Sarah Quartel Songbook

Sarah Quartel is a Canadian composer and educator known for her fresh and exciting approach to choral music. She celebrates the musical potential of all learners by providing singers access to engaging repertoire and transformative musical experiences. Deeply inspired by the life-changing relationships that can occur while making choral music, Sarah writes in a way that connects singer to singer, ensemble to conductor, and performer to audience. Although she has been a full-time composer since 2017, Sarah chooses to remain connected to her past as a music educator and is a guest teacher in her hometown of London, Canada. Sarah continues to work as a clinician and conductor at music education and choral events at home and abroad.

This 91-page anthology of 11 pieces not only represents very good value in relation to the price, but could offer a stimulating educational opportunity to study and perform a variety of works by a single composer. The collection embraces a wide range of secular texts and musical styles, and includes some of the composer's well-known favourites, such as Voice on the Wind, Sing my Child, and The Birds' Lullaby; but it also features some exciting new pieces, including All shall be well, setting the text by Julian of Norwich, that she was commissioned to write for the National Children's Chorus in the USA.