CHRISTOPHER HOSSFELD

 
 

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.

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. In 1998, he was the only composer of twenty Presidential Scholars 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 Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. He had his Canadian premiere at the Toronto Music Garden in September 2008.

Christopher Hossfeld welcomes commissions for your next concert, film project, service, or special event. Please contact him at: ch@christopherhossfeld.com.


Photo: Emily Hossfeld.

Contact

  1. •ch@christopherhossfeld.com

  2. •Download résumé (pdf)

Composer

  1. •Explore compositions

  2. •concerto GROSSO, string orchestra (2009)

  3. •your eyes have their silence, string trio (2008)

  4. •Secret Courage – The Walter Suskind Story, film soundtrack(2005)

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

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

Conductor

  1. •Guest Conductor, (fall 2009)Cantata Singers of Ottawa,
    St. Lawrence Choir (Montreal), Voces Boreales (Montreal),
    La Ceilagh (Montreal)

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

  6. •Download conducting repertory (pdf)

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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