The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts was established in 2021 to honor the legacy of Ariel Bybee and to foster the creation of new works by Latter-day Saint artists in disciplines that correspond to her varied career and interests in music and related arts. Each year, the Endowment chooses one of nine, rotating categories as the basis of the call for submissions: opera, dance, scholarship, art songs, youth education, hymns, visual arts, collaborative arts, and choral music.

In 2023, the Endowment asked artists to respond to the call for art songs.

S. Andrew Lloyd won the inaugural commission of an art song cycle and was sung by international opera soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen at its premiere at Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2024. View videos of the performance, press coverage, and program notes below.