For mezzo-soprano, choir, and historic wind quintet (2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, dulcian) on a poem by Robert Service. First performance: 2 November 2014 with Meagan Zantingh, mezzo-soprano, La Rose des Vents, and the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Christopher Hossfeld conducting. Press Hossfeld’s own work, In Pace, was the program’s keystone. Set to a gut-wrenching poem by Canadian Robert Service, […]
For solo cello, 10 minutes. Comissioned by Harbourfront Centre for the Toronto Music Garden, September 2013. First performance by Kate Haynes in the Toronto Music Garden. Written in response to the solo cello suite in C Major by J. S. Bach. Maestoso—Adagio—Maestoso—Allegro Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights
String trio (violin, viola, cello), commissioned by The Rosetta Trio, 12 minutes. The piece has been performed at Memorial Church, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Toronto Music Garden. First performance: 5 February 2008 at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH as part of the Mornings with Music Concert Series, made possible by a grant from
Soundtrack for Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story, a feature-length documentary about an unsung hero of the Holocaust in Holland, the Resistance members who worked with him, and five of the nearly 1,000 children they saved. Christopher Hossfeld, piano; Jen Morse, flute; Ethel Farny, flute; Karen Oosterban, violin; Nathaniel Farny, viola; Evelyn Farny, cello Recorded at Blue
A one-act opera based on the play by August Strindberg, 26 minutes. First performance during VI:3, A Night of Student Opera Premiers, April 2002, Leverett House, Harvard University, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble. Score Miss Julie: dramatic soprano Jean: Tenor Christine: Mezzo-soprano Chorus Orchestration: flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano. Download a pdf
Viola and Cello, 3 minutes. First performance: July 2001 at the American Conservatory, Palais de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France. A severely concise duet for solo viola and cello in three parts. 1. Flowing 2. Still 3. With intensity Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact
Tenor, flute, viola, and harp. 4 minutes. A setting of the poem by e. e. cummings. First performance: Spring 2000 at Harvard University as part of the Thelma Louise Goldberg Concert, a production of the Music Department. Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact
A one-act opera based on four poems by e. e. cummings. 14 minutes. Music by Christopher Hossfeld. Orchestration: oboe, bass clarinet, piano, violin, cello, and singers. First performance during VI, A Night of Student Opera Premiers, November 1999, Harvard University; David Salvage, Music Director; sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble. Score Download a pdf of the
