DENICE RIPPENTROP
award winning COMPOSER - MUSICIAN - SONGWRITER
Composing innovative, high-quality sacred and secular choral music is the core of my professional and personal life...
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Featured Performance
"YAHWEH!"
Composed and Arranged by Denice Rippentrop
"Yahweh!" (Psalms 66:4) The Kuhn Choir of Prague Lenka Navratilova Choirmaster
recorded at The Chapel in Korunni Street, Prague - Korunni 1440/6-, Prague, CZ
Video Produced by Clay Ashworth
Featured Video
"Now Sleeps That Sword For Me"
Adapted from Ann Cousins poem "O Christ, What Burdens Bowed Thy Head" - "The First Readings Project -J. David Moore, Conductor", Minneapolis, MN.
Ann Cousins captured so well the prophecy of Zechariah 13:7 in her poem "O Christ What Burdens Bowed Thy Head".
Zechariah 13:7 "Awake, sword against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me," declared the Lord Almighty.
"Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones."
Music by Denice Rippentrop
Video Produced by Clay Ashworth
"Royal Tears Of Red"
Performed by The Kuhn Mixed Chamber Choir, Lenka Naratilova, Choirmaster,
Recorded at The Chapel in Korunni Street, Prague - Korunni 1440/6-, Prague, CZ
A Virtual Performance
Featured Audio
"Royal Scars"
The First Readings Projects - J. David Moore, Music Director
A Virtual Performance
"If At The Moment"
Vanessa Libby - Soprano Soloist | Alison Beck - Piano
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New Release
15 Song CD
"If"
(What Do I Know About Calvary Love?)
The Story
Behind the Music
I have always taken great inspiration from the missionary work of Amy Carmichael in India. Not long ago, I received a message that could only have come from God...
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Song Book - $18.00
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15 Song CD - $10
15 Song CD - $10
5 Song CD - $2
Strokes of the Pen
“Denice Rippentrop’s music – unfailing works from the spirit outward – beginning with the soul and singing through the words.”
- Libby Larsen
Grammy Award Winning Composer
“For our Music of Passion concert to begin Holy Week, your The Atonement was paired with a requiem. Learning and preparing your piece was a marvelous experience for the choir; hearing it was an equally powerful time for the audience.”
- William H. Mathis
Minister of Music and Fine Arts, Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN.
“You have some really lovely gestures in The Sacred Seed. And the text is so compellingly beautiful….”
- Howard Helvey
Composer, Arranger, Pianist
- Dr. Jody Rockmaker
Arizona State University Associate Professor of Music, Composition and Theory
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
“Denice is a composer who writes passionate, heartfelt, compositions, usually with a religious theme. Her texts come from scripture, but she also sets her own poetry and thoughts. Denice know how to use the chorus to great effect. Her voicings are rich, and the use of harmony compelling.”
- Jeff Harris, Conductor
The Sonoran Desert Chorale
“The Desert Trilogy is a wonderful exploration of text and sounds in expressing ultimately – hope. The Sonoran Desert Choral was very pleased with the Trilogy – as was our audience – enjoy the colors of Light and Hope.”
“A recording of three new choral pieces by Denice -- each with individual character, but all filled with Denice's special spiritual touch. "Whispering Palms" captures a medieval-like plainsong idea, but with a contemporary folk-like feel. The key of D minor captures that mood! "The Cross" for larger forces builds on arpeggiations mimicked in the handbells. It crescendos with handbells, timpani, and piano to a powerful climax on "To know we are everything to God!" The rhythmic "Yahweh's Love" lets claves chatter over the energetic text -- a real delight!”
- Dr. Peter Hendrickson
Choral Conductor, Augsburg College
Minneapolis, MN