Commissioned Works
Meet Our Composers
Our mandate is to support the creation of new choral music.
Over the past 10 years as the Canadian Men’s Chorus, we are proud to have premiered works by the following incredible artists.
Anna Atkinson
When The Night Has Passed
Winter Wind
Drew Beaudoin
Irish Blessing
Danny Boy
Danny Boy is available for purchase from Renforth Music Publishing as part of the Canadian Men’s Chorus Series for Male Voices.
Thomas Bell
Prayer of St. Brendan the Voyager
Jeff Enns
O Mistress Mine
The Sleeping Giant
Winter Uplands
O Mistress Mine and Winter Uplands are available for purchase from Renforth Music Publishing as part of the Canadian Men’s Chorus Series for Male Voices.
Thomas Gonder
Missa Transfigurationis
Richard Gooch
Ar Hyd Y Nos
Aaron Jensen
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Here’s To You
Sean King
O Magnum Mysterium
John Laing
A Paean of Honour
1. Prologue: Remember Them
2. In Flanders Fields
3. High Flight
4. Sonnet to Rupert Brooke
5. Festubert
6. No Man’s Land
7. Epilogue: Remember Them
Marilyn Lightstone
Don MacDonald
Boots (Infantry Columns)
Stephanie Martin
When You Are Old
When You Are Old is available for purchase from Renforth Music Publishing as part of the Canadian Men’s Chorus Series for Male Voices.
Christopher Meyer
Our Murray
Our Murray was premiered with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra on November 15, 2014.
Patrick Murray
The Christmas Night
Book of Lamentations
Book of Lamentations is available for purchase from Renforth Music Publishing as part of the Canadian Men’s Chorus Series for Male Voices.
Norman Reintamm
Öö on selge
Taas Inglid Laulavad
Väike Päike
Avalon Rusk
A New Star
1. What Star Is This?
2. Star of God
3. Beautiful God
Two
1. Two Roads
2. Ozymandias
Laura Sgroi
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
From Stalingrad
(Text by Richard Gooch)
Ubi Caritas
These three pieces are available as Three Songs For Remembrance Day from Renforth Music Publishing as part of the Canadian Men’s Chorus Series for Male Voices.
Saman Shahi
Three Quatrains by Omar Khayyam
Mark Sirett
High Flight
Not Dead
When You Are Old