Sacred Music

The Glory Of Our God (Kol' Slaven) by Dmitry Stepanovych Bortniansky arranged by Anthony Antolini for SATB choir unaccompanied.

Psalm 23 is dedicated to the memory of Carolyn Argento (1930-2006).

As part of my duties as composer-in-residence at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas, I composed this brief work-in effect, a choral fanfare-for the beginning of the 2015 Christmas Eve Ma...

This piece was written at the request of the composer's daughter who needed a Marian song for an M. M. recital focused on women in choral music. The music is based on the chant Salve Regina from the '...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...

A set of four contrasting 'memorial dances' for unaccompanied mixed chorus, Suite Remembrance was commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. Movements range from energetic to lyrical and moving,...

A five-movement work featuring texts by Johannes Kepler, John Donne, and the Psalms. Dedicated to Swiss astrophysicist Arnold Benz, a relative of the composer, this work is based on melodic ideas writ...

A choral rendition of Proverbs 22:9.

A traditional motet based on Matthew 5:16. The text is in Latin with a brief English statement of the text featured in the soprano solo.

This meditative work uses stunning harmonies and chant-based melody to evoke the text of the adoration of Mary.

This work is a moving tribute to the love that flows both from above, as well as between all of us. The lush harmonies and creative orchestrations (optional) create a gorgeous palate of color for the...

Commissioned by The Des Moines Choral Society, this song is loosely based on the Negro spiritual, "Let the Heaven Light Shine on Me." There’s a percussive drive that accompanies elongated chant melody...