Sheet Music Downloads by Caroline Charrière

J'ai écrit cette berceuse sur un poème d’Isabelle Daccord. C’était en 2008, la petite Mila, nièce d’Isabelle, venait de naître et sa tante souhaitait lui écrire quelque chose. Le 'Ch...

The Gregorian chant is part of my childhood memories. In Corpataux (Switzerland), the village of my grandmother, the parish choir sang in latin. From that period forward, I have retained the memory of...

The cycle Femmes de Jérusalem [Women of Jerusalem] was commissioned by the vocal ensemble DeMusica (Fribourg, Switzerland) and its conductor Marc Bochud for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the...

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano.

I wrote this piece after a rehearsal with the Choeur de Jade (Fribourg, Switzerland) in January 1996. I always wondered what kind of melody - which is notated at the end of certain episodes - Lucky Lu...

I wrote this piece in January 1996 after a rehearsal with the Choeur de Jade (Fribourg, Switzerland). I was always curious to know what kind of melody, which is often mentioned at the end of some epis...

This calm and fluid piece with a pleasant harmony is, at first sight, written in the spirit of the Ave Maria of a Franz Schubert or a Charles Gounod/Johann Sebastian Bach, to quote only the most famou...

This piece is part of a special commission from Laurent Estoppey to seven composers for one minute of music each for an instrument of his choice. For me it was the guitar. Toni Albanese gave the world...

L'enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered] As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, di...

This Trio has been written to the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the subject 'water'. The piece starts very quietly in the low and middle register, getting more lively, whirles with trills befo...

Petite Suite has three movements. I wrote 'Contrastes', the first one, for an anniversary. The beginning is peaceful, the second part becomes more animated, and the end is again calm, as if suspended...

Caroline Charrière was a flute virtuoso and knew all the secrets of her instrument. She wrote a first version of Envol [Flight] in 2004, on the occasion of the retirement of Pierre Wavre (flutist and...

Anyone who has sung in a choir knows the unavoidable and more or less boring exercises of the beginning of a rehearsal: vocal warm-up. Caroline Charriere has drawn a parody from this phase of the rehe...

Agnus Dei for women's choir (S.S.A.A.) was first performed in 1993 by the Choeur de Jade of Fribourg (Switzerland) in that city. It was during the period of war time in the former Yugoslavia, and I wa...

Psaume 27 (Psalm 27) has been commissioned by Marc Bochud, director of the great girls choir of the Schola of Sion (Valais, Switzerland). Both pieces require a harp accompaniement. The first one, Exau...

The beginning is taken from one of my previous works (1994) written for women's choir with harp and incorporated into this Libera me, with the addition of two horns. The first performance was given in...

In this short song, Caroline Charrière sets to music a poem by the Vaud poetess José-Flore Tappy. She dedicates it to the Fribourg politician Solange Berset, in gratitude for her commitment to the cre...

The Work Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a str...

Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict purit...

This piece was written for a concert that brought together two choirs, the Divertimento vocale and the Winterthurer Vokalensemble, around Orlando di Lasso's Vespers. I thought of setting several verse...