Résumé: 2010-2023
2010: Edward II a two and a half hour opera for 6 singers, narrator, and medium-sized orchestra after Christopher Marlowe; professionally recorded with 11 instruments by Acting Singers Project on a generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly. Please clickon Christopher Marlowe to hear our almost complete recording of Edward II. |
2010: Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director’s Prize Longfellow Chorus Competition
2010: Blessings on Your Home First place in the Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition; choral music category; poem by Drew Hubbard; premiered by BMO: Part of 2 Myths a 75 minute set of 2 operas for voices, chorus and chamber ensemble. Please click the button below to listen to Blessings:
2010: Antigon after Sophocles, Main-Stage Award in Boston Metro Opera International Composer Competition: Opera Division; one hour and 15 minutes; for 4 voices and medium-sized orchestra. Antigon is the first of three short works included in the 2 hour collection: Three Character Studies. The BMO performed Antigon with piano. Please click on
the brother or sister to the right to watch excerpts from Antigon: |
Please click on Antigon, as played by Sarah May, soprano to hear "Antigon's Farewell" and use the PDF to see the score of the final sounds of ANTIGON:
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2011: Birthday On The Moon Second Place Long Leaf Opera Competition.
2012: Hamlet after William Shakespeare, 2 & a half hours; for 7 singers, narrator, & medium size orchestra; Commissioned by, and selections premiered with piano by, Boston Metro Opera. Only the following recording survives. Please click below to hear "Laertes' Lament" as sung by mezzo-soprano, Susan Craft Larson with pianist, Yelana Birayeva at BMO:
2015: The Swallow and The Prince after Oscar Wilde, A 45 minute opera for 4-6 singers, medium size orchestra; performed with flute & piano by Acting Singers Project under an arts council grant from the Town of Dedham. You can hear this performance by clicking on The Swallow or The Prince to the right: Please use the PDF to the right to see the orchestral score of the first scene of The Swallow and The Prince & push the button below to hear the music. |
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2016: King Lear: after William Shakespeare; 90 minutes; 7 singers & narrator,
with piano or medium size orchestra.
2017: Songs of Summer, a set to poems by William Blake had its European premier in Cologne, Germany by baritone, Hartmut Shultz.
2020: Covid-19: a Cantata Ballet for low voice, speaker, male or female chorus, with chamber ensemble (95 minutes) or medium size orchestra (1 hour and 50 minutes).
with piano or medium size orchestra.
2017: Songs of Summer, a set to poems by William Blake had its European premier in Cologne, Germany by baritone, Hartmut Shultz.
2020: Covid-19: a Cantata Ballet for low voice, speaker, male or female chorus, with chamber ensemble (95 minutes) or medium size orchestra (1 hour and 50 minutes).
2022: Rain has Fallen, a 14 minute song set to poems by James Joyce was premiered by baritone, Hartmut Shultz on 3/10/22 at the Academia Arte, Alser Str. 28, 1019, Vienna. 2023: Cal'mus: a song set to poems by Walt Whitman, will receive its European premiere by baritone, Hartmut Shultz, on 11/4/23 in Kleiner Ehrbar-Saal in Vienna, as part of a concert called "Four Seasons in America / Fall" by the Opera on Tap Vienna Chapter. |
Hartmut Shultz: lyric baritone
2021-23: I worked on concerti for a concerto oboe & trumpet; and for three double reed instruments; as well as some orchestral song sets & other pieces for orchestra, including another symphony for large orchestra. I also worked on choral music, music theater, chamber music & vocal music, including an unaccompanied song cycle. I am currently printing and making PDFs of all of my works. As they become ready they will be appearing on this website.