Name: The Singing Shepherd by Kathleen Allan
Duration: 3 min 15 s
Description: Commissioned by the Trinity Western University Chamber Choir. Joel Tranquilla, conductor.

Lullaby: SATB a cappella
Text: Thomas Dekker
Music: Matthew Emery

G. Schirmer 2016 

Performed (and commissioned) by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn. used with permission.
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April 24, 2015, Vancouver Canada. YOUTH and MUSIC concert.

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LULLABY (Matthew Emery) Vancouver Chamber Choir

Score available from www.DavidvonKampen.com

Commissioned by the Vancouver Chamber Choir
Premiered April 24, 2015.
Recording Used with Permission
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LOVE CAME DOWN AT CHRISTMAS (SATB, piano) - Vancouver Chamber Choir

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

March 18, 2016

The Singing Shepherd

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.

The Singing Shepherd

Kathleen Allan

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