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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
Welcome! Glad you're here...
Elise Letourneau is a multiple award-winning Canadian composer, and an accomplished songwriter, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist performer, and educator. Her works have been performed around the globe. In addition to writing and recording, her current work includes:
• Voices Rock Canada - choir director
• The Fieldown Singers - studio vocalist
• Alcorn Music Studios - instructor
"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
"Move over Diana Krall."
- Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Competitions, Grants, Awards
• Ruth Watson Henderson composition competition winner
• Choral Canada (ACCC) composition competition winner
• The American Prize in choral composition - finalist (4 times)
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Ontario Arts Council
• Ottawa Arts Council
• City of Ottawa Cultural Funding
• Atlantic Voices composition competition
• PennPAT rostered artist, additional grants (Pennsylvania Performing Arts On Tour)
“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
Partial Discography
• The Fieldown Sessions - The Fieldown Singers
• The Long & Winding Road – Brian Browne & Elise Letourneau
• The Glimmer Mass – The Fieldown Singers
• Winter 1 Collection – The Fieldown Singers
• Spirit 1 Collection – The Fieldown Singers
• Requiem for Fourteen Roses – choral work – 2 CDs
• Capital Vox Sings Elise Letourneau – choral works
• Pas de deux – Elise Letourneau & Harry Pickens
• I Will Sing for You – Elise Letourneau & band
“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
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