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Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli (b.1969) creates works in virtually every medium available to the contemporary composer including concert music, film scores, dance and theater works, and popular songs. Integrating classical training and an interdisciplinary spirit, Anderson-Bazzoli has developed a body of work known for its emotional depth, melodic invention, and exceeding craft.
As a film composer, Anderson-Bazzoli was nominated for an Emmy® Award for his first professional score, A Year to Remember on CBS News. He has since thrived in independent film where critics often point out his unique contribution: LA Weekly hailed Shooting Creek, a dramatic short set in the American Civil War, as having “wonderful period music,†while T.V. Guide characterized Revolution OS as coming “complete with a nice soundtrack...unusual for this kind of documentary.†His most recent films include Elipsis, starring Edgar Ramirez (Bourne Ultimatum) and Seu Jorge (City of God) and distributed by 20th Century Fox Latin America; Beatbox Colombia, a feature documentary for ARTE Television (France); and Raw, a dramatic short that premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute also invited him to participate in its prestigious Composers Lab in the summer of 2003.
Anderson-Bazzoli's concert and theater works have been performed internationally by organizations such as the London-based Yorke Dance Project (Badderputtle), Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA (Barter for women’s chorus), Germany's Domfestspiele Verden (Terra Incognita) and the Los Angeles Percussion Collective (Prayer of the Heliotrope). His most recent work Gentrify, written for the cutting-edge rock string quartet The Section, received a 2005 Subito Award from the American Composers Forum.
Also active as a studio conductor and orchestrator, Anderson-Bazzoli has worked with pop artists such as Christina Aguilera and Dido as well as producers Linda Perry, John Brion, and Dr. Dre. He spent the ‘05-’06 season orchestrating and producing synth-tracks for Paramount’s Star Trek: Enterprise with composer Jay Chattaway.
Outside the realm of composition, Anderson-Bazzoli works regularly with many of today’s pioneering musical minds. He assisted stage director Peter Sellars as rehearsal conductor for Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler at the Royal Opera in London. In 2002, he performed with composer and vocalist Meredith Monk in Mercy at UCLA’s Royce Hall. He has also worked with Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, editing several of his compositions including LA Variations (Sony Classical), consulting on the orchestra’s Filmharmonic series, and serving as score reader for the PBS Great Performances special on the inauguration of Walt Disney Concert Hall.
A native of California's Monterey Peninsula, Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli earned a B.A. in Tuba Performance and an M.A. in Composition from the University of California at Los Angeles. Among his teachers are David Raksin, Paul Reale, Henry Mancini, and Jacob Druckman. He is currently participating in the Musicianship and Leadership program of Music for People, an improvisation ensemble led by cellist and composer David Darling.
