"she was wilderness" (SSAATTBB)
Music by Katerina Gimon & Text by Waad Tariq
Performed live by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, conducted by Kari Turunen, on Nov. 19, 2021, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

More information: www.katerinagimon.com/she-was-wilderness

she was wilderness

"Take This Thread / Le fil que je suis" (SSA)
Music by Katerina Gimon & Text by Lauren Peat.
Performed live by the Bach Children's Chorus, conducted by Charissa Bagan, on Nov. 19, 2021, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

More information: www.katerinagimon.com/take-this-threadle-fil-que-je-suis

Take This Thread / Le fil que je suis (SSA)

"Still Stands The Oak", mvt. 3 from Songs of Trees.
Music by Katerina Gimon. Text by E. Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913).
Performed by John Bragle (tenor) and Ya-Ju Chuang (piano).

Still Stands The Oak (from Songs of Trees)

"Moonset", mvt. 2 from Songs of Trees.
Music by Katerina Gimon. Text by E. Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913).
Performed by John Bragle (tenor) and Ya-Ju Chuang (piano).

Moonset (from Songs of Trees)

"Fire-Flowers", mvt. 1 from Songs of Trees.
Music by Katerina Gimon. Text by E. Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913).
Performed by John Bragle (tenor) and Ya-Ju Chuang (piano).

Fire-Flowers (from Songs of Trees)

"The Frost Myth" performed by Myriad Ensemble (Elise Naccarato, Artistic Director), Kendra Grittani on cello, Danielle Sum on percussion, and with solos by Pooja Srikanth, Elizabeth Pereira, and Namratha Sridevi on December 9, 2023, at Port Nelson United Church in Burlington, Ontario. Composed by Katerina Gimon with text by Alice Williams Brotherton. Recording by JK Sound Studios.

For more about this work visit: www.katerinagimon.com/the-frost-myth

The Frost Myth (SSAA)

Elements (2013)
I. Earth (0:00)
II. Air (5:35)
III. Fire (6:46)
IV. Water (8:41)
Composed by Katerina Gimon and performed by Laurier Singers on March 22, 2014 at First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo. **Purchase scores: Elements is available as a set and as individual movements via Cypress Choral Music: http://cypresschoral.com/Composers/Gimon.html

Elements was awarded 1st prize in the Godfrey Ridout Category of the 2016 SOCAN Young Composers Competition, the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Prize in the IAWM 2014 Search for New Music, and 2nd prize in the Vancouver Chamber Choir's 12th biannual Young Composer' Competition (2015).

http://www.katerinagimon.com/

Elements: I)Earth, II)Air, III)Fire, IV)Water

The Tracks Are Lonely is composed by K. Gimon. 
Text by Alex Hanson and K. Gimon. 
Performed by Katerina Gimon (soprano) and Stephanie Orlando (piano) on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Watch the performance on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hmu20KCk9U&list=UUlui5iVE8e6ymloDxFDFO3w

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The Tracks are Lonely

From Scorched Earth (SATB + piano)
Music by Katerina Gimon and text by Saphren Ma.
Published by Hinshaw Music: https://www.jwpepper.com/From+Scorched+Earth/11564929.item

From Scorched Earth

A Painting (2015)
Composed by K. Gimon and performed by Maureen Forrester Singers on March 21 at First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo.
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The painting in the display image is Henry Valensi's El Kantara.


A Painting

Still Stands The Oak (2016). For baritone and piano.
Text by Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913).
Performed by Jason Klippenstein (baritone) and Rosie Whiting (piano).
Score Preview: http://www.katerinagimon.com/songs-of-trees.html
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And then the sound of marching armies 'woke 
Amid the branches of the soldier oak, 
And tempests ceased their warring cry, and dumb 
The lashing storms that muttered, overcome, 
Choked by the heralding of battle smoke, 
When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum. 
Still stands the oak.

Still Stands The Oak

Dream Land (2015). For soprano and piano.
Text by Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894).
Performed by Sawyer Craig (soprano) and Elina Keski-Rahkonen (piano).
Score Preview: www.katerinagimon.com/vocal.html
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Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.

She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale,
And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.

Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.

Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart's core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace. 


Dream Land

Dancing Flames (2017)For saxophone quartet. Commissioned and recorded by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Performed by Azura Quartet.

Dancing Flames evokes the vigour and curiosity of fire. The piece’s interweaving melodic lines and rhythmic energy playfully characterize fire in its many forms: from glowing embers to raging flames.

Purchase: https://musicspoke.com/downloads/dancing-flames/

Dancing Flames

The Birds' Lullaby(2016)for SSAA Choir.
Text by Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913).
Performed by Arcady Women's Chamber Choir conducted by Elise Naccarato at Voices of Autumn on October 14, 2017.
Recording by Cithera.

The Bird's Lullaby

Rain on a Tin Roof [8'] (2017)
Open score for spatialized chamber ensemble.
Premiered October 17th, 2017 at "Still Life With Echo" at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, BC. Presented by Redshift Music Society and Ecstatic Waves. Score preview: http://www.katerinagimon.com/rain-on-a-tin-roof.html

Rain On A Tin Roof

Siren Song(2018)for SSAA Choir.
Music and words by Katerina Gimon.
Performed by Myriad, Arcady's Women's Ensemble, conducted by Elise Naccarato at Voices of Summer on June 9, 2018. Recording by Cithera.
Score preview: http://www.katerinagimon.com/siren-song.html

Siren Song

Am I [5'40"] (2018)
For voice and electronics. Composed and performed by Katerina Gimon.
Premiered August 4, 2018, at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity (Banff, Alberta, Canada).

Am I

beneath/sound(2019)
For SATB Choir and chamber ensemble. Music by Katerina Gimon and text by Yaya Yao. Commissioned by the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Artistic Director Robert Cooper. Premiered on March 8, 2019 at Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Performers: the Orpheus Choir of Toronto; Tamara Hrycak, violin; Shira Mani, cello; Sanya Eng, harp; and Chung Ling Lo, percussion; and Elise Naccarato, conductor. More: http://www.katerinagimon.com/beneathsound.html

beneath/sound

The Language of the Stars(2019)
For SATB chorus, youth chorus, and orchestra. Music by Katerina Gimon text by Martha Lavinia Hoffman (1865-1900).
Performed by Arcady Ensemble, conducted by Elise Naccarato, at "Arcady's 20th Anniversary Concert" on October 26, 2019 in Brantford, Ontario. Recording by Cithera.

The Language Of Stars

O Virtus Sapientiae by Hildegard von Bingen, arr. by Katerina Gimon (2019)
Arrangement commissioned and premiered by the Orpheus Choir of Toronto, Artistic Director Robert Cooper, on March 8, 2019 at Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Score/more: http://www.katerinagimon.com/o-virtus-sapientiae.html

O Virtus Sapientiae (SATB)

The Frost Myth(2019) *excerpt*
For TTBB Choir. Music by Katerina Gimon and text by Alice Williams Brotherton. Commissioned by the Canadian Men's Chorus, Artistic Director Greg Rainville. Premiered on October 26, 2019 at Church of the Redeemer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Preview score: http://www.katerinagimon.com/the-frost-myth.html

The Frost Myth (TTBB) *excerpt*

Elements performed by the Ontario Youth Choir (summer 2019), conducted by Vicki St. Pierre.
Movements: I. Earth , II. Air, III. Fire , IV. Water

Music by Katerina Gimon. Score avialabe for purchase as set and as individual movements (SATB and SSAA version) via Cypress Choral Music: cypresschoral.com/Composers/Gimon.html

Image: by Kerbal.

Elements performed by Ontario Youth Choir

Katerina Gimon is a composer, improviser, and vocalist currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Visit www.katerinagimon.com for her full bio, scores, recordings, and more.

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