for SA and piano Your Echo Around Me sets a text by the composer that was inspired by choristers of the Amabile Choirs in London, Ontario. It celebrates the enduring influence of music educators, whose words and actions resonate in their students' adult lives, as evoked by a memorable lilting melody that passes between the voice parts and echo-like interplay with the piano.
Sarah Quartel is one of Canada's most internationally celebrated and widely performed living choral composers. Her music is programmed globally, and her commissions have premiered in spaces such as Carnegie Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, and the famed Church of the Rock in Helsinki. Raised as a choral singer herself, Sarah is inspired by the life-changing relationships that can occur in group singing. She is known for her fresh, exciting, and chorister-centred approach to music making, writing in a way that connects singer to singer, ensemble to conductor, and performer to audience. Sarah also works as a clinician, visiting composer, and guest conductor at music education and choral events in Canada and abroad.
