CHRISTOPHER HOSSFELD

 
 

International composer and conductor Christopher Hossfeld has an inventive compositional style and creates music for many settings, from concert works to music for liturgy or film. An established conductor, he has led both choral and instrumental ensembles with his precise conducting style and commanding knowledge of music.

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, and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had his Canadian premiere at the Toronto Music Garden in September 2008. 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.

If you are interested in commissioning Christopher Hossfeld for music perfectly suited to your next concert, film project, church service, or wedding, please contact him by e-mail: ch@christopherhossfeld.com.

Contact

  1. •ch@christopherhossfeld.com

  2. •Download resumé (pdf)

Composer

  1. •Explore compositions

  2. •Composer, Secret Courage – The Walter Suskind Story (2005)

  3. •Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, Harvard University (2002)

  4. •Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Composition (1998)

Conductor

  1. •Download conducting repertory (pdf)

  2. •Music Lecturer, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH (2006-2008)

  3. •Director of Music, St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, Lincoln, MA (2003-2007)

  4. •Director, Marquand Chapel Choir, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT (2003-2004)

  5. •Assistant Conductor, Yale Camerata, studies with Profs. Marguerite Brooks and Simon Carrington (2002-2004)

  6. •Conductor, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Chamber Singers (2001-2002)

Education

  1. •Master of Music, Choral Conducting, Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music (2004)

  2. •Bachelor of Arts, Music (Composition), Harvard University, magna cum laude (2002)

  3. •Composition studies, American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, France (2001)

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