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 choir and organ, latin text, 15 minutes. Commissioned by the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Montreal in celebration of their 150th year. The first performance was on 20 November 2011. Kyrie Sanctus Agnus Dei Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact the composer by
SATB chorus, latin text, 6 minutes. Commissioned by the Cantata Singers of Ottawa. First performance: The Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Michael Zaugg, conductor, Stabat Mater Concert, 31 March 2010, Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa. Press As a bonus there was a premier inserted between the Scarlatti [Stabat Mater] and Bach [Jesu meine Freude]. Christopher Hossfeld’s Ave regina caelorum was composed in
Six-part chorus (SSATBB, div.), with texts from the Song of Solomon, 11 minutes. First performed by the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Michael Zaugg, conductor, Shades of Love / Tons d’Amour concert, 19 April 2009, Orleans United Church, Orleans, Ontario. Also performed by Voces Boreales, Michael Zaugg, conductor, Surge Aquillo concert, 6 June 2010, Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal. Score Download a pdf of the
Chorus (SATB), 3 minutes. A song for a capella chorus on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, in German. This piece was written overlooking Penobscot Bay from Little Deer Isle, Maine. Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact the composer by e-mail at ch@christopherhossfeld.com.
Chorus (SATB, unaccompanied). 1 minute. A setting of the poem by e. e. cummings. First performance: May 2000 at Harvard University by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Jameson Marvin, conductor. Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact the composer by e-mail at ch@christopherhossfeld.com. Copyright ©2010 Christopher Hossfeld,
