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Chinese singer-songwriter/composer/music maker
Born in Beijing, raised in Shanghai, Los Angeles Based
For collaborations and business inquiries, please contact aizhoumusic@gmail.com

Singer/writer for a band called Starpower ✨ 
No cowards allowed 🎈

Composer, arranger, orchestrator and Emmy-nominated music director, Christopher J. Guardino has collaborated with Marco Beltrami, Doug Besterman, Erran Baron Cohen, Ry Cooder, Endless Noise, Martin Erskine, Siedah Garrett, Guns 'n' Roses, Patrick Leonard, Mark Mothersbaugh, Eve Nelson, Thomas Pasatieri, J.A.C. Redford, Jeremy Rubolino, Stephen Schwartz, Super Diamond (with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra), and Mare Winningham. He has contributed arrangements, orchestrations and conducting to the films of Wes Anderson, Raymond DeFelitta, Barry Levinson, the late Mike Nichols, Guillermo del Toro, and to The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (Grammy®winner - Best Children's Album).  With co-score composer Matthew Sklar, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas, starring Jim Parsons, Edward Asner, Gilbert Gottfried, Mark Hamill, Jay Leno, and Kate Micucci, for NBC TV and Warner Brothers Animation. Currently, Christopher arranges, orchestrates and conducts for the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning television show, Crazy Ex Girlfriend (on the CW Network) and for Matt Groening's Disenchantment (on Netflix).

In the concert world, Christopher has composed for a variety of performing artists and ensembles. His "Nella Luce", composed for the National Children's Chorus, was given its world premiere at Royce Hall (Los Angeles) and its east coast premiere at Carnegie Hall (NYC) in 2015.

A few of Christopher's chamber works are published by/can be purchased here: https://sheetmusicbyfatrock.com/?s=Guardino

As an educator and teacher of music, Christopher has been a chamber music coach and conductor for the Suzuki Music Program of Los Angeles, a Resident Teaching Artist at the Brandeis-Bardin Summer Arts Institute, and a Visiting Professor in the music department at California State University, Los Angeles.  Privately, he teaches students in composition, counterpoint (species, canon, fugue), improvisation, music analysis (Schenkerian), piano, and solfège (fixed Do). 

Christopher was born not far from Los Angeles into an artistic family and studied piano from an early age.  On scholarships, he attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France.  Among his mentors and teachers were Leonard Bernstein, Narcìs Bonet, Felix Galimir, Gérard Grisey, Dr. Charles Kaufman, David Loeb, George Monseur, Dr. Hugo Norden, Thomas Pasatieri, Marie Powers, Carl Schachter, and Louise Talma.

http://www.facebook.com/christopher.guardino

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345337

  Reviews

  “Guardino’s (music) was a revelation, displaying sublimely subtle keyboard shadings and passionate ‘cello lines that eloquently described the complexities and joys of spirituality…”

  “Guardino’s music for guitar was sensitive and imaginatively poetic…”

  - Los Angeles Weekly


  “Guardino’s provocative works were so smoothly and convincingly performed… that one might overlook the depth beneath the slickness”

  “…reflective and lush…”

  - The Los Angeles Times


  “…(Vlahos’ vocals) supported cushily by Guardino’s funky, insinuating arrangements…”

  - Backstage

post style. sound maker. composer of notated music, violinist, activist, educator. Alexandra du Bois (Ph.D. Stony Brook University; M.M. The Juilliard School; B.M. Indiana University) writes orchestral, chamber, vocal, collaborative, & choral works--as well as sound art with video artists, photojournalists, and choreographers--for ensembles ranging from Kronos Quartet to Beaux Arts Trio, from Cabrillo Festival Orchestra to Orchestra of St. Lukes--with premieres and performances of her work in concert halls on five continents. Alexandra du Bois is Chair of the Composition and Theory Departments at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she also teaches a private studio of composition students.

Described as "an intense, luminous composer" (L.A.Times) and “a painter who knows exactly where her picture will be hung,” (New York Times), Alexandra du Bois’ music is often propelled by issues of indifference and inequality throughout the United States and the world.  “This music attempts to be a conscience in a time of oblivion. She dared to counter abuses of moral authority with an internal, personal sound using the string quartet as a witness, a reminder, that music and creativity are part of a continuing web of responsibility,” stated Kronos Quartet founder and violinist David Harrington in 2003 after the premiere of du Bois' first quartet commissioned by Kronos.

For more info and concert calendar visit www.alexandradubois.com

04-29-22: LA - Hyperspace Festival w/Luke Vibert, Richard Devine, Adam X, Mor Elian, Neil Landstrumm, Developer, Drumcell, Tensal, Woody McBride
12-18-21: LA - INCOGNITO x 6AM w/Tommy Four Seven
08-06-21: LA - W Hollywood w/Demuir
09-14-20: Detroit - Movement (Afterparty TBA)
03-31-20: LA - Dublab
03-21-20: Berlin - Suicide Circus

RESIDENCIES:
female:pressure (Berlin), PANIC (Los Angeles), Jackin' Jills (Los Angeles)

BIO: 
“In the world of techno DJs and producers, there are some people who get it, and then there are some who don’t. It’s quite obvious that when listening to Mojave’s sets and productions, that there’s a deep and fundamental understanding of the mechanics of techno and electronic music. If you’re to understand Mojave’s upbringing listening to hard underground music and you pin it up alongside a trained ear with a strong foundation in music theory and history, it’s easy to see why. Mojave’s music comes from a very informed place and when you listen to her selections everything has an interaction and each part of the music is considered on its own. From tonal characteristics, rhythm, pitch, to that essential ill groove that most people seem to gloss over these days, she has it nailed down. Mojave’s musical choices, like all good techno, just make good sense, with function and flow down to every nuance.”

Mojave has performed top nightclubs, festivals and the underground circuit throughout the U.S. and Europe, headlining Berlin’s famed Suicide Circus and SchwuZ, supporting the likes of Sasha and Skream at Minimal Effort festival; DVS1, Volvox, Hyperactive, Paul Johnson, Woody McBride at the legendary Even Furthur festival; Radio Slave, The Advent at 6AM x INCOGNITO; John Tejada at The Liquor Store; Kerri Chandler, CamelPhat, Coyu, Mark Kinchen, Prok & Fitch, Harvey McKay, Noir, Danny Howard at Exchange; Matt Lange at Clinic Wednesdays; Tijana T at FOCUS; Francesca Lombardo, Chus & Ceballos at La Cave.

Internationally, she holds a residency on FNOOB Radio (London) and appears regularly on prominent radio shows like Data Transmission, Dublab, and more in the U.K., U.S., Germany, and Canada. She serves as a social media manager for female:pressure, a Berlin-based international collective advocating for women-identifying and non-binary artists in electronic music. In Los Angeles, she co-manages PANIC, an underground house/techno warehouse series, and Jill's House, a monthly house music event.

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