Kim André Arnesen

Composer’s note Eja Mater is a prayer for comfort to all parents who have lost their own child but also expresses love from parents to their children. Originally written for choir and orchestra as par...

A beautiful, transcendent setting of the Latin text 'O mysterium ineffabile' ('O ineffable mystery'), a text which exclaims the greatness and divinity of the eucharistic feast. Commissioned in 2023 by...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

The original version of this carol (SATB and piano) was commissioned by Celia Ellingson through LutheranArts in honor of Gary Aamodt’s 80th Birthday, December 25, 2017, and is dedicated to the annual...

Als eigenständiges Stück, welches ursprünglich der sechste Satz seines Stabat Mater ist, hat sich Arnesen für einen anderen, aber ähnlichen Text entschieden. Hier steht nicht die schmerzensreiche Gott...

Kim André Arnesen’s Stabat Mater breathes new life into the 13th-century Latin hymn, which portrays the Virgin Mary’s suffering at the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. Amongst the traditional sta...

Adapted from a movement of Arnesen's Stabat Mater for upper voices and orchestra, Eja Mater is arranged for mixed voices with frequent divisi, obligato cello and harp (or piano). This part of the Stab...

Kim André Arnesen’s Stabat Mater breathes new life into the 13th-century Latin hymn, which portrays the Virgin Mary’s suffering at the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. Amongst the traditional sta...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

Kim André Arnesen is one of he most frequently performed composers from Norway today. He writes 'singing together lights an extraordinary process in us: we connect from the depths of our beings with e...

Let us build a house is the final piece from Kim André Arnesen's large-scale choral work The Stranger. Instead of a typical majestic ending, Arnesen here has aimed for a quiet conclusion to a large wo...

Do not neglect is a stand-alone movement from Kim André Arnesen's large-scale choral work The Stranger, which uses a thought-provoking New Testament text from chapter 13 of Hebrews: 'Do not neglect to...

The original version of this carol (SATB and piano) was commissioned by Celia Ellingson through LutheranArts in honor of Gary Aamodt’s 80th Birthday, December 25, 2017, and is dedicated to the annual...

Lovely is the dark blue sky is extracted from Nordic Christmas, a collection of carols commissioned by VocalEssence in honor of Sons of Norway as it celebrates 125 years as a financial services and in...

Written for the University of South Carolina, this new carol from Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen sets a beautiful poem by Bliss William Carman (1861-1929). The poem describes a wintery world, wi...

The third movement of Kim André Arnesen’s Nordic Christmas, a collection of new arrangements of carols originating in Nordic countries. This carol captures the mood of Christmas Eve in those countries...

Do not neglect is a stand-alone movement from Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger, which uses a thought-provoking text from chapter 13 of the Epistle to the Hebrews: ‘Do not neglect to...

Composer's note: 'My approach to arranging this carol, as well as the other carols in Nordic Christmas, was to look at the text (originally in Danish by Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872) and its backgroun...