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: March, 2001

The Glory and the Dream – Richard Rodney Bennett

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble as part of an international collaborative choral commission
Premiere: March, 2001 (all commissioning choirs of this piece premiered it in March, 2001)

A Christmas Carol – Kenneth Jennings

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature
Premiere: December, 2001
Inaugural piece of the Mary Joyce Frantz Memorial Christmas Carol series

Little Black Train – Alf Houkom

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May, 2002
Recorded on CAE’s Simple Gifts cd, 7/03

Black is the Color of Dorian Gray – Jackson Berkey

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May, 2002
Recorded on CAE’s Simple Gifts cd, 7/03.
Published 2004 SDG Press 02-100

Once in Royal David’s City – Daniel Kallman

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble, with assistance from the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council/Minnesota State Legislature
Premiere: December, 2002
Second annual Mary Joyce Franz Memorial Christmas Carol

Air, and Ye Elements – Alf Houkom

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: March 15, 2003

Hold On – Robert Morris

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May 3, 2003

Near the Snow, Near the Sun – Kevin Dobbe

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: December, 2003
Third Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Memorial Christmas Carol

Autumn – Joshua Shank

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May 1, 2004
Published: 2004, Santa Barbara Music Press

There is No Rose – Rene' Clausen

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: October 23, 2004
Fourth Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Memorial Christmas Carol
Published: 2005, Santa Barbara Music Press
Included on 2005 CAE cd Never Be We Mute

Where is Love – arr. Joshua Shank

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: February 12, 2005
Included on 2007 CAE cd Seasons of Love

Pied Beaty – Dale Warland

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May 7, 2005
Included on 2005 CAE cd Never Be We Mute

The Souls of the Righteous – David Cherwien

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: October 2005

To the New Jerusalem – arr. Matthew Culloton

Commissioned for the Choral Arts Ensemble by Anonymous donor
Premiere: October 2005
Published: 2007, Santa Barbara Music Press
Commissioning opportunity from 2005 Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction

All This Night My Heart Rejoices – Z. Randall Stroope

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: December 2005
Fifth Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Christmas Carol
Published: 2007, Colla Voce Music, Inc.

River Moons John Muehleisen

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May 2006
Published: 2007, Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing
Included on 2008 CAE cd This Shining Night

Mary and Gabriel Abbie Betinis

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: December 2006
Sixth Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Christmas Carol

No Rain Jocelyn Hagen

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: March 2007

The New Moon David N. Childs

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble Commissioning Club
Premiere: May 2007
Published: 2007, Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing
Included on 2008 CAE cd This Shining Night

There was a Time Eric William Barnum

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: October 2007
Published: 2008 Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing

Calm on the Listening Ear of Night David Dickau

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Premiere: December 2007
Seventh Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Christmas Carol
Published: 2008 Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series, Santa Barbara Music Publishing

Music Dei Donum Stephen Chatman

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Scheduled Premiere: May 2008
Published: 2008 E. C. Schirmer Music

Old Waters J. David Moore

Commissioned by the American Composers Forum as part of their Minnesota Voices project
celebrating Minnesota's Sesquicentenniel
Scheduled Premiere: May 2008

The Snow Lay on the Ground Frank Ferko

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Scheduled Premiere: December 2008
Eighth Annual Mary Joyce Frantz Christmas Carol

New Work Paul Nesheim

Commissioned by the Choral Arts Ensemble
Scheduled Premiere: March 2009



   

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