Commissions
The Cincinnati Youth Choir commissions works annually fulfilling its desire to expose the singers to new works. Many times, the singers help create these pieces by directly working with the composers.
Year | Composer | Title | Occasion | Publisher |
2021 | Anessa Fold | Dear World | Dear World Project | manuscript |
2020 | Andrea Ramsey | Keep Going | 27th Anniversary Season | Music Spoke |
2020 | Alex Gartner | Therefore I Will Hope | CCM Harmony Fund | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2019 | Cynthia Gray | Someone Came Knocking | 2019 Festival Choir | |
2019 | Kevin Pakworski | Cricket Stars | 26th Anniversary Season March 2019 | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2019 | Lee Kesselman | When You Command Me To Sing | 26th Anniversary Season March 2019 | |
2018 | Tara Hill | Hear the Angels Sing | World Premier 26th Anniversary Season December 2018 composed for CYC Alumni | |
2018 | Cynthia Gray | Sing to Me | 2018 Festival Choir | |
2018 | Tom Shelton | Old Tunes | World Premier in April, commissioned by the Chorus America Consortium | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2108 | arr. Rollo Dilworth | Great Getting Up Mornin’ | 25th Anniversary Season March 2018 | Hal Leonard |
2018 | Dominick DiOrio | We Will Do Miracles | 25th Anniversary Season March 2018 | |
2018 | Laura Mvula arr. Andrea Ramsey |
She | 25th Anniversary Season March 2018 | musicspoke.com |
2018 | Jim Papoulis | Joy | 25th Anniversary Season March 2018 | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2017 | Cynthia Gray | I Sing | 2017 Festival Choir | Choristers Guild |
2017 | Alexis Gabbard | Still I Rise | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | |
2017 | Alex Gartner | Your Heart Is My Heart | 24th Anniversary Season, May 2017 | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2017 | J. Reese Norris | This Is Your Time | 24th Anniversary Season, May 2017 | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2017 | Francisco Núñez | Una Sola Luz | Premiered at ACDA National Conference, March 2017 | |
2016 | Andrea Ramsey | A Flint Holds Fire | Premiere Performance December 2016, Chorus America Commission Consortium | |
2016 | Cynthia Gray | Through The Eyes Of The Moon | 2016 Festival Choir | Choristers Guild |
2016 | Paul Caldwell/ Sean Ivory | Fancy | 23rd Anniversary season – March Concert | Caldwellandivory.com |
2015 | Cynthia Gray | With a Hey, Ho, Nonny, Nonny No! | 2015 Festival Choir | Choristers Guild |
2015 | Rollo Dilworth | Down By the Riverside | 2015 CPS Honor Choir | Hal Leonard |
2015 | Dan Forrest | Ban Ban Caliban | 22nd Anniversary Season- May Concert | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2014 | Kevin Padworski | Vidi Aquam | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2014 | Cynthia Gray | The Rivals | 2014 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2014 | Rollo Dilworth | We Shall Not Be Moved | 2014 CPS Honor Choir | Hal Leonard |
2014 | Joan Szymko | River | 21st Anniversary – March Concert | joanszymko.com |
2014 | Jason Webb | When Day Is Done | Harmony Fund Commission | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2014 | Alice Parker | Coo Coo Bird | Chorus American Commission Consortium | Santa Barbara Music Publishing |
2013 | Cynthia Gray | The Wise Old Owl | CPS Honor Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishers (2013) |
2013 | Cynthia Gray | If I Knew You | 2013 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press (2013) |
2013 | Andrea Ramsey | To Hold All Sounds | 20th Anniversary of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1120 |
2013 | Tara Traxler | Fireflies | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1253 |
2013 | Gary Fry | Bel Canto | Commissioned by Lissa Ray, President of the CCC Board of Directors, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1125 |
2012 | Cynthia Gray | Wind A-Blowin’ All Day Long | 2012 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2012 | Rollo Dilworth | Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around | Cincinnati Public School Honor Choir | Hal Leonard |
2012 | Jason Webb | arr. National Anthem | Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1110 |
2012 | Christine Donkin | Rainstorm | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | |
2012 | Eleanor Daley | A Celtic Blessing of Light | Chorus America Commission Consortium | Alliance Music Publising |
2011 | Cynthia Gray | The Lamb and The Tiger | 2011 Festival Choir | BriLee Music Publishing |
2011 | Jim Papoulis | More Than I See | Queen City Children’s Choir Festival | |
2011 | Amanda Jacobs | When I Go Fishing | Queen City Children’s Choir Festival | |
2011 | Paul Carey | Paint the Stars/Rain | Commission for 18th anniversary season with lyrics from poetry contest winners (CCC members) | paulcarey.com |
2011 | Ryan Brechmacher | Lobster Quadrille | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | Alfred Music |
2011 | Tara Traxler | The Crossing | CCC Composition Competition First Runner-up (former CCC member, senior at Mason High School, Mason, OH – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | |
2011 | Ethan Sperry | Pallanda | Commissioned arrangement of Dr. Sperry’s TTBB setting | Earthsongs |
2010 | Rollo Dilworth | Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit | Chorus America Commission Consortium | Hal Leonard |
2010 | Cynthia Gray | The Skies Can’t Keep Their Secret | 2010 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2010 | Jim Papoulis | Together | Queen City Children’s Choir Festival | |
2010 | David Brunner | Spiritual Musick | Chorus America Commission Consortium | Boosey and Hawkes |
2010 | Wes Ramsey | When We Build | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | St. James Music Press |
2009 | Cynthia Gray | Where the Boats Go | 2009 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2009 | Melissa Bergstrom | Come My Way, My Truth, My Light | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir | |
2009 | Paul Caldwell/ Sean Ivory | Beneath the African Sky | CCC Commission | caldwellandivory.com |
2008 | Paul Caldwell/ Sean Ivory | Witness | Chorus America Commission Consortium | caldwellandivory.com |
2009 | Jim Papoulis | We Are the Voices | Cincinnati Children’s Choir 16th Anniversary | Santa Barbara Music Publishers (2014) |
2008 | Cynthia Gray | North, South, East, West | 2008 Festival Choir | |
2008 | Jim Papoulis | My World is Calling | Papoulis residency, Songwriting Workshop | |
2008 | Nick Page | Amid the Splendors of the Sun | Cincinnati Children’s Choir 15th Anniversary | Colla Voce |
2008 | James Kantor | Beati in Domo Domini | CCC Composition Competition – National competition of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, premiered at the CCC 15th Anniversary Concert | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1112 & #1114 |
2007 | Cynthia Gray | I’m Nobody! Who Are You? | 2007 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2007 | Jim Papoulis | Everybody’s Wants To | Commissioned by Keynote Arts for Children in Harmony Choral Festival, CCC served as Honor Choir, premiere conducted by Barbara Tagg | |
2006 | Cynthia Gray | Laughing Song | 2006 Festival Choir | Heritage Music Press |
2005 | Bob Chilcott | Catch a Falling Star | Worldsong® 2005 | Oxford University Press |
2005 | Cynthia Gray | Songs of the Shore | 2005 Festival Choir/ Worldsong® | |
2003 | David Kisor | All In a Day | 2003 Festival Choir | |
East and West | ||||
Within | ||||
Up and Down | ||||
2002 | Shirley MacRae | Black Sheep, Black Sheep | CCC Combined Choirs | Pavane Publishing |
2002 | David Kisor | Questions | 2002 Festival Choir | |
2001 | David Kisor | My Part | 2001 Festival Choir | |
2000 | Malcolm Dalglish | Not It | Worldsong® | Ooliticmusic.com |
2000 | Jason Webb | Turtle Dove | Ohio Composers Festival | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1129 |
1999 | Allan Naplan | Yismechu Hashamayim | MENC Regional Convention | |
1999 | Jason Webb | The Water is Wide | MENC Regional Convention | Santa Barbara Music Publishers #1111 |
1998 | Allan Naplan | Hatikva | Cincinnati celebration of Israel’s 50th Anniversary | Boosey and Hawkes |
1998 | Jason Webb | While the Skies Are Weeping | ||
1997 | Jason Webb | O Come, Emmanuel | ||
1996 | Jason Webb | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | ||
1995 | David Kisor | A Miracle Waiting | International Women’s Convention |