HENDRIK HOFMEYR, one of the best known younger South African composers, was born in Cape Town in 1957. While furthering his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector, he won the South African Opera Competition with The Fall of the House of Usher. He also received the annual Nederburg Prize for Opera for this work subsequent to its performance at the State Theatre in Pretoria in 1988. In the same year, he obtained first prize in an international competition in Italy with music for a short film by Wim Wenders. He returned to South Africa in 1992, and in 1997 won two major international composition competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium and the first edition of the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in Athens. He is currently associate professor in Music at the University of Cape Town.

Hofmeyr has completed a number of commissions for South African choirs, including the Chamber and Symphony Choirs of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the Stellenbosch University Choir, the Pro Cantu Youth Choir (Choir Olympiad, Linz, 2000) and the Tygerberg Children's Choir (World of Children's Choirs, Vancouver 2001).

Works for choir

Requiem. SSAATTBB, SATB solos. 23 min.
Iubilate Deo - motet. SATB. 3 min.
Tu pauperum refugium - motet. 2 x SSAA (+ 3 x SSAA) ( + audience). 10 min.
Tu pauperum refugium - motet. Version for 2 x SATB (+ 3 x SATB) ( + audience). 10 min.
Stabat mater - motet. SSAATTBB, 12 min.
Pie Jesu - motet. SATB, 3 min.
Sweet was the Song (John Attey) - carol. SATB. 3 min.
Care-Charmer Sleep (Samuel Daniel) - madrigal. SSATB. 5 min.
The Eccho (Richard Leigh) - madrigal. SSATBB. 4 min.
How sweet the moonlight (William Shakespeare) - madrigal. SSSSAAAA. 4 min.
Die Spokewals (Boerneef) (available in English ). SSAATTBB, SSAATTBB solos. 4 min.
Eden (Ina Rousseau). (available in English ). SSAA, 4 min.
Par les sentiers de lumière - 3 poems by Lamine Diakhaté. SSAATTBB, ST solos. 9 min.
Uqongqot'hwane (Xhosa traditional) - arrangement. SATB, S solo. 4 min.
Thula, babana (Xhosa traditional) - arrangement. SSAA, 3 min.

Works for choir and orchestra

Missa Sancti Ignatii de Loyola. SSSAATTBB, S solo, orchestra. 36 min.
Kersliedjie - carol. SATB, orchestra. 4 min.

Works for choir and piano

Sound the Flute! - 3 poems by William Blake. SATB, piano. 7 min.
Liederwysgesange - 3 poems by Boerneef. SATB, piano. 7 min.

Hendrik Hofmeyr 5 Nemesia Street Darling 7345 South Africa Tel/fax: +27 +22 492 3343 colaas(at)iafrica.com

SA College of Music University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700 South Africa Tel: +27 +21 650 2642 mushhh(at)protem.uct.ac.za