"Kyrie (dense)" for Mixed Choir

Winner of the American Prize in Choral Composition, 2015 (student)

Finalist piece in the Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, 2015

Performed by Choral Chameleon
Matthew Oltman, conductor
Vince Peterson, director
Kyle Randall, composer

Choral Chameleon Institute 2014 Closing Concert
June 20, 2014 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, NY


Lyrics:

Kyrie eleison        //         Lord have mercy
Christe eleison     //         Christ have mercy
Kyrie eleison        //         Lord have mercy

Kyrie (dense) - from the "New Gothic Mass"

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Born and raised in the forests of New Hampshire, Kyle Randall is an internationally-performed, award-winning composer of a wide variety of music, with premieres from Carnegie Hall to La Schola Cantorum in Paris, and commissions from renowned groups such as the Harvard Glee Club and Choral Chameleon. He strives for vividness and sincerity in his music, and he is not afraid to draw on the past as well as the present in his writing. After receiving a B.A. from Harvard, he came to San Francisco Conservatory to study with David Garner for a Masters in composition. Kyle was a winner of the American Prize in Composition for 2015, and a finalist in the Morton Gould ASCAP Composer prizes.

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Kyrie (dense) - from the "New Gothic Mass"

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