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“Having an entire chamber choir, there were so many different things involved,” he says. “It allowed us to play a lot. We had the opportunity to take risks.”

He notes that the hands-on work with the choir throughout the term gave him a chance to hear his piece evolve, and each time he heard the choir perform it, he learned something new about what worked and what didn’t.

“It became a lot about solving problems,” he notes.

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