Highlights

Choral Music

The first of five bagatelles for solo piano: short character pieces.

Eric Tran, pianist

Solemn

from the Modern Polyphony Mass - work in progress

Kyrie II - American Creators Chorus, Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

"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"

Premiere by Ignition Duo (http://www.ignitionduo.com/): David Gonzales and Ramon Fermin on electric guitar at the Center for New Music, San Francisco.

This piece was commissioned for Ignition Duo in collaboration with the Guerrilla Composers Guild (http://www.guerrillamusic.org/), as part of a project to produce new works for electric guitar duo.

Zach Miley, recording

Winter Landscapes - for electric guitar duo

Premiered by Choral Chameleon in Brooklyn, NY. Vince Peterson, director.

Lyrics: To Autumn, by William Blake

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but stay
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

The narrow bud opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.

“The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”

Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.

To Autumn

A suite of material for an environmental exploration and puzzle game called Origins. It takes place in a dark, enchanted forest.

Enchanted Forest - Origins Suite

A trio for viola, cello, and bass

Sheet music available: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/kyle-randall-sheet-music/3003472

Deep Trio

A choir setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet #30, performed by the Harvard University Choir. Score available here: http://notenova.com/catalog/work/when-to-the-sessions-of-sweet-silent-thought/

When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

A TTBB choral setting of W.B. Yeat's poem, "When You Are Old", written for and premiered by the Harvard Glee Club in Carnegie Hall, January 2013.

When You Are Old

www.kylerandall.com

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.

(photo credit Heike Liss, http://heikelisscreativeportraits.tumblr.com/)

To Autumn

Kyle C Randall