Christopher Rountree

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Christopher Rountree
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Occupation(s) conductor

Christopher Rountree is an American conductor known for founding the Los Angeles chamber group wild Up, an ensemble that blends new music, classical repertoire, performance art and pop. Wild Up was named "Best Classical Music of 2012" by the Los Angeles Times. [1] [2]

Rountree has also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Brooklyn new music festival, the San Diego Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra. He has worked with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York's Prototype Festival and Beth Morrison Projects, and assisted conductor Alan Pierson on the critically acclaimed opera "Dog Days." He is a lecturer in conducting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [3] He also serves as "Artistic Advisor for New Music" for the American Youth Symphony. [4]

Rountree is known for his lively conducting style, with the Los Angeles Times writing in one wild Up review, "Rountree punches out rhythms as if they were going out of style. He emphasizes outsize emotions. He could probably get an audience to dance to the slowest movement Shostakovich ever wrote." [5] While such reviews are typical, he has also been praised for "elegant clarity" in The New York Times . [6]

Rountree holds his master's degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan, [7] graduating in 2009.

As a performer, in 2004, he won Drum Corps International's euphonium soloist competition. [8]

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  1. ↑ "2012 in review: A rebel scene arises in classical music world". Los Angeles Times. 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. ↑ "Christopher Rountree, conductor / composer". Rountreemusic.com. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ↑ "People | Department of Music - UC Santa Barbara". Music.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ↑ "Artistic Advisor for New Music | American Youth Symphony". Aysymphony.org. 2014-12-19. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ↑ "Music review: wild Up merrily mashes Modernism with punk | Culture Monster". Los Angeles Times. 2011-11-19. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. ↑ "This Is Your Brain An Opera". The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-03-28.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  7. ↑ "Christopher Rountree | wild Up". Wildup.la. Retrieved 2016-03-20.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  8. ↑ "Auxiliary : Venue : Grand Ballroom" (PDF). Soundmachine.org. Retrieved 2016-03-28.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
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