Annual American Composers Update

C. G. Walden, III

C. G. Walden, III is a conductor, teacher, singer and award winning composer whose arrangement of God of Grace was named Best Arrangement of 1996 by the Composer's Guild. He has also won the Texas Music Educators Association Composition Prize, the Arnold Salop Memorial Composition Prize and was first runner up in the Texas Choral Directors composition contest. A member of the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall, he has been a tenor soloist with the Savannah Symphony. He teaches composition at Georgia Southern University and serves as an ordained Minister of Music at White Bluff United Methodist Church. His music is published by Great Works Publishing, Hoyt Editions, and Abingdon Press and is frequently performed in universities, churches and schools throughout the United States. Reviews of his compositions have called them "modern but accessible" and "accessible but not common." When not composing, teaching, conducting or singing, he can usually be found fishing. Walden is available for commission and may be contacted by email at Waldeniii@aol.com or by phone at (912) 925-5924.

Publications

Wayfarin' Stranger, No. 00385; Set Me as a Seal, No. 00387; O My Dove, No. 00518; modal minimal alleluia, No. 00461; Come Up from the Fields, No. 00460; all for SATB choir; God of Grace; SATB choir, organ, and optional brass and timpani, No. 00386; Winds of the Spirit; brass quintet and timpani, No. 00384; all by Great Works. Final Praise; baritone voice, French horn, and piano, ME 823; Dawn Prelude; brass quintet, organ and optional timpani, ME 819; Goethe's Revenge; bassoon and piano, ME 824; Homage; organ, ME 831; all by Hoyt Editions. Raised with Christ; SATB choir, organ, and optional brass and handbells; Abingdon Press, No. 02549-4.