Marc Hoffeditz

Supports: Stonewall Community Foundation (LGBTQ resilience)

Marc Hoffeditz is a composer and musical storyteller searching to balance the humors of pathos, sarcasm, and vulnerability. Living in the Boston area, his recent work has focused on dramatic vocal music, culminating in a variety of chamber operas and long form concert works. His music has been featured by NANOWorks Opera, One Ounce Opera, Rhymes with Opera, Hartford Opera Theatre, and the New York Opera Fest.

A former member of the Advanced Writers Lab with the New Opera and Music Theatre Initiative (NOMTI), he and playwright MJ Halberstadt are currently adapting Grindr (and other concerns), a comedic chamber opera about the woes of dating and communication in an era of gay dating apps. Marc has received degrees from the Boston Conservatory and Christopher Newport University, studying with Andy Vores, Marti Epstein, Dalit Warshaw, and Christopher Cook. He currently leads a double life as a composer and library assistant.