Ariel Antoinette Alvarado is a senior Music Major at Spelman College. Ms. Alvarado earned an Associate of Arts Degree in Integrated Studies from Clayton State University and her high school diploma from Rockdale County High School in May of 2018.
Ms. Alvarado is currently the Student Conductor of the Spelman College Glee Club and the Student Conductor of the Georgia Tech Treble Choir. She is also a voice and beginning piano instructor of all ages for the Alvarado Academy of Music, and sings and plays percussion for many churches in and around the Metro Atlanta area including her home church Grace Church International.
Ms. Alvarado is an alumna of the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir program where she studied under the baton of Dr. Martha Shaw for seven years. During that time, she traveled internationally to places such as Spain and Italy and performed in venues such as The Mormon Tabernacle, Carnegie Hall, and had the honor of performing evening mass at the Vatican. In January of 2019 Ms. Alvarado traveled with a small group chosen from the Spelman College Glee Club under the direction of Dr. Kevin P. Johnson to Portugal for the Festival Terra sem Sombra on ambassadorial duties. In November of 2019, Ms. Alvarado was a part of a presenting group for the Society for Music Theory’s National Conference held in Columbus, Ohio. In February of 2020, Ms. Alvarado had the distinct pleasure to serve as a guest conductor and clinician for the Richmond County All County Middle School Chorus Concert.
Ms. Alvarado aspires to be a choral conductor, educator, and scholarly artist, that can “help leave the world a more beautiful place than she found it.”
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‘Tonus Primus’ from the Liber Usualis
Hodie Christus Natus est (Gregorian chant)
Ave generosa – Hildegard Von Bingen (chant)
O viridissima virga– Hildegard Von Bingen (chant)
In nova fert – Phillipe de Vitry (motet)
La messe de Nostre Dame –Guillaume de Machaut (mass)
Quam pulchra es – John Dustable (motet)
Missa Se la face ay pale– Guillaume Dufay (mass)
Missa Mi-Mi– Johannes Okeghem (mass)
Missa fortuna desperata– Jacob Obrecht (mass)
Missa Pange lingua (mass); Missa Ave Maria Stella (mass)- Josquin des Prez
If ye love me (anthem)- Thomas Tallis
Veni Creator Spiritus (mass)- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (motet)- Andrea Gabrieli
Sing Joyfully (english anthem)- William Byrd
Now is the Month of Maying (english madrigal)- Thomas Morley
Maria, mater gratiae (motet) – Carlo Gesualdo
Gloria from Messa a 4 (sacred work)- Claudio Monteverdi
Exsultate Deo (motet)- Alessandro Scarlatto
O sapientia (petit motet) Jean-Baptiste Lully
Die Furcht des Herren (cantata)- J.C. Bach
Remember not, Lord, our offences (anthem)- Henry Purcell
B minor Mass– J.S. Bach
And the Glory of the Lord & Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah – George Frideric Handel
Missa in D major– Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Te Deum in D major (sacred work)- Johann Adolf Hasse
I am come into my garden (anthem)- William Billings
Veni Sancte Spiritus K.47 ; Ave verum corpus (motet); Lacrimosa– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
C minor Requiem-Luigi Cherubini
Mass in C major- Ludwig van Beethoven
Petite messe solennelle (sacred work)- Gioachino Rossini
Stabat mater (sacred work)- Franz Schubert
Ave Maria– Franz Liszt
Lift Thine Eyes– Felix Mendelssohn
Zigeunerleben (vocal chamber work)- Robert Schumann
Christus factus est (motet)- Anton Bruckner
Calme des nuits (secular work)-Camille Saint-Saens
Requiem op. 48– Gabriel Fauré
Stabat mater (choral/orchestral work); Antonin Dvořák
German Requiem op. 45– Johannes Brahms
‘As torrents in summer‘, from the cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf (secular work)- Sir Edward Elgar
Trois Chansons de Chalres d’Orléans (choral work)- Claude Debussy
Christmas Day (choral work); In the bleak midwinter (a cappella work)- Gustav Holst
Missa brevis (choral work)- Zoltán Kodály
Carmina Burana (choral work)-Carl Orff
Stabat mater (choral work); Ave verum corpus– Francis Poulenc
Alleluia (choral work); Mass of the Holy Spirit– Randall Thompson
Requiem op. 9– Maurice Duruflé
Rejoice in the Lamb; Missa Brevis; War Requiem; Cermony of Carols– Benjamin Britten
A Jubilant Song (choral work)- Norman Dello Joio
Chichester Psalms (choral work)- Leonard Bernstein
O Magnum Mysterium; Dirait-On– Morten Lauridsen
Candlelight Carol; Shepard’s Pipe Carol– John Rutter
Here’s One– William Grant Still
Listen to the Lambs; I’ll Never Turn Back No More – R. Nathaniel Dett
Poor Man Lazarus– Jester Hairston
Psalm 96-George T. Walker
Lily of the Valley; My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord; Elijah Rock; Ride On, King Jesus– Moses Hogan
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit; Ain-a That Good News– William Dawson
Lily of the Valley arr. Wendell Whalum
Life Every Voice and Sing arr. Roland Carter
O Praise the Lord– Adolphus Hailstork
Keep Your Lamps– André Thomas
Ascribe to the Lord– Rosephanye Powell
I Will Lift Mine Eyes– Jake Runestad
Glow– Eric Whitacre
Psalm 150– David L. Brunner
So Fair and Bright; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day– Bob Chilcot
O nata lux– Rene Clausen
Days of Beauty; Ubi Caritas– Ola Gjeilo
Las amarillas– Stephen Hatfield
His Light In Us– Kim Andre Arnesen
Psalm 150 David L. Brunner [2:30’]
‘Stabat Mater Dolorosa’ from Stabat Mater Giovanni B. Pergolesi [4:30’]
Think on These Things Robert Harris [3:55’]
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah G.F. Handel [4:00’]
Come Sweet Death Bach arr. Edwin London [5:00’]
Ascribe to the Lord Rosephanye Powell [2:30’]
Ride on, King Jesus arr. Moses Hogan [2:40’]
This concert will be performed for the completion of Ariel Alvarado’s music degree requirements and was crafted to provide suitable repertoire for an advanced high school/collegiate ensemble to perform during this virtual environment due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The first three pieces are written for a Treble ensemble with piano/organ accompaniment. The last four pieces are written/arranged for a SATB ensemble, three of them have piano/organ accompaniment.
This program features pieces from the Baroque era to Modern era and have been chosen with three main criteria: substantial accompaniment, regular rhythmic passages (no rubato, few ritardandos, etc), and length of the piece.