Performed by UCI Chamber Singers 

This is a new version of my AUTUMN, for two-part choir (soprano & alto) and piano, now available for PDF download | https://bit.ly/45VCfBy



Commissioned by Highland Chamber Choir, AUTUMN is the choral version of a track from my SEASONS piano EP. There was something about it that made me reminisce about Vestmarka, the tranquil national park that nearly borders the doorstep of my childhood home in Norway. I asked Tony Silvestri to write the text, based on pictures from the area and my memories of countless hikes through the radiant forest in the fall.

Feel the falling air,
The light becoming golden;
Trees their colors wear,
Deep and all-enfolding.

The autumn leaves embracing;
But soon they all must fall,
The summer green erasing,
To answer winter’s call.

And here once again
Familiar paths I wander;
Through the westmark wend
The living earth I ponder.

Though fading days are colder,
And soon the darkness long,
My spirit-fire grows bolder,
And in my heart a song.

Even when shadows lengthen,
I’m here where I belong.

Autumn (Two-Part)

Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Ola is an exclusive Decca Classics artist, and his Decca choral albums include “Ola Gjeilo”, “Winter Songs” & “Dreamweaver”, featuring Tenebrae, Voces8 and the Choir of Royal Holloway, as well as the solo piano albums “Night” & “Dawn”. His global streams have now surpassed 250 million.

For more information, please visit olagjeilo.com, or find Ola on his social media profiles.

Autumn (Two-Part)

Ola Gjeilo

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