Ipsa vivere

was commissioned in celebration of Jameson Marvin’s 30th anniversary (2007-2008) as Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation on the occasion ofthe Collegium’s Australian Summer Tour, 2007.

It received its première in a performance on 3rd June 2007 by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Kevin Leong, in Sanders Theatre, HarvardUniversity.