William Averitt

Bring a sense of peace and warmth to your concert program with "All Through the Night." This touching choral piece is based on the beloved traditional Welsh folk song and lullaby set to the tune "Ar H...

From the large work Black Pierrot, Jazzonia (1923) describes the scene in a Harlem café of the 1920s in which 'six long-headed jazzers play, ' and beautiful girls dance. After a short introductory sec...

Evening Shade; Brethren, We Have Met to Worship; So Fades the Lovely Blooming Flower; The Morning Trumpet. Arranged for 4 C Flutes with optional Alto Flute or Bass Flute. Works well for any sacred occ...

Movement 3 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this folk hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines unaccompanied in this movement. Came...

The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on four American folk songs and hymns in this multi-movement work. Challenging but achievable vocal lines are paired with truly unique and master...

Movement 1 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterful fo...

Movement 4 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this folk hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterf...

The Song We Sing sets three new poems by Robert Bode for SATB choir and piano four-hands. Compelling and incredibly unique, William Averitt's compositional voice shines through in both excitement and...

for Flute, Cello and Piano. Each piece in this collection is based upon a familiar American folk song or ballad (Erie Canal; Shenandoah; The House Carpenter; Blow the Candle Out; Come Life, Shaker Lif...

Commissioned and premiered by the Texas Lutheran University Choir under their conductor, Douglas R. Boyer. The setting presents four verses of the familiar carol. Much of its considerable energy comes...

A delightful setting of a Sicilian carol, traditionally played on bagpipes.

William Averitt's Tunebook for Woodwind Quintet is a new take on seven melodies from The Sacred Harp, the most famous of the 19th-century source books. This work combines these melodies with contempor...

Commissioned for Choral Arts Northwest who gave its premiere performance in 2011 under their artistic director, Robert Bode. The music is primarily contrapuntal in texture, and its tonal language feat...

Written in 2010 in honor of the 30th anniversary season of Winchester (Virginia) Musica Viva, who gave its premiere performance under their music director, Kenneth Nafziger. The piece begins simply wi...

Movement 2 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterful fo...