New Recordings

A score video for BE NEAR ME is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eWIjaUIJlnU  BE NEAR ME is a setting for unaccompanied Mixed Choir (SATB) or Men’s Chorus (TTBB) of Canto 50 from the poem In Memoriam A.H.H  by the British Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson (1809 -1892). (Duration: ca. 5’15”). Published in 1850, the poem is […]

My “Requiem for Animals”, a 50-minute work for SATB Choir and String Orchestra, received a beautiful premiere in May by the Brattleboro Concert Choir conducted by Jonathan Harvey. Many composers, like Mozart, Verdi, and Faure, have created beautiful requiems to commemorate the dead, but these have always been for human life. With the massive loss […]

Hi everyone I wanted to share with you a recent performance of my piece “The Song of the Star” with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie under the direction of Florian Helgath. It was sung at the opening concert of the famour choir competition in Marktoberdorf, Germany. Towards the end, the piece features a passage where the audience […]

Just released — for Easter Weekend — an SATB a cappella setting of “Ave verum corpus.”

MY RED BOOTS is based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of blessed memory (1927–2018). Both she and my late father, Josef Hoffman, were Jewish Holocaust Survivors. My mother’s brief memoirs are housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. I have been […]

Hot off the presses! Here is a brand new recording of my SATB arrangement of  Guillaume Dufay’s chanson “Malheureux cueur” — originally a 3-part song written for soloist plus 2 instruments. https://youtu.be/vvT0zhxU_zk The evocative lyrics depict a narrator — directly singing to his heart — begging his heart to let go. He’s fallen in love […]