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Emerson Eads' setting of his twin nieces' text, Words of Hope & Joy, has recently been published by North Star Music and is available here: https://www.northstarmusicllc.com/index.php/product/words-of-hope-and-joy/ Soprano, Arwen Myers commissioned these two songs...

ALBUM ART: KYLIE EADSSongs My Father Taught Me is a fantasia of hymns and sacred songs that I learned by heart as a young boy listening to my father play. He loved improvising and never played anything the same way twice. He instilled in me at an early age that music...

It was surreal traveling back to my alma mater, The University of Alaska Fairbanks, to hear the world premiere of my new work for accompanied choir, Give Me Room on a text by Meta Herrick Carlson. I was commissioned by Dr. Jaunelle Celaire and the University of Alaska...

Calliope's Call 2021-2022 season concludes this April with a special collaboration with renowned Grammy nominated soprano Laura Strickling, which will see us pair brand new songs with pieces from earlier in the same composer’s career—a musical “then and now” charting...

Commissioned by Terri Eickel on four poems by Margaret Gibson I'm delighted to announce the completion of a new song cycle, commissioned by my friend, soprano, Terri Eickel. I will never forget our first meeting. It was a piano dress rehearsal for Madam Butterfly, and...

Every face is in you, Every voice Every sorrow in you, Every pity, Every love, Every memory, Woven into fire. Every breath is in you, Every cry, Every longing in you Every Singing, Every hope, Every healing Woven into fire. Every heart is in you, Every tongue, Every...

February 18th, 2022 was the premiere of my Passion Cantata, Black Wolf, about the life of a wolf in Juneau, AK who befriended the town and romped and played with the domestic dogs, and delighted the inhabitants of this city, nestled in a beautiful fjord in South East,...

PROGRAMBlack Wolf (2021) A Passion Cantata for Narrator, Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra in 4 movementsMusic by Emerson Eads, Narrator text by Dave Hunsaker. Additional text for chorus complied by Emerson Eads1. My Morning2. G̱ooch3. That Romeo Wolf​4....

A Facebook Live Broadcast of Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan. From The Music Hall on the campus of Cal State LA, November 10th, at 7:30 PM, the duo will perform a recital of songs with social justice themes. Among the works to be performed is the...

Emerson Eads' Mass for the Oppressed made Honorable Mention in the Finalists of the AMERICAN PRIZE ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, 2021. http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2021/10/winners-bacon-awardamerican-music.html...

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