New Christmas Musicals

Sing We Now of Christmas by Howard Helvey

Christmas Musicals for Church

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60 44543 Howard Helvey is among the most widely published composers of his generation. Awarded the international choral-composition first prize in 2006 by the John Ness Beck Foundation, his hundreds of works are published by over twenty major American and British companies, and are regularly performed and recorded throughout the world. Recent highlights include performances of his music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Choir of King's College (Cambridge, England), the BBC Singers, the Kansas City Chorale, Conspirare (Austin), The Crossing (Philadelphia), the Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC), Chicago a cappella, the Turtle Creek Chorale, and in the English cathedrals of Ely, Liverpool, Christ Church (Oxford), York, Hereford, Norwich, Chester, and Wells. Mr. Helvey also concertizes frequently as a pianist, conducts (and co-founded) the professional Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, and in 1998 was appointed as organist/choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. With cognate studies in conducting, voice, organ, and poetry, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in composition and piano performance from the University of Missouri (Columbia) and the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, and, as a Chautauqua Scholar, studied piano at New York's Chautauqua Institution. For Preview Only

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