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Reena Esmail

Composer

SATB Choir (only)

A Winter Breviary (2021)

three carols for SATB choir (12 min)
new text by Rebecca Gayle Howell

Dhire Dhire (version for SATB) (2022)

SATB chorus (5 min)
original version commissioned by Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC)

Even After All this Time… (SATB only) (2016)

version for SATB Chorus (6 min)
commissioned by Lindsay Pope

If the River Leaves Without Me (SATB) (2023)

version for SATB chorus (4 min)
commissioned by California Choral Directors Association

Jahaaṅ* (2025)

five arrangements of Indian folksongs for SATB Chorus (~20′)
commissioned by Los Angeles Master Chorale

Man tu shudam, tu man shudi (2023)

commissioned by Illinois Wesleyan Choir (5 min)

Quarantine Madrigals (2020)

solo voice or choir (15 min: 8 mmts)
commissioned by Conspirare
new text by Amy Fogerson

Ritual (2006)

SATB chorus, clarinet and piano (5 min)

Sunāō (सुनाऔ) (2023)

three songs for youth chorus (SA, SAB, SATB) – 3 mmts, 10 min
commissioned by Southern California Vocal Association
new text by Reena Bhansali

TaReKiTa (2016)

SATB Chorus (2 min) – also available in SSAA and TTBB
written for Urban Voices Project

The Love of Thousands (SATB version) (2019)

SATB choir (5 mins)
version commissioned by Green Lake Festival of Music

Trust the Ballot (2022)

SATB chorus and piano (5 min)
commissioned by Amherst College; Arianne Abela, conductor
text by Rebecca Gayle Howell

Tuttarana (SATB) (2014)

version for SATB Chorus (3 min)
commissioned by Mount Holyoke Glee Club; Lindsay Pope, conductor

We Are Love (2022)

soprano, SATB choir and community choir (8 min)
text by Melissa Studdard

White Key (2009)

SSAATTBB chorus (14 min)
premiered by Yale Camerata; Brian Bartoldus, conductor

Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020-2025 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and was Seattle Symphony’s 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. She also holds awards/fellowships from United States Artists, the S&R Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Kennedy Center.

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