Timothy C. Takach

Inspired by captivating narrative, speculative fiction and making better humans through art, the music of Timothy C. Takach is a mainstay in the concert world. Applauded for his melodic lines, thoughtful text choices and rich, intriguing harmonies, Takach has received commissions and performances from GRAMMY Award-winning ensembles Roomful of Teeth and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the St. Olaf Band, Cantus, U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus, Lorelei Ensemble, VocalEssence, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, The Rose Ensemble, and numerous other organizations. His compositions have been performed on A Prairie Home Companion, The Boston Pops holiday tour, PBS, many All-State and festival programs and at venues such as the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center and Royal Opera House Muscat. He is a co-creator of the theatrical production of All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914, by Peter Rothstein. Takach has been Composer in Residence for the Texas Boys Choir, The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists, and True Concord Voices and Orchestra alongside Jocelyn Hagen.

Takach’s a cappella choral symphony Helios is “larger than life, as if the piece were accompanied by an orchestra” and is “complemented with brilliant visuals created by CandyStations” (Tucson.com). In 2023 his ballet Unfashioned Creature was premiered in St. Paul, MN by the James Sewell Ballet. Takach was a co-founder, singer and Artistic Co-Director of the vocal ensemble Cantus and has frequent national work as a composer-in-residence, presenter, clinician and lecturer. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons.

For more information please visit www.timothyctakach.com.


Compositions by Timothy C. Takach

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (TTBB)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

A Depth We Cannot Sound

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, percussion, 5-10 min.

A House Made of Music

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

A Little Brown Bird

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 2, 1-2 instruments, less than 3 min.

A Mural of Change

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

A Path to Each Other

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, mixed choir, tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, less than 3 min.

A Red, Red (Noun)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

A Sign of Day to Come

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

A Silver Thread - Music for Combined Choirs

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, mixed choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

A Worshipper and a Man

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Afka Hooyo (Mother Tongue)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, percussion, 3-5 min.

After Harvest (from The Longest Nights)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

All Sisters and Brothers

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, organ, 3-5 min.

All the Beautiful Names

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Ambletown

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Amplify (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

An Alchemy in the Bones

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 5, chamber ens., 3-5 min.

And Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 5-10 min.

And I Saw (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 3-5 min.

And I Saw (SSAA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

As the Sunflower Turns on Her God

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

At Home

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, 1-2 instruments, 10+ min.

Auld Lang Syne

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Back to the Heart

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, tb choir, mixed choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 1, a cappella, piano, less than 3 min.

Bahihii Waaliidkay Dhaqay

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, percussion, piano, 3-5 min.

Before We Get Dusty

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Bless the Saints Who Sing

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, piano, 3-5 min.

Born Into a Fairy Tale

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Build the Sky

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, mixed choir, tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Cassiopeia

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Changed By Beauty

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, 1-2 instruments, 10+ min.

Circles

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Crossroads

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Departure (cycle)

Timothy C. Takach high voice, Difficulty : 4, piano, 5-10 min.

Dragon Fire

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Duende

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 4, percussion, 3-5 min.

Empty

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, percussion, piano, 3-5 min.

Epitaph

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Even in My Time

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Everything Sings

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., piano, 5-10 min.

Everything is Made of Light

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 5-10 min.

Flying Solo

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

For a Change

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, mixed choir, tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, less than 3 min.

Fragile

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, percussion, 3-5 min.

From Dust You Have Come

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Ghosts

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Give Love

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Go

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, percussion, less than 3 min.

Goodbye, Then (SAB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Goodbye, Then (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Goodbye, Then (SSA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Goodbye, Then (TBB)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Haragei

Paul John Rudoi, Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 5-10 min.

Havaa's Lullaby (2-part)

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach tb choir, mixed choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, less than 3 min.

Havaa's Lullaby (SA)

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, less than 3 min.

Helios (cycle)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 10+ min.

Home on the Range

Timothy C. Takach 2+ voices, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

How to Triumph Like a Girl (SSA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, less than 3 min.

How to Triumph Like a Girl (cycle)

Timothy C. Takach low voice, Difficulty : 3, piano, 10+ min.

Hungry (from This is How You Love)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

I Am From Here

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

I Belong in My Skin

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

I Leave, She Stays

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

I Thread the Stars

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 5-10 min.

I Will Howl

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, 1-2 instruments, 3-5 min.

Il-presepju tal-Milied (The Christmas Cradle)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Imagine We Are Trees

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

In Flanders Fields

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 2, 1-2 instruments, piano, 3-5 min.

Insidious

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Johnny Come Down to Hilo

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Joseph

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Keep Watch, Dear Lord

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Keep Your Lamps (TTBB)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, percussion, 3-5 min.

Kin

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

Leave a Comment

Timothy C. Takach high voice, Difficulty : 4, piano, 3-5 min.

Little Blades of Grass

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Love/Light (from This is How You Love)

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Luceat Eis

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Luminous Beings

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Mad

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

Mantra (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Mantra (SSA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Many-Splendored Thing (from The Longest Nights)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Neither Angels, Nor Demons, Nor Powers

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Neither Angels, Nor Demons, Nor Powers (Full Score and Parts)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., 3-5 min.

No One Will Love As I Did

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

Nubes Oriebatur: The eruption of Vesuvius

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

O Holy Child of Bethlehem

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, less than 3 min.

One Boy Told Me

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

One Boy Told Me (for developing choirs)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Outshine (2-part mixed)

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Outshine (3-part mixed)

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Outshine (SA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Outshine (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Outshine (TB)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Outshine (solo)

Timothy C. Takach high voice, low voice, medium voice, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Paper Cranes, from Where Beauty Comes From

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Queen of the Range

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, less than 3 min.

Ragnarök

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 5-10 min.

Recognition

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., 3-5 min.

Recognition (Full Score and Parts)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., 3-5 min.

Rough Beast

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, percussion, 3-5 min.

Salvation is Created

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, 3-5 min.

Salve Regina (Takach)

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Serenade

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, less than 3 min.

She Does Not Let Go

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

She Tore a Map

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, less than 3 min.

Soldier

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Something There Is Immortal

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 5-10 min.

Spark and Breath

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, mixed choir, tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 2, percussion, less than 3 min.

Su Rahva Koda (The House of Your Kindred)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 5, a cappella, 5-10 min.

The Borders Disappear

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

The Longest Nights (Choral Score)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 10+ min.

The Longest Nights (Full Score)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., 10+ min.

The Longest Nights (String Parts)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, chamber ens., 10+ min.

The Streets of Laredo

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

The Wings of Our Children

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 5-10 min.

There Is No Rose

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Things I Didn't Know I Loved

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 5-10 min.

Things Worth Praising

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

This Alien Landscape

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, percussion, 3-5 min.

This Amazing Life

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

This World Made Anew

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

This is How You Love

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 10+ min.

Tiny Sparks

Timothy C. Takach 3-part mixed, tb choir, treble choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, percussion, 3-5 min.

To Risk Your Heart

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, 3-5 min.

True North (full score and parts)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, large ensemble, 10+ min.

True North (vocal score)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, large ensemble, 10+ min.

Twenty Questions

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 2, piano, 3-5 min.

Unfashioned Creature - Choral Ballet

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, 1-2 instruments, 10+ min.

Veni Creator Spiritus

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, less than 3 min.

Vow (from This is How You Love)

Jocelyn Hagen, Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, 3-5 min.

We Are Lost, We Are Lucky

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

We Made a Grave For Him

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

We Sing of Home (Finlandia)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Timothy C. Takach tb choir, Difficulty : 4, a cappella, percussion, less than 3 min.

What I Have Done (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

When You Are Old

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 2, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Where Beauty Comes From

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 3-5 min.

Where Beauty Comes From (Cycle)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, piano, 10+ min.

Where Beauty Comes From (cycle)

Timothy C. Takach high voice, Difficulty : 3, piano, 10+ min.

Winter Walk (SATB)

Timothy C. Takach mixed choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

Winter Walk (SSAA)

Timothy C. Takach treble choir, Difficulty : 3, a cappella, 3-5 min.

1: (Easy) No divisi in voice parts, accompaniment doubles or supports vocal parts, diatonic, symmetrical phrases, textures mostly homophonic, simple rhythms, stepwise voice leading (conjunct), moderate ranges, no extended techniques, and limited sustained singing.

2: (Medium Easy) Limited divisi, voices somewhat independent from accompaniment, some chromatics, phrases may be longer or more fragmented, mostly homophonic, moderate rhythmic complexity, some difficult intervals (disjunct motion), moderate ranges, extended techniques are simple, limited sustained singing.

3. (Medium) Limited divisi, unaccompanied, or with independent accompaniment (voice parts not doubled), many chromatics, phrases of varying lengths, more contrapuntal textures, moderately complex rhythms, some difficult intervals (disjunct motion), moderately difficult/challenging ranges, extended techniques are potentially challenging, and some sustained singing.

4. (Medium Difficult) Abundant divisi, unaccompanied, or accompanying instruments are fully independent from voice parts, many chromatics and/or key changes, long and/or broken phrases, potentially little homophony, complex rhythms, many difficult intervals (disjunct motion), difficult/challenging ranges, potentially difficult extended techniques, and a demand for sustained singing.

5. (Difficult) Adundant divis, unaccompanied, or accompanying instruments are fully independent from voice parts, many chromatics and/or key changes, long and/or broken phrases, potentially little homophony, complex rhythms, extreme ranges, use of challenging or unusual extended vocal techniques, abundant sustained singing.