BLOG – Giulio De Carlo Composer

23 Maggio 2024

A Leuconoe

for SATB choir and Piano
Text by Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Carpe diem ...I have been deeply inspired by the beautiful lyrics of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. I loved the melanchonic...

24 Maggio 2024

A riveder le stelle

for SATB a cappella choir
Text by Dante Alighieri

With this piece I tried to express my feelings of hope thinking about the end of all the bad moments of our Life...

10 Agosto 2024

Abbandonare il giorno

for SSATTB a cappella choir
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

This composition is inspired by a deep and somewhat melancholic text by Elisa Gastaldon. It is a sweet and reflective...

24 Maggio 2024

Amazing Tales

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

We'd love to sing, to run, to stay with people. Maybe we feel the winter in our heart, yet. I say, with all the hope...

9 Agosto 2024

America

for Piano

This piano piece was written in memory of my great-grandfather, Maestro Riccardo De Carlo, who left Italy...

24 Maggio 2024

Angele Dei

for SATTBB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This is a joyful and solemn version of the very famous prayer "Angele Dei". You can perform...

24 Maggio 2024

Angels we have heard on high

for SATB a cappella choir and two soloists
Text: Traditional French (English adaptation by James Chadwick)

24 Maggio 2024

At Midnight

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Sara Teasdale

The wonderful poem "At Midnight" by Sara Teasdale shows the true meaning of Life: nothing is ever ended and...

4 Giugno 2024

Ave Maria

for SSAA a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This is my version for female choir of the most famous prayer dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary...

6 Agosto 2024

Ave Maria

for children's choir (SA) and Piano
Text from Liturgy

This simple composition aims to joyfully convey the sentiments associated with the famous Christian prayer...

9 Agosto 2024

for double choir a cappella (SSA + SSATB)
Text from Laudario di Cortona n. 91 (excerpts from Lauda V)

Lauda V of the Laudario di Cortona (n. 91) has come to us without its original music, but it offers us the beauty...

4 Giugno 2024

Ave Regina caelorum

for TTBB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

Ave Regina coelorum is a deep and sweet prayer dedicated to Mary, the mother of Christ...

24 Maggio 2024

Ave verum corpus

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This is my setting of the famous prayer "Ave verum corpus". With this piece I want to convey the faith that so many people...

10 Agosto 2024

Before the ice is in the pools

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Emily Dickinson

This composition interprets Emily Dickinson's poem with a focus on the sense of anticipation for what...

10 Agosto 2024

Brother

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by William Blake

I composed this piece for my brother Raffaele’s 40th birthday, reflecting on our relationship which...

9 Agosto 2024

Burning lights

for Flute Orchesta

Official anthem of the Magna Graecia Flute Choir, commissioned by the late Maestro Sebastiano Valentino...

24 Maggio 2024

Cantate Domino

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

The piece is joyful and challenging and throught it I wanted to convey all my feelings of gratitude....

9 Agosto 2024

Crying soul

for String Quartet

This single-movement composition is characterized by its nervous, tense, and energetic...

24 Maggio 2024

Da mi basia mille

for SATB choir and Piano
Text by Gaius Valerius Catullus

I had my inspiration from one of the most famous poems of Catullus. It reflects on how fleeting our existence is. Our life is a short light...

10 Agosto 2024

De profundis

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Psalm 130 (129)

This is my second musical setting of Psalm 130, a text I find profoundly inspiring. In this composition, I aimed...

24 Maggio 2024

De profundis

for SATB choir and piano
Text from Liturgy

The Redemption is the end of a dialogue that takes place in the De Profundis with God...

25 Maggio 2024

Deep Blue

for SATB choir and piano
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

The song speaks about the complicated relationship between man and God and tries to show...

25 Maggio 2024

Descendit de cælis

for SSATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

To descend from the heavens means to abandon eternity and to encounter space-time...

25 Maggio 2024

Divino

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

A child, the mild wind, a bud ... small things that bring into themselves the force of the divine...

7 Agosto 2024

È una sorgente

for children's choir (SA) and Piano
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

This composition, inspired by Elisa Gastaldon's text, conveys the joy and wonder of knowing oneself as...

25 Maggio 2024

Ecce Rex

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This antiphon inaugurates the Novena of Christmas and presents Jesus as a King who carries...

25 Maggio 2024

Ecco viene Natale

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

The feast of Christmas brings with it feelings of intimate joy, which travels from the comet star.

25 Maggio 2024

Echi del Nord

for SATB choir, Piano and Flute
Mute chorus

I have composed this song for choir, piano and flute for my brother's wedding. The music tries...

25 Maggio 2024

Eternal life

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Gospel of John

Jesus said to her: "I am the resurrection and the life.The one who believes in me will live, even though...

27 Maggio 2024

Eternity

for SATB choir and Piano
Poem by Emily Dickinson

As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea a And that a a further a and the Three But a Presumption...

27 Maggio 2024

First snow

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Marianna De Carlo

First snow describes contrasting feelings arising from the sight of the first snow of the year...

27 Maggio 2024

Five short spacial movements

SATB/TTBB/SSAA and Strings
Mute chorus

Some time ago I composed five pieces for a competetion organized by Eric Whitacre and Spitfire Audio...

11 Luglio 2025

Florebit quasi lilium

for SATB choir and organ
text inspired by Isaiah 35

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10 Agosto 2024

Flower crown

for Violin and Piano

This piece explores the relationship between two women: one young and one older. It reveals...

10 Agosto 2024

Flying in the night

for Alto Sax and Piano

This piece was inspired by a dream of flying swiftly over the city at night, initially constrained...

21 Giugno 2024

Forgotten

for SATB with divisi, accompained by piano and percussions
Poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri

For this piece I reflected on the countless individuals who have lived on this planet over the centuries...

19 Agosto 2024

Hope is the thing with feathers

for SAB a cappella choir
Poem by Emily Dickinson

The power of the feeling of Hope meets the sweetness and depth of Emily Dickinson's thought. I tried to...

7 Agosto 2024

Il sol del sole

for children's choir (Unison) and Piano
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

This piece is the result of a collaboration with the dear Elisa Gastaldon, who gifted me another extraordinary text...

12 Agosto 2024

In Paradisum

for Soprano Solo and Organ
Text from Liturgy

This is my musical setting of the antiphon from the Requiem Mass for soprano solo and organ. Inspired by...

27 Maggio 2024

Indigo vertigo

for SATB choir and Piano
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

The song is about the pain of all the people who lives a life that they don't feel as the their own...

7 Agosto 2024

Inno alla pace

for children's choir (Unison) and Piano
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

This piece is born from a synergy of forces: starting from Elisa Gastaldon's text, I created a piece that is dark...

27 Maggio 2024

Into the Orange

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

The song gives voice to my son, a nonverbal child suffering from an autistic spectrum disorder...

27 Maggio 2024

Jubilate Deo

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This is a joyful and engaging sacred piece, suitable for a concert. It wants to convey the joy of living...

5 Giugno 2024

L’aquilone

for children's choir (SA) and Piano
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

6 Agosto 2024

La mia gattina Dafne

for children's choir (SA) and Piano
Poem by Maruska Mauro

The text of an owner in love with her kitten inspired this composition, which reflects on the simple things in life...

11 Luglio 2025

Levavi oculos meos

for SSAATTBB choir
text inspired by the English text of Psalm 121 from the King James Version

This piece was born from a deeply personal longing for salvation and meaning, a yearning for the unveiling of a presence that watches over us...

5 Giugno 2024

Lights of Hope

for TTBB a cappella choir
Poem by Santiago Veros

When pain and fatigue seem to take over, we must remember that the force of Hope is a powerful light...

27 Maggio 2024

Lullaby to my children

for SATB a cappella choir and Piano
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

This lullaby was composed for my children when they were young and is dedicated to all the children of the world...

22 Giugno 2024

My dear Life

for SATB with divisi, accompained by a string quartet
Poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri

The composition explores the power of life, revealing its warm light to someone who initially found it challenging...

5 Giugno 2024

Nunc Dimittis

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

Simeon, according to the Gospel of Luke, "was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation...

4 Giugno 2024

O Adonai

for SSA a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

O Adonai ("O Lord") is the second of the major antiphons of Advent, on whose text I wrote this...

14 Maggio 2024

O magnum mysterium

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

The mystery of an infinite God who becomes so small that he finds refuge in the womb...

27 Maggio 2024

O Sapientia

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

The first of the seven major antiphons of Advent, "O Sapientia", recognizes in Jesus the impersonation...

27 Maggio 2024

Oceani Nuovi

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Elisa Gastaldon

The words of the text accompany us in a journey that from the fallen stars of the sky leads us to...

10 Agosto 2024

On a Columnar Self

for TTBB a cappella choir
Poem by Emily Dickinson

I composed this piece titled "On a Columnar Self," inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem...

11 Luglio 2025

Puer natus est nobis

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This piece was inspired by the biblical text from Isaiah 9:6, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given," The composition reflects my longing for...

12 Agosto 2024

Reges Tharsis

for SATB choir, children's choir
and organ or Brass Ensemble
Text from Psalm 71 (Vulgate)

This is my musical setting of Psalm 71 for mixed choir, children's choir, and organ or brass ensemble. I aimed to...

4 Giugno 2024

Regina coeli

for SSA a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

This a piece for SSA. Because of the difficult historical moment, I was looking for something...

10 Agosto 2024

Rorate coeli desuper

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy

In this piece, I aimed to convey the anticipation of salvation from above, expressing a heartfelt...

27 Maggio 2024

San Martino

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Giosuè Carducci

Transposition for mixed choir of the composition by Giosuè Carducci. Nature can be hostile...

27 Maggio 2024

Secret talks between two lonely hearts

(Emperor Xuanzong dreams
of meeting Yang Guifei)
for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Marianna De Carlo

I started composing this piece after I discovered the wonderful tale of the Emperor Xuanzong...

27 Maggio 2024

She my nostalgia

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

Can love be synonymous with nostalgia? Yes, if it represents the will to be at home, in the...

12 Agosto 2024

Sulle vie della Pace

for SATB choir, Children’s choir,
piano and optional string quartet
Text from Isaiah 2, 3-5

The text of the composition, an adaptation of a passage from the prophet Isaiah on the theme of peace...

30 Aprile 2024

The hidden garden

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Giulio De Carlo

A person dissatisfied with his life wishes to be taken away by Music to wonderful worlds that he hopes will be real...

6 Agosto 2024

Under the moon

for children's choir (SA) and Piano
Poem by Maruska Mauro

The journey of hope of a child fleeing his homeland on a boat to seek happiness elsewhere is told...

4 Giugno 2024

Violet dreams – Nekomata

for SATB choir and Piano
Non-sense poem by Giulio De Carlo

Have you ever heard about Nekomata? It is a “yōkai”, a supernatural being of Japanese culture. It looks like a...

22 Marzo 2025

Whispers of Wood

for SAB choir and piano
text by Giulio De Carlo

"Whispers of Wood" is inspired by the symbolic power of the "Tree of Life", drawing on the natural beauty of wood and the deep connection we share with the earth...

4 Giugno 2024

Will there really be a morning?

for SSAATTBB a cappella choir
Poem by Emily Dickinson

This piece for SSAATTBB is inspired to the wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson. I have chosen...

4 Giugno 2024

Winter Stars

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Sara Teasdale

In ‘Winter Stars’ Teasdale speaks on themes of change, aging, and the universe. Through very...

4 Giugno 2024

You are all one in Christ Jesus

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from the Epistle to the Galatians

These wonderful words by Saint Paul inspired this piece of mine, that wants to sing all the human kind...

4 Giugno 2024

You my soul

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Sappho

Even if with a few words, Sappho is able to express all the strenght of the Love: the breath of the beloved...