Chris Kallmyer is a Los Angeles based performer/composer/improviser. You can find him most days at CalArts where he is pursuing graduate studies in music performance. There he spends a great deal of time playing trumpet, and listening to music/traffic/nature. He also drinks indulgent, gluttonous, life-threatening amounts coffee, loves working with composers on new works, and delights in the presence of small dogs, and big musicians(like his mentors Tom Stevens, Ed Carroll, Vinny Golia, and Wadada Leo Smith). ______________________________________________
A native of Washington DC, he grew up playing punk rock in dank city basements, exploring his love of music. This experience has greatly influenced his perspective and propelled an innate want to make music in a wide variety of areas including orchestras, new music, baroque performance, freely improvised settings, installation/performance art, and composition. __________________________________________________Chris has performed concerts at REDCAT, LACMA, Machine Project, CalArts, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, art galleries in Washington DC and Los Angeles, Alba and Valle d’Aosta, Italy, and the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland. Chris is also active in the orchestral world having played with the St. Mary’s College Orchestra, the CalArts Orchestra, the Bergamo Chamber Orchestra, the Chesapeake Orchestra, and the Romanian Symphony Orchestra.
