Chris is a musician, experimental art music composer, writer, independent producer, and homesteader.

Throughout his compositional work, Chis is committed to a methodical and uncompromising approach to contemporary art music. Momentum-driven and often heavily rhythmic, his aggressive and highly considered works fluidly integrate a diverse continuum of pitch and noise-based materials within a deeply personal approach to musical development. 

A PhD recipient in music composition from Harvard University under advisor Julian Anderson, Chris has studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Lee Hyla, Joshua Fineberg, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Magnus Lindberg, Yehudi Wyner, and William Kraft. His music has been performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain, Counter)Induction, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and numerous other groups.

Chris is co-author of “The Listen,” a book geared toward anyone curious about new music regardless of his or her musical education. He has held administrative roles in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston, having served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Executive Director of the Manhattan Sinfonietta, Director of the Harvard Group for New Music, and owner of a small international NYC-based music business. In 2008, he produced the U.S. Premiere of Martin Matalon’s score to Fritz Lang’s "Metropolis" in Manhattam with live projection, quadrophonic sound, and 16 of New York City's top musicians. 

Chris and his wife, performer, musician, and producer Rebecca Honett, also direct Shameless Redhead Productions, which, while still located in LA, produced, filmed, and assisted in the editing of a number of short films, promotional works, reels, and the webseries Starving in Hollywood, which Chris also co-directed. Additionally, they served as co-producers of the Unexpected Hollywood Film Festival.

Maintaining a background in education, Chris has taught at the college, high school, and junior high levels, and has worked in elementary educational care as well as with developmentally disabled adults.

In March 2016, Chris and Rebecca entirely uprooted their lives and relocated from LA to the foothills of Appalacia, in southern Ohio, where they are currently living as homesteaders (http://elsewhereliving.blogspot.com/) with their exceptional dogs, Ozwald and Raddish.

Chris was born in 1977, in Hayward, California.

Do have you have a love/hate relationship with Hollywood? Do you revile the bullshit behind the beautiful? Do you enjoy mocking the ridiculous in art, politics, and everyday life?

Shameless Redhead Productions is a Hollywood-based film and new media production company specializing in the adventurous.

What is Starving in Hollywood?...
If you're easily offended and believe that sarcasm and acerbic content have no place in the conversation, than this fast-paced Hollywood-themed variety show may not be up your alley. But if you're seeking something "subversive, outrageous, and appealingly smarty-pants" then Starving in Hollywood is here to deliver!

A frenetic scrapbook centered around the arts, culture, and politics, Starving In Hollywood is a fast-paced open-form variety show featuring sketches, farce commercials, music, dance, animation, and anything else we can think of!

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