The New American Voices is an amazing new voice in the professional choral world. Created and conducted by Z. Randall Stroope, this chorus has recorded many works that can be found Spotify, YouTube and other social platforms. The Singers converge from a wide geographic area in the United States, to do recordings and touring. In the summer of 2022, the ensemble took a tour of Sweden, Estonia, and Finland and performed at many prestigious locations there. The New American Voices is pleased to be touring northern Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands in June 2024.
Z. Randall Stroope is an American composer and conductor. He has conducted concerts in 25 countries, is the Artistic Director of two international summer festivals, and has directed music for Vatican mass on ten different occasions. In the United States, Randall has conducted 40 performances at Carnegie Hall, and made several conducting appearances at various other prestigious performance halls. He is an honorary member of the Associazione Nazionale Direttori di Coro Italiani and has conducted the Festival Corale Internazionale di Roma every summer since 2009. Randall has also recently done lectures in music in Aosta and Assisi, Italy.
In composition, Randall’s teachers were Normand Lockwood and Cecil Effinger, both students of Nadia Boulanger, the famous French teacher (and student of Gabriel Fauré.) He has 200 published works for chorus, vocal solo, brass, orchestra and wind ensemble, and sold over four million copies.
Randall has a home and music studio near Santa Fe, New Mexico and Merritt Island, Florida.
Programme
Da Pacem Domine (excerpt) Arvo Pärt
Coelos Ascendit Hodie Charles Stanford
Iubilate Deo a 8 Giovanni Gabrieli
Jerusalem Trad. Irish chant
Regina Coeli Laetare a 8 T.L.da Victoria
Jauchzet dem Herrn J.S. Bach
Conversion of Saul Z. Randall Stroope
Prayer to a Guardian Angel P. Hawes
Sing My Child (excerpt) Sarah Quartel
Bring Us, O Lord God William Harris
Alleluia Elaine Hagenberg
Von 55 Engeln Behütet. Wolfgang Buchenberg
Ave Maris Stella Philip Stopford
Deliver Me, O Lord Tine Bec
Warum? Andrew Steffen
And the Swallow Carolyn Shaw
Marianne North Country Folksong
The Refugee Z. Randall Stroope
American Shaker Song trad. American
Lux Aeterna Edward Elgar
