Anne Heider is an award-winning conductor, composer, arranger, and teacher.
She is Associate Professor Emerita of Choral Music at Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University and is active as a guest conductor and choral consultant. She served on the board of Chorus America for nine years.
Her research in early vocal music has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, and Roosevelt University.
She is artistic director emerita of the Chicago-based professional chamber choir Bella Voce, of which she was a founding singer and which she led for over sixteen years to consistent critical acclaim and international recognition.
She has recorded with Bella Voce (founded as His Majestie’s Clerkes) for Harmonia Mundi, Cedille Records, Centaur Records, and Narada.
Choral octavos of editions and arrangements by Dr. Heider are published by GIA; her scholarly editions of 16th-century Huguenot psalmody by Claude Le Jeune were published by A-R Editions in 1989 and 1995.
New Commission
Anne was commissioned by the North Shore Choral Society (Evanston, Illinois) to write a piece celebrating the group's 75th anniversary. "Pleasure Tunes My Tongue" is a choral fantasia based on the tune "Africa" by William Billings, with text by Isaac Watts. The piece is SATB with some divisi, medium-difficult, unaccompanied, and the text praises the earthly and spiritual joys of singing. NSCS will premiere "Pleasure Tunes My Tongue" on February 12, 2011.
Heider editions published by GIA:
Goudimel, Claude, Comfort, comfort ye my people, SATB G-2893
Goudimel, Claude, Father we thank thee (Rendez à Dieu), SATB G-2725
Handl, Jacob, Stetit Iesus, SATB G-2460
Schütz, Heinrich, Blessed are they (Wohl dem, der nicht wandelt), SA & keyboard G-2634
Heider arrangements published by GIA:
Morning Trumpet, SSAATTBB G-7419
Dakota Hymn, SATB, arr. Anne Heider G-6617
Fum, fum, fum, SATB G-5062
Go tell it on the mountain, SSAATTBB G-5063
Poor little Jesus, SSAATTBB G-5064
Go down, Moses, SAB G-7552
To see sample pages of any score listed below, or to discuss terms for purchase of a master copy with permission for you to duplicate the number of copies you need, please contact Anne at aheider@roosevelt.edu.
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
Pleasure Tunes My Tongue (2010), SATB with some divisi (medium-difficult)
A choral fantasia on a tune by William Billings, with text by Isaac Watts, celebrating the joy of singing. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of North Shore Choral Society (Evanston, Illinois). Available after March 1, 2011.
IMMANUEL (2009), SATB keyboard doubling
A hymn of praise, with long-meter text by Isaac Watts.
Morning Star (2006), SATB with some divisi (medium-difficult)
A choral fantasia combining an old American melody with the Lutheran chorale melody Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the morning star). The text is an anonymous 19th-century American translation of Wie schön leuchtet.[sample pages]
Turtle Dove (2000), 2-part (easy)
The text is an old Appalachian folk lament.
ARRANGEMENTS AND EDITIONS
Arrangements and editions are available for Mixed Voices, Women’s Voices, Men’s Voices
MIXED VOICES
12th century, Orientis partibus, arr. Heider for SATB
17th century, Marche des Trois Rois, arr. Heider for SATB [sample pages]
Pedro Bermudez (c.1558-c.1605), Salve Regina, SATB
William Billings (1746-1800), Judea (A virgin unspotted), SATB
William Billings (1746-1800), Shiloh (Methinks I see a manly host), SATB
Loyset Compere (c. 1445-1518), Royne du ciel, SAT
Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474), Ave maris stella, ATB
Gaspar Fernandez (c.1575-1629), Eso rigor e repente, SAT soli, SAATB chorus [sample pages]
Stephen Foster (1826-1864), Hard Times, arr. Heider for SATB with some divisi (with optional piano accompaniment)
Stephen Foster, Oh! Susanna, arr. Heider for SATB (easy) and piano accompaniment
Juan Hidalgo (1614-1685), Al dichoso nacer di mi niño, SATB and instrumental bass
Clément Janequin (c.1485-c.1560), Toutes les nuictz, SATB
Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600), Deum celebrate vocantes, SATB
Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600), L’un aimera le violet, SSATB
Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600), Perdre le sens devant vous, ATB
Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600), Rendez à Dieu, (Psalm 118), SSATB
Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600), Resveillez-vous, chacun fidelle, (Psalm 33), AAT, unison, SATB
Tomas de Torrejón y Velasco (1644-1728), Desvelado dueño mio, SST soli, SATB chorus and continuo
Daniel Read (1757-1836), Sherburne (While shepherds watched their flocks), SSAATTBB
Traditional, Down in the river, SATB
Traditional, Lincoln and Liberty, arr. Heider for SATB [sample pages]
Traditional, My way’s cloudy, arr. Heider for SATB
Traditional, Wait till I get on my robe, arr. Heider for SATB
Traditional, Will ye go, lassie? , arr. Heider for SATB and piano
Fabián Ximeno (c.1596-1654), Ay ay galeguiños, SS soli, SATB chorus [sample pages]
WOMEN’S VOICES
14th century, O beatæ Stanislæ, arr. Heider for SSA
Sebastián Durón (1660-1716), Al dormir el sol, SA and realized continuo
Gaspar Fernandez ((c.1575-1629), En un portalejo pobre, SSA [sample pages]
Jakob Handl (1550-1591), Pueri concinite, SSAA
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Salve Regina, SA and realized continuo
Antonio de Salazar (c.1650-1715), Tarara, qui yo soy Anton, SA and realized continuo [sample pages]
Traditional, Green grow the rushes-oh, arr. Heider for SSAA
MEN’S VOICES
Pierre de la Rue (c.1455-1518), Pourquoy non, TTBBB
Tobias Hume (1569-1645), Tobacco, tobacco, arr. Heider for TTBBB
Walter Kittredge (1834-1905), Tenting tonight, arr. Heider for TTBBB
Traditional, Jesous Ahatonnia (Huron Carol), arr. Heider for TTBBB
Heider arrangements on His Majestie’s Clerkes and Bella Voce recordings, available by contacting Anne Heider, unless otherwise indicated:
American A Cappella (Bella Voce, 2005)
Stephen Foster, Hard Times, SATB (available both a cappella and with piano accompaniment)
C. Goetz and J. Stern, Celebrate in ragtime, SATB (available both a cappella and with piano accompaniment)
Walter Kittredge, Tenting tonight, TTBB
Traditional, My way’s cloudy, SATB
Traditional, Down in the river, SATB
Traditional, Green grow the rushes-oh, SSAA
Bella Voce 2002 (Bella Voce, 2003)
Go tell it on the mountain, GIA Publications G-5063
Folksong in Chorus (Bella Voce, 2001)
Stephen Foster, Hard Times, SATB (available both a cappella and with piano accompaniment)
B. F. White, Morning Trumpet, SSAATTBB (GIA Publications G-7419)
News of Great Joy (Centaur CRC2168, 1993)
Fum, fum, fum, GIA Publications G-5062
Go tell it on the mountain, GIA Publications G-5063
Poor little Jesus, GIA Publications G-5064
In a Cold Winter’s Night (Centaur CRC2048, 1988)
William Billings, Judea
William Billings, Shiloh
J. C. Lowry, Morning Star
Daniel Read, Sherburne.
Chicago a Cappella honors Anne Heider
Anne Heider was honored at Chicago a Cappella's 2006 gala, "The Black and Red Ball," for her service to their ensemble and to the choral arts in Chicago and the nation.
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