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Stanley M. Hoffman
 

Composer, Arranger,

Sheet Music Engraver and Editor,

Conductor

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About the Composer

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 1981).

 

His compositions and arrangements are published by ECS Publishing Group, Fatrock Ink, Oxford University Press, and are distributed by Sheet Music Plus and oySongs.

 

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

Caricature of a conductor

Professional Experience

Editor

Conductor, Baritone, Lecturer

Artist's Representative

Audio Producer

Biographical Entry in Grove Online (Oxford)

June 24, 2021: the biographical entry about Dr. Hoffman written by Byron Adams was published in Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online by Oxford University Press.

Stanley M. Hoffman's biographical Entry in Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

​​The Stanley M. Hoffman Special Collection 

​at the Berklee College of Music Library Archives

 

15 January 2025: Announcing the Establishment of the "Stanley M. Hoffman Special Collection" at the Berklee College of Music Library Archives.

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In the biggest news of my life as a composer and arranger, I am deeply honored to announce the establishment of the "Stanley M. Hoffman Special Collection" at the Berklee College of Music Library Archives. The college purchased the first of my three alma maters—the Boston Conservatory of Music—some years ago, so my life and work have truly come full circle.

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The collection will include all of my unpublished sheet music both physically and digitally, my handwritten early music manuscripts and sketches, and photographs and correspondence related to my life and music. The agreement even includes a contingency clause covering titles that might go out-of-print at my three music publishers needing to be sent to them.

I just received the fully executed Deed of Gift today, and plan to deliver the seven containers of physical contents to the library tomorrow, so please do not contact the library about my collection anytime soon. It will take whatever time is necessary for the library to catalog my collection and make it available to the public.

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For your information, the Berklee Archives are located in the Stan Getz Library, Room 297, located at 150 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215; telephone 617-747-8001; email archives@berklee.edu; website https://archives.berklee.edu/; social media http://berkleearchives.tumbler.com. Their hours are 10 AM–4 PM Monday–Friday by appointment.

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I cannot think of a composer/arranger alive who does not wish for a permanent home for their life's work where people from around the world can have access to it. That mine was picked by my top library of choice, and given the names of music luminaries that I see in their special collection, their decision to include my collection leaves me otherwise speechless.

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—Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD​

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Awards

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2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who publications, an honor bestowed on less than 5% of its 1.5 million biographees.

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Nature, a setting of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for SATB chorus and piano composed in 2008, won a co-first place prize in the 2008-2009 Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The Longfellow Chorus, Charles Kaufmann, director. In addition to a cash award presented to the composer, Nature received its world premiere performances on February 28, 2009 and March 1, 2009, in Portland, Maine.

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Anim Zemiros (A Hymn of Glory), an original setting of a traditional Hebrew Shabbat prayer for SATB chorus (divisi) unaccompanied composed in 1985, won a third place prize in the 2008.  Choral Composition Competition sponsored by The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor. In addition to a cash award that was presented to the composer, Anim Zemiros received its world premiere performance on January 11, 2009, in New York City.

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"Select 20" for July/August 2003 from Creator Magazine for Yih'yu l'ratson (May the words of my mouth).

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Grant Us Peace was chosen as one of the selected works in the Waging Peace Through Singing repertoire (2002). The jury recommended this work and others for performance from 213 entries in Category II (mixed chamber chorus). 
 

"Honored 10" for the year 2000 from Creator Magazine for Psalm 67.

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1984-85 Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) Award to Student Composers for Thirteen Ways of Looking  at a Blackbird.

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