Premieres
2024
Meet Me for Noche Buena by Saunder Choi
Commissioned by Pacific Chorale and artistic director Dr. Robert Istad. SSAA version commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus and artistic director Dr. Anne K. Hege.
Night Into Dawn by Theresa Wong
Dedicated to the community of Lahaina and to the singers of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus – that we may help each other to heal.
Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus • Theresa Wong, composer-in-residence
2023
Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus • Julie Herndon, composer-in-residence
2025
2022
Consortium commission by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Consonare Choral Community, West Village Chorale, and the Yale Glee Club
Would You Like to Have it All? by Jennifer Wilsey
Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus
2020
Hands upon the Plow by Jocelyn Hagen
Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus as part of the Trailblazers Project
2019
Commissioned by the PWC through the ACDA Women’s Consortium
When the Dust Settles by Mari Esabel Valverde
World Premiere. Jointly commissioned by the PWC and VOX Femina
2018
Child of Impossibles by Julia Adolphe
Commissioned by the PWC as part of the Trailblazers Project. PWC-commissioned poem by Safiya Sinclair
2017
Come home little sister by Cecilia McDowall
commissioned by the PWC
displacement: I. From Psalm 137 by Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
displacement: II. Overheard in Silicon Valley by Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
displacement: III. Wayfaring Stranger by Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
displacement: IV. Frosty night by Eric Tuan
commissioned by the PWC
displacement: V. San Francisco by Eric Tuan
Commissioned by the PWC
Harriet Tubman by Walter Robinson arranged by Kathleen McGuire
commissioned by the PWC
2015
Ololiuhqui (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen
composed in 2013
Oración del remanso by Jorge Fandermole arranged by Eduardo Ferraudi
commissioned by the PWC; composed in 2014
2014
composed in 2013; commissioned by the PWC
Heart Spells: 1. Spell to Be Said upon Waking by Mark Winges
Composed in 2013
Heart Spells: 2. Spell to Be Said Before Sleep by Mark Winges
Composed in 2013
2013
Antigua Canción (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen
Composed in 2013
West Coast Premiere
Night (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen
Composed in 2013
Oportunidad (from Songs of Night) by Kirstina Rasmussen
Composed in 2013
The Son of Man II. Benjamin the Scribe: Let The Dead Bury Their Dead by Kareem Roustom
West Coast premiere, co-premiered with Golden Gate Men’s Chorus
The Son of Man VI. A Man from Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward by Kareem Roustom
West Coast premiere, co-premiered with Golden Gate Men’s Chorus
2012
Premiered at Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, October 2012
Ripple by Ted Hearne
Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus through the Patricia Hennings New Music Fund
Co-Commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus with Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir and Acalanes High School Bella Voce
American premiere 2013
2011
poem by Francisco X. Alarcón, co-commissioned by the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, and Crystal Children’s Choir
2010
little man in a hurry by Eric Whitacre
commissioned by the PWC through a consortium with Chorus America, joint piece with GGMC
Commissioned by the PWC in memory of Mary Ager
commissioned by the PWC (known as “What’s This?”)
2009
2008
The Big, Shy Moon by Miriam Helmy
Music and Poetry Project 2008 – student composer
Music and Poetry Project 2008 – student composer
Music and Poetry Project 2008
2007
women’s choral version commissioned by the PWC
commissioned by the PWC
Thou Famished Grave by Stacy Garrop
commissioned by the PWC; composed in 2007
2006
Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks by Brian Holmes
commissioned by PHNMF
2003
Fanfare of Praise by Sandra Milliken
dedicated to Dr. Patty Hennings and the PWC
2002
I Shall Keep Singing! by Brian Holmes
for the Peninsula Women’s Chorus in memory of Patty Hennings, words by Emily Dickinson
words by Lewis Carroll, commissioned by the PWC
words by Inazio Mujika, in memoriam: Patricia Hennings
2000
Music and Poetry Project
to MaryLouise
Music and Poetry Project. composed in 1999
Music and Poetry Project
Music and Poetry Project
Commissioned by the PWC
Music and Poetry Project
Take Up the Song by Ron Jeffers
words by Edna St. Vincent Millay; world premiere 1999 with Elektra; US premiere by the PWC 2000
This wonderful feeling by Joan Szymko
Saboo, In my quiet place, Purple night: Music and Poetry Project
Music and Poetry Project
1999
O, Great Spirit by Michael Cleveland
written for the PWC
Take Up the Song by Ron Jeffers
words by Edna St. Vincent Millay; world premiere 1999 with Elektra; US premiere by the PWC 2000
Walk in Beauty by Michael Cleveland
written for the PWC
When you are old by Peter Tryggvi Bjerring (Peter Berring)
World premiere with Elektra in 1999
1997
Christmas Intrada by David Conte
Commissioned by the PWC 1997
1996
Jesu, dulcis memoria by Michael Cleveland
Commissioned for the PWC by Lorraine Hultquist in memory of Arnie Hultquist 1996
Two Songs of Love by Michael Cleveland
Commissioned for the PWC by the Rutherford family in honor of Carolyn Rutherford’s 30th anniversary with the PWC
1993
Miss Rumphius by Victoria Ebel-Sabo
Commissioned by the PWC in 1993
1991
In Praise of Music by David Conte
Commissioned by the PWC in 1991
1989
commissioned by the PWC in 1989