Stanley Hoffman

Stanley M. Hoffman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1959. He has lived in the greater Boston area since 1977. He received degrees in Composition from Brandeis University (PhD 1993), the New England Conservatory of Music (MM 1984), and the Boston Conservatory (BM Cum Laud 1981).

Dr. Hoffman’s accomplishments as a composer include having a biographical entry about him written by Byron Adams get published in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online by Oxford University Press in June of 2021. Dr. Hoffman won a co-first place prize in the 2008–09 Longfellow Chorus International Composition Competition for his setting of the Longfellow poem Nature. He won a third-place prize in the 2008 Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The New York Virtuoso Singers for his piece Anim Zemiros for SATB chorus. Grant Us Peace for SATB chorus received an “Honors” citation in 2002 in the “Waging Peace Through Singing” project sponsored by iwagepeace.com. His piece There Is a Name for SA chorus and amplified classical guitar (or orchestra) was performed before an audience of over 8000 people at the dedication ceremonies of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston on October 22, 1995, with guitar accompaniment.

Senior Editor at ECS Publishing Group from 1998–2021, Dr. Hoffman was laid-off by the company because of the economic toll caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He works as a freelance sheet music engraver and editor, arranger, conductor, vocalist, lecturer, documentary film consultant, and writer.

Stanley M. Hoffman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1959. He has lived in the greater Boston area since 1977. He received degrees in Composition from Brandeis University (PhD 1993), the New England Conservatory of Music (MM 1984), and the Boston Conservatory (BM Cum Laud 1981).

Dr. Hoffman’s accomplishments as a composer include having a biographical entry about him written by Byron Adams get published in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online by Oxford University Press in June of 2021. Dr. Hoffman won a co-first place prize in the 2008–09 Longfellow Chorus International Composition Competition for his setting of the Longfellow poem Nature. He won a third-place prize in the 2008 Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The New York Virtuoso Singers for his piece Anim Zemiros for SATB chorus. Grant Us Peace for SATB chorus received an “Honors” citation in 2002 in the “Waging Peace Through Singing” project sponsored by iwagepeace.com. His piece There Is a Name for SA chorus and amplified classical guitar (or orchestra) was performed before an audience of over 8000 people at the dedication ceremonies of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston on October 22, 1995, with guitar accompaniment.

Senior Editor at ECS Publishing Group from 1998–2021, Dr. Hoffman was laid-off by the company because of the economic toll caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He works as a freelance sheet music engraver and editor, arranger, conductor, vocalist, lecturer, documentary film consultant, and writer.

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