Gjeilo has amassed a large following in recent years for his extensive choral output, much of which has been recorded by well-known ensembles, including Voces8 and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.
On Sunday afternoon, Good Company music director Mike Carney led a concert of fifteen of Gjeilo’s works to a packed sanctuary at Lakewood Presbyterian Church, with the Amethyst Strings and the composer at the piano for several selections. On Saturday, November 3, Gjeilo led a workshop about his music with members of Good Company and singers from Bay Village High School and elsewhere. The Choir of Royal Holloway is considered one of the finest mixed-voice collegiate choirs in the UK and this is a fantastic opportunity to hear them work with Ola Gjeilo, one of the most frequently performed composers in the choral world.Ī preview of Winter Songs can be heard on YouTube and people can pre-order and download copies online.Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble presented what was likely the biggest project in the group’s 23-year history this past weekend - a two-day residency with Ola Gjeilo (pronounced yay-loh), a Norwegian-born composer now based in the United States. We are looking forward to the choir’s music reaching a wider audience.” It has been great to see Ola’s music grow in popularity in the UK and USA over the past few years and we jumped at the chance to make a second album with him and Decca Classics. Rupert Gough, Director of Choral Music at Royal Holloway, said: “The choir has really enjoyed working with Ola Gjeilo and the recording team from Abbey Road Studios. It features new compositions and arrangements of Christmas carols including The Holly and Ivy and Away in a Manger. Winter Songs is a classical album of compositions and arrangements for choir, strings and piano by Norwegian composer, Ola Gjeilo. The album is available to pre-order from Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Apple Music and iTunes.
The Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London’s new album with composer Ola Gjeilo called Winter Songs is set to be released by Decca Classics on Friday, 17 November 2017.
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