Text from Song of Songs 3:1-4
Commissioned and performed by the Adelaide Chamber Singers, directed by Carl Crossin, 2011

in lectulo meo per noctes (On my bed by night)
quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (I sought him whom my soul loves)
quaesivi illum et non inveni (I sought him, but found him not)

surgam et circuibo civitatem (I will rise now and go about the city)
per vicos et plateas (in the streets and in the squares)
quaeram quem diligit anima mea (I will seek him whom my soul loves)
quaesivi illum et non inveni (I sought him, but found him not)

invenerunt me vigiles (The watchmen found me)
qui custodiunt civitatem (as they went about in the city)
num quem dilexit anima mea vidistis (“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”)

paululum cum pertransissem eos (Scarcely had I passed them)
inveni quem diligit anima mea (when I found him whom my soul loves)
tenui eum nec dimittam (I held him, and would not let him go)
donec introducam illum in domum matris meae (until I had brought him into my mother's house)
et in cubiculum genetricis meae (and into the chamber of her who conceived me)

in lectulo meo per noctes

Composer, producer - soundtracks, arrangements.
Contact: olivergreevesmusic@gmail.com

Original scores for YESOD (2022) and Tea Break (2023)

Keyboardist / vocalist / multi-instrumentalist
Member of https://soundcloud.com/user-702799506
Accompanist for https://soundcloud.com/alexandra-mckay-547749993

Previous bands:
https://alphabetteband.bandcamp.com/music (2014-2017)
https://soundcloud.com/oslohmusic https://osloh.bandcamp.com/music (2013-2014)
https://spacesbetweendays.bandcamp.com/ (2009-2011)

Michael Betz is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Mason City, IA, currently based in the Twin Cities, MN. His compositions are not limited to the concert stage and have appeared in a variety of media, including Android apps by developer Nathan Tornquist and the YouTube series Chadtronic. As a keyboardist, he is comfortable in a variety of musical contexts and maintains an active performance schedule as a jazz pianist, collaborative pianist, and sideman (recently appearing with the Fringe Pipes and George Faber). He also performs as a solo improvisational synthesizer player and has played Twin Cities experimental music series such as Drone Not Drones, the Tourniquet Noise Series, and Khyber Pass Thursdays. Betz served as principal percussionist in the St. Olaf Band and St. Olaf Orchestra and continues to make appearances with local ensembles, including the Wayzata Symphony Orchestra and Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. As a chorister, he is the bass section leader with Magnum Chorum and also regularly sings with MPLS (imPulse), Aliro Voices, and PopUp Choir. He teaches private piano, guitar, and and beginning orchestral string lessons through the Minnetonka Music Academy.

Betz is a recipient of the American Composer Forum’s Jerome Fund for New Music grant. His orchestra work Enclosure was awarded Honorable Mention in the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. Four of his works have received finalist designation in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. He has also received recognition in calls for scores from the Solo and Chamber Timpanist’s Initiative and Symphony Number One. He has received commissions from the Source Song Festival, Magnum Chorum, St. Olaf College, and Mason City High School, among others. His music has been performed in Europe and the United States and has been heard locally in many Twin Cities classical music venues such as Westminster Hall, Antonello Hall, Studio Z, the Baroque Room, and the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series. Performers of his music include Aliro Voices, RenegadeEnsemble, Neoteric Chamber Winds, pianist Mary Jo Gothmann, baritone Alan Dunbar, flutist Yoshi Weinberg, the Vine Orchestra, the St. Olaf Band and St. Olaf Orchestra, Una Vocis Choral Ensemble, the Mason City High School Symphonic Band and Concert Choir (IA), and chamber ensembles from the University of Iowa and Roseville Area High School (MN).

Betz holds a B.M. in Theory and Composition from St. Olaf College, where he studied with Timothy Mahr and Justin Merritt. He also studied composition with David Conte at the EAMA-Nadia Boulanger Summer Institute. Betz is a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Forum.

in lectulo meo per noctes

David John Lang