Meredith Tompkins

Shadows That Run weaves a haunting melody with an undercurrent of rhythmic pulse, creating an atmosphere that is both mysterious and compelling. Sung a cappella, the voices shimmer and shift like the...

For unchanged tenor voices, Dover Beach contains rolling and weaving melodies within the framework of an undulating piano accompaniment. Energetic and musically charged, the driving melodic passages w...

Read On, with music by Meredith Tompkins and lyrics by Brooke Manolis, is a beautifully crafted choral piece that invites singers into a world of curiosity and reflection. The intricate, engaging acco...

Read On, with music by Meredith Tompkins and lyrics by Brooke Manolis, is a beautifully crafted choral piece that invites singers into a world of curiosity and reflection. The intricate, engaging acco...

Meredith Tompkins’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s I Took My Power in My Hand brings boldness and vulnerability to life through a driving piano part and compelling percussion. Dickinson’s words explore...

Featuring expressive vocal lines, warm harmonies, lush choral texture and a meaningful text, Safe Harbor is a modern benediction that conveys feelings of safety, belonging, and well-being. This piece...

Originally conceived for unchanged tenor voices, this new SA voicing of Dover Beach contains rolling and weaving melodies within the framework of an undulating piano accompaniment. Energetic and music...

Intended as a blue-print for choral creativity, We Can Beat the Storm combines the declamatory words of Louise Phillips' poem against a backdrop of direct, American folk song-like vocal delivery. With...

Suitable for choirs from elementary through secondary level, this versatile piece may be performed a cappella or with accompaniment with optional harmonies. Through repetitive and imitative phrases th...

Originally conceived for unchanged tenor voices, this TB voicing of Dover Beach contains rolling and weaving melodies within the framework of an undulating piano accompaniment. Energetic and musically...

The Haunting for TBB voices and piano is a spellbinding choral work that blends ethereal harmonies with hauntingly poetic text. Exploring themes of lingering spirits and echoes of the past, the piece...

Tompkins' enchanting melody is reminiscent of an antique music box, paired with a waltz-like accompaniment in a lilting 3/4 pattern.  Varied in texture, with unison, SA, and SSA sections, this piece c...

The Haunting for SSA voices and piano is a spellbinding choral work that blends ethereal harmonies with hauntingly poetic text. Exploring themes of lingering spirits and echoes of the past, the piece...

In this setting of Abbie Farwell Brown's poetry, Tompkins transforms Brown's simple rhyme scheme into a vibrant interplay of homophonic and polyphonic textures. Centered around the second scale degree...

Drawing primarily from the soundscape of a gently sweeping Mixolydian mode, this piece is designed to remind the listener of the distant past and its connection to our present. This SAB setting offers...

Tompkins' interpretation of two Emily Dickinson texts centers on the multi-faceted meanings of each poem. With haunting melodies, vivid text-painting, dynamic contrast, minimalist soundscapes, and mel...

Soothing and soulful, A Lament is based on a solo of the same title and speaks in a vivid and descriptive language of a lullaby that is also a permanent goodbye. As a reflection of his heritage (India...