Jocelyn Hagen

Winner of the 2004 Emerging Composer Competition awarded by the Yale Glee Club, this work is a setting of the Latin antiphon by Hildegard von Bingen. Alternating between joy and reflection, this buoya...

Based on poetry by Sara Teasdale, this work, in the composer's words, is 'a passionate roller-coaster ride, surprising and exhilarating, and over before one knows it.' This piece will be a striking sh...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

Nocturne is composed by Jocelyn Hagen for SATB (divisi) and French horn. Using a text by regular collaborator Todd Boss, this piece gently unfurls as a clock ticks through the night. Premiered by VOCE...

Jocelyn Hagen's Lantern of Your Heart offers deep emotional impact, melodic eloquence, richness of color, and multi-textural depth of meaning. For what more could one ask in a heartfelt concert select...

The composer's initial use of the 'Scottish snap' rhythm becomes a recurring motif throughout the piece. Strong, almost fanfare-like declamations of the Isaiah 40 text alternate with imitative section...

Jocelyn Hagen's Lantern of Your Heart offers deep emotional impact, melodic eloquence, richness of color, and multi-textural depth of meaning. For what more could one ask in a heartfelt concert select...

Written by the outstanding young composer, Jocelyn Hagen, I Will Pray and Sing uses three separate scriptural texts to reflect upon the nature of prayer and song.

This piece, written for the Houston Chamber Choir for SATB divisi with flute, clarinet, marimba, cymbals and piano and with a text by poet Julia Klatt Singer is a multi-faceted tapestry of sound and c...

This piece, written for the Houston Chamber Choir for SATB divisi with flute, clarinet, marimba, cymbals and piano and with a text by poet Julia Klatt Singer is a multi-faceted tapestry of sound and c...

Jocelyn Hagen gilt als eine der beliebtesten Chorkomponistinnen in den Vereinigten Staaten. Ihr Mother's Song basiert auf Willis Barnstones ergreifender Übersetzung eines anonymen japanischen Textes,...

A luscious setting of a Sara Teasdale Christmas poem. The piece works equally well with either piano or harp accompaniment.

This piece, written for the Houston Chamber Choir for SATB divisi choir with flute, clarinet, marimba, cymbals and piano and with a text by poet Julia Klatt Singer is a multi-faceted tapestry of sound...

Written by the outstanding young composer, Jocelyn Hagen, I Will Pray and Sing uses three separate scriptural texts to reflect upon the nature of prayer and song.