Two vocal works by composer Joseph A. Santo will be performed Friday, September 26, 2025 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4512 College Park Ave, College
Park, Maryland 20740.
Quattro
Sonetti di Michelangelo (world premiere) and Tre Pregarίe will be performed by renowned Welsh baritone
Jeremy Huw Williams (https://www.jeremyhuwwilliams.com/),
who will present a program of British and American works.
In addition to the works by Joseph A. Santo,
the program will also include:
A Shropshire
Lad by George Butterworth; Gettysburg: July 1, 1863 by William Bolcom; My Last Duchess by Grace Williams;
and Three Welsh Folk Songs by Benjamin Britten.
Maestro Williams will be
accompanied by David Houston, Associate for Music and Liturgy at St. Andrew’s.
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Scores and parts for performance
from the Catalog of Works
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Works recently completed:
2025
to eikonídio ton eptá plaisíon
Cantica
post lectiones ad vigiliam paschalem in nocte sancta
for SATB a cappella choir
with English texts:
Canticles
sung after the reading of the prophecies at the great vigil of Easter
for
SATB a cappella choir
2024
Missa pro pace
a concert work scored for SATB chorus and orchestra
Quattro Sonetti di Michelangelo
scored for baritone voice and piano / baritone voice and chamber
orchestra
2023
El Alba de Titon ya se partia
scored for symphonic band
Freedoms Four
scored
for flute (piccolo, alto flute) and piano
2022
Canticum Zachariae
scored
for SATB chorus and chamber orchestra (1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet in Bb, 1 bassoon, 1 horn in F, 1 trumpet in C, strings)
scored for flute (piccolo, alto flute) and piano
2022
Canticum Zachariae
scored for SATB chorus and chamber orchestra (1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet in
Bb, 1 bassoon, 1 horn in F, 1 trumpet in C, strings)
Concerto for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra
scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd oboe doubling on English
Horn), 2 clarinets in Bb, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, timpani, solo violin, solo viola, strings
2021
Istampitte
scored
for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in Bb, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba,
timpani, tambourin
de Provence, bass drum, tam-tam, triangle, temple blocks, 4 melodic toms, 4 congas, tambourine, sistrum, xylophone, bass xylophone,
vibraphone, pianoforte, strings
Nightsong
for flute and B-flat clarinet
2020
Symphonia
scored for woodwinds in pairs, plus
piccolo, English horn and bass clarinet, three trumpets, four horns, three trombones, tuba, percussion, strings
Tres Historiae sancti Evangelii secundum Ioannem
scored for vocal soloists, SATB chorus, solo woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet,
bassoon), solo brass (trumpet, horn, trombone), and string quartet
2019
Hymn to the Almighty
for a cappella SATB
chorus
El Divino Orfeo
a sacred chamber opera in two parts: Loa; Auto sacramental.
Spanish
text: El Divino Orfeo by Don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681).
Scored for 1 fl (doubling on picc), eh, 1 trpt in C, 1 tbn, theorbo, harpsichord,
harp, pandero grande, 1 vln, 1 vla, 1 vc, 1 db.
Vocalists:
el Placer (bari), 5 Damas (sopr / ms), 5 Galanes (ten / bari), un Viejo Venerable (bass), el Principe de las Tinieblas (basso prof), la Envidia (ms), Leteo (bass
bari), Orfeo (ten), la Naturaleza
Humana (sopr), SATB chamber chorus.
Sonata for Orchestra
scored for
woodwinds in pairs, two trumpets, two horns, timpani, strings