Jim Papoulis

Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of chil...

Commissioned for the 2014 Saint Angela Children and Youth Choir Festival in Bandung, Indonesia, with the theme of 'Diversity in Harmony.' In that spirit, composer Jim Papoulis also celebrates the lang...

This is a piece about discovering the power of our own voices, and letting them dance - setting ourselves free, exploring and learning to let go of preconceived notions of how we 'should' be or 'shoul...

The composer's work with African choirs has introduced him to many people who, although facing extreme adversity, somehow they maintain a joyous spirit that is more powerful than we can realize. The t...

This piece explores the idea of listening to our inner voice, and how it can help lead us to living a much fuller and more engaged life. It is that voice that is so often not heard by today's youth. C...

Three part treble voices, two percussion players and piano sing in a Latino style that is becoming a signature style of composer Jim Papoulis. This original text by the composer identifies the strengt...

Jim has taken this classic message--a song of confidence and hope--originally scored for 2 part choir, and re-imagined it for mixed choir. This message is as strong as ever and the choral writing lift...

Composer Jim Papoulis raises the profile of Boomwhackers out of the elementary classroom and on to the concert stage. With an original, inspirational text that urges young people to 'know thyself', 's...

I ask for one day where I don't have to hear about pain, or life that's lost, I ask for one day where whispers of hope are alive inside my heart (je prie pour un jour où nous n'ayons pas à entendre pa...

Written as a commission for the Los Angeles Colburn School, this piece is full of joy, celebrating all of our differences as people, and the importance of being accepting, kind souls. The lyrics are i...

Now available for mixed voices, originally written for treble choir, this work inspires everyone with its rhythmic and energetic style. Using a Swahili text, it is a wonderful example of Papoulis' wor...

Composed in the world Music style with a text in Swahili, 'Imbakwa' was written for a film score that features an organization benefiting orphans in Tanzania. This organization called TunaHAKI uses th...

This rhythmic, high-energy Latino style piece lends itself to movement and celebrates life. Using traditional Latino harmonies and rhythms, it also incorporates world music sounds. The a cappella sect...

The essence of this piece gives reverence to the message that music is universal as a language, as an art, as a part of who we are. The choral singing required is grand and celebratory.

Drawing from a simple idea, that reaching even just one heart can be a very powerful gesture, here is the positive message in music that we have come to expect in the music of Jim Papoulis. World rhyt...

Composer Jim Papoulis has created an energetic and uplifting work that fuses the rhythms from African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili interspersed with phrases in Sp...

Composed for the 2007 ACDA National Multicultural Honor Choir, this dynamic and complex work explores the truths that will cross cultural boundaries to help light the way toward global understanding....

Les enfants adorent chanter la nature - les arbres, les oiseaux, les fleurs, le soleil et la lune ! Un texte plaintif, directement issu de l'imagination des enfants, est associé à un groove décontract...

10th Anniversary Edition. “Kusimama” is written in the world music style that is accessible for all choirs. The text which is in both Swahili and English, is about standing tall on the earth, not with...

Created during an inspirational collaboration between the Fairfax Choral Society Poetry of Music, the Fairfax Public Schools and the composer, young people were encouraged to write poetry. The metapho...

Kindergartners in Brookline, Mass. cut to the essence of music when they instructed the composer to write 'Simplicity, beauty, love, and music' is the message they want to convey to the world. Here is...

Here is a bluesy and hip setting of a positive and inspirational lyric--just the type that we expect from the positive and inspirational composer Jim Papoulis.

Parfaite introduction à la syncope et au jazz, ce texte ensoleillé est un bon numéro d'introduction avec des fioritures vocales jazz faciles et un rythme régulier avec seulement quelques lignes d'harm...

Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of chil...