Sam Scheibe
Quarantunes
Composer | Conductor
Sam Scheibe is an American composer, conductor, and vocalist whose music is driven by wordplay, harmony, and groove. His influences draw from his experiences in traditional choral music, jazz, rock, and pop a cappella. Scheibe’s original music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles across the United States and the United Kingdom including Frost Chorale, Catholic Sacred Music Project, Anchorae, West Jersey Chamber Music Society, Miami Collegium Musicum, and University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir. His music has been professionally recorded by the GRAMMY-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices and featured on EWTN. His compositions are published by GIA publications, Gentry Music, and See-A-Dot Music.
Scheibe is in demand as a conductor, vocalist, and clinician. He has sung with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony. As an active performer, Sam sings as a bass-baritone with professional ensembles including Seraphic Fire Ensemble Artist Program, the Same Stream Choir, the Catholic Sacred Music Project, and Choir Next Door.
Journey
Frost Chorale
Journey is work inspired by the idea of semantic satiation, or when a word is repeated so often it loses its meaning. A refrain altered from the South African song, Hamba Nathi (Come, Walk with Us), is repeated as various solos enter over top. After enough repetition, the phrase begins to fall apart entirely, with voices only singing a fragment of each word.
Sysiphized (coming soon)
Sam Scheibe, James Harris, John Franek, CAS Music Productions
Sysiphized is a studio work for Baritone, Piano, and Recorded Sounds. The work tells the story of Sysiphus through textless loops and textures, loosely based off text from Andrew Bird's "Sysiphus".
"Sisyphus peered into the mist
A stone's throw from the precipice, paused
Did he jump or did he fall as he gazed into the maw of the morning mist?
Did he raise both fists and say, 'To hell with this,' and just let the rock roll?"
-Andrew Bird, "Sysiphus" from My Finest Work Yet
