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OHIO CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
2015 Summer Conference Otterbein University
Wednesday, July 24, 9:15 AM
Shaping a New Song
a brief survey of the compositional/creative process
Howard Helvey, presenter/composer
Seven Ideals of Art (with thanks to Keith Hill and William Rowan)
1. Integrity
2. Proportion/Balance/Form
3. Efficiency
4. Contrast
5. Inevitability
6. Intensity
7. Hierarchy
Selected choral works:
Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming, arr. (Beckenhorst Press)
SATB, piano
Author of faith, eternal Word (MorningStar Music)
SATB, organ (or orchestra)
Song of creation (Oxford University Press)
SATB, unaccompanied
Sonnet 29 (Lawson-Gould / dist. by Alfred Music)
SATB, unaccompanied
Waiting (Heritage Press / dist. by Lorenz)
SATB, piano (with optional suggested voicing/unaccompanied)
The eternal gates, arr. (Beckenhorst Press)
SATB (with div.), unaccompanied
Peace I leave with you (Oregon Catholic Press)
SATB, unaccompanied
Precious Lord, take my hand, arr. (Alliance Music)
SATB, unaccompanied
Deep gratitude is expressed to the publishers of the above works for generously providing complimentary copies
of the octavos for all OCDA registrants.
You are warmly invited to visit the website:
howardhelvey.com
Browse and search within a comprehensive listing of Howard’s published choral and instrumental
works for church, school, community and professional ensembles.
Hear complete recordings of over 180 works. Lots more!
HOWARD HELVEY is among the most widely published composers of his generation.
Awarded the international choral-composition first prize in 2006 by the John Ness Beck
Foundation, his hundreds of works are published by over twenty major American and
British companies, and are regularly performed and recorded throughout the world.
Recent highlights include performances of his music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir,
the Choir of King's College (Cambridge, England), the BBC Singers, the Kansas City
Chorale, Conspirare, The Crossing (Philadelphia), the Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine (NYC), Chicago a cappella, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, and in the
English cathedrals of Ely, Liverpool, Christ Church (Oxford), York, Hereford, Norwich,
Chester and Wells. Mr. Helvey also concertizes frequently as a pianist, conducts (and cofounded) the professional Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, and in 1998 was appointed as
organist/choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. With cognate
studies in conducting, voice, organ, and poetry, he holds undergraduate and graduate
degrees in composition and piano performance from the University of Missouri
(Columbia) and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and, as a
Chautauqua Scholar, studied piano at New York’s Chautauqua Institution.