BiographyBIOGRAPHY
CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS (b. 12/18/67 in Dallas, Texas) has had
performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the
London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit Symphonies, and
many others. He also served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh
Symphony during their 2006-2007 Season, for which he wrote a violin concerto
for Sarah Chang.
Mr. Theofanidis holds degrees from Yale, the Eastman School of Music, and the
University of Houston, and has been the recipient of the International
Masterprize (hosted at the Barbican Centre in London), the Rome Prize, a
Guggenheim Fellowship, six ASCAP Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to
France, a Tanglewood Fellowhship, and the American Academy of Arts and
Letters' Charles Ives Fellowship. In 2007 he was nominated for a Grammy for
best composition for his chorus and orchestra work, The Here and Now, based
on the poetry of Rumi. His orchestral concert work, Rainbow Body, has been
one of the most performed new orchestral works of the last ten years, having
been performed by over 100 orchestras internationally.
Mr. Theofanidis' has recently written a ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, a
work for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as part of their ‘New Brandenburg’
series, and he currently has two opera commissions for the San Francisco and
Houston Grand Opera companies. He has a long-standing relationship with the
Atlanta Symphony, and has just had his first symphony premiered and recorded
with that orchestra. He has served as a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation's
Leadership Program and is a former faculty member of the Peabody
Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He currently teaches at Yale University.
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