Chris Theofanidis - Winner of the 2003 Masterprize Competition!

Young American Composer-in-Residence, 1994-1996

Chris Theofanidis is the second composer who participated in the California Symphony's Young American Composer-in-Residence Program to have won the International Masterprize Competition for Composers.

Other awards include the Rome Prize, Barlow Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship and American Academy of Arts and Letters-Charles Ives Fellowship.

Mr. Theofanidis, a native of Texas, is a member of the composition faculty of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and The Juilliard School. He studied at the University of Houston, the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. He has held positions at the University of Houston, the American Festival of the Arts and the Texas Piano Institute. He is founder and artistic director of the Cirrus Contemporary Music Festival.

Mr. Theofanidis' works have been heard throughout the United States and Europe, including performances by the California Symphony, National Symphony, Houston Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Speculum Musicae and Muir String Quartet. Among his commissions are compositions for the 25th anniversary of the Kennedy Center, the 700th anniversary of the Grimaldi Empire in Monaco, the opening of Bass Hall in Fort Worth, the 100th anniversary of the Oregon Symphony and the Houston Symphony.

Fore more information, view Mr. Theofanidis' website.