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2025 Virtual Reading Session–4-year College & University Choirs

Caron Daley

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Caron Daley

Caron Daley is director of choral activities, associate professor of music, and chair of the Performance Department at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she has held past conducting appointments with the National Youth Choir of Canada, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Choir School, and Salem Academy and College. Daley's ongoing research in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the choral setting and conductor health and wellness has resulted in national and international conference presentations and publications in Canadian Music Educator, Choral Journal, Journal of Singing, The Choral Scholar, College Music Symposium, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook for Musician Health Advocacy.


Video #1: True North: Exploring Canadian Repertoire for Collegiate Choirs

TitleComposerPoet/LyricistVoicing & InstrumentationPublisher
ElementsKaterina GimonNo text; syllablesSATB/SSAA/various solosCypress
Ripple EffectSarah QuartelHildegard of Bingen, Mother TeresaSATB/SAT semi-chorus/celloOxford University Press
June NightStephen ChatmanSara TeasdaleSATB/piano/clarinet or oboeGalaxy
BreatheMatthew EmeryFrancesco Petrarca; translated by Higginson; adapted by EmerySATBGalaxy
Jauh/Dekat (Far/Near)Tracy WongMalay proverbsSATB div/S soloGraphite


Video #2: Versatile Programming Selections

TitleComposerPoet/LyricistVoicing & InstrumentationPublisher
Hold Fast to DreamsJoel ThompsonLangston HughesSATB/pianoGalaxy
ResponsorialsEric Barnumadapted from William WordworthSATB div.Galaxy
Afternoon on a HillColin BrittEdna St. Vincent MillaySATB or SSAAAlliance
My Heart be BraveMarques L. A. GarrettJames Weldon JohnsonSATB or SSAA or TTBBOxford University Press


Video #3: Building Musicianship Skills

TitleComposerPoet/LyricistVoicing & InstrumentationPublisher
Patterns on the SnowMari Esabel ValverdeMay SartonSATB or SSAA/pianoWalton
Quando Quilaria!Daniel Afonso Jr.Brazilian Folk SongSATB div./percussionAlliance
Hymne au SoleilLili BoulangerSATB/piano/A soloG. Schirmer
For You I Will Be An IslandJennifer Lucy CookJennifer Lucy CookSATB div./S SoloGraphite
LuminescenceAndrea RamseyBlaire GinsburgSATB div.Walton

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4-year College & University Choir

This content was published on: July 30, 2025

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