Member login

Orchestral and larger instrumental works

• Three Hodies (1972)
• Four Rhythmic Studies (1973)
• Tableaux Concertants (1976)
• Nimbus (1977)
• Stars (1980) for 25 flutes
• Gestures I,III,IV (1982) for various groupings
• Aleafonia Concertante I,II,III (1984-86) for chamber orch.
• Em Homenagem (1984)
• Mobiles for Alexandra (1985) for Wind and Double Basses
• Melodies and Mobiles (1990) for clars, vlns and perc.
• Epitaph (1991)
• Song for Elizabeth (1992) for 13 strings.
• Motet (1994) for 15 insts
• Metamorphoses (1995) for 11 insts.
• Metaphors (1996)
• Monograph Expanded (1997) for piano and orchestra
• Lament (2001) for 15 instruments
• Lauda (2002) for solo clarinet and orchestra of 21 clarinets
• Linus (2002) for orchestra
• Lupercalia (2002) for orchestra

Orchestra and voices

• Accede ad ignem hunc (1970) for reciter and instruments
• Eventail (1974) for choir, brass and cellos.
• The Round Horizon (1982) for Mezzo, girls’choir, orch.
• Plaint (1987) for reciter, choir, chamber orch.
• Epistle (1991) for 16 voices and instruments.
• Songs for Simeon (1992) for Sop, Bar, choirs, orch.
• Miserere Mei (1994) for 5 reciters, chamber orch.

Choir

• Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots (1976) for 6 male voices
• Chamber Étude no.2 (1977) for 6 male voices
• Motets for Holy Week (1980-83)
• O Vos Omnes (1980) for 7-part choir
• Crux Fidelis (1983) for 4-part choir
• Salvator Mundi (1983) for 3-part choir
• Ecce Lignum (1983) for 1-part choir
• Gestures II (1982) for mixed choir
• Ego Sum Resurrectio et Vita (1985) for 10 voices
• Motets for Christmas (1987-9)
• O Magnum Mysterium (1987) for 12-part choir
• Lux Fulgebit (1988) for 15-part choir
• Verbum Caro Factum Est (1989) for 13-part choir
• Hodie Christus Natus Est (1989) for 15-part choir
• Echoes (1991) for 12 female voices
• Maria Matos Medley (1997) for 7 solo voices
• Magnificat (1998) for 12 solo voices
• My monstrous mountaind walke (1999) for 6 solo voices
• Morning (2000) for 7 solo voices
• Leipziger Motetten (2002) for 5 male voices

Chamber music

• Three Dances (1968) for 3 guit.
• De Profundis (1970) for vln, vc, pf.
• Three Bagatelles (1971) for wind 5tet
• String Quartet no.1 (1972)
• Petite Sérénade (1973) for fl, vla, hp.
• Dies Irae (1973) for 2 tpt, 2 trb, timp.
• Complainte de la Lune en Province (1974) for Tenor, guit.
• Chamber Étude no.1 (1975) for ob, cor, bn, hpchd.
• Snakes of Silver Throat (1976) for wind 8tet.
• String Quartet no.2 (1976)
• Introit (1977) for string 4tet.
• Dialogue I (1978) for fl, perc.
• Vespers (1978) for clar, pf.
• Wind Quintet no.1 (1978)
• Hymn (1979) for 8 clars.
• Wind Quintet no.2 (1979)
• Arabesque (1979) for clar, mezzo-sop, vln, perc.
• Wind Trio (1980) for ob, clar, bn.
• Toccata (1980) for 2 pfs.
• Dialogue II (1981) for vc, pf.
• Brass Quintet (1983)
• The Thinnest Hair (1984) for Tenor, hp.
• String Quartet no.3 (1986)
• Boreas (1988) for 4 clars.
• Out of the Deep (1988) for vla, vc, cb.
• Gusts (1989) for fl, clar.
• Epigrams (1991) for Sop, Bar, hpchd, org, string 4tet.
• Six or Seven Sketches - Wind Quintet no.3 (1992)
• Sonnet (1993) for Tenor, pf, hp, perc, 4 vc, 7 male vces.
• Movements (1994) for Saxophone Quartet
• Madrigal (1994) for 3 cb.
• Meander (1995) for 5 violas.
• Musette (1995) for Sopr,fl,cl,pf,vn,vc
• Mutations (1996) for 4 clars
• Music for two pianos (1998)
• Memorial to Jorge Luís Borges (1999) for Bar, a-fl, b-cl, guit, vc, 2 perc, 4 vla.
• ..manhosamente.. (2000) for Sopr, pf.
• Metastrophe (2000) for fl,cl,bn,vc.
• Miniatures in memoriam Tom Eastwood (2001) for 2vn,vla.
• Monumentum in memoriam Robert Sherlaw Johnson (2001) for stg 4tet
• String Quartet no.4 (2001)
• Lacrimae (2001) for ob dam., fl,cl,vibr,pf,vn,vla,vc
• Lied der Liebe (2002) for Sopr, vn, vc, pf.
• Meeres Stille (2003) for Sopr, pf
• 7 Lessons (2003) for fl, ob, ten.sax, vn, pf

Solo music

• Piano Sonata no.1 (1971)
• Partita no.1 (1972) for vln.
• Piano Sonata no.2 Sanctus (1976)
• 3 pieces (1976) for fl.
• Requiescat (1977) for wood perc.
• Partita no.2 (1978) for vln.
• Sonata (1979) for vc.
• Preludes (1979) for pf.
• Sonata-Fantasia (1980) for guit.
• Essay I (1980) for trb.
• Elegy (1981) for fl.
• Essay II (1981) for organ.
• Essay III (1981) for vln.
• Essay IV (1981) for hp.
• Essay V (1982) for vla.
• Essay VI (1982) for voice.
• Essay VII (1990) for guit.
• Essay VIII (1991) for pf.
• Snow on Distant Hills (1992) for clar.
• Essay IX (1993) for tpt.
• Essay X (1993) for recorder.
• Monograph (1994) for pf.
• Monograms I - V (1995-2000) for clarinet
• Monogram I for A.S.D. (1995)
• Monogram II for E.C. (1999)
• Monogram III for S.A. (1999)
• Monogram IV for C.C. (2000)
• Monogram V for C.F. (2000)
• Essay XI (2000) for harpsichord.
• 18 Miniatures (2001) for pf.
• Essay XII (2001) for double bass.
• Essay XIII (2001) for alto saxophone
• Lied (2002) for vln.
• Leise, leise (2002) for vla.
• Letter to Ricardo Tacuchian (2003) for pf
• Lampoons (2003) for tenor saxophone

Orchestrations

• Fauré: Messe Basse (1991) for female voices and string orch.
• Webern: 4 pieces Op.4 (1992) for eleven instruments
• Debussy: 3 Preludes (1994) for Chamber orch.
• Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Stücke Op.19 (1995) for Chamber orch.
• Ivo Cruz: Homenagem a Manuel de Falla (1996) for Chamber orch.
• Tressler: Thoughts (1996) for Chamber orch.
• Miguel Ângelo Pereira: Eurico - Recitativo e Cavatina (1997) for Tenor and Chamber Orch.
• Webern: 3 Kleine Stücke Op.11 (1997) for Chamber Orch.
• Stockhausen: Three orchestrations of Klavierstück III (1998) for fl, cl, bn, hn, vn, vla, vc.
• Debussy: 7 Preludes (1999) for 12 wind insts.
• Reger: Aria Op.103A no.3 (1999) for String Orch.
• Tressler: Ballade (2000) for Chamber Orch.
• Tressler: Burla (2001) for Chamber Orch.

Neoclassical studies

• Classical Sonata (1974) for harpsichord
• Suite (1975) for vc, cb; From which: Air (1976) for String Orchestra
• Sonata da chiesa (1976) for cl, pf
• Ludus polytonalis (1977) for cl, vc
• a. Prayers to the wind (1980) for 2 vlas
• b. Minha Tírcia é tâo bella (1980) variations for 3 vlas
• a. Invention on a mordent (1973) for 7 flutes
• b. Introduction and aria (1973) for 6 cl
• c. Caprice (1980) for 5 ob

Didactic music

• Christmas Cantata (1973) for girls voices, insts
• Os Pastores (1978): Cantata for childrens voices, orch.
• Os Magos (1979): Cantata for childrens voices, orch.
• Four pieces (1979) for 4 trb.
• Gavotte (1980) for 2 rec, cl.
• A Anunciação (1980): Cantata for childrens voices, orch.
• 6 Easy pieces (1980) for pf
• 6 Polytonal pieces (1980 ) for pf
• 6 Modal pieces (1980) for pf
• 5 Pieces in the first position (1980) for vc, pf
• Mosaic of the Air (2000) for student orchestra
• Lyric (2002) for flutes, recorders and strings
• Lyric 2 (2003) for flutes, clarinetes, violins, ‘cellos
• 6 Pantonal pieces (2003) for pf

Arrangements for choir

Brazilian popular music

• Peixe Vivo (1978)
• Despedida do Pastoril (1979)
• Cavalo Marinho (1979)
• Boas Festas (1979)
• Prece ao Vento (1979)
• Pastorinhas (1984)
• A Garota de Ipanema (x2) - 1. SATB (1984)
• 2. T,Bar, Bar,B.(1995)
• Só Danço Samba - T,Bar,Bar,B. (1995)

Christmas music

• *God rest you merry gentlemen (1973)
• *Coventry carol (1973)
• *The first nowell (1973)
• *Noite Feliz (Silent Night)(1979)
• *Loa de Natal (1979)
• *Ao bom Jesus saudemos (x2)(1979)
• *Away in a Manger (x2)
• *Rocking
• *Quem Pastores laudavere
• Ding, dong, merrily on high
• *Angels from the realms of glory
• *O little one sweet
• *Past three o’clock
• *Adam lay ybounden (P.Warlock)
• *Wither’s Rocking Hymn (Vaughan Williams)
• *Il est né le divin enfant
• *O Tannenbaum
• *O little town of Bethlehem
• *Frim, fram, frum.
• *Natal de Elvas I (1995)
• *Menino Jesus à lapa (1996)
• *Natal de Elvas II (1997)

* published as Canções de Natal/Christmas Carols by Musicoteca (1999)

Others

• If the nightingales
• Once in a while
• There goes the ball game
• Dallas blues
• Os meninos do Rádio

Other arrangements

• Garota de Ipanema for String 4tet (1986)
• Venham mais cinco 1. for 8 vc. (1995)
• Venham mais cinco 2. for 6 vc. (2000)
• Crazy little thing called love for 4 clar. (1997)
• Somebody to love for 4 clar. (1997)

Christopher Bochmann was a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and then went on to Radley College. He studied privately with Nadia Boulanger in Paris before going up to New College, Oxford, where he worked with David Lumsden, Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson. He was also a pupil of Richard Rodney Bennett in London.

He has taught in Britain and in Brazil, and since 1980 has lived and worked in Lisbon, Portugal. He has taught in various music schools in Lisbon and is Head of Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, of which he was also Director from 1995 to 2001.

Since 1984, he has conducted the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil (Lisbon Youth Orchestra), with whom has also recorded a CD of his own works.

As a composer he has won a number of important prizes including the Lili Boulanger Award (twice) and the Clements Memorial Prize. In 1999, he received the degree of Doctor of Music from Oxford University.

His works include music for almost all genres, with a special accent on Chamber Music. His musical style has been through a phase of considerable complexity and has made much use of aleatoric procedures. In recent years, his works have become somewhat simpler, thus following certain aspects of a post-modernist trend without resorting to neo-tonality. In his vocal music, he is especially interested in exploring both phonetic and semantic aspects of the text. All of his music shows a concern with the relativity of the criteria with which we hear and appreciate sound. In addition to an extensive list of original works, he has made many orchestrations and arrangements.

He was awarded a Medal of Cultural Merit by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture in 2004. In 2005 I was awarded an O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England.