Representative Works
The Mandatum (2025) SATB div
Set me as a seal (2024) SATB div
Preces and Responses in G (2023) SATB
Sarabande and Fanfare (2023) Brass quintet
Improvisation on Simple Gifts (2022) organ
In the Sound of Song (2022) SATB and organ
Winner of the 6th Peter & Lois Fyfe Prize, sponsored by the Sewanee Church Music Conference
Publication by ECS/Morningstar forthcoming late 2026
Pentecost (2022) SATB and organ
Winner of the 4th Peter & Lois Fyfe Prize, sponsored by the Sewanee Church Music Conference
Published by Paraclete Press
When Rooks Fly Homeward (2021) SATB div
Meditabor in mandatis tuis (2021) SSAA
Second prize,The University of Notre Dame 2021 Liturgy Alive! Magnificat Choir Composition Commission Competition
Improvisation on Veni, veni Emmanuel (2021) organ
God of All Creation (2021) SAB and organ
Published by St. James Music Press
Preces and Responses in F (2017) Trebles and organ
God to Enfold Me (2016) SATB and organ
Prelude to the Christmas Oratorio (2015) Organ [Saint-Saëns, arr. DBK]
Rise up, my love, my fair one (2014) SATB
Mass of the Holy Comforter (2014) Congregation, SATB, brass quintet, and organ
Evening Canticles in D (2013) Treble voicess and organ
Ubi caritas (2012) SATB
The Day Thou Gavest (2010) SATB and organ
Published by St. James Music Press
An American Triptych (1993) Organ
Prize-winning composer Dr. David Boulware-Kelley is the Organist and Choirmaster at Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, Virginia. Dr. Boulware-Kelley won First Prize in 2023 and 2025 in the Peter & Lois Fyfe Choral Composition Contest, for his compositions “Pentecost” and "In the Sound of Song." In 2021 he received Second Prize in the Notre Dame Magnificat Choir Competition for his anthem for treble voices, “Meditabor in mandatis tuis.”
His compositions are published by Paraclete Press, St. James Music Press, and Church Publishing. At Holy Comforter, Dr. Boulware-Kelley’s congregational eucharist setting is used frequently, and his psalm settings are sung weekly; the inter-generational choirs often perform his anthems, and he regularly improvises at the organ during services.
Dr. Boulware-Kelley received his Doctorate in Organ Performance from Peabody Conservatory; he also holds degrees from Furman University and The Catholic University of America in Music Theory, Composition, and Liturgical Music.
