Christopher Bochmann

Christopher Consitt Bochmann (born November 8, 1950) is a British-born composer, conductor, music teacher, arranger and orchestrator who has lived and worked in Portugal since 1980. Known for composition, teaching and conducting, he is Professor Emeritus of the University of Évora in Portugal, from which he retired in 2020. Early years and studies Bochmann was born in 1950 in Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. As a child, he sang in the choir of St.George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. At age 16, he studied with French musician and teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris before attending the University of Oxford, New College, where he studied with conductor and choirmaster David Lumsden, composer and pianist Kenneth Leighton, and composer, pianist and music scholar Robert Sherlaw Johnson. His works cross multiple genres, with a detailed overview provided on his website. Compositions include: * 4 String Quartets * 4 Wind Quintets * 21 essays for solo instruments * 7 Canzonas for various ensembles * 11 Letters to composer friends for piano * Lament (2001) * Symphony (2005) * Cicero Dixit (2006) * Opera: Corpo e Alma (2008) * Um leve tremor (2019) * Concerto for orchestra (2019)