Sam Scheibe
Quarantunes
Composer | Conductor
Sam Scheibe is an up and coming composer/arranger, conductor, and performer of contemporary and traditional choral music. His music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles across the United States and the United Kingdom by ensembles including the Frost Chorale, the Westminster Williamson Voices, Anchorae, the West Jersey Chamber Music Society, and the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir. He received his Undergraduate degree from Westminster Choir College, his first Master's degree from the University of Aberdeen, and is now pursuing a Master's in Choral Conducting from the University of Miami, under the direction of Dr. Amanda Quist. His music is published by GIA publications and recorded by the GRAMMY-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices. Sam has also sung professionally as a bass-baritone with professional ensembles including the Seraphic Fire Youth Initiative, the Same Stream Choir, 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
