Discography

 

The longest night (2019)

Mark the Winter Solstice with The Longest Night, a multidisciplinary, multi-community celebration blending original music and spoken word with traditional songs and carols, storytelling, and dance. Portara Ensemble joins forces with some of Nashville’s most influential artists including multiple Grammy-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin, premier poet Ciona Rouse, and Lisa Spradley’s di Mossa dance company, to explore the richness of the dark and celebrate as we call the light back together.


Amorisms (2016)

The above quote from a review of Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy could well be applied to any number of this composer’s beguiling compositions. In this stunning collection, we get not only his fabled Tempest Fantasy, but also two world-premiere recordings of his music for voices and chamber ensemble. Amorisms is a ballet piece that can also be savored as absolute music; the Sacred Love Songs set familiar biblical texts and the well-known “Prayer of St. Francis.”

Doing this marvelous music complete justice are members of the Grammy-nominated ALIAS Chamber Ensemble and singers of the Portara Ensemble. Both are firm fixtures in the vibrant cultural scene of Nashville, where they have also taken advantage of some of the nation’s finest sound engineering talent.


Choral Hymns of the Christian Faith (2012)

Check out this review from Classics Today. And enjoy a straightforward collection of some timeless, classic hymnody that is, sadly, on the verge of being forgotten in today’s sanctuaries.


The singing is uniformly excellent (nice sectional unisons!), and it’s all expressed with a genuineness that’s quite affecting. […] Recordings of this repertoire, especially performed without embellishment or all kinds of production enhancement—in other words, the way it is intended to be sung—are rare enough; but a newly produced collection of this size and quality is truly something to celebrate—and to keep close by.