As a composer, Christopher has a love and interest for many genres and platforms of music. Always working on a project, Christopher wants to compose film/TV scores, video game scores, musicals, operas, oratorios, ballets, chamber music, concert music, art songs, and also arrange and orchestrate music by others.
In the works are some commercial underscores, vocal solos, choral pieces, an organ solo, and some film score samplers...
Click below to hear samples of Christopher's work:
In the works are some commercial underscores, vocal solos, choral pieces, an organ solo, and some film score samplers...
Click below to hear samples of Christopher's work:
la pluie - A mood piece composed as inspiration from rain in the style of film score.
Wynken, Blynken and Nod -A contemporary lullaby setting of the Eugene Field poem for solo soprano. Composed and orchestrated for soprano Bianca Showalter. These recordings feature soprano Emma Clune and Christopher Klaich at the piano. Vocal solo with both piano accompaniment and orchestral (string quintet with wind quintet) versions available.
la lune - A mood piece composed as inspiration from the raising of a full moon in the style of film score.
O Magnum Mysterium- Mezzo-Soprano solo with cello and piano accompaniment commissioned for Holly Scovell's Senior vocal recital at Westminster Choir College. Premier November 30, 2012. This recording features Holly Scovell.
Another live performance here.
Another live performance here.
Latin Text:
O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! O Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Jesum Christum. Alleluia! |
English Translation:
O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord, lying in a manger! O Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia! |
blue thursday - Composed in collaboration with choreographer Audra Allen. A guitar solo with string and percussion, the piece accompanies a ballet pas de deux. Rehearsal footage can be seen on the choreographer's YouTube page.
Statues - Composed in collaboration with choreographer Audra Allen, this orchestral score accompanies a modern dance piece that tells the story of a young woman's encounter with a garden of living statues.
Rehearsal footage can be seen on the choreographer's YouTube page.
The Calling- Opera for English National Opera (ENO) Mini Operas Competition- Based on a story by Neil Gaiman and script by Elizabeth Adlington.
CAST-
Chairman- Cory Clines, bass Director- Charlie Stevens, baritone
Secretary- Benjamin Horine, tenor Alex T. Strum- Emma Clune, soprano
CAST-
Chairman- Cory Clines, bass Director- Charlie Stevens, baritone
Secretary- Benjamin Horine, tenor Alex T. Strum- Emma Clune, soprano
Rescued Suite - Composed in collaboration with choreographer Audra Allen. This four movement piece is written for string quartet, string ensemble and percussion. The dance, titled 10.8.4, involves ballet pas de deux in various arrangements.
Rehearsal footage can be seen on the choreographer's YouTube page.