CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN is a composer, performer, presenter and teacher. He has composed over seventy works for a wide variety of medium including orchestra, wind ensemble, dance, chamber groups, theater and solo works. He is the founder and artistic director of CHIRON Performing Arts through which he has presented the work of hundreds of artists of all disciplines. He has a large private studio of students and has led a wide variety of workshops for students of all ages in public and private schools and universities. He is a writer/reviewer for the New Music Connoisseur. His music has been featured at June in Buffalo, The Charles Ives Music Center, the NorthEastern Composer's Conference, Encore Summer Music, The Internationales Musikinstitut of Darmstadt, Germany and Eastman¡s Musica Nova. His Ring of Fire - for orchestra was featured at the American Composers Orchestra readings. He has been a fellow four times at the MacDowell Arts Colony . He has received numerous commissions of his music including recently, Island (Eeslahnd) - for full orchestra and narrator. He has received support from the M.F. J. Copying Fund, Meet the Composer, UCC Council on the Arts, CAP, the CAP individual artists' award, as well as charitable donations from individuals in his community who support his work. Kaufman has recently completed a work for large orchestra titled THE PHOENIX - dedicated to the City of New York and presented a chamber version for ensemble and dance at his CHIRON Performing Arts event staged on 11/9/03 at THE FLEA Theater in NYC. He has recently created a new version of Eeslahnd sans narration for performance overseas, a new solo work for pianist Daniel Rieppel titled Momenta (after Schubert), a new orchestral work based on salsa rhythms titled Mambo, and, for his CHIRON performing arts festival event 11/14/04 is compled an arrangement of improvised and composed music to accompany the live readings of poet Rene Robert Galvan. You may visit his web site for the latest news and to see the layouts for CHIRON Performing Arts events. Kaufman lives in Forest Hills, NY and maintains a large private studio of music students.
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