Coming in April: The Music of Christopher Tin


Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer of concert and media music. His music has been performed and premiered in many of the world's most prestigious venues: Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, and the Hollywood Bowl. He has also been performed by ensembles diverse as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, and US Navy Band, and has also conducted concerts of his own music with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Welsh National Opera Orchestra.

​His song 'Baba Yetu', originally written for the video game 'Civilization IV', is a modern choral standard, and the first piece of music written for a video game ever to win a Grammy Award. In addition to scoring films and video games, he is also an in-demand collaborator, working with artists across a wide-range of musical genres: Lang Lang, Alan Menken, BT, and Danny Elfman, to name a few. In 2020 Christopher signed with Universal Decca, releasing his oratorio about the history of flight as told by 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots: To Shiver the Sky. The album debuted at #1 in Billboard's Classical Crossover charts. His works are published by Concord Publishing/Boosey & Hawkes and he works out of his own custom-built studio in Santa Monica, CA.

The choirs of Clear Springs High School will be performing selections from all three song cycles Thursday, April 15, 2021 in either a live or live-streaming event. Stay tuned for details as we better understand the COVID-19 situation at that time.

You can preview and purchase his music in the links below.

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