Song Cycle in San Marino
Gifted mezzo-soprano Amy Fogerson will present a program of L.A. composers, which will include Gibson's Strong As Death, a cycle of three songs on different aspects of love. The songs are 1. "An Evening Song" (lyrics attributed to Esther Mathews), 2. "Infinite Fires" (from The Song of Songs, translated by Marcia Lee Falk), and "He Fumbles At Your Spirit" (Emily Dickinson).
Sunday, June 23, 3pm,
San Marino Community Church
Free Admission
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Gibson's setting of Hyfrydol, One in Faith, was sung at the liturgy on June 1, 2013, at Holy Family in New Rochelle, NY, to celebrate 100 years of the parish's existence.
The acclaimed


ECS has recently begun editing two new Christmas pieces for SATB and flute: O Winter Winds, Be Still and Drive the Cold Winter Away. Release date tba.
The National Children's Chorus under Luke McEndarfer reprised Gibson's Dona nobis pacem/Grant Us Peace at their Spring Showcase, May 20, at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood. NCC will also take the piece on tour to New York in late November.
Dr. Mark Sumner led the 200-voice Oklahoma All-State Mixed Chorus in Gibson's Salve Regina as part of the Oklahoma Music Educators Association's annual convention, January 21 in the Tulsa Performing Arts Center (right). (
On Saturday, October 22, at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the American Composers Forum/Los Angeles presented the final seven compositions in this year's composition competition. In addition to Paul Gibson's A Little Fugue on a Whimsy (fl, cl, bsn) the program included works by Adrienne Albert, Arbel Bedack, Mitch Glickman, Garth Herberg, Robert Kotcher, and Gernot Wolfgang, all performed by
Beginning in October, 2011, Music Director Roy Spicer and the Choir of St. Barbara Parish at the Old Mission Santa Barbara will release a CD of their Pre-Tour Concert, presented last October at the Mission. The repertoire, which they then performed throughout Italy, included Paul Gibson's arrangement El Cantico del Alba.
On August 6, 2011, in Stanford's Memorial Chapel,
Gibson's Easter anthem This Peerless Dawn, for SATB, brass quintet, and organ, was reprised this past Easter by Tom Neenan and his St. Matthew's Parish Choir, Pacific Palisades.
On Saturday, March 12, Christopher Russell led the strings of the OCHSA Orchestra in the world premiere of Gibson's In Memoriam: Elegia-Passacaglia at the Orange County High School for the Arts.
Philip Brunelle and VocalEssence have released a Christmas CD that includes Gibson's carol It Fell Upon the High Midnight for SATB and cello. To see lyrics and order the CD,
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