Robert Busiakiewicz

Award-winning Conductor, Composer & Performer

 

Accompanied Voice(s)

To Request a Score, please email robertbusiakiewicz@gmail.com

 

singing / Everything (Singscape)

For SSAATTBB and Electronics. Settings from Gertrude Stein’s ‘A Long Gay Book’ commissioned by the Cincinnati May Festival in 2021. An immersive art experience, designed for digital release during the Covid-19 pandemic. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Ring Out Wild Bells

For SATB and optional Electronics. Setting from Alfred Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ commissioned by The St. Peter’s Singers and Jeremy Jepson in 2020. Designed for digital multi-track performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Bradford Gloria

For Unison Voices, Mixed Choir, Organ, Optional Band & Optional Piano. Setting of the Mass Ordinary for congregational singing on the tune ‘On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at’ commissioned by Alex Berry and Bradford Cathedral in 2019. Click here to view the SCORE.

My God, My God

For SSATBarB and Alto Saxophone. Setting from T.S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’ and Matthew 27:46, commissioned by Siglo de Oro in 2015, and first performed at the Victoria International Music Festival in Malta. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

On Christmas Night

For Children’s Voices, SATB and Violin. A 30 minute setting of fifteen Christmas carols sung as a continuous medley, commissioned by Stamford Choral Society in 2012. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Many Times Many Ways

For SATB, Piano, Double Bass, Drum Kit, 2 Trumpets in Bb, Trombone, Alto Saxophone, and 2 Tenor Saxophones. A 45 minute work setting a fantasia of favourite Christmas carols in a jazz idiom. Commissioned by the Sloane Square Choral Society and Oliver Lallemant in 2011. Click here to view the SCORE.

Prayer

For SSS, Piano, Double Bass and Drum Kit. A jazz setting of Julian of Norwich, commissioned by All Saints’ Northampton in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.

Jubilate Deo

For SA and Organ. Setting of Psalm 100 commissioned by George Arthur Richford and the Choir of Dartford Parish Church in 2012. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Sweetest of Sweets

For SATB and String Quartet. Setting of George Herbert’s poem, commissioned by The Talisker Players and Massey College in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.

My Love The Crucified

For SA and Organ. Setting of George Woodward and John 20:25 commissioned by the Philip White-Jones and the Girls’ Choir of Southwell Minster in 2012. Click here to view the SCORE.

Missa Brevis

For SSAATTBB and Organ. Setting of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei commissioned by The Mercian Consort in 2009. Click here to view the SCORE.

The Huron Carol

For SATB and Organ. Arrangement of the traditional tune, first performed by David Briggs and the volunteer Parish Choir of St. James Cathedral, Toronto. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Five Shakespeare Songs

For Tenor and Piano. Settings from King Lear, Measure for Measure, The Tempest and Macbeth recorded by Richard Meehan and the composer at Reading School in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

Heaven

For Bass Voice and Piano. Setting of George Herbert composed for James Berry in 2016. Click here to view the SCORE.

Summer in England 1914

For Tenor and Piano. Setting of Alice Meynell’s poem composed for Hugh Benson in 2014. Click here to view the SCORE.

night and Day

For Voice, Alto Saxophone and 2 Tenor Saxophones. Arrangement of Cole Porter’s original song, for multi-tracking by the composer. Click here to view the SCORE. Click here to LISTEN.

I Wish for you

For Soprano, Tenor and Piano. Setting of Mary MacKay MacMillan’s poem ‘on your birthday’ commissioned for the poet’s 100th birthday in 2022. Click here to view the SCORE.

The Sleepy Country

For Tenor and Clarinet in Bb. Setting of W.B. Yeats’s poem, composed in 2009 and first performed at King’s College, London. Click here to view the SCORE.