Shawn Kirchner is a Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, and songwriter whose choral works are performed throughout the world. His long creative relationship with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Artistic Director Grant Gershon culminated in his tenure as the ensemble’s Swan Family Composer in Residence from 2012-2015. Equally active as a performer, Kirchner has sung twenty seasons as a tenor with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in concerts featuring the world’s leading conductors, composers, and soloists. As a pianist, Kirchner appears throughout the country in performances of his music with collaborating choirs and is celebrated for his wide stylistic range, improvisation, and musicianship.

Kirchner’s commissions have included numerous premieres with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at LA’s Disney Hall, as well as works written for Conspirare, San Antonio Chamber Choir, Atlanta Master Chorale, Lorelei Ensemble, Princeton Chapel Choir, Choral Arts Northwest, and WomenSing, among others. His work has been performed by such acclaimed international choirs as Ansan City Choir (Rep. of Korea), Elektra Women’s Choir, the Vancouver Youth Choir, Montreal’s Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul for the CBC’s Christmas Sing-In broadcast, and by the Nairobi Chamber Choir for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 2012 Diamond Jubilee Pageant events at Windsor Castle. Kirchner’s music can be heard on recordings by the LA Master Chorale, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Tonality, Oasis Chorale, Wartburg Choir, and Sacra/Profana.