Christopher Rountree
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.
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. He also serves as "Artistic Advisor for New Music" for the American Youth Symphony.
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." While such reviews are typical, he has also been praised for "elegant clarity" in The New York Times.
Rountree holds his master's degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan, graduating in 2009.
As a performer, in 2004, he won Drum Corps International's euphonium soloist competition.
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Femenine: No. 2, Unison - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 3, Create New Pattern - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 4, Hold and Return - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 5, All Changing - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 6, Increase - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 8, Be Thou My Vision (Mao Melodies) - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 9, Can Melt - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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Femenine: No. 10, Pianist Will Interrupt Must Return - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 1, The Pieces That Fall to Earth - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 2, Hope - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 3, That Will to Divest - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 4, Swept Up Whole - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 5, Sharks' Teeth - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 6, Insult - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth: No. 7, The Woman Who Wrote Too Much - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Naomi Songs: No. 1, The Beach - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Naomi Songs: No. 2, I Left - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Naomi Songs: No. 3, When Our Hands Are Alone - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Naomi Songs: No. 4, What Language Will Be Safe? - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 1, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 2, 2 Horses Playing in the Orchard - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 3, 2 Hangovers, Number 1 - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 4, From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 5, Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon, Christmas 1960 - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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The Branch Will Not Break: No. 7, A Blessing - The Pieces That Fall to Earth -
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