Song Sets at unSUNg
The final concert of this summer's unSUNg series will begin and end with my songs, specifically my first and final song sets.
August 21 – 4:00pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1020 N. Brand Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91202
Four extraordinary musicians – tenor Charles Lane; Paul Sherman, oboe; Melinda Rice, viola; and Roger Lebow, cello – will open the concert with Two Songs on Chinese Love Poems (c. 1977).
To close, prize-winning pianist Robert Thies will join two members of the prize-winning European Concert Trio (Harriet Fraser, soprano; Amanda Walker, clarinet) to reprise my recent William Blake settings, The Shepherd's Lot, a companion piece to Schubert's "Shepherd on the Rock."
The award-winning ensemble European Concert Trio (Amanda Walker, clarinet; Harriet Fraser, soprano; Irina Bazik, piano) will give three performances of Gibson's The Shepherd's Lot, a companion piece to Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, on Feb. 19-21 in 
Artistic Director Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale beautifully performed my 8-voice expansion of the Renaissance motet Rejoice in the Lord Alway, using SATB choir and brass quartet, as part of their Christmas concert this season. 
Gibson's setting of Hyfrydol, One in Faith, was sung at the liturgy on June 1, 2013, at Holy Family in New Rochelle, NY, to celebrate 100 years of the parish's existence.
The acclaimed 
ECS has recently begun editing two new Christmas pieces for SATB and flute: O Winter Winds, Be Still and Drive the Cold Winter Away. Release date tba.
ECS Publishing officially released Paul Gibson's joyous Christmas carol Hail, O Blessed Light at the Chorus America conference. The setting of William Austin's text "All this night shrill chanticleer, Day's proclaiming trumpeter, Claps his wings and loudly cries, Mortals, mortals, wake and rise!" is for SATB chorus and four-octave handbell choir. See (and hear) the piece on 
The National Children's Chorus under Luke McEndarfer reprised Gibson's Dona nobis pacem/Grant Us Peace at their Spring Showcase, May 20, at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood. NCC will also take the piece on tour to New York in late November.
Dr. Mark Sumner led the 200-voice Oklahoma All-State Mixed Chorus in Gibson's Salve Regina as part of the Oklahoma Music Educators Association's annual convention, January 21 in the Tulsa Performing Arts Center (right). (
On Saturday, October 22, at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the American Composers Forum/Los Angeles presented the final seven compositions in this year's composition competition. In addition to Paul Gibson's A Little Fugue on a Whimsy (fl, cl, bsn) the program included works by Adrienne Albert, Arbel Bedack, Mitch Glickman, Garth Herberg, Robert Kotcher, and Gernot Wolfgang, all performed by 
Beginning in October, 2011, Music Director Roy Spicer and the Choir of St. Barbara Parish at the Old Mission Santa Barbara will release a CD of their Pre-Tour Concert, presented last October at the Mission. The repertoire, which they then performed throughout Italy, included Paul Gibson's arrangement El Cantico del Alba.
On August 6, 2011, in Stanford's Memorial Chapel, 
Gibson's Easter anthem This Peerless Dawn, for SATB, brass quintet, and organ, was reprised this past Easter by Tom Neenan and his St. Matthew's Parish Choir, Pacific Palisades.
On Saturday, March 12, Christopher Russell led the strings of the OCHSA Orchestra in the world premiere of Gibson's In Memoriam: Elegia-Passacaglia at the Orange County High School for the Arts.
Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence have released a Christmas CD that includes Gibson's carol It Fell Upon the High Midnight for SATB and cello. To see lyrics and order the CD, 
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