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, […]
Song cycle for soprano and piano, on poems by Barbara Sherrington. Commissioned by Claude Vielleux for Kristal Calvert, in honor of their tenth wedding anniversary. 9 minutes. 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.
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
Soprano and cello. 5 minutes. A setting of the poem by e. e. cummings. First performance: March 2000 at Harvard University by Kate Bennett and Susan Long, sponsored by the Harvard Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble. Score Download a pdf of the score (for study purposes only). For performance rights and materials, please contact the composer
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
