World Premieres

2022-23

to be one with each other - Corrine Klein

Winner, 2022 Emerging Composers Competition

Despertar - Karen Siegel ‘02

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club, West Village Chorale, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, and Consonare Choral Community

Archive Alive - Ayanna Woods ‘15

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Words for Departure - Hilary Purrington, MUS ‘17

East coast premiere, with the Yale Symphony Orchestra

Prayer for Deliverance - Joel Thompson, MUS ‘26

Composed for the Yale Glee Club, Morse Chorale, and Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble; Live premiere

2021-22

Letter from Abigail - Julia Wolfe

With Yale Camerata, commissioned for the retirement of Marguerite Brooks

Though the great Waters sleep - Isaac Lovdahl

Winner, 2021 Emerging Composers Competition

Because You Sang - Arianne Abela, MUS ’10 & Ruthie Prilliman ‘16

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Now We Can Begin - Arianne Abela, MUS ‘10

Commissioned by Yale Glee Club and Classical Movements, Inc.

Glimpse Elation (Anthems of a Crowd) – Derrick Skye

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club for Project XIV

Ode to Passersby - Ayanna Woods ‘15

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club for Project XIV

Meditation - Joel Thompson MUS ‘26

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club for Project XIV

Paradise - Angelica Negron

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

A Heart in Port - Shruthi Rajasekar

Premiere of full version

Psalm 86 - Udi Perlman, MUS ‘26

Commisioned by the Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers

2020-21

Prayer for Deliverance - Joel Thompson, MUS ‘26

Composed for the Yale Glee Club, Morse Chorale, and Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble; World premiere virtual performance

Songs of Home - Tim Keeler

Commissioned by the Yale, Havard, and Princeton Choruses; World premire virtual performance

2019-20      

Chart a Course - Corin Katzke ‘22

Winner, 2019 Fenno Heath Award

Dona nobis pacem - Keane Southard

Winner, 2019 Emerging Composers Competition

Listening - Jeffrey Douma

Composed for the Yale Glee Club Class of 2020, premiered virtually

2018-19

Three Hundred Years - Shaun Radgowski ‘20

Winner, 2018 Fenno Heath Award

To Be Free - Karen Siegel ‘02

Winner, 2018 Emerging Composers Competition

Beyond the daily mist of our minds - Hilary Purrington, MUS ‘17

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Music in Common Time - Caroline Shaw

Premiere of full orchestral version, performed with Yale Symphony

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Jocelyn Hagen

East coast premiere

2017-18

Yale Forever Lives - Charlie Romano ‘19

Winner, 2017 Fenno Heath Award

Parable of Choices -Julian David Bryson 

Winner, 2017 Emerging Composers Competition

Verde embeleso de la vida humana - Rodrigo Cadet

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

2016-17

Yale is November - Timothy Lind ’18

Winner, 2016 Fenno Heath Award

Testimony I: Ann Wood - Jane Sheldon

Winner, 2016 Emerging Composers Competition

She Walks in Beauty - Ēriks Ešenvalds

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Halala Africa - Bongani Magatyana

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

2015-16

Ah! Sunflower - Martin Sedek

Winner, 2015 Emerging Composers Competition

Where Yale Resides - Dan Rubins ’16

Winner, 2015 Fenno Heath Award

Softly Falls the Silver Rain - Kathleen Allan, ‘MUS 14

Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

2014-15

Telegram  - Jennifer Higdon
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

A Valentine for Hands  - Dale Trumbore
Winner, 2014 Emerging Composers Competition

The World Meets Here - Scarlett Tong Zuo
Winner, 2014 Fenno Heath Award

2013-14

The Wild Swans at Coole - Theodore Morrison
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Love (After Rouchfoucauld) - Conrad Winslow
Winner, 2013 YEmerging Composers Competition

Lux - Timothy Laciano
Winner, 2013 Fenno Heath Award

Who is Wise? - Jeffrey Douma
Composed for the Inauguration of Peter Salovey as Yale University’s 23rd President


2012-2013

A Porter’s Song  - Bright Sheng
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

A New Haven Psalter - Ingram Marshall
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club and Yale Concert Band

Ode to Purcell - Dominick DiOrio
Winner 2012 Emerging Composers Competition

Reveries - Kathryn Alexander
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

The Open Road - Leah Latterner
Winner, 2012 Fenno Heath Award

Home - Stephen Feigenbaum
Commissioned by theYale Glee Club

Letter - Dan Schlosberg
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club and Yale China Association


2011-2012

Carry the Spark - Kala Pierson
Winner, 2011 Emerging Composers Competition

Exsultate Deo - Joseph Gregorio
Winner, 2010 Emerging Composers Competition

Yale Blue - Abigail Droge
Winner, 2011 Fenno Heath Award


2010-2011

Partition - Ted Hearne
Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club and the Yale Symphony Orchestra

City Song - Lewis Spratlan
Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club and 150th Anniversary alums chorus

To Yale Alone - Stephen Feigenbaum
Winner, 2010 Fenno Heath Award

Raise Your Voices Here - Jeffrey Douma
Composed for the 150th Yale Glee Club


2009-2010

Weep You No More - Michael Gilbertson
Winner, 2009 Emerging Composers Competition

into the strenuous briefness - Ryan Harper
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Voices - Eric Banks ‘90
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

East Coast premiere:
Symphony of Meditations - Aaron Jay Kernis


2008-2009

Amanecer - Cristian Grases
Winner, 2008 Emerging Composers Competition

Two Shakespeare Poems - Ned Rorem
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Through Eden - Bram Wayman ‘09
Winner, 2008 Fenno Heath award


2007-2008

Zephyr Rounds - Robert Vuichard
Winner, 2007 Emerging Composers Competition

Dona Nobis Pacem - Jan Sandström
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Lux et Veritas - Lee Case Klippel ‘09
Winner, 2007 Fenno Heath Award


2006-2007

Wind Songs - Caroline Mallonee
Winner, 2006 Emerging Composers Competition

The Dark Hills - Jenni Brandon

Though We Are Naught - Andrew Ly ‘07
Winner, 2006 Fenno Heath Award


2005-2006

Nemo Te Condemnavit - James MacMillan
Commissioned by the Yale Glee Club

Laus Trinitati - Jocelyn Hagen
Winner, 2006 Emerging Composers Competition

A Modern Toast to Yale - Zachary Sandler ‘08
Winner, 2005 Fenno Heath Award


2004-2005

Dover Beach Revisited - Dominick Argento
Commissioned by the 2004-05 Yale Glee Club

Song of Songs - Lee Hoiby
Commissioned by the Yale Institute for Sacred Music