for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This is a characterful setting of a classic Medieval Christmas text. Festive and dance-like, the music embodies the joy of the Christmas season and celebrates human redemption through Christ. The music's energy stems from its fast pulse paired with interplaying duple and triple metre. The piece is full of spirit, employing the dorian mode and lively rhythms dancing over sung drones.
for SATB unaccompanied
This is a characterful setting of a classic Medieval Christmas text. Festive and dance-like, the music embodies the joy of the Christmas season and celebrates human redemption through Christ. The piece is full of spirit, employing the dorian mode and lively rhythms dancing over sung drones.
Conductor, composer, and scholar Vicente Chavarría holds degrees from the University of Miami, the University of Southern California, and the Royal College of Music. He also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leuven. A pupil of Morten Lauridsen and Haris Kittos, he has had compositions and arrangements performed around the world. At the Royal College of Music, he studied conducting with Peter Stark, Howard Williams, and Martyn Brabbins, and served as Assistant Conductor of the RCM Opera. He was formerly the Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and served as Co-Musical Director of Trinity Laban Opera. Chavarría is Principal Conductor/Musical Director of the Manchester Chamber Choir, the Handful Chamber Choir, and the early music ensemble Lilium Convallium, and has worked with orchestras and choirs around the UK and the US.
