SATB choir, unaccompanied
ca. 7:20
Words and music by Alex Eddington, assembled from contributions by members of the Phoenix Chamber Choir
Unaccompanied choir
Available in SATB, TTBB and SSAA
Intermediate/Advanced level
ca. 5:00
Text from a speech by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Intermediate/Advanced level
ca. 4:15
Text by Sara Teasdale
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SATB choir, soprano solo
Finger cymbals and body percussion by the choir
Advanced level
ca. 5:00
Text by Julie Flett
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Choir and piano (available in SATB, SAB, SSAA, TTBB and SSA)
Easy/Intermediate level
ca. 4:00
Text by Lotte Kramer
SSATB choir, unaccompanied
Intermediate level
duration: ca. 7:30
Text attributed to Laurence Housman
SATB choir unaccompanied
ca. 2:00
Intermediate level
Based on “The Huron Carol” / “Jesus Ahatonhia”
Text from the Latin Mass
SATB choir unaccompanied
ca. 3:00
Intermediate/Advanced level
Based on “Angels We Have Heard on High” / “Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes”
Text from the Latin Mass
SATB choir with optional piano
Intermediate/Advanced level
ca. 6:00
Words and Music by Alex Eddington
SATB choir and brass quintet (or organ)
Intermediate level
ca. 4:00
Text by Robert Herrick
SATB choir, unaccompanied
Intermediate level
ca. 4:00
Texts by Ebeneezer Elliott and Edward Fitzgerald
Solo soprano/tenor (high voice) or mezzo soprano
(other transpositions available by request)
Advanced level
ca. 4:30
Text by William Shakespeare
Duet for 2 violins (one beginner, one advanced)
ca. 13:00 total
7 short movements, can be performed individually
8 miniature pieces.
Solos on B-flat trumpet, B-flat cornet, E-flat trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn
ca. 10:00
Includes world premiere recording of What is passion? by Alex Eddington
Includes world premiere recording of gibbons vs. Gibbons by Alex Eddington
Alex Eddington’s debut album, featuring soprano Kristin Mueller-Heaslip
Includes world premiere recording of Big Muddy for piano 6 hands by Alex Eddington
Includes the world premiere recording of Picking Wild Berries by Alex Eddington
Includes the world premiere recording of Bubblegum Delicious by Alex Eddington. Texts by Dennis Lee.
Includes the world premiere recording of Saturday Night at Fort Chambly (chamber version) by Alex Eddington.
Includes the world premiere recording of An Ode to Bubble Wrap by Alex Eddington. Text by Miki Byrne.
…the grassroots, community-based New Music for Old Hands Concert Series, curated by Toronto composer and performer Laura Gillis. … Gillis’s work focuses on collaborative music-making in non-traditional settings, particularly with older adults and people in long-term care. … On June 13, Alex Eddington will present “The First Song I Remember...” and speak about his work in collaborative community music-making.
This year I am attending Podium Choral Conference virtually.
Dear Podium delegates: I wish I could be in Victoria! Whether you are there, or also attending the virtual conference, I look forward to connecting with you through live-streamed events and the conference app. I'm also available for virtual meetings.
It is so remarkable to hear my older music through fresh ears!
Since 2009, "Scintillator" for solo singer (text by email spambot) has been the domain of Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, who not only premiered and toured the piece, but received the spam email at its heart.
Then soprano Heather Pawsey took "Scintillator" and made it her own, for Redshift Music Society's UNACCOMPANIED video series. Hers is a grounded interpretation with surprising suddenness in the transitions - bringing out the beauty of the spam-wrought lines, then teleporting somewhere impossible…
Swoop-ga-woop!
Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra just shared a hilarious new music video of my piece "gibbons vs Gibbons" starring the Odin Quartet.
Alex Toškov (who also edited the video) and Tanya Charles Iveniuk struggle to play through a viol duet by English Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons, as a pair of white-cheeked gibbon apes (voiced on cello and viola by Samuel Bisson and Veronica Lee) sing, swoop down and swat them. See my full program notes below the video…
This pre-recorded Interest Session by composer/educator Alex Eddington will be available for Podium 2026 delegates in the conference app - from May 14 to November 18, 2026.
The June 13 presentation of New Music for Old Hands includes the world premiere of The First Song I Remember… for bell choir and piano, by Alex Eddington. Composed in collaboration with the members of a bell choir in a Mississauga seniors’ home, the piece unlocks the memory of an Italian song that several of the participants remembered from childhood: “Quel Mazzolin del Fiori”.
Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.
Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.
Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.
Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.
During the Podium 2026 conference, the Canadian Experimental Choir (Choeur Expérimental du Canada) presents two reading sessions of self-published choir pieces by Canadian Composers.
What is Passion? by Alex Eddington is included in both sessions
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Saturday, May 16, 2026 - 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
University of Victoria, room A144 - David Lam Auditorium
A concert by the Winds of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra - featuring Alex Eddington as narrator in Three Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Bruno Degazio (world premiere).
VIVA Singers Toronto proudly presents “Metamorphosis,” a celebration honouring VIVA’s 25th anniversary. This special program features all 7 VIVA choirs.
Featuring 4 world premiere adaptations of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses - including “Phaeton and Apollo” by Alex Eddington.
Sound Opportunity Choir presents 20 Years of Song
Featuring the world premiere of Big Blue Sky for choir and piano by Alex Eddington.
Big Blue Sky was commissioned by Sound Opportunity through a Choral Canada fundraising initiative. The test was created collaboratively with the choir
SAB choir, piano and optional tambourine
Intermediate level
ca. 5:00
Words and Music by Alex Eddington, in collaboration with Sound Opportunity choir