The Hildegard Songs

texts by Hildegard von Bingen
for SATB choir

Text by Hildegard von Bingen Performed by The Gregorian Singers Soloists: Gabrielle Doran (Soprano), Elina Kala (Alto), Nicholas Karageorgiou (Tenor), and Kevin Seal (Bass) Translation By Norma Gentile: O ruby blood which flowed from on high where divinity touched. You are a flower that the winter of the serpent's breath can never injure.

2003 premiere by the California State University Stanislaus Concert Chorale at the Hildegard von Bingen Festival of Women in the Arts in Turlock, California under the direction of Daniel Afonso

          2003 California State University Stanislaus Concert Chorale European Tour

          2004 Winner of the Opus 7 Choral Composition Competition

Text by Hildegard von Bingen Performed by The Gregorian Singers Soloists: Gabrielle Doran (Soprano), Elina Kala (Alto), Nicholas Karageorgiou (Tenor), and Kevin Seal (Bass) Translation by Kate Brown: O most noble greening power, rooted in the sun, shining in dazzling serenity in a sphere that no earthly excellence can comprehend. You are enclosed in the embrace of divine mysteries. You blush like the dawn, and burn like a flame of the sun.

2006 premiere by the Eastern Washington University Symphonic Choir under the direction of Randel Wagner

Text by Hildegard von Bingen Performed by The Gregorian Singers Soloists: Gabrielle Doran (Soprano), Elina Kala (Alto), Nicholas Karageorgiou (Tenor), and Kevin Seal (Bass) Translation by Kate Brown: O strength of Wisdom who, circling, circled, enclosing all in one life-giving path, three wings you have: one soars to the heights, one distils its essence upon the earth, and the third is everywhere. Praise to you, as is fitting, o Wisdom

2015 premiere by The Gregorian Singers at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church Lake-of-the-Isles in Minneapolis, Minnesota under the direction of Monte Mason