1. •Master of Music, Choral Conducting, Yale School of Music
   

2. •Bachelor of Arts, Music (Composition), Harvard University
   

International composer and conductor Christopher Hossfeld has an inventive compositional style and creates music for concerts, films, and religious services. As an established conductor, he has led both choral and instrumental ensembles with his precise technique and commanding knowledge of music. He has conducted concerts in the United States and Canada, and prepared choirs for conductors Trevor Pinnock and Joseph Milo. His music has been performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C., Yale and Harvard Universities, and Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. He had his Canadian premiere at the Toronto Music Garden in September 2008.

RECENT PRESS

Boston Globe review of concerto GROSSO world premiere, performed by A Far Cry, Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 October 2009:

1. “Christopher Hossfeld’s odd yet compelling ‘concerto GROSSO’ for 18 strings received its first performance. Each of its three movements refers to death; offsetting the gloom is a sense of mischief and irony.... The finale opens seriously, with a beautiful passage for four violas, but later morphs into a rustic folk dance before sliding back into the unsettling dissonances with which the piece opens.”
   

2. David Weininger. “A Far Cry brings compelling chaos to Jordan Hall.”
   Boston Globe, 2 November 2009.  
   

Conducting the Cantata Singers of Ottawa and Capital Brass Works in “For the Fallen,” Dominion-Chalmers Church, Ottawa, 14 November 2009:

1. “The program opened with Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst, written in 1945 for unnacompanied chorus by Rudolf Mauersberger.... And the Cantata Singers rendered it with some of their best singing of recent memory.”
   

2. Richard Todd. “A perfect post-Remembrance Day tribute.”
   Ottawa Citizen, 18 November 2009.  
   

UPCOMING EVENTS

Guest conducting Voces Boreales:

1. A Christmas Concert
   

2. Voces Boreales
   

3. Michael Zaugg - artistic director, Christopher Hossfeld - guest conductor
   

4. Free admission
   

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6.     Five Carols, Richard Rodney Bennett
   

7.     Hymn to the Virgin, Benjamin Britten
   

8.     Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen, Arvo Pärt
   

9.     Magnificat, Vic Nees
   

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11. Saturday, December 19, 2009, 8:00pm
    

12. St. John the Evangelist
    

13. 137, avenue du President-Kennedy
    

14. Montréal, QC, Canada
    

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16. Sunday, December 20, 2009, 5:00pm
    

17. Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
    

18. 5333, avenue Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
    

19. Montréal, QC, Canada
    

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Résumé • Compositions • Conducting • Events

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