Stephen Hatfield

The Apple Tree Wassail comes from the cider country of Devon and Somerset, where it might be sung in the orchards or at the farmer's door. Wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon wes hael - to be healthy.

Hot-blooded and haughty, a mixture of delight and disdain. The central paradox of performing this piece it that the rhythms must be very incisive and exact, yet the precision must be combined with the...

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years.

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years.

Son de Camaguey is a Cuban folk song from which the composer takes the refrain and then frames it with kaleidoscopic patters of ostinati inspired by the song, and by Afro-Cuban music in general.

A romper stomper of a French Canadian folk song, full of call and response, that features a soli line suitable for mezzo sopranos. Although the score has parts for several percussionists, as well as b...

Each movement of this mass incorporates folk melodies from a different country. The moods and the tempi of the originals have been altered; melodies have been unraveled, spliced together and persuaded...

The Green Shores of Fogo bears marks of Irish provenance, although its musical origins were lost before Kenneth Peacock collected the song from Mrs. John Fogarty in 1952. The tune, which Peacock consi...

“Ohisashi buri,” or “It's been a long time” in Japanese, is a greeting between friends. The text is a collection of shouts of encouragement, taken from four traditional Japanes...

Written from the point of view of a young chorister, this Hatfield original tells the story of a young girl who wants to join her friends in the choir. The effect this has on her and her parents is pr...

The main idea behind this unique work is that music is the ultimate gift and that all things must pass. Opening with a Latin phrase and theme by di Lassus, it moves into a jaunty, Celtic-flavored tune...

Adapted from a traditional African-American chant, this is - in the composer's words - a 'soulful piledriver with a monster backbeat.' Plentiful but manageable divisi writing makes this a full and sat...

Composer Hatfield mixes Spanish and English texts and explores how a community supports and nourishes an individual, even as the individual inspires the community. Coining a new musical style with the...

Here is a playful and creative treatment of the alphabet centered around the theme of children and hope. Filled with slides and scoops, a conventional tone of delivery, and a steady rhythmic drive, au...