Shall We Gather at the River (clip)

Text by T. Benton Roark
Commissioned by Newman Sound Men's Choir

this brightening silence

Commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir
Text by Guillaume Apollinaire

Il Pleut

Commissioned by Lady Cove Women's Choir
Newfoundland folksong arrangement
Treble choir and percussion

Maid On The Shore

Commissioned by the BC Choral Federation
Text by Walter de la Mare

The Linnet

Commissioned by the Savridi Singers
Text by Dylan Thomas

the close and holy darkness

Written for St. Michael's Choir School
Arrangement of spiritual by Robert Lowry

Shall We Gather at the River

Commissioned by Newman Sound Men's Choir
Text by Al Pittman

The Green and Salty Days

Commissioned and performed by the Vancouver Chamber Choir. 
Text by Marjorie Pickthall

Premiered April 24, 2015, Ryerson United Church
www.vancouverchamberchoir.com
Used with permission.

Stars

Commissioned by the English Montreal School Board Chorale, Pat Abbott, conductor. 
Premiered May 2, 2015 at Oscar Peterson Hall, Montreal, QC. 

Sainte Cécile

Commissioned and performed by Univox Toronto, Dallas Bergan, conductor. 

The Frost

Ring out, ye bells!

Raw live recording by Vancouver Cantata Singers, May 2016.

Ave Maris Stella

Quintessential Vocal Ensemble
Susan Quinn

1916

Rest

Traditional, arr. Kathleen Allan

Performed by the combined voices of VAM's Vanier Park Voices and Schola Cantorum, December, 2016.

The Seven Joys of Mary

Softly there falls the silver rain

Commissioned by the Trinity Western University Chamber Choir. Joel Tranquilla, conductor.

March 18, 2016

The Singing Shepherd

UBC University Singers, conducted by Bruce Pullan
Eton College Chapel, UK

In Paradisum

Vox Nu Chamber Choir, conducted by Kathleen Allan

stars within

SATB choir with unison children's chorus
Vancouver Chamber Choir and BC Girls Choir, conducted by Jon Washburn

Like Barley Bending

He is Gone

Text by Rudyard Kipling
Commissioned and premiered by Vox Humana
Brian Wismath, conductor

Mother O' Mine

The Sailor's Question

Text by Al Pittman
Performed by the Quintessential Vocal Ensemble

The Al Pittman Suite - I. Searston Beach

The Al Pittman Suite - II. Angels

Text by Al Pittman
Performed by Quintessential Vocal Ensemble

The Al Pittman Suite - III. The Dance of the Mayflies

A native of St. John’s, NL, conductor, composer and soprano Kathleen Allan is rapidly becoming internationally respected for her compelling performances and engaging compositions. She is the Director of Choral Studies and Associate Conductor of Orchestras at the Vancouver Academy of Music and was recently appointed Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional baroque choral ensemble. In 2015, she made her Asian debut conducting Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the 2016 Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Prize in Choral Conducting which accompanies her appointment as Conducting Apprentice of the National Youth Choir of Canada. She is the assistant conductor of the Vancouver Bach Choir, and has held conducting positions with St. Michael’s Choir School, the Yale Glee Club, the Vancouver Bach Children’s Chorus, and in 2013, was the Conducting Fellow of the Canadian Chamber Choir. She is the founding co-artistic director of Arkora, a chamber music collective dedicated to interdisciplinary performance. 

Her compositions have been commissioned, performed and recorded by ensembles throughout North America, Europe, and in Argentina where her work was featured at the World Symposium on Choral Music in 2011. Her “In Paradisum” is the closing track on the Canadian Chamber Choir’s JUNO-nominated recording, “Sacred Reflections of Canada.”
 
Also in high demand as a soprano soloist and professional choral singer, she has appeared as a soloist with the National Broadcast Orchestra of Canada and Berkshire Choral Festival Choir, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Bach Choir. In addition to freelancing regularly in Canada and the United States, she is a member of the Vancouver Chamber Choir and has sung with the Vienna-based Arnold Schoenberg Chor under conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Skylark Vocal Ensemble in Atlanta, and the Yale Schola Cantorum. A passionate interpreter of new music, she has premiered over two dozen works for the voice. She holds a degree in composition from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in conducting from Yale University.

Kathleen Allan

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