This is haungtingly beautiful! The composition, the voices... <3

It's somehow a modern approach to Gesualdo!

Superb polyphonic choral writing! (Excellent singing also.) Brings the renaissance masters to mind.  Sadly, many people have never heard this type of music, but to us who are familiar with it, it represents the utmost of musical and emotional sophistication.  These two pieces as well written (and performed) as anything.

A lively fantasy action track that was a ton of fun to write. I wanted to challenge myself as far as orchestration goes. Artwork: http://koshelkov.deviantart.com/art/Airship-Of-Doom-387098027

The Mighty Airship Chase

A four-part (moving to six in places) choral octet piece exploring the pain of leaving your childhood home and the memories of your parents.

Look, I can write a piece about how great cakes are, but you need to pay me.

Sopranos: Fleur Smith & Sarah Mansfield
Altos: Bernadette Johns & Sacha Fullerton
Tenors: Marco Galvani & Paul Stapley
Basses: Matthew Clark & Greg Bannan

Leaving the House (SSAATTBB choral elegy)

Dave Dexter is a composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist, specialising in classical, choral and orchestral writing for live players.

His string quartet piece "St Clement's Isle" was recently played on Classic FM on Jessica Curry's "High Score" show, and his works "Descendentem Sicut Columbam" and "Leaving the House" on BBC Radio York & 3 respectively. His choral setting of "I Sing Of A Maiden" was chosen for recording by ORA Singers and Suzi Digby in 2019 as part of their Christmas Gift scheme.

It's always risky to find an epoch one feels best represents music as a whole and state "This. This is what I want to do", but Dave certainly prefers the more traditional approach to scoring and composing. He'll work with samples if he has to, but the best moments come from hearing great musicians planting a glorious flag in the earth of a piece and making it their own. His music ranges from the beautiful and intimate, the achingly sad, the whimsical and the thunderously exciting; if not watched like a hawk he'll probably attempt to combine all four.

Dave is writing in the third person but is totally a cool guy and not arrogant in the slightest.

Leaving the House (SSAATTBB choral elegy)

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