Arvo Pärt Centre Creative Residency Scholarship Submission

PORTFOLIO (Composition Samples)

Score Video Performers: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Chorus; Andrew Megill, conductor

kanata – for large choir (SSAATTBB)
Duration: 16 minutes  SCORE

Video Performance: OSM Chorus

Suggested Listening excerpts:
#1.
4:00 – 8:00 min. or so
#2. 11:30-13:30 or so
#3. 14:00-end (the epilogue)

* Winner of the distinguished 2024 Azrieli Prize!

Review:
“For Nobles, the sound of the words is more important than the words themselves. The final product is, simply, beautiful.”– Classical Music UK

Lux Antiqua Duration: 6 min.
TEXT: The names of stars
SSAATB   SMATRB

Video Performances:
Narodowe Forum Muzyki
Vancouver Chamber Choir

Suggested Listening excerpt:
3:10 – 5:30 min.

* Winner of the International SACRA/PROFANA Composition Competition (San Diego 2013)
* Selected to represent Canada at the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days (Wrocław, Poland 2014)
* International Winner of the Polyphonos Composition Competition (Seattle 2011)

Score Video Performers: Chestnut Street Singers, The Laughing Bird, and PhilHarmonia (Philadelphia)
Score Video Performers: Vancouver Bach Choir; Bruce Pullan, Music Director

Still Life (SSAATTBB)
Duration: 5 min. score
Text: phonemes

* Selected to represent Canada at the ISCM’s 2009 World Music Days in Sweden
* Winner of the Vancouver Bach Choir’s National Choir Music Competition (Vancouver 2008)
* Still Life has been released on CD by the Pennsylvannia All-State Chorus, conducted by Mitos Andala-Hart

* Coriolis has been released on CD by the Kammerchor Consono, conducted by Harald Jers (Koln, Germany)

Coriolis  (SSSAAATTTBBB)
Duration: 5 min. score
Text: phonemes

Video Performances:
musica intima
Kammerchor Consono

Suggested Listening Excerpt: 3:00-END

Score Video Performers: Kammerchor Consono; Harald Jers, conductor (Koln)