The Lake Isle of Innisfree (2020)

for SATB choir

Composed near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, this piece captures the need we all felt — and in many ways still do feel — to escape. The music and text imagine a corner of the world untouched by fear and tragedy, a place so serenely beautiful that we might finally rest there. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" was written with the stipulation that it should be premiered by a choir of live singers, no matter how long that might take. Over a year after the piece's conception, this dream came true.

Text by William Butler Yeats