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He describes Phoenix as ‘symphonic in nature… one of those pieces where the text is very much the servant of the music, not the other way around’. When Gjeilo first visited the choir in Arizona, he had never been to the desert before, and the ‘quiet beauty and barrenness of the landscape’ moved him deeply. Phoenix, a setting of the Agnus Dei, is dedicated to Charles Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale in honour of its fiftieth anniversary. Soon after, Gjeilo was invited to be the Chorale’s first Composer-in-Residence. Bruffy brought Gjeilo’s music to the Chorale and its audiences, and the response was immediate. When he first heard Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, Charles Bruffy was instantly hooked, finding the music ‘refreshing and magnetic’. On this album the Choir performs choral works, and settings of sacred texts by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. Retrieved 22 February 2017.The critically acclaimed, Arizona-based Phoenix Chorale (formerly Phoenix Bach Choir) originally focused on music of the Renaissance and baroque periods, but today is equally dedicated to the creation and performance of new music. ^ "Piano Improvisations - Ola Gjeilo".CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link). Brock Memorial Commission,” ACDA: American Choral Directors Association, 2013, accessed October 3, 2014, "Archived copy". ^ Dorsey, Scott, “Ola Gjeilo to Compose 2016 Brock Commission,” ChoralNet: American Choral Directors Association, 2014, accessed October 1, 2014, net.org/442143.^ "Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass and World Premiere of Dreamweaver at Carnegie Hall - Chorus America".^ Papania, Christine, “Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass and World Premiere of Dreamweaver at Carnegie Hall,” ChoralNet: American Choral Directors Association, 2014, accessed October 3, 2014, Archived at the Wayback Machine.
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He is currently composer-in-residence with DCINY and Albany Pro Musica. He currently resides in Manhattan, working as a freelance composer. From 2009 to 2010, Gjeilo was composer-in-residence for Phoenix Chorale. He continued his education at Juilliard (2004–06) where he received his master's degree in 2006, also in composition. In his undergraduate career, Gjeilo studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music (1999–2001), transferred to the Juilliard School (2001), and studied at the Royal College of Music, London (2002–2004) to receive a bachelor's degree in composition. Gjeilo studied classical composition with Wolfgang Plagge. He began playing piano and composing when he was five years old and learned to read music when he was seven years old. Ola Gjeilo was born to Inge and Anne-May Gjeilo, and grew up in Skui, Norway.