Maureen Batt, soprano: http://maureenbatt.com
Cheryl Duvall, piano: http://www.cherylduvall.com
Matthew Emery, composer

music: http://www.plangere.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_112

For Broken And Tired Am I (excerpt)

Kiel Magis, tenor
Matthew Emery, composer
music: http://www.plangere.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_112

Sweet Bide With Me (excerpt)

the University of British Columbia commissioned "Sweetest Love"

score: http://www.jwpepper.com/Sweetest-Love/10519388.item#.VRYSnBaFVSU

Composer Matthew Emery
Choir: UBC University Singers

Music: Boosey and Hawkes 2015
catalogue no. 48023335 | ISBN no 979-0-051-48288-7.

Sweetest Love by Matthew Emery

ACCC Diane Loomer Award for Choral Writing winner: The Lover's Chant
National Youth Choir of Canada singing, Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt conducting.
Composer: Matthew Emery
Published by Cypress Choral Music: http://larrynickel.com/CypressAudio/Lover.html

The Lover's Chant

'A Pickthall Triptych' commissioned by the Canadian Men's Chorus.

Excerpts from:
1. Thoughts
2. Song
3. Stars

Published by SULASOL (Helsinki, Finland) 
http://www.sulasol.fi/kauppa/tuote:2391/tuoteryhma:88/
Canadian Men's Chorus, Greg Rainville, Artistic Director
http://www.canadianmenschorus.ca

A Pickthall Triptych (Excerpts)

Still Colors (Velvet Shoes)- SATB a cappella
Composer: Matthew Emery (http://composermatthewemery.wordpress.com)

Written for the American Creators Chorus, Craig Hella Johnson, dir. Oregon Bach Festival 2014.

Recording: Matthew Curtis Choral Tracks (http://choraltracks.com)
Score: ALLIANCE MUSIC PUBLISHING 2015
http://www.alliancemusic.com/product.cfm?iProductID=1189

Still Colors (Velvet Shoes)

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.
[http://vancouverchamberchoir.com]

April 24, 2015, Vancouver Canada. YOUTH and MUSIC concert.

[https://composermatthewemery.wordpress.com]

LULLABY (Matthew Emery) Vancouver Chamber Choir

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD (unison and piano) 
by Matthew Emery.

https://composermatthewemery.wordpress.com
https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/130320/biography
Performed by the Amabile Choirs of London, Canada.

Text: (alt, M. E. ) 
SONG BE DELICATE by John Shaw Neilson

Let your song be delicate.
   The skies declare
No war — the eyes of lovers
   Wake everywhere.

Let your voice be delicate.
   How faint a thing
Is Love, little Love crying
   Under the Spring.

Let Your Voice Be Heard (Matthew Emery) Unison and Piano

Commissioned by the Amabile Choirs of London Canada, Ken Fleet Tribute Concert and 25th Anniversary season.

Music by Matthew Emery

SATB with Piano (Pavane Publishing 2016)
Amabile Choirs and Community Members (Carol Beynon, dir.), Bonnie Shewan Burroughs (piano)

SING YOUR SONG incorporates a quote by Ken Fleet - to "Just Sing Your Song" 

Text: Ken Fleet & Katharine Tynan; alt., M.E. Sing Your Song

There's music in my heart all day, I hear it late and early,
It comes from fields are far away, The wind that shakes the barley.

Sing Your Song

Above the uplands drenched with dew The sky hangs soft and pearly,
An emerald world is listening to
The wind that shakes the barley.
Above the bluest mountain crest The lark is singing rarely,
It rocks the singer into rest,
The wind that shakes the barley.

Sing Your Song

Oh, still through summers and through springs It calls me late and early.
Come home, come home, come home, it sings, The wind that shakes the barley.

Sing Your Song


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5o3Nh6ydbo
http://www.amabile.ca/ken-fleet/
http://www.alzheimerlondon.ca
https://composermatthewemery.wordpress.com

Sing Your Song-Matthew Emery, Amabile Choirs of London, Canada

NIGHT ON A STARRY HILL - by Matthew Emery. Text: Marjorie Pickthall. SATB a cappella.

BOOSEY AND HAWKES 2016 publication.
http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.action?itemid=48023665&lid=5&keywords=matthew%20emery&subsiteid=1&
DaCapo Chamber Choir, Leonard Enns (dir.)

2014 New Works Competition Winning Entry, DaCapo Chamber Choir

http://dacapochamberchoir.ca
https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/130320/biography


Give me a few more hours to pass
With the mellow flower of the elm-bough falling,
And then no more than the lonely grass
And the birds calling.

Give me a few more days to keep
With a little love and a little sorrow,
And then the dawn in the skies of sleep
And a clear to-morrow.

Give me a few more years to fill
With a little work and a little lending,
And then the night on a starry hill
And the road's ending.

Night On A Starry Hill (Matthew Emery) DaCapo Chamber Choir

A BOY IS BORN satb a cappella
Winning entry in the 2015 Amadeus Choir Seasonal Song Writing Competition, Professional Category. 

Winning entry in the Brazos Valley Chorale Composition Contest.


Amadeus Choir, Toronto December 2016
Composer: Matthew Emery

Score: Boosey And Hawkes 2017 (forthcoming)

Used with permission.
https://composermatthewemery.wordpress.com


A Boy Is Born

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking for unison and piano
Commissioned by Amabile Choirs of London, Canada.

Score: Boosey and Hawkes 2017.
Performed by Amabile. 

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

Come To Me, satb a cappella
Central Bucks West Chamber Choir, Dr. Joseph Ohrt.

http://www.alliancemusic.com/product.cfm?iProductID=1110
https://composermatthewemery.com/2016/03/02/come-to-me/

Come To Me

Requiescat, for Soprano and Piano
Performed by: Alexandra Smither (soprano) and Mai'kai Nash (piano)

music: http://www.plangere.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_112

Requiescat For Soprano and Piano- M.Emery

Incontra Vocal Ensemble (Toronto 2018) Recording of my three folk song arrangements. Published by Pavane Publishing, available through Hal Leonard.

https://composermatthewemery.com/2016/11/04/three-french-folk-songs/

Matthew Otto Toronto 2018

Petit Rocher (Incontra Vocal Ensemble)

J'ai Cueilli la Belle Rose (Incontra Vocal Ensemble)

En Roulant Ma Boule Roulant (Incontra Vocal Ensemble)

"When the sun comes after rain"
SATB

Published by Pavane Publishing (P1441) Distributed through Hal Leonard

Premiere March 30, 2012 by UBC University Singers, Graeme Langager Conductor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SotbkW6ExAs

When the sun comes after rain 
And the bird is in the blue, 
The girls go down the lane 
Two by two.  

When the sun comes after shadow 
And the singing of the showers, 
The girls go up the meadow, 
Fair as flowers.  

When the eve comes dusky red 
And the moon succeeds the sun, 
The girls go home to bed 
One by one.  

And when life draws to its even 
And the day of man is past, 
They shall all go home to heaven, 
Home at last. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 


When the sun comes after rain

Three Songs of Mourning: 
III- Peace; come away

Soprano: Alexandra Smither 
Piano: Mai'kai Nash

Composer: Matthew Emery

Peace; Come Away - M.Emery

"Resurgam" for choir and double wind quintet. Commissioned by Exultate Chamber Singers and Toronto Winds.

Toronto Winds & Exultate Chamber Singers
Conducted by Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt
Premiered April 6th, 2018.
Saint Thomas's Anglican Church, Toronto, ON

https://www.exultate.net/
https://www.dylanrookmaddix.com/torontowinds-concerts
https://composermatthewemery.com/2018/04/07/resurgam/

photo: Weathered-Structure-Green-Bay- (ned pratt)
audio recorded by the composer.

Resurgam for Choir and Wind Tentet

"I Sing" was written to honour Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt as she retires from the Exultate Chamber Singers.

It speaks to the thousands of lives Dr. A has inspired and influenced throughout her musical career, how she shapes and moulds not only our voices, but our souls.

Poetry written by Melissa Lalonde, and written specifically for Dr. Apfelstadt.

Oboe - Clare Scholtz (Univ. of Toronto)

Recorded in rehearsal by the composer

We Sing (May 22)

I Sing (choir and oboe)

PROTUS is an a cappella chamber vocal ensemble comprised of choral artists from Louisville Kentucky. Formed in January of 2014 by artistic director, Richard Burchard, the group is dedicated to the research and performance of lesser-known choral repertoire from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and occasionally newly composed works. The group's repertoire includes music for mixed choir as well as pieces for "low-voice" ensemble that extends into ranges below and above most modern day TTBB works. PROTUS is a Greek word for "first" and is used in Medieval western music to identify the first pair of melodic church modes more commonly known as Dorian and Hypodorian.

https://composermatthewemery.com/2016/03/04/sleep-now/

Sleep now, O sleep now, O you unquiet heart! A voice crying ‘Sleep now’ Is heard in my heart. The voice of the winter Is heard at the door. O sleep, for the winter Is crying ‘Sleep no more!’ My kiss will give peace now And quiet to your heart – Sleep on in peace now, O you unquiet heart! (james joyce)

11.18.18.Protus.St.Brigid.06

Sleep Now (Protus Vocal Ensemble and PROTEAN STRING ENSEMBLE)

University of Louisville Kentucky Collegiate Chorale performing "Longing"
Conductor: Kent Hatteberg
Composer: Matthew Emery

http://youtu.be/rDb2TU67jzw

Longing, University of Louisville Kentucky Collegiate Chorale

Dr. Matthew Emery is a Canadian composer who “writes with an honesty which enchants” (Vancouver Sun), and whose music is “profoundly beautiful and moving” (CBC Music).  His music has been performed in twenty-seven countries, and recent performance venues include the Great Wall of China, the White House and the Musikverein. Matthew has received over forty commissions and his music has been performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, National Youth Choir of Canada, European Union Youth Orchestra, Orchestra London, the Art of Time Ensemble, Rolston String Quartet, Dennis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra, Erin Wall, Susan Platts, Rena Sharon, Simone Osborne, Leslie Fagan, Tracy Dahl, and the Bach Music Festival of Canada Orchestra.

Matthew studied at the University of British Columbia (B.Mus) and the University of Toronto (M.Mus, DMA). Matthew has received over thirty awards and prizes for his compositions and his work has been included on nineteen albums, including a Juno nominated disc. His over sixty publications are published by G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard and many others.

Dr. Emery currently teaches at Carleton University, and the University of Toronto

Composer - Dr. Matthew Emery

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