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.
Currently he is working on a children's music album. Other recent works include a commission by a high school for an orchestral piece, Along the Way, that premiered in the spring of 2015. Continue Ye In My Love, a vocal trio motet was commissioned for a friend's wedding, was recently rearranged for full SATB choir, and that received it's premier in the spring of 2016 by the Christ Church Greenwich Scholars.
Currently he is working on a children's music album. Other recent works include a commission by a high school for an orchestral piece, Along the Way, that premiered in the spring of 2015. Continue Ye In My Love, a vocal trio motet was commissioned for a friend's wedding, was recently rearranged for full SATB choir, and that received it's premier in the spring of 2016 by the Christ Church Greenwich Scholars.
Christopher has a passion for vocal and choral works. He has created many works over the years that have been featured in concerts and festivals. Unfortunately many of them were not recorded and are not available for listening, however some of them have been recorded and can be heard below... To see other vocal scores and works please contact him.
Continue Ye In My Love - A wedding motet composed for Brad and Holly McNett on their wedding day uses text from John 15:9-12 and featured an SAB trio. It was then later reworked into an SATB choral setting. Here featuring the Christ Church Greenwich Scholars.
An Angelic Announcement - With text from Luke 2:8-14 this Christmas song, for soprano, violin, and piano captures the Angel's arrival and announcement of the birth of Christ.
Original premier: Gabi Hitel, soprano Maddy Hitel, violin Christopher Klaich, piano.
This Recording: Lindsay Bowden, soprano Blake Allen, violin Christopher Klaich, piano
Original premier: Gabi Hitel, soprano Maddy Hitel, violin Christopher Klaich, piano.
This Recording: Lindsay Bowden, soprano Blake Allen, violin Christopher Klaich, piano
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.
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! |
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