Allen Koepke: Bio & Choral Music | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

Allen Koepke

Allen Koepke (1939-2012) has over sixty published compositions and was a well-known conductor, adjudicator, and clinician. For three years the Composer in Residence for Orchestra Iowa, he was also the composer of two stage musicals. His awards include “Iowa Professor of the Year,” “Innovator of the Year,” and the Robert M. McCowan Award “ . . . for outstanding contribution to choral music . . .” Prior to his “retirement” he was an educator in the public schools for 20 years and college for 16 years. Recently he served as an adjunct faculty member in three Iowa colleges, and retired from his church choir responsibilities after 54 continuous years. His commissions have been written for schools, colleges, and churches throughout the United States. Three of his premieres include the “Finale” for the 50th Iowa All-State Music Festival celebration, the Iowa Sesquicentennial, and a 1995 Carnegie Hall premiere, written for chorus and orchestra. Allen Koepke’s biography is listed in the official Marquis “Who’s Who In America.” His pieces are among the best sellers in the SBMP catalog with DANCE ON MY HEART topping them all with 175,000 copies in print.

Allen Koepke has 15 titles published with Santa Barbara.
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And Nature Smiled

SSA

SBMP 36

And Nature Smiled

TBB

SBMP 338

Can You Imagine?

SATB

SBMP 1407

Dance on My Heart

SSA

SBMP 34

Dream It!

SBMP 1115

Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit

SATB/SSA

SBMP 345

Follow the Drinking Gourd

SATB div.

SBMP 756

Instruments of Praise

SSAA

SBMP 156

Seeds of Hope

SATB

SBMP 104

Speak to the Child of Love

SSA

SBMP 96

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

SATB div.

SBMP 850

Wade in de water

SSAATTBB

SBMP 227

Wuh-Duh-Yuh Do with a Drunken Sailor?

TTB

SBMP 782

Zekiel

SATB div./tenor solo

SBMP 642

Zing Uh Boo Day

SSA

SBMP 1069

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