Christopher Lee      composer

"...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 music critic Wilma Salisbury on a Cleveland Chamber Symphony performance of Interchangeable Parts

Christopher Lee studied music composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College, Indiana University, and Rice University, where he held a doctoral fellowship. He is a winner of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award, the Kuttner String Quartet Competition, and the Lee Goldstein Memorial Prize in Composition from Baldwin-Wallace College.

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. the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, the 20/21 Ensemble, VOX, the Kuttner and Enso Quartets, 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 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 has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Rice University, The Beck Center for the Arts, and The Dana Hall School.