CHRISTOPHER MCGLUMPHY

Chris completed his undergraduate studies at Dickinson College, where he earned a B.A. in Music and a B.S. in Mathematics, and his graduate work at New York University, where he received an M.M. in Music Technology. While at NYU, he studied composition with Ken Valitsky, Nick Didkovsky, Philip Johnston, and Ron Sadoff; Max/MSP programming with Dafna Naphtali; and audio editing with Emmy winning sound editor Sean Huff. Chris has worked with, among others, the Music Department of ABC Television, one of America's oldest and most respected classical music publishers, G. Schirmer, Inc., and Philadelphia's groundbreaking new music ensemble, Relâche. Currently, he is Managing Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.

Chris performs on the viola da gamba and is a composer, whose works include When In Nomine . . . for bass viol, live electronics, and tape; My Dark Star for amplified viola da gamba; and Two Artifacts for viol consort (chosen as a finalist in the 2000 Traynor competition, sponsored by the Viola da Gamba Society of America ). He has also composed scores for a number of films, including the award winning independent feature Being Claudine, Vasarma's Lovers, and the experimental silent film Synchronicity; as well as works for live theater such as Gibbous Moon, Inchoate's Journal, James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and songs for the American premiere of Dario Fo's The Devil With Boobs. Recently, Chris produced an album for the New York-based pop/electronica artist Laurits.