Mariane Lemiueux-Wottrich, soprano
Lara Bolton, piano

Performed at the Minnesota Source Song Festival, August 2017.

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I knew this back then, back there in the garden at the age of two.
I saw the loveliest flower and plucked it for her, a gift for mother darling.
She placed her hand on her heart as the tears flew from her eyes and she cried and said to me, 
“Oh why can’t you remain like this forever? This being, so gay and innocent at heart.
Oh why can’t you remain as a child forever?”

That was all that was said on the matter.
From then on, I knew my time was near.
You always know after you are two. Two is the end of the beginning.

Marc Hoffeditz's Album

Ne'er-ii. a memory

Mariane Lemiueux-Wottrich, soprano
Lara Bolton, piano

Performed at the Minnesota Source Song Festival, August 2017.

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There could not have been a lovelier sight.
A little boy…at the window…ecstasies innumerable…children forever.
All children must grow up, except one. They must grow up.

Ne'er-i. foreword

Patient - Esha Datta
Nurse - Karen Hayden
Aleksandr Karjaka, clarinets
Jennifer Girone-Virgilio, cello

Performed at the Rhymes with Opera Pocket Opera Workshop, August 2015.

An overworked nurse and a crazed patient try to find solace and purpose in a hospital exam room.

Prescription (micro-opera for soprano, mezzo soprano, and chamber ensemble)

Sarah Hennessey, soprano
Simon Docking, piano

Performed at St. Matthew's Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2017

A micro-opera based on the speeches, interviews, and words of Canadian poet El Jones, this brief drama takes the listener through the lens of image and perception as a public figure.  As El prepares to write her final speech as Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she reminisces on her time in the position and the many hardships she has overcome to stay true to herself and her artistic vision.

what do you see? (micro-opera for soprano and piano)

Commissioned by the First United Methodist Church of Melrose's Sacred Music Initiative

Emily Bieber, soprano
Heinrich Christensen, organ
Andrew Mattfeld, conductor
King's Chapel Choir and Choir of First United Methodist Church of Melrose

Performed at King's Chapel in Boston, MA, April 2018

With text drawn from the poem “Super Flumina Babylonis” by Algernon Charles Swinburne, By the waters of Babylon explores the somber masses processing and retelling their experiences of the death and resurrection of Jesus. The choir interprets these mixed emotions through a variety of textures and contrapuntal maneuvers while still adhering to the clarity of the text. Whether in a hushed moment of unified solidarity or a weeping hoard of mourners blurring their words, the choir is still able to secure its bearings by their main truth: that the Lord has risen and will live again through all people.

By the waters of Babylon (for SATB choir and organ)

Written for The Brookline Consort

Performed at First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island, October 2018

Missa Brevis Brevis addresses the idea that devotion does not necessarily need to be an elaborate, sprawling declaration of one’s beliefs. It could be a simple sentence, a mixture of shouts and whispers, or a meandering stream of thoughts that have yet to reach a solid conclusion. Whatever the case, the individualistic nature of our faith is both incredibly clear and undeniably difficult to express to others.

V. Agnus Dei

IV. Sanctus

III. Credo

I & II. Kyrie/Gloria

Leia Slosberg, flute
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet

Performed at The Variousound Sessions Composer Spotlight in Brooklyn, NY, November 2017

...it'll be okay...(for flute and clarinet)

Kristen Kort, piccolo
Chia-Li Wang, piano

Performed at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee's Composer Recital Series, October 2012.

Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. Divided in three movements, the lava goddess takes form (Ember) before her imminent wrath is exposed (Eruption). Beyond her destruction, she strives to rebuild from her ashes to be revived as the mighty goddess she once was (Exultation).

Marc Hoffeditz

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