"...influenced by the neoclassicism of Stravinsky and the open harmonies of Copland, the delightful work sparkled with bright timbres, busy textures and rhythmic energy." -Cleveland Plain Dealer on a Cleveland Chamber Symphony performance of Interchangeable Parts
Christopher Lee is a composer, percussionist, audio engineer and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts.
His music has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the California E.A.R. Unit, Speculum Musicae, the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra, the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, the Rice University Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Chamber Music Society/Analog Arts Ensemble, flutists Carol Shansky and Peter Sheridan, the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, Synergy 78, FiveOne Experimental Orchestra, the 20/21 Ensemble, VOX, the Kuttner and Enso Quartets, the University of Massachusetts Lowell Percussion Ensemble and Chamber Singers, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, and the wind ensembles of Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio University, the University of Alaska, Illinois State University and Texas A&M University. He has also been a featured composer at the MusicX Festival at the University of Cincinnati and The California E.A.R. Unit’s composer seminar at Arcosanti. His electroacoustic music has been featured at the IDEAS Festival of Digital Arts and the LaTex Electroacoustic Music Festival. One of these works, Bounce, has been choreographed by Houston dance artist Nancy Ku. Skywriting for alto flute has been recorded by international soloist Linda Wetherill for the anthology New Music for Solo Alto or Solo Bass Flute, published by Southeast Missouri State University.
He earned degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College (BM), Indiana University (MM), and Rice University (DMA), where he held a doctoral fellowship. He is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award, the Kuttner String Quartet Competition Award, and the Lee Goldstein Memorial Prize in Composition from Baldwin-Wallace College. His principal teachers were Donald Erb, Loris Ohannes Chobanian, Don Freund, Richard Lavenda, Anthony Brandt, and Karim Al-Zand.
He has published research into STEM integration with music pedagogy in the International Journal of Education and the Arts. As an audio engineer, he has produced albums with Nicolai Carrera and The Celebrators, Leman, Brynne Santos, Colin Silva, Zoe Lillis, and Nora Panahi, and singles with Emily Ovesen and Dom the Composer, available on iTunes, Spotify, and other online retailers.
He is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is also on the faculty of The Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he started a Songwriting and Audio Production program in 2014. At UMass Lowell, he teaches composition, music theory, audio production and performance, and serves as a founding associate researcher on the EcoSonic Playground Project, founding faculty advisor to Seven Six Records, and as the university’s music ensemble coordinator.