PRIMEMOVER is a collection of chamber works composed by Joshua Stamper, commissioned by City Church Philadelphia (now Resurrection Philadelphia) from 2015 to 2021 for services marking holidays in the church calendar: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, and Advent.

These pieces are a meditation on the Divine benediction over our corporeal world: a holy and inviolable endorsement of earth, skin, hair, blood and bones; the trees and clouds of sparrows; light and leaves and sound; the cities and the mountains. It is good.

Dedicated to Tuck and Stacy Bartholomew for their expansive hospitality to the artist community in Philadelphia.