Puget Soundworks is built on the following values: LGBTQIA+ centered: Working towards dismantling the gender boundaries & language traditionally found in choral music. Provide a welcoming, safe space for all gender identities and sexual orientations. Kindness is key: Everyone speaks and acts in a way that is respectful and compassionate. Create beautiful music: We love to sing and …
Commissioned by the GALA Choruses Festival V — 1996, Tampa, Florida. Motherless Child is derived, in part, from the African-American spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” The original song dates back to the era of slavery when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. In this new adaptation, …
The Rainbow Chorale of Delaware is an inclusive, non-profit community chorus that provides LGBTQ individuals, with their friends and allies, the opportunity to perform high-quality choral music in an affirming environment that serves as a positive force for change. In addition, the Rainbow Chorale supports other institutions and individuals who serve that community. Love of music is …
In the late 1980s, founding director Bob Phibbs sought to create a place where music was used as a vehicle to remind us all that we are more alike than different. Having previously served as the director of the Long Beach Gay Men’s Chorus, Phibbs and some friends began recruiting people who simply enjoyed singing …
We are Toronto’s largest 2SLGBTQQIA+ community choir. We are a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, choir – a relative rarity in our communities across North America. But Singing Out is much more than just a choir. Above all, Singing Out is a community with a mission of pride, music, and belonging. With weekly Tuesday rehearsals, and social events throughout …
Our Phoenix (2015) for SATB chorus, piano, and trumpet, ca. 4′ Commissioned by GALA Choruses for GALA Festival 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Co-commissioned for Our Song of Atlanta, Georgia, One Voice Chorus of Charlotte, North Carolina, River City Mixed Chorus of Omaha, Nebraska, One Voice Mixed Chorus of St. Paul, Minnesota, The Esoterics of Seattle, Washington, …
The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, and 16 other GALA choruses from across the country commissioned Quiet No More, composed by 6 of today’s most influential LGBTQ composers and an amazing librettist to tell the story of the Stonewall Uprising and the Gay Rights Movement through the …
We Hold Your Names Sacred – GALA Commission Consortium Artists: Mari Esabel Valverde & Dane Figueroa Edidi Length = 4 minutes SATB, SSAA and TTBB voicings available Text by Dane Figueroa Edidi Music by Mari Esabel Valverde The first in a series of choral pieces addressing the epidemic of violence, especially murders, of transgender women and in …
Love, Death, What Else?” was commissioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus as part of the McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship. It premiered in 2023 as a central focus of a concert titled “Generation“. The text is based on interviews with queer elder residents of Spirit on Lake in Minneapolis. Note: contains mature themes and language “Love, Death, …