Bio

Christopher Hossfeld is a composer and conductor based in Montréal and southern New Hampshire. He has a broad compositional style and writes music for a variety of settings and occasions, from choral and vocal works to music for liturgy or film.

He is currently a Lecturer in Music at Southern New Hampshire University, where he is the university's first full-time music faculty, in charge of directing the University Chorus and teaching music history classes.

Hossfeld earned a Masters in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelors in Music Composition from Harvard University. He was a recipient of the 2002 Louis Sudler Award, given to a graduating Harvard Senior for excellence in the arts.

His music has been performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C., Yale and Harvard Universities, the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and various other concert halls and churches around the country. In 1998, he was the only composer of twenty Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and a recipient of an NFAA ARTS Week First Level Award.

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Conducting Experience

Sep 2006-present, Music Lecturer and Chorus Director, • Southern New Hampshire University

Manchester, New Hampshire. First full-time music faculty at school; teach music appreciation classes and conduct chorus.

2003-2007, Director of Music, • St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church

Lincoln, Massachusetts

2005-2006, Director, Winchester Boys Chorus

Winchester Public Schools, Massachusetts

Mar 2006, Music Director, Zorba

Winchester Public High School, Massachusetts

2004-2005, Music Director, Cinderella

North Andover High School

Jan 2004, Masters Recital: Curlew River, Benjamin Britten; Yale School of Music

a once act opera for soloists, men's chorus and chamber orchestra

2003-2004, Director, Marquand Chapel Choir

Yale Divinity School, New Haven Conncecticut

2002-2004, Assistant Conductor, Yale Camerata

studies with Profs. Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington

2002-2003, Associate Conductor, Yale Repertory Chorus

a laboratory choir for first year students

2001-2002, Conductor, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Chamber Singers

a student directed, 24 voice chamber choir

April 2002, Music Director and Composer, VI:3, A Night of Student Opera Premiers

a production of new operas composed by Harvard undergraduates

Related Work Experience

2005-2006, Accompanist, Concord-Carlisle High School Choruses

Concord, Massachusetts

Oct 2005, Composer, • Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story

composed soundtrack for documentary on Suskind, a German Jew who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children in Amsterdam during the Holocaust

2003-2004, Tenor, Yale Schola Cantorum, Simon Carrington, director

a professional 24-voice chamber choir, New Haven, Connecticut

1995-2004, Supply organist/conductor

Trinity Church, Concord, Massachusetts; St. Andrew’s, Wellesley, Massachusetts; St. Anne’s, Lowell, Massachusetts; Trinity Church, Torrington, Connecticut

Education

May 2004, Master of Music, Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music

Choral Conducting

Jun 2002, Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University

Music (Composition), magna cum laude

July 2001, Composition studies, American Conservatory

Fontainebleau, France

2000-2001, Visiting Student, University of York, England

Music

Awards

May 2002, Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts

given to the graduating Harvard senior of the most outstanding artistic talent and achievement in the composition or performance of music, drama, dance or the visual arts

April 1998, Presidential Scholar in the Arts, composition

one of 20 high school seniors nationwide selected by a presidential commission, invited to Washington, D.C. to meet President Clinton

Jan 1998, First Level Awardee, composition

Arts Recognition and Talent Search Week, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts

Christopher Hossfeld

COMPOSER • CONDUCTOR

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