Composer Jesse Ayers selected for 2004 Essentially Choral Reading Session

January 2004. Jesse Ayers is one of five American composers selected to participate in the 2004 Essentially Choral Reading Sessions in Minneapolis, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Composers Forum and the Minneapolis-based VocalEssence ensemble conducted by Philip Brunelle.  Ayers' work, The Seventh Seal, is scores for SATB chorus and chamber ensemble consisting of special-effects piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, and percussion, and is based on the apocolytic text found in Revelation 8: 1-6.

Selected composers will have their works read by the 26-voice VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and professional orchestral musicians. In conjunction with the reading session, composers will attend rehearsals with the musicians and mentoring sessions with bconductor Brunelle and internationally recognized composer Sven-David Sandström.