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Christopher currently works at St. James' Church Madison Avenue, NYC as Associate Organist-Choirmaster, directing choirs of children and youth and providing organ music for services. Previous posts include Organist & Choirmaster, St. James’s Church, West Hartford, Connecticut and Assistant Organist, Trinity Church on-the-Green, New Haven, Connecticut. Christopher holds the Master of Music Degree from Yale University School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. He was named the Robert Baker Scholar and the Frank Bozyan Scholar, and was awarded the Richard Paul DeLong Prize in Church Music. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where he studied with Marilyn Keiser. While a student at IU, he received the Dean’s Award and won first prize in several national organ competitions.
He has an increasingly busy concert schedule, has appeared on the television program Jeopardy as a “clue,” playing the famed E.M. Skinner organ at Yale’s Woolsey Hall, played at Constitution Hall, Washington DC, He is a featured artist in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC in May 2012, followed by performances at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the summer and the East Texas Organ Festival, and the St. Cecilia Music Series in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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