Allan Bevan - List of Works (Selected)
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I. Choral/Orchestral
No Mortal Business: (30') Oratorio for actor, soprano, mixed chorus and chamber orchestra (2011)
Texts: William Shakespeare
Commissioned by: Chorus Niagara, Richard Eaton Singers, Vancouver Bach Choir
First Performance: March 3-4 2012 St. Catharines, and Toronto, Robert Cooper, conductor
Subsequent Performances: March 13, 2016 Richard Eaton Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor; April 23, 2016 Toronto Orpheus Choir, Robert Cooper
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
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Fowre Thowsand Wynter (32’) Oratorio for soprano, actor, mixed chorus, organ, orchestra (2009)
Text: Anon. Middle English, Latin liturgical, Christina Rossetti
Commissioned by: Pro Coro Canada, Richard Sparks, conductor
Funded by: The Canada Council and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
First Performance: December 13, 2009, Winspear Centre for Music, Edmonton.
Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode (30’) Oratorio for soprano, actor, mixed chorus, organ, orchestra (2004)
Text: Anon. Middle English, Latin liturgical, Biblical text
First Performance: Good Friday, March 25, 2005, Edmonton, Pro Coro Canada, Richard Sparks
Subsequent Performances: Pro Coro Canada, Richard Sparks, April 6, 2007; Soli Deo Gloria, San Francisco, Allen Simon, 2008; UNT Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Sparks, March 3, 2014; Windsor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Joel Tranquilla, April 16, 2014; Rosedale Presbyterian Church, Toronto, April 3, 2015, Robert Cooper –world premiere of the alternate accompaniment to be published 2016) ; I Coristi and Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus and Orchestra, Rob Curtis, Feb. 22, 2016; Distinguished Concerts International New York, Carnegie Hall, Richard Sparks, March 7, 2016
Awards: First Prize Choral Category –Composer’s Guild (Utah) 2006; “Outstanding Choral Work” -The Association of Canadian Choral Conductor’s, May 2008.
Published by: classica Music Publishers Vancouver, 2006. “Rosedale Version” 2016
Broadcasts: CBC Choral Concert, Feb. 8, 2008; Going Beyond Words, September 2014
YouTube: UNT Chorus and Orchestra, Richard Sparks, March 3, 2014
Fairest Lord Jesus (3’50”) arr. brass octet, organ, percussion and mixed chorus, (2001)
Text: English, public domain
Commissioned by: CBC Radio Two Choral Concert for the 2001 Easter Sunrise Celebration, Edmonton, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor, simulcast by CBC Television, April 15, 2001 and CBC Radio Two Choral Concert for the 2007 Easter Sunrise Celebration, performed by massed chorus and “The Canadian Brass”, CBC Studios, Toronto.
Published by: Canadian Music Centre.
Recorded by: King's University College Choir, Melanie Turgeon, on Hear the Voice of My Prayer (2011)
Je Te Retrouve (3’) SATB and orchestra (2008) (see also SATB and piano)
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean for the 100th Anniversary of the University of Alberta, performed in Edmonton and at “Quebec 400”.
SATB and orchestra version first performance: Chorale Saint-Jean with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Laurier Fagnan, conductor, 2008.
Published by: Alliance des Chorales du Québec, 2009 (SATB and piano)
Orchestral Score/Parts; Canadian Music Centre
II. String Orchestra
Away In a Manger (2’) (2009)
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre
Level: Easy
Londonderry Air (4’) (2009)
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre, (2009)
Level: Medium
‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (4’) (2006)
Published by: Ludwig Masters Music, Florida, 2007
Performed by: Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Rosemary Thomson
Level: Easy
To Morning (4’) (2006)
Broadcast live on KULT Radio (Russian Arts Radio), conducted by Misha Rachlevsky, January 27, 2006. Part of the orchestra’s tour of the eastern USA, 2006, including a performance at Carnegie Hall, NYC, also European tour 2007
Awards: Winner of the Orchestra Member’s Prize, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin’s, “Mozart-250 Competition”, January 2006 UK performances by Helix Ensemble, and the U. Warwick String Orchestra 2007
Published by: Ludwig Masters Music, Florida, 2007
Level: Medium
III. Choral
A Child’s Evening Prayer (4’) SATB, violin, and piano (2008)
Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Commissioned by: The Calgary Boy’s Choir
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
Level: Medium
All Suddenly the Wind Comes Soft (2'20") SATB, piano (2015)
Text: Rupert Brooke
Commissioned by: Saskatoon Chamber Singers, James Hawn
Published by: Cypress Choral Music CP 1490 (2016)
Level: Easy
A Stable-Lamp is Lighted (3’35”) SAB piano (1996)
Text: Richard Wilbur
Broadcast in U.S. and Europe as part of the film “Me and You and Everyone We Know”.
Unpublished
An End (4’) SSAA and piano (2001)
Text: Christina Rossetti
Published by: Cypress Choral Music
Recorded by: Concerto Della Donna (Montreal) on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011)
Ave Maria (3’) 2 Soprano soloists, SA voices and piano, (1999)
Awards: first prize, ACCC Composition Competition 1999-2000
First performance: National Youth Choir of Canada, 2000, Leonard Ratzlaff.
Recorded by: Ariose Women’s Choir, (Edmonton) Amabile Youth Singers, (London, ON), Concerto della Donna
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, Vancouver, 2000
Level: Medium
Ave Verum Corpus (2’) SA voices and piano, (1995)
Published by: Colla Voce Music, Indianapolis, 2001, (70-96560) (Henry Leck Indianapolis Children’s Choir Series)
Level: Easy
Carol We and Worship We (12’) SSATB piano (2000)
Text: Christina Rossetti
Commissioned by: Da Camera Singers, Edmonton,
“Love Came Down” (first mvt.) published by Cantate Music Press, (CAN-1060)
"Christmas Hath a Darkness" and "Christmas Day" second and third mvts. unpublished
Cradle Song (3’24”) SSA piano (2001)
Text: W. B. Yeats
Commissioned by: Cantare Children’s Choir, Calgary, AB
Funded by: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
First performance: University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2002.
Recorded by: Cantare Children’s Choir (Calgary) on “This Is My Home”
Christ My Beloved (6’) SSATB a cappella (2004)
Text: William Baldwin from the Song of Solomon
Commissioned by: Spiritus Chamber Choir, Calgary, Janet Youngdahl, conductor.
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre
Danny Boy (3') arr. SATB and piano, SSAA, and TTBB (1998, 2004)
Text: Frederick Weatherly
Published by: Rhythmic Trident (2014)
Level: Medium
Deep River (2’) arr. for SSA voices and piano
Recorded by: Cincinnati Boys’ Choir, Ohio; Cantare Children’s Choir, Calgary; Concerto Della Donna
Published by: Colla Voce Music, Indianapolis (2001) (Henry Leck Choral Series)
Level: Easy
Dormez (3’) arr. SSA piano (2006)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Dr. Laurier Fagnan, conductor
Published by: Alliances des Chorales du Québec
Recorded by: Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011)
From: Elles s’appelent Marie
Level: Easy
Easter (4’) SSATB a cappella (2004) revised 2010
Text: by George Herbert
Commissioned by: Da Camera Singers, Premiere March 12, 2005, Edmonton.
Published by: Classica Music Publishers as “I Got Me Flowers” (2011)
Echo (4’25”) SSAA piano (2000)
Awards: first prize, ACCC Composition Competition 2001-2002
Published by: Cypress Choral Music (CCM-1083) first performance, “National Youth Choir of Canada”, Toronto, Lydia Adams, 2002
Recorded by: Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011); The Manitou Singers of St. Olaf College, Dr. Sigrid Johnson, conductor, on
Music for Women's Voices, Vol. 7 (2011)
Level: Difficult
Eine Alte Krippe (3’) SATB and piano;
German text: Birgit Paulsma
Published by: Unisong Music, Hilversum, Netherlands 2006
Translation of Gentle Mary Laid Her Child
Elles s’Appelent Marie (45’) arr. for mezzo-soprano, and other soloists SATB, piano, multimedia (2006)
Texts (in French) and melodies by: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean, Edmonton
First performance: Edmonton, April 2007, other performances Vancouver, and in France
Published by: Alliances des Chorales du Québec, 2009 (full score, vocal score, and piano score with optional multi-media)
Level: Medium
For a Dream’s Sake (12') SSAA piano, (2000) (see An End, Echo, Mirage)
Text: Christina Rossetti
Recorded by: Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011)
Level: Difficult
Gentle Mary Laid Her Child (3’30”), available voicings: SATB piano (1997), SSA (1997), SAB (2001), and TTBB (2001)
Recordings: The Connecticut Choral Artists, Richard Coffey, on Christmas In Our Time, (1997) (SATB);
Ariose Women’s Choir, Edmonton, (2001) (SSA); Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011) (SSA)
Toronto Bach Children’s Chorus (2013) (TTBB)
Published by: Canadian International Music (Winnipeg) (Lorenz Corp., Ohio)
Level: Easy
Harp of Wild SSA and piano, (2003)
Text: Emily Brontë
Awards: first prize, ACCC Composition Competition 2003-2004
Recorded by: Ariose Women’s Choir (2007); Elektra Women’s Choir (Elektra's Garden, 2009) Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011)
Recognized by Elektra Women’s Choir as one of the top thirty Canadian works for treble voices.
First performance: National Youth Choir of Canada, 2004, Timothy Shantz, Podium 2004, Winnipeg
Published by: classica Music Publishers, 2004
Level: Medium
Hide Thy Face SATB a cappella (2004)
Text: Psalm 51
Published by: classica Music Publishers, 2008
Recordings: The Voice of My Prayer, King’s University College, Melanie Turgeon (2011); A Canadian Mass: Sacred Reflections of Canada, Canadian Chamber Choir, Julia Davids, Joel Tranquilla, 2015
Level: Medium
Huron Carol arr. available voicings: SATB a cappella (1997), SSAA a cappella (2001)
Published by: SATB Canadian International Music (Lorenz Corp.), 1997; SSAA Classica Music Publishers (2011)
Recordings: SATB version, The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor, 1999 on “Balulalow”, and by The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, on “In Dulci Jubilo”, 2000; SSAA version, Heruvymy Vocal Quartet, Edmonton; Concerto Della Donna on Parlez-Moi: The Music of Allan Bevan (2011)
SSAA commissioned by: Heruvymy Vocal Quartet, Edmonton
Level: Easy
I Got Me Flowers SATB a cappella (2011)
Text: George Herbert
Published by: classica Music Publishers (2011)
Level: Medium
I Sing The Birth (3’) SATB voices and harp (2000)
Text: Ben Jonson
Awards: finalist in the 2000 Welcome Christmas! Carol Composition Competition, Minneapolis
Unpublished
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (4') SA and piano (2013)
Text: William Wordsworth
Commissioned by: Dulcisono Women's Choir
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
J' appartiens (4') SATB and piano (2016) arr. and SSA and piano (2017)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet (bilingual French-English text)
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean
Published by: Cypress Choral Music - SATB CP 1501 (2016); SSA - CP 1524 (2017)
Level: Easy
Je Te Retrouve (3’) available arrangements: SATB and piano, (2007), SATB and orchestra (2008)
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean for the 100th Anniversary of the University of Alberta, performed in Edmonton and at “Quebec 400”. Included in the NFB documentary Choeur d’une Culture, 2009. Performed in Paris and other locations in France, 2011.
Published by: Alliance des Chorales du Québec, 2009.
SATB and orchestra version first performance: Chorale Saint-Jean with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Laurier Fagnan, conductor, 2008.
Le Pont Mirabeau (5’) SATB (2010)
Text: Guillaume Appollinaire
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Laurier Fagnan
Published by : Cypress Choral Music, Vancouver (2014)
Maison de Pierre (3’) arr. SATB piano (2006)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Dr. Laurier Fagnan, conductor
Published by: Alliances des Chorales du Québec
From: Elles s’appelant Marie
Mirage (3’30) 2 S. soloists; SSAA and piano (second mvt. of For A Dream’s Sake)
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, 2003
Mon Clair de Lune arr. (3’50”) mezzo soprano solo, SATB and piano, 2004
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale St.-Jean, Faculté St. Jean, Univ. of Alberta, Laurier Fagnan, conductor.
Published by: L’Alliance des chorales du Québec, 2005. Recorded by Chorale St.-Jean (Edmonton).
Performed by: Quebec 400 Massed Choir, July 2008. Featured in the NFB documentary Choeur d’une Culture, 2009.
My Mother (6’) SSATBB a cappella, (2003)
Text: Francis Ledwidge
Commissioned by: I Coristi, Edmonton.
Recorded on: Echoes: Ten Years of Song, I Coristi, (Arktos) Edmonton, Dr. Debra Cairns
Publisher: The Canadian Music Centre.
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (4’) SATB a cappella, (2014)
Text: Tennyson
Commissioned by: Jubilate Vocal Ensemble, Vancouver
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, 2015
Level; Medium
O Canada SATB a cappella and SSA a cappella
Commissioned for: the 1995 World Nordic Games Opening Ceremony
Recorded by: Cal. State Long Beach Choir for inclusion in Kristine Forney’s The Enjoyment of Music, 10th Ed., 2005, Prentice-Hall publishers
Unpublished
O Vos Omnes SATB a cappella (1999, revised 2002) see Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode.
Awards: Second prize in the International Composer’s Competition, 2004, Jihlava, Czech Republic
From: Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode
O Lord Increase My Faith SATB a cappella, (1980)
Published by: Randall Egan, Minneapolis, 2002
Level: Easy
Once By An Inland Water SATB organ (congregational hymn) (2007)
Text: Herbert O’Driscoll
Commissioned by: First Baptist Church, Halifax, Canada for their 185th anniversary celebrations.
Unpublished
Parlez-Moi arr. SSA and SATB and piano (2010, 2013)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, Nicolas Porte (France)
Published by: Cypress Choral Music (2013)
Peace (My Soul There Is a Country) SATB (2001) (third mvt. of Three Motets On Texts of Henry Vaughan)
Text: Henry Vaughan
Awards: first prize, Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition 2002, Toronto.
Reviews: The Choral Journal
Published by: classica Music Publishers, (2004)
Que Reste-t-il? arr. SA and piano (2014)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Artemis, Choeur de Femmes, Danielle Maisonneuve
Published by: classica Music Publishers
Quiet SATB (2010)
Text: Marjorie Pickthall
Commissioned by: Spiritus Chamber Choir, Calgary, Timothy Shantz
First Performance: The University of Calgary, May 7, 2011
Unpublished
Singers to Come, What Thoughts Will Turn to Song? (7’) SATB piano (2005)
Text: Alice Meynell
Commissioned and recorded by: The Alberta Centennial Choral Celebration, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor.
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre
Stabat Mater (3’) arr. SATB (2006)
Text and Melody: Traditional and France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Dr. Laurier Fagnan, conductor
Published by: Alliances des Chorales du Québec
From: Elles s’appelent Marie
Stars (3') SA and piano (2016)
Text: Marjorie Pickthall
Commssioned by: Branksome Hall Chamber Choir
Published by: Santa Barbara Music Publishers - SBMP 1398 (2017)
Level: Medium
The Eclipse (3’) SATB (first mvt. of Three Motets On Texts of Henry Vaughan). (2000)
Text: Henry Vaughan
Recorded by: The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor, on My Soul There is a Country, (2001)
I Coristi Chamber Choir Debra Cairns, conductor, on Songs of the Soul (2008)
Published by: Classica Music Publishers, Vancouver, 2005
The Garden (7’) SSAA, flute, and piano (2006)
Text: Alice Meynell
Commissioned by: The Association of Canadian Choral Conductors for Podium 2006 National Youth Choir of Canada, (Victoria, B.C.) Richard Sparks, conductor
Subsequent Performances: University of Toronto Women’s Chamber Choir, Hilary Apfelstadt
The Lost Lagoon (4’) SATB and piano (2011).
Text: E. Pauline Johnson
Awards: First Prize, Jubilate! Chamber Choir Vancouver 125 Competition (2011)
Published by: classica Music Publishers, Vancouver 2011
The Morning Watch (7’) SATB double chorus and piano (2008)
Text: Henry Vaughan
Awards: Third prize, Vancouver Bach Choir’s Composition Competition for Large Choirs, 2008.
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre
The Revival (4’) SATB (2000), (second mvt. of Three Motets On Texts of Henry Vaughan)
Text: Henry Vaughan
Recorded by The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor, on My Soul There is a Country, 2001. (Arktos)
Published by: classica Music Publishers, 2005
The Souls of the Righteous available voicings: SATB a cappella, (1999); TTBB a cappella (2001)
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, 2002 (SATB) and classica Music Publishers 2005 (TTBB)
TTBB version premiered by Chor Leoni, Vancouver, at the “Annual Remembrance Day Concert”
Recorded by: Nova Voce Singers, Halifax, on Making Waves (2010); Ensemble Phoebus, Montreal CBC Music
The Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ (7’) SATB and piano, (2002)
Text: Alfred Tennyson from In Memoriam
Commissioned by: Pro Coro Canada (performances 2002 and 2004)
Funded by: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre, 2006
Then Farewell, World (11’) SSATBB a cappella (2004); SATB double chorus (2007)
Text: Philip Sydney and Thomas Campion
Commissioned by: Pro Coro Canada, Richard Sparks, conductor
Funded by: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, performed on the choir’s tour to Toronto and Ottawa, 2004, and The Northern Voices Choral Festival, Toronto and Montreal, June 2005
Broadcast: CBC Choral Concert, June 2006
Published by: The Canadian Music Centre.
There, In That Other World (7’) SSAA piano (2005)
Text: Mary Coleridge
Commissioned by: Ariose Women’s Choir, Edmonton.
Recorded on: “There, In That Other World”, 2005
Published by: classica Music Publishers, 2007
Toi, Moi, et Tout le Monde (4’) arr. SATB and piano (2004)
Text and Melody: France Levasseur-Ouimet
Commissioned by: Chorale St.-Jean, Faculté St. Jean, U. Alberta, Laurier Fagnan, conductor
Published by: L’Alliance des chorales du Québec, 2005
Recorded by: Chorale St.-Jean, 2006
To Morning (4’) SSA piano (1995)
Text: William Blake
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, 2002
Awards: One of Elektra Women’s Choir “top thirty picks”
Youtube: Elektra Women’s Choir
Three Motets on Texts of Henry Vaughan (10’) SSATB a cappella (I. The Eclipse, II. The Revival,
III. Peace) (2001)
Text: Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
Recorded by: The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, (2001), I Coristi, (Edmonton), 2008
Published by: classica Music Publishers, 2005
Two Alberta Vignettes (7’) SATB and piano (2005)
Commissioned by: Mount Royal Kantorei, (Calgary) David Ferguson, conductor.
Premiere: Eckhardt-Grammaté Recital Hall, Calgary, May 2005
Unpublished
Upon a Night (5’) SATB, flute and harp (2003)
Text: Medieval alt. Jon Washburn
Commissioned by: The Vancouver Chamber Choir, 2003
World Premiere: Vancouver, Dec. 19 and 21, 2003
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
Your Songs (5') SSA and piano (2014)
Text: Joseph Mary Plunkett
Commissioned by: Women of Note, Patricia Rabson
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
Zachtjes Sliep Maria’s Kind (3’) arr. available voicings: SATB and piano; TTBB and piano
Text: Gentle Mary Laid Her Child by Joseph Simpson Cook tr. into Dutch by Titia Lindeboom
Published by: Unisong Music, Hilversum, Holland, 2006
IV. Instrumental
Songs for Flute and Piano (5') (1973) Unpublished
Rondo for Saxophone Quartet (6') (1998) Unpublished
Collection for Woodwind Trio (6') (1976) (ob., cl., bsn.) Unpublished
Three Motets for Concert Band (11') (2007) Unpublished
