Composers

Jason Obunakah is a student of music from Baraton University. He is passionate about music and also plays the clarinet …

Chris Tomlin stands among the most prolific and influential Christian music composers of the twenty-first century. Since the late 1990s, …

Mary McDonald

Scottish

Mary McDonald is a Scottish composer whose work straddles the contemporary classical and traditional music worlds with remarkable fluency. Born …

Pepper Choplin

American

1951 – still living

Pepper Choplin stands as one of the most prolific and widely performed contemporary choral composers, a figure whose music has …

S.A. Otieno is a contemporary Kenyan composer and musician whose work bridges traditional East African musical idioms with modern compositional …

The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is not a composer, but rather one of the most celebrated gospel choirs in the world, …

Cliff Duren is a contemporary composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work bridges classical composition with popular and experimental genres. Known for …

Lamech Mutava stands as a pioneering figure in contemporary African classical music, blending the rich harmonic traditions of Western composition …

Lloyd Larson stands among the most prolific and beloved composers of sacred music in contemporary America. With over 500 published …

Joseph M. Martin stands as one of the most prolific and performed composers of sacred choral music in contemporary America. …

Don Phillips stands as a vital figure in contemporary choral and orchestral composition, commanding a distinctive voice that bridges classical …

John Rutter stands among the most performed composers of sacred and choral music in the modern world. With a gift …

The son of a Pentecostal bishop, Andraé Crouch emerged as one of the most influential figures in contemporary gospel music, …

Samuel Sebastian Wesley occupied a singular position in 19th-century English church music: a restless innovator whose bold harmonic experiments and …

Jack Oyiengo stands as one of East Africa's most distinctive contemporary voices, blending traditional Kenyan musical idioms with modern compositional …

Before he was the King, Elvis Aaron Presley was a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, with a voice that would …

James Walch remains a shadowy figure in musical history, known primarily through scattered references in 17th-century English church records and …

Thomas Achia is a contemporary Ghanaian composer and musicologist whose work bridges traditional West African music with modern classical and …

Moses Hogan was a transformative figure in American choral music, best remembered for his luminous arrangements of African American spirituals …

William Levi Dawson stands as a towering figure in African American classical music, a composer whose work wove together the …

E.C. Clephane remains a shadowy figure in the annals of Victorian music, her works largely overshadowed by the more celebrated …

Frank Erastus Belden stands as one of the most prolific and beloved composers in American sacred music, yet his name …

Stephen Paulus possessed a gift for melody that seemed almost effortless—a quality that occasionally made critics underestimate his craft. Yet …

The term Anonymous encompasses countless creators whose names have been lost to time—a vast, shadowy catalogue of medieval chants, Renaissance …

Camp Kirkland represents a distinctive voice in contemporary American composition, blending accessible melodicism with sophisticated harmonic language. Born in the …

Boniface Mganga stands as a pivotal figure in East African classical music, bridging the worlds of traditional Kenyan sound and …