Sarah Quartel: Creating Community Through Choral Music
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2018 · Education
In this short film Sarah Quartel reflects on her first experience of hearing how singing choral music creates community – by watching her father conducting his church choir. For more short films featuring Sarah, visit http://oxford.ly/2yWxTqN. Sarah Quartel is a Canadian composer and educator known for her fresh and exciting approach to choral music. Her works are performed throughout the world. In 2015, her work Wide Open Spaces was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and received its premiere performance under the baton of Bob Chilcott. In 2017, her work Snow Angel was performed at the Lincoln Center in New York City by the National Children's Chorus of the United States of America. Her compositions have been featured in numerous concerts, commercial recordings, and radio broadcasts internationally. Sarah is signed to Oxford University Press. Music: ‘Here in my heart’ by Sarah Quartel. Singers from the Oxford Choir, directed by Bob Chilcott. Produced, engineered and edited by John Rutter. © Oxford University Press
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