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With lyrics written by the composer, Two by Two is a light-hearted take on Noah's Ark. It features the usual animals, but also many unexpected ones including extinct and even mythical ones. The music...

With lyrics written by the composer, Two by Two is a light-hearted take on Noah's Ark. It features the usual animals, but also many unexpected ones including extinct and even mythical ones. The music...

This romp in the snow is about the thrills involved in two people riding a toboggan downhill. The music paints the wintry scene with fun rhythms and melodies. Duration: 3:55

My dear colleague, the renowned low flute player Peter Sheridan, lost his mother, Pauline, in 2014. One of my best friends, the very talented artist Malcolm Tuffnell, lost his mother, Jacqueline, in 2...

A Glimmering Girl is a lyrical setting of Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus. It was composed for the composer's friend Dr. Elizabeth Pauly and the Choir at Minneapolis Community and Technical Colle...

Night Vision was commissioned by Persephone Singers, a women's choir in Whitehorse, Yukon, directed by Barbara Chamberlin. It was premiered on May 2, 2015 at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse. This...

Stephen Chatman's Train for SSAA chorus is an arrangement from his original set, Due West for SATB chorus, commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir in 1997. The simple, charming text by Tara Wohlbe...

This anthem was composed to commemorate the retirement of Frank Hall, Pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Westport, Connecticut, to whom the piece is dedicated. Pastor Hall used this text,...

Seven night-themed poems by the mother of the talented artist Malcolm Tuffnell became the basis for this piece. The poems are short and the piece is through-composed, unfolding like a night-blooming f...

Due North is one in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the...

One in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the tone paintin...

Due East is one in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the...

Due South is one in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the...

Arise is the short opening of this suite of five pieces, and is set to glorious homophonic music with rising motives in the lower voices.

What's Cookin'? takes its sweet time tantalizing the listener with all the menu items of a truly Southern feast. Music, set to a slow tempo in swing eighths, makes the recitation tempting, if not down...