Elise Letourneau

Elise Letourneau • composer • songwriter • arranger • producer

Hello Good People, and Welcome! My main focuses these days are composing and arranging for choir, writing songs, creating ambient music, and recording in my project studio. Do look around and enjoy the offerings. I'm so glad you stopped by, and thank you for supporting independent music!

Featured Choral Music

All Shall Be Well

All shall be well...
and all shall be well...
and all manner of thing shall be well...

music by Elise Letourneau
text by Julian of Norwich
recorded by Vox Eclectica Women's+ Choir

1

A la claire fontaine 3:24

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2

I Will Lay Down This Pencil 5:03

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3

Glimmer Mass - Kyrie 2:38

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4

Dust of Snow 1:21

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5

Shenandoah 3:36

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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

Ave Maria

Winning selection of 2011 Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition administered by Choirs Ontario. Premiered by the Toronto Children's Chorus under the direction of Elise Bradley.

music by Elise Letourneau
text traditional
recorded by The Fieldown Singers
available in SSAA, SATB, and TTBB

“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

New Ambient Music

Line Becomes Circle