Lauren sang Vivaldi's Gloria and Ola Gjeilo's Dark Night of the Soul, with Ola Gjeilo and Morten Lauridsen in attendance, with Choral Arts of Southern New Jersey and The Bay-Atlantic Symphony. Best service. Audiences have been tremendously enthusiastic about Ola Gjeilo's compositions. May you be blest in listening to this masterpiece of beauty and faith. Eventually, his music encouraged us to climb out of our darkness and listen to other music. Great prices. Ola Gjeilo Erin Shina, soloist. Amen. To my mind Gjeilo's 'Sunrise Mass' can only be compared to Morten Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna" — and today's audiences (who are starving spiritually) need to hear both works. The album features new arrangements of familiar Christmas carols in a beautiful and intimate setting, performed by Gjeilo on the piano, the string group 12 Ensemble, the Choir of Royal Holloway and conductor Rupert Gough. 6 . Update from Stewardship and Mission The Ground The Ground is based on a chorale from the last movement of Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass (2008) for choir and string orchestra.The chorale, beginning at Pleni sunt caeli in that movement is the culmination of the Mass, and it’s called Identity & The Ground because Gjeilo wanted to convey a sense of having ‘arrived’ at the end of the Mass; to have reached a kind of peace And from a sincere heart let us love each other. St Martin’s Voices sing Ubi Caritas (Music by Ola Gjeilo) Where charity and love are, God is there. Let us rejoice, and be joyful in Him. A Spotless Rose is blowing, Sprung from a tender root, Of ancient seers’ foreshowing, Of Jesse promised fruit; ... Ellen Rudd Prohaska and her family on the death of her spouse, Carl Prohaska, 11/8/20. Winter Songs / Gjeilo by Gjeilo, Ola, Traditional on CD. Let us fear and love the living God. Order from your preferred classical music CD store - ArkivMusic. Fast delivery. Ola Gjeilo was born in 1978, and grew up in Skui, Norway. The program featured two extraordinary works, scored for choir, piano and strings, by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo: Dark Night of the Soul on a text from the 16th-century by Saint John of the Cross, and Luminous Night of the Soul with a text written for Gjeilo by American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. He began playing piano and composing when he was five years old and learned to read music when he was seven years old. Winter Songs is a new album of compositions and arrangements for choir and strings by Norwegian composer, Ola Gjeilo. Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he currently lives and works as a composer and pianist. Christ’s love has gathered us into one. It’s lyric-free and transformative aura gave our emotions a place to land. It was only his music that we could stomach after our son’s accident. Providence Singers is proud to present the first recording of Ola Gjeilo's setting of Wordsworth's poem "Upon Westminster Bridge" for choir, string quartet, and piano. Lauren was the 2014 winner of the Milton Cross Young Artist Program, where she sang scenes as Rusalka, Susannah and Pamina with the Minuetto Music Festival. Ola Gjeilo's music and in particular his piece Still had a powerful impact on both my husband and me.