Christian Guebert is a composer and music educator from Orange, California. His commissioned works include published and award-winning pieces, settings, and orchestrations for instrumental and choral ensembles. His music aims for immediacy, thoughtfulness, idiomatic performing style, and sonic depth. 

A prolific program director, he heads several yearly concert series including community handbell ensemble concerts and sacred music festivals, and he has served as adjudicator and clinician for handbell topics including several teaching appointments at National Seminars of Handbell Musicians of America. Guebert holds an MM degree (Cal State University, Fullerton, 2013, composition) and a Parish Music Certification (2015) and BA (2010) from Concordia University, Irvine, CA; he is now a PhD student in composition at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music where he is a teaching associate for advanced musicianship and theory courses. He has taught university classes and lessons in theory, composition, ear training, singing, piano, counterpoint, orchestration, percussion, handbells, conducting, technology, and sacred music. Aside from current doctoral work, he also serves as music director at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Orange and adjunct professor at Concordia University Irvine (where he served as Composer-in-Residence). Recent publications include a handbell piece (Glad Adoration, Lorenz) and an orchestration of a choral work (Peter Anglea’s Silent Night, Beckenhorst). 

Recent works include a commissioning project as a Composition Fellow with Orange County-based Choral Arts Initiative, culminating in a March 2019 premiere of a large choral song cycle of Walt Whitman sea poetry set with harp and handbell ensemble (Voyaging, 2019), which incorporates “The Untold Want,” the prizewinning piece of the 2017 Pacific Chorale Young Composers Competition, performed by the John Alexander Singers.

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