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Composer Page for Carol Barnett

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Carol Barnett’s music has been called audacious and engaging. Her varied catalog includes works for solo voice, piano, chorus, diverse chamber ensembles, orchestra, and wind ensemble.

She was awarded the 2003 Nancy Van de Vate International Prize for Opera for her chamber opera, Snow, and her music theater work Meeting at Seneca Falls was featured at the 2006 Diversity Festival in Red Wing, MN. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, commissioned in 2006 by VocalEssence and written with Marisha Chamberlain, had its Carnegie Hall debut in February 2013, and has become a favorite across the country. Recent works include Will’s Ladies, a Shakespeare cycle for mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; A Monument to Adam, for the Cantata Singers; and Summer 2020, for the 2022 Biennial National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

Barnett is a charter member of the American Composers Forum and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she studied composition with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler. She was composer-in-residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 2001, and a member of the adjunct faculty at Augsburg College from 2000 to 2015.

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My People Are Rising – Voicing: SSAA  Instrumentation: Violin, Doumbek  Performance Length: 7:30  Notation: Standard  Text Source: Mohja Kahf  Language: English  Descriptive Terms: Syria, Protest, Love, Loss, Blessing  First Performance: March 03, 2018 : Elektra Women’s Choir, Morna Edmundson, St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church, Vancouver, CA    Text SettingComposer’s NotesSource for Scores(P:E 598/1647~2022-Q3)
We Clasp the Hands – Voicing: SSA  Instrumentation: Piano  Performance Length: 3:45  Notation: Standard  Text Source: Wendell Berry  Language: English  Seasonal/Liturgical Use: Memorial Services, Spring, Thanksgiving  Descriptive Terms: Dance, Interconnectedness, Joyful, Life  First Performance: May 21, 2017: Aurora Chorus, Joan Szymko, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1126 Southwest Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205    Text SettingComposer’s NotesSource for Scores(P:E 598/787~2018-Q2)
Near Odessa – Voicing: SSAA  Instrumentation: Piano  Performance Length: 3:30  Notation: Standard  Text Source: Patricia Kirkpatrick  Language: English  Seasonal/Liturgical Use: Autumn, Harvest  Descriptive Terms: Birds, Harvest, Nature, Nostalgia, Pastoral  First Performance: May 13, 2017: Bella Voce, Jennifer Tibben, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Reno, NV    Text SettingComposer’s NotesSource for Scores(P:E 598/599~2017-Q2)
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