Choral Composition Festival

Ithaca College Thirty-Fourth Annual Choral Composition Contest 
Sponsored Jointly by Ithaca College and Roger Dean Publishing Company

Professor Lawrence Doebler founded the Choral Composition Festival in 1979 to encourage the creation and performance of new choral music and to establish the Ithaca College Choral Series. Six scores were chosen for performance this evening from entries submitted from around the world. 

Ithaca College hosts a yearly choral music composition contest. On the day of the festival the top six entries are performed by high school choirs from throughout New York. The festival starts in the morning with the introduction of the groups, then continues throughout the day with rehearsals and workshops. Each choir works with the composer of the piece that is to be performed. In the afternoon, all the groups meet in Ford Hall Auditorium and rehearse the massed choir piece with Mr. Doebler. The Ithaca College Choir performs its annual commissioned work having worked with the composer during the afternoon rehearsal and workshop. There is a concert in the evening at 7:00 p.m. in Ford Hall Auditorium in which all the works are performed, and the winner of the Robert Campbell ’40, M.S. ’50 Endowed Choral Composition Prize is announced. 

Composers Choral Festival 2012

I Would Live In Your Love (Sara Teasdale)
Peter Fischer
Lubbock, TX 79413

Beyond the Years (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Philip Hayden
Raleigh, NC 27609

To Go Away (Timothy Spruill)
Rick Bartlett
Warner Robbins, GA 31088

Rabbit Skunk (Jennifer Brissman)
Brian W. Holmes
San Jose, CA 95125

2 e e cummings songs
Brian W. Holmes
San Jose, CA 951

Two Nocturnes
I. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (Francis William Bourdillon)
II. Before the Still Night (James Syler)
James Syler
San Antonio, TX 8256

Invited High Schools:

Ithaca HS Ithaca, NY
Arthur Loomis, director

Niagara Wheatfield HS Sanborn, NY
David Curtis, director

Ward Melville HS Setauket, NY
Linda Contino, director

West Genesee HS Camillus, NY
Anthony Alvaro, director

East Lyme HS
Anthony Maiese, choral director

Wakefield HS
Ana Withiam Morel

Ithaca College Choir World Premiere
Lawrence Doebler, conductor