Sarah Quartel

This three-movement work combines a number of themes through the poetry of Sara Teasdale. The first movement, 'Sister of the Sky', focuses on the morning in early spring. The central movement, 'Fearle...

This piece sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic hand drum line, the buoyant 7/8 metre drives the piece forward. Lush harmonies...

This piece sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic hand drum line, the buoyant 7/8 metre drives the piece forward. Lush harmonies...

The Parting Glass is a traditional Scottish song, often sung as a farewell at the end of a get-together. Sarah Quartel's arrangement features close harmonies, idiomatic Scotch snap rhythms, and effect...

The Parting Glass is a traditional Scottish song, often sung as a farewell at the end of a get-together. Sarah Quartel's arrangement features close harmonies, idiomatic Scotch snap rhythms, and effect...

Presented here in an arrangement for unison voices (with an optional second part), this setting of words by Chief Dan George optimistically reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times o...

Presented here in an arrangement for unison voices (with an optional second part), this setting of words by Chief Dan George optimistically reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times o...

for SATB (with divisions) and piano. Setting a text by Elizabeth Craven, this anthem is a gentle and meditative expression of gratitude to God for the joys and challenges of life. With a flowing melod...

for SSAA and piano. En suenos sets Antonio Machado's poem 'Tal vez la mano, en suenos' on dreams as a space where memory, music, and truth meet. Evoking the vivid imagery in Machado's text, the expres...

for SSA and piano. Gentle yet joyful, We Thank You is an ode to the beaty of nature. Setting a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the music is warm, comforting, and flowing, with Quartel's characteristicall...

Your Echo Around Me celebrates the enduring influence of music educators, whose work resonates in their students' adult lives, as evoked by a memorable lilting melody that passes between the voice par...

With a text by the composer, this work was originally inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by...

for SATB (with divisions) and piano. Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quaver...

Quartel has chosen a powerful combination of texts by Hildegard von Bingen and Mother Teresa for this emotive choral work. The main choir is accompanied by a small ensemble singing the word 'love' wit...

for children's choir and SATB, or SSATB, and piano. The Cloud sets Sara Teasdale's poetic descriptions of nature to music, evoking themes of freedom and transience. Quartel's melodic and uplifting sty...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

This secular work for solo low voice and piano sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. A lilting melodic line and an effective piano part combine to create a piece that will appeal t...

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

Snow Angel is an evocative five-movement work exploring themes of love, rebirth, and beauty. It may be performed with narration and features a haunting cello line. The emotive and pictorial musical la...

This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melville Cane. The music conjures...

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering accompanim...

In this fast and energetic piece, Quartel sets her own text celebrating the joy of singing. The melody weaves in and out of the texture, supported by dynamic vocal accompaniment and rhythmically drive...

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, and a fluttering accompanim...

Gentle yet joyful, We Thank You is an ode to the beaty of nature. Setting a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the music is warm, comforting, and flowing, with Quartel's characteristically charming melodies...