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A la claire fontaine 3:240:00/3:24
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0:00/5:03
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Glimmer Mass - Kyrie 2:380:00/2:38
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Dust of Snow 1:210:00/1:21
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Shenandoah 3:360:00/3:36
Elise Letourneau, composer - arranger - songwriter
Elise Letourneau is a multiple award-winning Canadian composer, and an accomplished songwriter, arranger, producer, vocal & multi-instrumentalist performer, and educator. Her works have been performed around the globe.
An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Elise won the Ruth Watson Henderson composition competition, the Choral Canada (ACCC) composition competition, and the Diane Loomer award for choral composition. For four years running she was shortlisted as a finalist for The American Prize in choral composition. Blurring the lines between classical, jazz, and popular music, her compositions and arrangements have been performed across Canada and around the globe, by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Canada's National Youth Choir, the Toronto Children's Chorus, The Salt Lake Choral Artists, the Cantiamo Girls' Choir, and The Bach Music Festival of Canada choir and orchestra, and other well-respected ensembles. Soloists who have performed her music include Colin Ainsworth, Leslie Fagan, Marcus Nance, and Rebecca Noelle. Her music is available through Cypress Choral Music, Canadian Music Centre, JW Pepper, Hal Leonard, Sheet Music Plus, Sheet Music Direct, Bandcamp, and her website.
Elise directs Voices Rock Medicine (Ottawa), a choir for female physicians, through Voices Rock Canada, based in Toronto ON. She teaches piano, voice, composition, and songwriting at Alcorn Music Studios. Elise performs as a solo artist, as a studio vocalist with The Fieldown Singers, and with Glamour Profession (a Steely Dan tribute band). She has shared a stage with Brian Browne, Paula Cole, Bob Dorough, Sheila Jordan, Janet Lawson, Janis Siegel, and others. She is working on her 7th recorded album.
Elise is a graduate of Berklee College of Music (Boston MA), and earned a M.Ed. specializing in creative arts and learning at Lesley College (Cambridge MA). She lives in Orleans ON.
Compositions & Arrangements
CHOIR MUSIC
PIANO MUSIC
VOCAL MUSIC
Testimonials
“With a distinct compositional profile, generated by a fascinating choice of texts, the choral music of Elise Letourneau is melodious, inevitably memorable, and always accessible.”
- The American Prize in Choral Composition
“Elise Letourneau capitalizes on her active background in the jazz field, while also displaying considerable skill writing academically/classically oriented music. Letourneau writes with vivid imagination, confidence, and a willingness to try new things in the choral idiom.”
– Giselle Wyers, Chair of Voice & Choral, University of Washington School of Music
"Elise Letourneau has the whole musical package - perfect time, perfect rhythm, perfectly in tune, the meaningful delivery of lyrics, improvisatory ideas, beautiful tone. Just pure talent."
- Barry Kernfeld, author & editor, What to Listen For In Jazz, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
A Smattering of Elise's choral works
all selections recorded by The Fieldown Singers
À la claire fontaine - traditional French, arranged by Elise Letourneau
I Will Lay Down This Pencil, music by Elise Letourneau, poem by Nicola Vulpe (used with permission)
Glimmer Mass - Kyrie, music by Elise Letourneau, text traditional
Dust of Snow - music by Elise Letourneau, poem by Robert Frost (public domain)
Shenandoah - traditional American, arranged by Elise Letourneau