Stephen Hatfield

Directed by Michael Ostroff (Pegi Nicol) and produced by Mary Sexton (Gemini Award Winning Tommy...A Family Portrait), and Heather Eustace, To Think Like a Composer is a joyful and exuberant introduct...

This English sea shanty, already a success in SATB and 3-Part Mixed voicings, is now available for men's chorus, just the way it would have been heard originally when sung by sailors as they pulled lo...

'As She Goes' sets words by the composer on a reflective yet inspirational theme ('We were born to fly, but your wings come without a trial run'), against the backdrop of images from the natural world...

This work sets words by the composer on a reflective yet inspirational theme, against the backdrop of images from the natural world. The choral lines are simple and melodic, drawing on the sound-world...

Dubula is a folk song of the Xhosa people of South Africa. The style is boisterous, party-hardy and open-throated.

Überlebensgross, which means “larger than life,” pays tribute to the strength, sweetness and savviness of women's voices through a montage of styles ranging from Jerez Flamenco to 1920's f...

From the collection Hark, hark, the lark, 'When icicles hang by the wall' is a setting by Stephen Hatfield of words from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Scored for unaccompanied upper voices, this...

Jabula Jesu is based on an African folk song which also appears in an alternate form in Hatfield's African Celebration. It allows within an orthodox choral setting, an unorthodox taste of the African...

For Elizabeth: Gold, Frank Innocence, and mirth

Carol of the Ladder is a limpid andante whose transparent texture and tone of sweet melancholy creates a meditative calm. Although technically unsophisticated on the surface, this arrangement offers m...

Set to a beautiful old hymn tune from an 1855 collection, this piece offers much scope for phrasing and word painting as the singers recreate the setting from outside the tomb, and explore the psychol...

Weaving together the melodies and texts of three Korean folk songs, Stephen Hatfield has created a seven-minute suite that suggests two contrasting moods of romantic longing - one full of vigor and ac...

Originally from England, where All for Me Grog was heard in music halls as well as on ships, the shanty was sung while working the capstan and the halyard.

In keeping with Sister Rosetta Tharpe's stylistic blend, this arrangement has a funky doo-wop flavored middle section that reminds us just how many different rock styles go back to the gospel source.

Stimmensatz - Violine, Akkordeon, Gitarre, Kontrabass

El texto de esta canción se basa en el cuento "Det utroligste" de Hans Christian Andersen.

Text from Shakespeare's The Tempest. This piece acts as a kind of spectrum which both breaks a unity into diverse colors, and reassembles the diverse colors into a unity.

A colorful and lively Scottish ballad telling the tale of Lady Ann, gone to Edinburgh to save her man Geordie from wrongful execution. Each of the four vocal parts has its chance to sing!