Elaine Hagenberg takes you on a compositional journey to create choral compositions of your own. These step-by-step strategies are specially designed for choral music enthusiasts as well as choral educators who want to introduce singers to the compositional process.


Elaine Hagenberg’s music “soars with eloquence and ingenuity”


- ACDA Choral Journal

About Elaine Hagenberg


Elaine Hagenberg’s compositions are performed worldwide and frequently featured at national and regional American Choral Directors Association Conferences, All-State festivals, Carnegie Hall, and other distinguished international concert halls from Australia to South America and throughout Europe.​

In addition to composing full-time, Elaine actively engages in bringing her music to life as the guest artist and featured clinician for professional conferences and festivals both in the U.S. and abroad as a composer, conductor, and accompanist of her work. 

With over fifty commissioned works, she has composed new music for the American Choral Directors Association, professional choirs, colleges and universities, community choirs, high schools, and churches. Elaine has music in print with various publishers including Oxford University Press, Hal Leonard, G. Schirmer, and Hinshaw Music. Currently, she publishes her sacred anthems with Beckenhorst Press and her concert music independently through Elaine Hagenberg Music.