New Music Added Weekly Click on your area of interest
All New Releases
Children
Middle School
High School
College
Mixed Choir
Virtuoso
Tenor-Bass Choir
Treble Choir
MultiCultural
Church
Christmas
Unity
Susan LaBarrSusan LaBarr (b. 1981) is a composer and choral editor living and working in Springfield, Missouri. Her compositions are published by Walton Music, Morningstar Music, and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Susan has completed commissions for choirs worldwide, most notably Seraphic Fire, the National ACDA Women’s Choir Consortium, and the Texas Choral Director’s Association’s Director’s Chorus. She served as the Missouri Composer Laureate for 2012 and 2013. Her arrangement of Quem pastores laudavere appeared on New York Polyphony’s 2014 Grammy- nominated album, Sing Thee Nowell. Her work for mezzo soprano and piano, Little Black Book, was premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2019.
Central to Susan’s musical vocabulary is the knowledge she gained from studying with Alice Parker at her home in Hawley, Massachusetts, where she attended the Composer’s Workshop and Melody Studies Workshop. Susan attended Missouri State University in Springfield, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in music and a Master of Music in music theory. Susan, her husband Cameron, and their son Elliott reside in Springfield, Missouri, where Cameron is the Director of Choral Studies at Missouri State University and Susan works as Editor of Walton Music.
Susan LaBarr has 22 titles published with Santa Barbara.
Click on any title below to view the complete score and hear a recording if available.
| After the Storm | SATB | SBMP1066 |
|
| Angele Dei | SATB div. | SBMP1087 |
|
| Blessing in the Leaving | SATB div. | SBMP1241 |
|
| Dream Ship, The | SATB | SBMP1079 |
|
| Fly | SATB div. | SBMP903 |
|
| Forever Gone | SATB | SBMP990 |
|
| Grace Before Sleep | SATB div. | SBMP1005 |
|
| Grace Before Sleep | SSAA | SBMP1196 |
|
| Hold Fast to Dreams | SSA | SBMP1426 |
|
| Hold Fast to Dreams | SATB | SBMP1136 |
|
| Hold Fast to Dreams | SAB | SBMP1721 |
|
| Hope Is the Thing with Feathers | SA | SBMP1071 |
|
| Huron Carol | SATB | SBMP1179 |
|
| Iesus Ahattonnia | SATB | SBMP1180 |
|
| Now Touch the Air Softly | SATB | SBMP1140 |
|
| Spring Shall Bloom | SSA | SBMP1311 |
|
| The Castle Builder | SSA | SBMP1173 |
|
| The Castle Builder | SATB | SBMP1175 |
|
| Threaded with Stars | SSAA | SBMP1240 |
|
| Under the Willow | SSAA | SBMP896 |
|
| You Cannot Lose My Love | SATB div. | SBMP824 |
|
| You Cannot Lose My Love | SA | SBMP1144 |
|
= See the complete score = Hear recording = Watch performance video
FEATURED OCTAVO
Therefore I Will Hope
by Alex Gartner
SATB or SSA