OPERA, ORATORIO and LARGER WORKS

BABEL: a choral symphony (2016) |  Orchestra, choir, SSATB soloists (45 minutes) Text: Cori Martin, concerning language, the nature of inquiry and creativity. CMC. (click to see video)

ECHO (2025) | SATB choir, SSA echo choir, and orchestra (strings, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, timp. 10 minutes) Text: Christina Rossetti, on loss, memory and dreams. Commissioned by Norm Martin with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor. Premiere Nov 5/7, Toronto. CMC

Every voice: a cantata for inclusive singing (2024) | SATB choir. 4 mvts (15 minutes) in English. 1. Come to the edge (SAB with piano) 2. Weavings (a cappella) 3. Every Voice (Unison with piano) 4. All are Welcome (SATB chorus, piano and organ, audience participation). Commissioned by Edmonton’s ‘A Joyful Noise’ choir, Roderick Bryce, conductor.

Llandovery Castle (2018) | Opera (1 hr, 20 minutes) for 9 singers and 9 instruments. Text: Paul Ciufo, concerning 14 Canadian nurses whose hospital ship was torpedoed in WW1. CMC Click to watch video

Missa Chicagoensis (2017) | SATB choir a cappella 5 mvts in Latin (20 minutes). CMC click to see video

Requiem For All Souls (2017)| SATB choir divisi a cappella 8 mvts in Latin (25 minutes) CMC click to watch video

The Sun, the Wind, and the Man with the Cloak (2019) | Oratorio: (50 minutes) SSA/TBB choir, Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone soloists, piano, organ & percussion. Text by Paul Ciufo, concerning the power of persuasion over force. CMC Click to find score at CMC

WATER: an environmental oratorio (2023) | Oratorio (50 minutes) Text: Paul Ciufo, with Vicki Monague. SATB chorus, children’s choir, child soloist, SATB soloists, orchestra. Piano vocal, full orchestra or chamber orchestra scores and parts from CMC

Winter Nights (Cantata in five movements) (2010) | Cantata (25 minutes) SATB choir, strings, percussion, tenor solo, Cypress Choral Music (1st movement only) Winter Nights (complete cantata CMC) 1. Cold is the night (a cappella) 2. Loud rings the frozen earth 3. Christmas Cattle (text:Cori Martin) 4.Ring out wild bells  5.Now winter nights enlarge. CMC

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MIXED CHOIR, SACRED

SACRED, A CAPPELLA

A Prayer for Love (2021) | SATB  Text by Archbishop William Temple, for Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento, California. SELAH publication 410-662.

An Earthly Tree (2018) | SSATTB a cappella on a renaissance Christmas text. Published by Encore Publications in the UK click here to see video

Arise my Soul (2023) | SATB a cappella, text by African American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). For Jonathan Ryan. CMC

Ave verum corpus (2007) | SATB, Traditional Latin text for communion. Cypress Choral Music 1149

Drop, drop slow tears (2008) | SATB choir. Text in English by Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) suitable for Good Friday. Cypress Choral Music 2293

Dum complerentur (2017) | SSATBB choir a cappella, Pentecost motet in Latin. CMC click to see video

EXEQUIEN (2026) | SATB choir with divisi. Text by J. Craig Martin on light, darkness, death and burial. CMC

Four Motets (2010) | SATB. 1. Ave Verum 2. Sicut cervus 3. O salutaris hostia 4. O sacrum convivium. CP1254

Hear my prayer (2009) | SATB. Pentitential English text from Psalm 102. Cypress Choral Music CP1170. click to see video at 9’10”

Ingrediente Domino (2018) | SSATBB, Motet for Palm Sunday in Latin. CMC click to see video

Kontakion (2009) | SATB choir. English text from the traditional funeral liturgy. Cypress Choral Music 1158. Listen here

Legend of the Bird (2012) | SATB choir & child soloist. A local legend from Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC. CP1252

Let all mortal flesh keep silence (2020) | SATB,SATB double choir. Choral fantasia on French tune Picardy click to hear Clare College sing this piece

Locus Iste (2023) | SATB a cappella Latin motet suitable for dedication, based on the Gregorian melody. CMC

Missa Chicagoensis (2017) | SATB choir a cappella 5 mvts in Latin (20 minutes). CMC watch video

Missa Locus Iste (2023) | SATB a cappella, 3 mvts in Latin based on the Gregorian melody. CMC

Now the Queen of Seasons (2010) | SATB, organ and brass. Easter anthem. CP1330. click to see video

O sacrum convivium (2010) | SATB. Latin text suitable for communion service. CP1158

O salutaris hostia (2010) | SATB. Celebratory sacred text in Latin. CP1157

Of the Glorious City (2010) | SSATB choir Text: Julian of Norwich on the nature of paradise. CMC

Portinari Nativity (2012) | SATB Text by Cori Martin; a reflection on the 15th-century painting by Hugo van der Goes. CMC

Psalm 150 (2025) | SATB, on a paraphrase of Psalm 150 by Mary Sidney (1561-1621) for St. Barnabas Church, Ottawa.

Requiem For All Souls (2017) | SATB choir divisi a cappella 8 mvts (25 minutes). CMC watch video

Resurrection (2021) | SATB,  text by Alfred Noyes, for Erik Goldstrom, Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona. CMC click here for an info video

Ring out wild bells (2014) | SATB Text: Tennyson, on celebrating the New Year. Cypress KH 090

Rise up my Love  (2012) | SATB choir, text from the Song of Solomon celebrating love and renewal of spring. CP 1797

Sicut cervus (2010) | SATB, text from psalm 42 on a thirsty deer and longing for the divine. CP1156

Tenebrae Responsories (2018) | SATB Text: Complete Latin liturgy for Maundy Thursday. CMC listen here

Tenebrae Responsories (2018) | SATB Text: Complete English liturgy for Maundy Thursday. CMC

The Reproaches (2022) | SATB Text in English: from the Good Friday Liturgy. CMC

Weavings (2024) | SATB choir. Text by Lori Stewart on reconciliation and knowing the ‘other’. Commissioned Roderick Bryce and Joyful Noise Choir, Edmonton , Alberta. Free download. Watch video here.

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SACRED, ACCOMPANIED

 Advent Song (2016) | SATB, organ and brass quintet on a text by Robert Pynn, for Richard Eaton Singers, Edmonton. CMC

Alpha and Omega (2015) | SA soloists, SATB choir (div.), children, three organs. Commissioned by Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria BC, inspired by the New Jerusalem window, a visit to Haida Gwaii, and the Harrison, Bevington and Wolff organs. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

An Hymn to the Evening (2022) | SATB, organ, text by Phillis Wheatley, for Jason Abel, Historic Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia. CMC

And as I wake (2013) | SATB and organ. Text: Milton, in honour of Ruth Watson Henderson. KH 002

Ascension (2017) | SATB and organ, Text: John Donne. CMC

Children of the heavenly father (2000) | SAB choir, organ, based on a Swedish folk tune. Cypress (previously RCCO)

Glorify the day (2016) | SATB choir, soloists, children, organ, piano, bells, two trumpets. Commissioned by Islington United Church, Toronto. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

God So Loved the World (2009) | SATB choir, flute, and oboe. Based on biblical passage from John 3:16. Renforth Music RM ACH 625

A Great Light (2017) | SATB Text: Patricia Wright and Malcolm Sinclair for Metropolitan United Church, Toronto (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

In Mortal Key (2019) |SATB (div) and solo violin, text by Solomon Ibn Gabirol concerning the dawn and thankfulness. For Halifax Camerata Singers. Renforth RM ACH 219

Sacramento Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) | SATB choir and organ for David Link and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Sacramento, California.

Sacred Songs for Small Choirs | An anthology of useful canons, additive songs, introits and antiphons. Contents: 1. Alleluia 2. Magnificat 3. When all things were in quiet silence 4. Christmas chaconne 5. Bread of Heaven 6. Agnus Dei 7. YWCA song ‘A place where I am home’ 8. A new commandment 9. Easter 10. Pentecost 11. Trinity 12. rest eternal 13. At thy great name 14. O Lord support us 15. Stand by me (From the opera Llandovery Castle) 16. I will lay me down in peace. Renforth Music

Sedebit Dominus Rex (2017) | SATB choir and organ on a text suitable for the feast of Christ the King. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca) click to see video at 39’20”

Te Deum Laudamus (2017) | SATB choir and organ, on a traidtional Latin text for thanksgiving. For St. Chrysostom Episcopal Church, Chicago. CMC

The Selwyn Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) (2010) | SATB and organ. For Sarah MacDonald and Selwyn Chapel Choir, Cambridge, England. CMC

The Souls of the Saints (2019) | SATB/Solos, organ: Text in English based on Antiphon for All Saints and the litany of the Saints. For Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria. CMC Scrolling score video of ‘The Souls of the Saints’

The Rock Dove (2017) | SATB, children and flute, on an English text based on local history, Christ Church Cathedal, Victoria, BC. CMC

They will pass through the land (2015) | SATB and organ, Text: Isaiah 8:21 on the plight of fugitives in exile. KH 102

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MIXED CHOIR, SECULAR

SECULAR, A CAPPELLA

The Arrow and the Song (2017) | SATB, text by Longfellow concerning friendship. Cypress CP1582

EXEQUIEN (2026) | SATB choir with divisi. Text by J. Craig Martin on light, darkness, death and burial. CMC

A Frost Sequence (2021) | SATB choir with divisi. Three poems by Robert Frost: 1. Nothing gold can stay 2. The road not taken 3. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. Commissioned by Deborah Finlayson and Dan Leader for Mark Vuorinen and The Elora Singers. Renforth Music RM ACH 210 (watch video: ‘A Frost Sequence’)

My Love is Like a Red, Red, Rose (1999) | SATB choir, tenor solo, and violin or flute. An arrangement by the well-known Scottish song by Robbie Burns. KH 070

Mystical Hope (2026) | SATB choir a cappella. Text by Robert Pynn on trauma, recovery and hope. Commissioned by Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Jean-Sébastien Vallée artistic director.

Peace; come away (2019) | SATB/SAA, percussion: Text, Tennyson, for Saskatoon Chamber Singers. CMC (listen to Saskatoon Chamber Singers)

A place where I am home (2012) | Various voices. Jointly written with residents of YWCA Elm Street, Toronto. Renforth RM TCH 828

SNOW (2022) | SATB/SATB double choir a cappella,  text by Archibald Lampman, commissioned by Mark Ramsay & Exultate Chamber Singers, Toronto, May 13, 2022 Cypress CP 2246

There be none of beauty’s daughters (2019) | SATB, Tenor solo, piano.Text by Byron. Renforth RM ACH 939

The Treasures (2025) | SATB a cappella. Text: Lucy Maud Montgomery, on what really matters: charity, generosity and friendship. Commissioned by Deborah Finlayson and Dan Leader with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor.

Weavings (2024) | SATB choir. Text by Lori Stewart on reconciliation and knowing the ‘other’. Commissioned Roderick Bryce and Joyful Noise Choir, Edmonton , Alberta. Watch video here.

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SECULAR, ACCOMPANIED

Be the river (2017) | SATB choir, SATB soloists, and orchestra. Text by Maureen Scott Harris on nature, and the nature of being. CMC

If I could sing you well (2024) | SAB choir and piano. An anthem for health workers. Text created in conversation with hospital workers and care givers in Canada and the USA. Commissioned by Jennifer Lang and University of Saskatoon College of Medicine. Cypress CP 2425

Night (2020) | SSATB and solo cello: Text, Lucy Maud Montgomery concerning the beauty of solitude. For 17 Voyces, Ottawa. Renforth RM ACH 242

Winter Nights (Cantata in 5 movements) (2010) | SATB choir, strings, percussion, keyboards, and tenor solo. Cypress Choral Music (1st movement only) Winter Nights (complete cantata, CMC) 1. Cold is the night (a cappella) 2. Loud rings the frozen earth 3. Christmas Cattle 4. Ring out Wild Bells 5. Now winter nights enlarge

Mother (2022) | SATB and piano. Text by Cori Martin concerning mothers and mothering. Commissioned by Thomas Burton and RESOUND Choir of Durham. CMC

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SSA/ TBB CHOIRS

Alleluia (2009) | SSAAA/ or SSATB. An flexible, additive canon. Published with ‘Tantum Ergo’ byCypress Choral Music 1216. Listen to Schola Magdalena

Ave Maria à 3 (2010) | SAA or TBB. Latin motet in praise of Mary. CMC

Christe qui lux es et dies (2014) | TTBB or SSAA. Hymn for Compline. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca) Listen to the Women’s Compline Choir of Seattle cathedral

Gloria for Missa Brevis for three voices (2013) | TBB/SSA/SAB. CP1579

I sing the mighty power of God (2013) | SA and organ, for Diocesan Girls’ Choir. text by Isaac Watts. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

Little Organ Mass (2012) | Women/Men and organ (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

Make a joyful noise (2016) | SSA, divisi and piano, for Diocesan Girls’ Choir. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca) Click to listen Make a joyful noise

Missa Brevis for Three Voices  (2010) | SAB, TBB, SSA, Cypress Choral Music 1165(SAB), 1166(TBB), 1167(SSA)

Mass for Troubled Times (2019) | TTBB a cappella, for Michael Zaugg, Edmonton (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

Missa Lumen (2008) | SSAA Missa Brevis for women’s voices (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

Tantum Ergo (2012) | SSA/ or TTB, Cypress Choral Music 1216

We shall overcome arr. SJM (2020) | SSSAAA women’s voices. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca) Watch Youtube video We shall overcome video

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INSTRUMENTAL

The Garden City (2016) piano solo. Commissioned for the opening recital on the new Steinway grand piano at Brock University. (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

Step by Step (2024) procession for piano solo (for license to duplicate, email stmartin@yorku.ca)

String Quartet: From a Distant Island (2010) 4 mvts composed on the Isle of Wight. CMC

Colours of the Heart (2010) Sonata for trumpet, clarinet and piano/organ 1. Red (Courage), 2. Blue (Longing), 3. Gold (Triumph) CMC

SOLO SONG

Canterbury (2012) Baritone solo and piano Text: Douglas LePan. CMC

When you are old (2016)Voice and piano/TB and piano/SA and piano. Text: W.B. Yeats. Renforth Music

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JUVENALIA

The Death and Life of Aaron Zuck(1989) | SATB and instrumental ensemble (composed for Laurelville Music Camp, USA (a folk opera)

Incidental music for “The Secret Church” (1978) | (hand written manuscript)