Mixed Choir (SATB)
Difficulty Guide
1/4 - Suitable for non-auditioned amateur choirs
2/4 - Suitable for high school and collegiate choirs
3/4 - Suitable for skilled auditioned choirs
4/4 - Suitable for advanced professional choirs
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SATB a cappella
Text: Matthew Stepanic (b. 1990)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? A sweet love story between two men -
SSATBB a cappella
Text: Reginald Heber (1783-1826)
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Hope and strength in the nativity -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Mark Freeman (b. 1960) & AJ Verhappen (b. 1986)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? The everyday joys of family and parenthood -
SATB and Piano
Text: Stuart Beatch (b. 1991)
Duration: 6.5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Everett Klippert, the last person to be imprisoned for homosexuality in Canada -
SATB a cappella
Text: Richard Barnfield (1574-1620)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? A sacred reinterpretation of a gay Elizabethan sonnet -
SATB a cappella
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1979)
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? A tender setting of a humble prayer for musicians -
SATB and Piano
Text: Ryan Heller (b. 1979)
Duration: 2 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Celebrating life and beauty through vivid images of nature -
SATB a cappella
Text: Psalm 96:1, 11-13 (KJV)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Praising God through song & voice -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: John Barton (b. 1957)
Duration: 21 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? A choral cycle on life, loss, and the support of our chosen families -
SATB a cappella
Text: Norah M. Holland (1876-1925), adapted by the composer
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? A dog waiting at the gates of heaven for her humans to return -
SATB and piano
Text: David Ly
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Water as a metaphor for safety and sexuality -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Chen Chen (b. 1989)
Duration: 7.5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Remembering a perfect first date on the train ride home -
SATB and Piano
Text: Oliver Goldsmith (1794-1861)
Duration: 4.5 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? The beauty and stillness of nature -
SSAATTBB a cappella
Text: Piae Cantiones (16th c.)
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Ecstatic joy in the nativity -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
[also available for SSSAAA]
Text: Sofia Samatar (b. 1971)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Astronomy and gender, celebrating the life and work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt -
SAB and Piano (with opt. congregation)
Text: James Ostime (b. 1983)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? Leading change and unity through faith -
SAB, Flute and Piano
Text: Robert Herrick (1591-1674), Horace (65 BC-8 BC)
Duration: 7 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Living in the moment & seizing the day -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Adapted by the composer from contemporary sources
Duration: 7 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? The legalization of homosexuality in the UK -
SATB a cappella
Text: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? The nature of true and lasting love -
SATB and Piano
Text: Chen Chen (b. 1989)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? A playful and joyous queer love song -
SATB and Piano
[also available for SSAA or TTBB]
Text: Jay Hulme (b. 1997)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Celebrating queer faith & unconditional love -
SAB or SATB and Piano
[also available for high or low voices]
Text: Dominic Gregorio (1977-2019)
Duration: 5.5 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? Following your dreams & being your authentic self -
SAB choir and piano
Text: John Barton (b. 1957)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? Facing the reality of climate change with resilience -
SATB and Organ
Text: Book of Common Prayer
Duration: 7 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Evensong canticles, written for All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton -
SATB and Organ
Text: Latin Catholic Liturgy
Duration: 7 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? A mass setting for All Saints Cathedral, Edmonton -
SATB a cappella
Text: Zara Neukom (b. 1991)
Duration: 4.5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Motherhood, family, and overcoming illness -
SSATB choir and piano
Text: Jacques Demy (1931-1990), Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) & Agnès Varda (1928-2019)
Duration: 13 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Four songs by Michel Legrand, all taken from influential French New Wave films -
SATB divisi choir, a cappella
Text: Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) & Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839-1920)
Duration: 1.5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What's it about? A lush arrangement of the Canadian National Anthem -
SSAATTBB a cappella
Text: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and Latin Vulgate
Duration: 10 minutes
Difficulty: 4/4
What’s it about? A complex meditation on the Last Supper -
SATB a cappella
[also available for SSAA or TTBB]
Text: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? Communion and the Holy Trinity -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 4/4
What’s it about? The promise and power of the Canadian Pacific Railway -
SATB double choir, a cappella
Text: Psalm 53 (KJV)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Faith and salvation in a dramatic double-choir setting -
SATB and Organ
Text: Psalm 100 (Latin Vulgate)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Celebrating God through music -
SSAATTBB a cappella
Text: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Duration: 7 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? The machine of war and our shared loss -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: John Donne (1572-1631) and Latin Vulgate
Duration: 10 minutes
Difficulty: 4/4
What’s it about? The ecstasy of Christ’s resurrection, framed in poetry and scripture -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Song of Solomon 8:6
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? The strength of true, undying love -
SATB a cappella
Text: Psalm 48, 121 & 130 (BCP)
Duration: 7.5 minutes (2.5 mins each)
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Short, accessible psalm settings for general use -
SATB (divisi) and Piano
Text: Song of Solomon 1:9-17 (Latin Vulgate)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 4/4
What’s it about? Intense and passionate love as depicted in the Song of Solomon -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Duration: 6.5 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Individuality, gender, and sexuality -
SATB (divisi) and piano
Text: Four English poems c. 1900
Duration: 15 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? A choral cycle on themes of destruction and rebirth -
SATB and Organ
Text: Song of Solomon 3:6-7a, 11 (KJV), John Milton (1608-1674)
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Exploring gender and agency in the biblical Song of Solomon -
SSATB a cappella
Text: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? The youth and beauty of a male lover -
from “I am like many”
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: An anonymous letter from a gay man, read in UK Parliament in 1958
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Seeking tolerance and acceptance from lawmakers -
SATB and Piano
Text: Michael Kiesow Moore (b. 1960)
Duration: 5 minutes
Difficulty: 2/4
What’s it about? Rejecting war, embracing love, and taking action -
SATB and Piano
Text: James Ostime (b. 1983)
Duration: 3 minutes
Difficulty: 1/4
What’s it about? The value of life, love, and friendship -
written in collaboration with Scottish composer Tom Harrold
SATB (divisi) and cello
Text: Grahame Davies (b. 1964)
Duration: 30 minutes
Difficulty: 4/4
What’s it about? Commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and the success & sacrifice of young Canadian soldiers -
Tenor & Baritone soli, SATB and Organ
Text: Latin Vulgate
Duration: 20 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? A short cantata setting the scriptural readings from my own wedding -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Anonymous (20th c.)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Love in the face of adversity and distance -
SATB (divisi) a cappella
Text: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Duration: 4 minutes
Difficulty: 3/4
What’s it about? Expressing love through vivid natural imagery
Phew, that’s a lot of music!
Looking for a specific theme or text? Contact me directly for suggestions, or consider commissioning a new work for the occasion!