Stephen Hatfield

Tjak! has been inspired by a Balinese musical ceremony long known to world music fans as Ketjak, or The Monkey Chant. Is has adopted many aspects of the Balinese music, including much of the timbre an...

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

This arrangement explores the Caribbean sty;e known as 'Afro-Cuban': independent melodic lines with strong rhythmic pulses are superimposed to build up textures that are both rich and translucent. Eve...

Bring infectious energy and medieval charm to the choral stage! With "J'ai vú le loup", Boosey & Hawkes presents a spirited setting of a traditional French folksong, expertly arranged for three-part w...

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...

Taking advantage of the ancient and at the same time relevant musical style we know as Chant, Stephen Hatfiled has created a Funky, rhythmic, modern look at musical styles and how reality and the digi...

The title of Ain't That News is a tribute to the superb Staple Singers, who dang a piece by that name, not otherwise quoted in this chart. The opening seven measures are an adaptation of an old Paul R...

Several variants of this famous English folk ballad are incorporated into this evocative setting for women's voices. First performed by the Varsity Women's Choir of Appleton North High School, James H...

This robust, full-bodied song comes from the rich musical tradition of Transylvania. The vocal figures inspired by the dance rhythms and vigorous bowing techniques of this region should inspire choirs...

From Queen's College, Oxford, comes the ancient ritual and the rousing holiday song “The Boar's Head Carol,” where the highly decorated dishes of the Christmas feast were presented to the...

This fleet-footed setting of a medieval French folksong is packed with energy and self-assurance. Sure to please!

Exploring themes of the traveler returning to home and family especially during the holidays, this work uses ostinati and superimposed lines of text in a hypnotic, jazz-flavored style that evokes the...

This four movement Missa Brevis is full of multicultural influences with deep roots in the dance. Drawing from Bulgarian rhythm and melodic, Turkish finger cymbals, mandolin figures of bluegrass waltz...

This piece is the anthem for MosaiK', a choral festival in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. One of the festival's guiding principals is the inclusion of the culture and music of both national languages,...

This is in the southern Mexican style of the Huapango. In this fast and fun music, with the flash of reds, yellows and greens and the flash in the rhythm, it's as if the entire landscape becomes the d...

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion - sm...

This piece has been set up to be easily learned, yet to produce a rich and exotic sound, so that even an inexperienced choir can have the pleasure of creating a Medieval Christmas fantasy. Published a...

Jabula Jesu is not hard to learn, and yet creates very rich textures that allow for great variety in shaping and phrasing. The piece can be performed completely unaccompanied, but two or more percussi...

With text written by a first level French-immersion student in Toronto, Canada, this melody is the perfect way to showcase your choir's tone and phrasing. Based on the interaction of the five senses,...

Choir: Any Combination This dramatic work is a 'masque' where movement and music create a parallel reality in which the world is both recognizable and yet transformed. In this setting four tribes each...

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...