2023 ACDA Contemporary Female Canadian Composers

Set in an uneven meter, this energetic music gives your choir a chance to explore self-awareness and the possibilities available to them. Scored for choir, solos, body percussion, piano, and optional

This uplifting and affirmatory piece sets a text by the composer inspired by the reflections of the Northwest Girlchoir on what their choir means to them. A gradual building of choral texture creates an

Here is a lyric beauty for treble or mixed voices, with lovely legato lines, a gorgeous piano part, and a picturesque text. "In my song there's a race through a wild green meadow, the sunshine so bright in

Commissioned by the Unison festival, with a new text provided by Canadian poet Lynn Andrews and French adaptation by Jessy LaPointe and Jean-Sébastien Kennedy.

Sarah Quartel's own inspiring text about the empowerment of singing is set to a catchy melody with imitative scat singing and a driving hand drum accompaniment. This piece has all the hallmarks of her

This is a well-known and moving anthem for women. The music is stunning with its simple, powerful message: "I can and will fight. I can and will a warrior be. It is my nature and my duty. It is the

From poet Linda Studley comes an empowering text: "We are the ones who take the chance, who sing the song, who step the dance, who dare to try...." Treble choirs will revel in this setting of the text which