“Recording with the Composers’ Choir has been such a great experience. Daniel Shaw is a top-notch professional conductor and producer. He knows how to bring out just the right sound for your music. The sessions were well run and the Composers’ Choir was exceptionally well prepared. After my first recording, I received a lot of positive feedback, commissions and a way to sell my music. I returned to work with Dan on a third piece and I’m planning another recording session with organ, brass and choir.

Having a Choir record your music opens up so many possibilities and allows you a significant advantage in promoting your music. Computer midis cannot imitate the human voice well or do words. These recordings with the Composers’ Choir allow you to send out scores with high quality, superior musicianship to potential conductors and ensembles. I’m looking forward to our future projects together and encourage you to consider Composers’ Choir for future recordings.”

After four years of attempting to produce a recording of my large scale, multi-movement composition (29 minutes) and hitting obstacle after obstacle, I nearly gave up on the project. By chance, I found Composers’ Choir. After I perused the sample recordings, I was quickly convinced that the group would give a very fine performance.

But this is only half the battle. Despite this being an ambitious undertaking, Daniel was upbeat and confident from the start. I was given many options to choose from regarding the number of performers and time allocated. Once these parameters were agreed upon, Daniel went to work scheduling the performers and the recording session.

When the musicians looked over their parts well before the session date, they discovered a few things that I had missed in proofreading. This was invaluable in the process as no time was wasted on the day of the session. In the end, I felt that the excellent recording of an excellent performance was a tremendous value. I hired Composers’ Choir again immediately after receiving my finished product and I look forward to a very productive relationship in the future.

I have had five choral pieces as well as a string quartet recorded by Dan and his musicians. Somehow he always manages to record my pieces exactly the way I want them performed. My church music tends to be rather traditional but no matter – I have never been less than impressed with the quality of Dan’s work, and I know he does equally well with music in a more contemporary style. Dan and his singers and instrumentalists are a marvelous resource for any composer. When I played his recording of me setting of the Eighth Psalm to two composer friends on two separate occasions they said one word, “beautiful.” What more could I ask for?

I have been very impressed with the range of expression which Dan’s choir is able to produce, including the religious and the humorous and the idyllic. It is also a boon that they can perform not only a cappella but also with various instruments including guitar (a rarity since most choirs are used to being accompanied by keyboard). Their blending is superb both in mixed and in all-female combinations, as they have shown in the eight pieces of mine that they have performed to date. I am excited that they have started to make live recordings to video and also that they will eventually perform some of the works they have recorded in live concerts, as they deserve an audience who will show their appreciation.

When I first received the email from Dan’s Composers’ Choir I thought that it was too good to be true. As time passed and we started corresponding and later working on the recording of my pieces, and later on their precise post-production and fine-tuning, I realized that even if requires a lot of detailed work, dreams really can come true. And both Composers’ Choir and Musidream helped them take shape and be realized.

And not less important, the entire process of working with Dan was very open, professional, and pleasant. I would highly recommend other composers to collaborate with Dan and his wonderful colleague musicians and engineer. Thank you very much Dan!