Jesse Hampsch
Goblin Market - teaser reel
Musicals​
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Goblin Market
A new, full-length musical surrounding Christina Rossetti and the events surrounding her writing of the poem Goblin Market. A story of family, faith, and forbidden love.
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Young Again
A song cycle about the complicated problems that children face. For four adult singers and piano. *Adaptation into one-act concept music in-progress.
J Ripper
A one-act musical supposing a woman, Elizabeth, as Jack the Ripper. As she grieves multiple miscarriages, an unfaithful husband drives her past her breaking point.
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Gray Thunder
An educational one-act commissioned by Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre for their touring youth program.
​Star Quest: a new space musical
This "Sci-farse" follows two explorers on their dangerous mission to save Earth. Co-written with Nicholas Mitchell.
​​Sour Grapes: and other Aesop's fables
A short one-act teaching the lessons of Aesop's most famous fables. Co-written with Nathan Top for youth theatres.
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SATB
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Featured works
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Text by Christina Rossetti
*Winner of the Opus 7 Graduate composition competition in Seattle, WA
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Text by Christina Rossetti
Premiered by the UI Vandaleers
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Text by Edmund Waller
Premiered by the UI Vandaleers​​​​​
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Ozymandias
Named after the famous poem by Percy Shelley which describes the fall of a tyrant into obscurity.
Scored for SATB, Piano, and Clarinet.​​
Plays
The Luminaries​​​​​
This full-length play is an absurd comedy about Dr. Diogenes Hart, a professor of world religion whose fiancée leaves him after they both discover he is the one person in the universe without an astrological sign. With the help of American Jesus, Hart embarks on an impossible journey to find himself.
*Developed at Cincinnati LAB Theatre's 2025 New Works festival​
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If These Hands Could Sing
This one-act play ​follows Michael Cline, a prominent conductor with a secret from the public: he is losing his ability to move from a long-term battle with ALS. Who will The Conductor be when he can no longer do what he was always meant to do?
*Developed at Capital Repertory Theatre's NEXT ACT New play summit in Albany, NY.
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Old F*cks
A bratty nurse, a pious nun, and a gaggle of dirty old residents make up the world of Old F*cks. This full-length play takes place in a Florida retirement home where STDs are running rampant. This play asks the questions like: "When is life really over?", and "Can an old dog learn new lessons?"
Women's Chorus
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Songs of Innocence
Texts by William Blake
An a capella cycle for women's chorus. Works include:
"The Angel That Presided O'er My Birth"
"Cradle Song"
"The Lamb"
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I am Weary, Let me Rest
Arrangement of the Cox family's original song
Premiered by the UI Women's chorus
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True Colors
Arranged for and premiered by the UI Women's chorus
*True Colors is published with Hal Leonard. Purchase wherever sheet music is sold.
Men's Chorus
​​Ubi Caritas
Arranged for and premiered by the UI Men's chorus.
Scored for TTBB, Trumpet, and Tambourine.
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The Christmas Song
Arrangement of Mel Torme's Christmas classic
Premiered by the UI Men's Chorus
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I'll Make a Man out of You
Arranged for and premiered by the UI Men's chorus.
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Grow Old with You
Arranged for and premiered by the UI Men's chorus.