Bella Voce Commission Projects

 

Here is an overview of our commission projects and our collaborations with ensembles and guest artists.

Robert De Cormier – Hold On; Mary Had a Baby Suite; Dormi, Dormi, O Bel Bambin; 

Sing E1veryone, Sing Me; They Called Her Moses, Down by the Riverside

Gwyneth Walker – Lessons from the Sea; The Youthful Traveler

Michael Hopkins – East Bay Suite

David Feurzeig – Months; Walkin’ in Misterioso Land

E. Bayoán Rios-Escríbano – Amanecer Borincano

Randol Alan Bass – Gloria; Christmas Flourish

Pete Sutherland – Bailiff’s Daughter

 

Bella Voce Joint Commission Projects

 

Daniel Gawthrop – Softly, Little Child

Joan Szymko – The Singing Place

Ola Gjeilo – Tundra

Shawn Kirchner – Leshana Haba’a BiYerushalayim

Timothy Corlis - Heart Songs of the White Wampum

 

Bella Voce commissioned the following new works for its 10th anniversary season:

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Larysa Kuzmenko, composer – Gloria

(Jointly with Elektra Women’s Chorus, Vancouver, Canada;

and The University of Toronto Women’s Chorus)

Robert De Cormier, composer – Walk Together Children

Steven Sametz, composer – Women Make the Earth Move

 

Collaborations

 

Kaleidoscope Women’s Chorus, Essex High School – May 2005 to present

Gwyneth Walker, Vermont composer – December 2006, May 2007, April 2008, May 2010

Robert De Cormier, Vermont composer – December 2007, May 2013

Libana Women’s World Music Ensemble of Boston – January 2009

Burlington Chamber Orchestra – March 2010

Cantabile Choruses of Kingston, Ontario – April 2010

Cornell University Women’s Chorus, NY – May 2011

Kärntner Singgemeinschaft in Wien, Austria – June 2011

Concord Women’s Chorus of Massachusetts – June 2012