Harmony and Counterpoint in D (Dorian)

Part of Eight Little Harmonies and Counterpoints, commissioned for the American Guild of Organists' 2014 Biannual National Convention. Score available from Theodore Presser Company.

James Woodman was born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and the New England Conservatory. He was appointed the first composer-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, and currently serves as monastery organist for the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge. His organ and choral compositions have been widely programmed; his work has been performed at Magdalen College, Oxford; La Trinité, Paris; Festival Internationale de l’Orgue Ancien, Sion, Switzerland; Domkirche, Berlin; Minato Mirae Concert Hall, Yokohama; and St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York; and on National Public Radio’s Pipedreams and on recordings by Peter Sykes, Nancy Granert, Mark Brombaugh, Erik Simmons, and the Boston Boy Choir.