"Daffodils" for SATB chorus & piano

Honourable Mention: Grand Philharmonic Choir Composition Competition 2021

Premiere recording by Babεl, artistic director: Elaine Choi.

text by William Wordsworth
music by E.K.R. Hammell

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"Daffodils" (for SATB chorus & piano) | EKR Hammell | Babεl PREMIERE

TOXIC by Britney Spears
arranged for flex ensemble of 4(+) low instruments

arranged by E.K.R. Hammell
music by Cathy Dennis / Henrik Jonback / Christian Karlsson / Pontus Winnberg

score & parts available here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21890037

Happy Birthday, Britney!

"Toxic" (for low instrument 4tet/flex ensemble) | arr. EKR Hammell

You Wave
for SATB chorus & piano
[2019, rev. 2020]
 
text by Emily Sanford
music by E.K.R. Hammell
 
Commissioned by Exultate Chamber Singers (Toronto ON Canada)

Performance: Exultate Chamber Singers, dir. Mark Ramsay, soloist Sadie Menicanin. Live @ PODIUM 2022, Toronto ON Canada, 23 May 2022.

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"You Wave" (for SSAATTBB chorus & piano) | Hammell/Sanford | Exultate Chamber Singers @ PODIUM 2022

Rescue
for orchestra
[2020, rev. 2022]

E.K.R. Hammell

WIND BAND VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwnOfGmOEo

Commissioned by the Kingston Youth Orchestra

World Premiere Performance: Kingston Youth Orchestra, dir. Hugh Johnston, Kingston ON Canada, 24 May 2022.

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"Rescue" (for orchestra) | EKR Hammell | Kingston Youth Orchestra PREMIERE

Greenlees Overture
for wind band
[2012, rev. 2021]

Hugh A. Johnston

Commissioned by Regiopolis-Notre Dame Junior Concert Band

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"Greenlees Overture" (for wind band) | Hugh A. Johnston

"Game of Thrones" Main Theme - for brass quintet
music by Ramin Djawadi
arranged by EKR Hammell

SCORE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ijqglwxweLE
SHEET MUSIC (Score & Parts) : https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/game-of-thrones-digital-sheet-music/21886312

For more original music and arrangements by EKR Hammell, visit ekrhammell.com

"Game of Thrones" theme (for brass quintet) | arr. EKR Hammell

Trust
[2021, rev. 2022]
for SSAATTBB chorus a cappella
text by Robert Browning
music by EKR Hammell
performance recording by Concreamus Chamber Choir, dir. Kai Leung
tenor solo by William Salinas-Crosby

SCORE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/0DZ6vsyj8pE

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"Trust" (for SSAATTBB chorus a cappella) | EKR Hammell

I Shall Not Forget
[2017]
for SSAATTBB chorus a cappella
text by Archibald Lampman
music by EKR Hammell
performance recording by Concreamus Chamber Choir, dir. Kai Leung

SCORE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/zUcb95eh4oo

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"I Shall Not Forget" (for SSAATTBB chorus a cappella) | EKR Hammell

SCORE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gJPCl9nBM

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"Nerve & Verve" for wind band | EKR Hammell

song #1 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

i. the bird's hour (part 1)

song #2 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

ii. the first bluebird

song #3 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

iii. the hummingbird

song #4 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

iv. the screech owl

song #5 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

v. the chickadee

song #6 from SONGS FROM THE AVIARY
text: AE Wetherald
music: EKR Hammell

SCORE: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/songs-from-the-aviary-score

Live recording from the Kiwanis Festival of Guelph Gala 2023 finale.  Kathryn Rose Johnston, soprano. Christian Umipig, piano. Feb 11th 2023.

vi. the bird's hour (part 2)

Score Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qK6N1ew6N8

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"Stardust Dunes" for wind band | E.K.R. Hammell

Music by Matthew Emery
Wind Band Transcription by E.K.R. Hammell

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When the Sun Comes After Rain is originally a choral motet written by Canadian composer Matthew Emery for the UBC University Singers in 2012, set to the Robert Louis Stevenson poem of the same name. The piece brings a freshnes as real as the smells after a summer rain and evokes themes of love, longing, and belonging.

This wind band arrangement was premiered December 3rd 2016 by the University of Toronto Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Gillian MacKay.

December 3 2016

"When The Sun Comes After Rain" (for wind band) | Emery, arr. Hammell | UofT Wind Ensemble PREMIERE

Daniel Robinson, baritone
Alex McMaster, cello
Frances Armstrong, piano

recorded live at The Music Gallery (Toronto) by Paul Hodge.

FeminIndigenization: a song cycle journey on the poetry of Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon, music by E.K.R. Hammell

REVISED SCORE AVAILABLE SOON

II. I remember as a kid
I remember as a kid
climbing tree branches
my ladder to freedom
like a dog at my feet
loyal to the acrid end
when I had to descend
and go back to
the homeless home

Copyright © 2012-2017 by Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon. Used by permission.

FeminIndigenization is an 8 song cycle that was created as a collaboration between composer E.K.R. Hammell and poet Clear Wind Blows Over The Moon. It was conceived as a chronological musical journey through important, often difficult events in the poet’s life, using selected poems to develop a narrative that illustrate the poet’s eventual self-discovery as an Indigenous woman.

About the Poet:
Heather Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon is a Cree First Nations healer, poet, writer, big drum keeper, artist, and a spiritual and environmental activist. Her poetry has been published in A Rewording Life and is to be published in an Indigenous anthology by Annick Press in the fall of 2017. “Creating art transcends my painful history. I am an inter-generational Indian Residential School survivor that lived through extreme violence in my childhood. Part of my soul purpose is to help heal others who have lived through trauma and abuse to find expression, a sense of belonging and to teach them they have a choice; the systemic violence can end with them as it does with me. My spirituality and living the ancient teachings is at the core of who I am and sharing this with others is meaningful for me. I am deeply honoured to share my experience as an Indigenous woman to raise awareness to the true history of Canada and to the critically important issues (stemming from colonization) my people continue to face to this very day.”

blog of poetry clearwindblowsoverthemoon.wordpress.com
website soulpurposehealing.weebly.com

FEMININdigenization

"I remember as a kid" (song #2 from FeminIndigenization)

Thee [SSAA chorus a cappella]
music by E.K.R. HAMMELL
words by L.M. MONTGOMERY
(2018)

Premiered by SIRENS (Kelsea McLean - artistic director). November 17th 2018 - Charlottetown, PE, Canada.

SCORE AVAILABLE HERE:
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qnF8ZlW7M
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PROGRAM NOTES:
"Thee" is an SSAA setting of the L.M. Montgomery poem “The Difference.” The piece is a simple song meant as a reflection on heartbreak and the value of shared personal experiences.
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TEXT:
"The Difference"
by L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

When we were together, heart of my heart, on that unforgotten quest
With your tender arm about me thrown and your head upon my breast
There came a grief that was bitter and deep and straitly dwell with me
And I shunned it not, so sweet it was to suffer and be with thee.

And now when no more against mine own is beating thine eager heart,
When thine eyes are turned from the glance of mine and our ways far apart,
A dear and long-sought joy has come my constant guest to be,
And I love it not, so bitter it is, unfelt, unshared, by thee.

“L.M. Montgomery” is a trademark of Heirs of L.M. Montgomery Inc.

"Thee" (for SSAA chorus a cappella) | EKR Hammell | Sirens PREMIERE

Skyline [wind band]
music by E.K.R. HAMMELL
(2018)

FINALIST: International Young Talented Composers Competition 2021

Premiere performance by University of Toronto Wind Ensemble (Gillian MacKay - director). December 1st 2018 - Toronto, ON, Canada.

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PROGRAM NOTES: 
Skyline is an impression of Toronto’s cityscape. The piece attempts to synergize a potentially nonsensical mix of ideas in musical terms anxiousness & coolness, order & chaos, gracefulness &
rambunctiousness, etc.), and does this primarily by building upon a basic aesthetic of perpetual motion and increasingly interlocking layers, patterns & textures.

"Skyline" (for wind band) | EKR Hammell | University of Toronto Wind Ensemble PREMIERE

"Spring" for SATB chorus & piano

commissioned and premiered by the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Choir, director: Elaine Choi.

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text by Janet Mason
music by E.K.R. Hammell

"Spring" (for SATB chorus & piano) | EKR Hammell | TEMC Choir PREMIERE

A Winter Dawn
[wind band version]
E.K.R. Hammell

Premiered by Cambrian College Wind Ensemble, director - Dylan Rook Maddix

SCORE & PARTS : https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/a-winter-dawn-wind-band-full-set

Duration:
4 minutes

Difficulty:
Grade 2.5-3.0

Instrumentation:
Flute 1 – 2 / Oboe / Bassoon / Clarinet in Bb 1 – 2 – 3 / Bass Clarinet in Bb / Alto Saxophone in Eb 1 – 2 / Tenor Saxophone in Bb / Baritone Saxophone in Eb / Trumpet in Bb 1 – 2 / Horn in F 1 – 2 / Trombone 1 – 2 / Euphonium (B.C.&T.C.) / Tuba / Contrabass / Percussion 1 – 2 – 3 (timpani, glockenspiel, suspended cymbal, triangle, mark tree, bass drum)

Description:
A Winter Dawn was originally a piece for SATB chorus a cappella composed in 2017 as a setting of the poem of the same name by L.M. Montgomery. It attempts to use musical ideas in a way that evokes feelings of both physical and spiritual awakening, amidst atmospheric imagery of snow, wind, and sky. This re-orchestration for wind band was arranged by the composer in 2019.

Want to check out the original choir version of this piece? Check it out here: https://www.ekrhammell.com/product-page/a-winter-dawn-score

ORIGINAL POEM:
"A Winter Dawn" by L.M. Montgomery

Above the marge of night a star still shines,
And on the frosty hills the sombre pines
Harbour an eerie wind that crooneth low
Over the glimmering wastes of virgin snow.

Through the pale arch of orient the morn
Comes in a milk-white splendor newly-born,
A sword of crimson cuts in twain the gray
Banners of shadow hosts, and lo, the day!

"A Winter Dawn" (for wind band) | EKR Hammell

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