Michael Sitton
composer | teacher | pianist
Michael Sitton composer | teacher | pianist

Recordings

Listen to selections of the composer’s recorded compositions:

My Heart Would Ever Wander

(Concordia 984278, SATB+organ)

Orchestral version of published SATB + organ arrangement of traditional Swedish Christmas carol, “Mitt hjerte alltid vanker,”  sung here in Swedish. Performed by the Crane School of Music Chorus and Orchestra in 2013.

Scherzo and Trio for Trumpet and Organ

(unpublished)

Judith Saxton, Trumpet – Timothy Olsen, Organ – University of North Carolina School of the Arts artist faculty – Recorded at UNCSA on Jan. 20, 2013

Locus iste

(Paraclete PPMO 1243, SATB unaccompanied)

Paraclete Press June 2012 New Choral Release Demo

Ubi Caritas

(Earthsongs, double SSA choir unaccompanied)

from Pro Organo CD 7095 – Ave, Ave! 20th Century Music for Women’s Voices – The St. Mary’s College Women’s Choir – Nancy Menk, Conductor

Amice Christe, Johannes

(Earthsongs, TTBB unaccompanied)

The Washington Men’s Camerata – Frank Albinder, Music Director

Tantum Ergo

(Paraclete PPMO 9111, unison voices+organ)

from Pro Organo CD 7076 – Ex Ore Innocentium: Anthems for trebles – The Girls’ Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral Buffalo, NY – Dale Adelmann, Director – Daniel Fortune, Organist

Kyrie - From Missa Brevis

(unpublished)

from Across the Bar, Pro Organo 7215 – St. Mary’s College Women’s Choir – Nancy Menk, Conductor

Gloria - From Missa Brevis

(unpublished)

from Across the Bar, Pro Organo 7215 – St. Mary’s College Women’s Choir – Nancy Menk, Conductor

O Blest Is Christ That Came

(unpublished)

Extended anthem for SATB choir (with concluding treble descant) and organ; based on the Advent hymn “Prepare the Way, O Zion,” using the hymn text and the familiar tune for the final section. The performance link is to the première in Advent 2024 by the choir and children’s choir of Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tennessee, Scott Price, choirmaster, and Debbie Smith, organist. The permission of Dr. Price and his musicians is gratefully acknowledged.

Songs of Awakening

(unpublished)

Song cycle with setting of five poems by Vermont poet George Lisi.  Performance recording (2021) of the première by mezzo soprano Elise Hyder and pianist John Deaver, with gratitude for their permission. 

“An ideal motet during the administration of communion.”

—Kevin Walters, in The American Organist on O Salutaris Hostia

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