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FILM MUSIC BIO - CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN


COMPOSER/ SOUND DESIGNER


CONTACT: 631-332-9858 .EMAIL: jmusic800@gmail.com

Agent: Jeffrey James - 516 -586-3433


Full In-House Production/Best Musicians in NYC

Member: Manhattan Producers Alliance


MUSIC PLAYER

Organized as Follows:
• Suspense Orchestra - Rustlings through Zlutava
• Fantasy Orchestra - Ocean Flight through Dark Battle
• East/West - Iraq In The Mist through Oxalis
• Various Other Moods


MUSIC for Suspense, Horror, Fantasy Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi. East/West Styles, Rock Orchestrations, Electronica, Minimalist.

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With excerpts from: 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'The Last Son...', 'Tales of the Ocean City Suite','Little Courage', 'Mythagos', '16 Shorts', 'Azrael', 'Lightning Bug', and others.

*Press highlighted titles to read more about project and see clips:


CREDITS:

FILM MUSIC

'Little Courage' - writer/director Veronica Caicedo
'A..Nightmare before Christmas' - writer/director Julian Overall
'The Last Son...' - writer/director Varun Shah
Azrael’ - writer/director Eliana De Paolis
‘Kidnapped’ - writer/director Julian Overall .
'A Moment in Time'- writer/director Julian Overall
‘Disarmed and Dangerous’ - (Independent Documentary)
‘16 Short FIlms’ - director/composer Christopher Kaufman
Lightning Bug ‘- (writer/director Dominick Rossetti) - animation
Pickles and the Junkman’s Daughter’-writer/dir. Dominick Rossetti
(2 live perf. at the U. N.).

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A D MU S I C

'JDRobb_Salvation' - Putnam Press (cable TV), ‘Creating Tomorrow Today’, ‘Forward Thinking’ - Wall Street On-line Journal
- with 4-D Creatiive Media, Peter Cascone
'Digital Cribs', ‘Need a Loft’(*LoftCity Award WINNER*), ‘Edible Fare’, ‘Oxalis Coffee and Tea ......
- with writer/director Julian Overall
‘Mark Green for Mayor’ - Scheinkopf Political Consultants


A U D I O B O O K S:
Tales of the Ocean City’ - story, dramatic narration and music by Christopher Kaufman


MU LT I -ME D I A P R E S E N TAT I O N:
Music From Earth - Music (saxophone concerto) and Film Presentation - composer/director Christopher Kaufman. Presented by commissioning agent/performer (saxophonist) Demetrius Spaneas - Moscow, Athens, Riga, Tashkent, Dnepropetrovsk, Kyrgyzstan, St. Petersburg.
The Jaguar - CHIRON Arts Festival 11/04 - composer/founder/director - Christopher Kaufman, with Poet Robert Galvan and the CHIRON Ensemble.


T H E AT R I C A L P R E S E N TAT I O N:
Voyage of the Dawn Treader - composer/dir./script adapt Christopher Kaufman (ACS Comm. Prod), That’s My Name, Rosie - actress/writer Anna Filameno, director/composer Christopher Kaufman - with Hank Roberts (cello improvisation) and Susan Roebuck (Dance). (CHIRON Arts Fest.’97), 42nd Street - music director/arranger/pianist Christopher Kaufman (ACS Comm. Prod. Co.)


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ADDITIONAL:
Kaufman Productions (film, documentary, commercial production, audio books) • Founder - CHIRON Performing Arts • Received the Individual Artists Award Ithaca New York, the Sage Fellowship (Cornell Univ.) and awards and grants from Meet The Composer, MFJ, CAP and UCC Council on the Arts • Fellow 5 times at the MacDowell Arts Colony • previous board member of the ACA and Society for New Music of Syracuse, NY • Reviewer for the New Music Connoisseur • Music has been featured at festivals and venues such as Eastman’s Musica Nova, The Internationales Musikinstatut in Darmstadt, The American Composer’s Readings, Charles Ives, American Composer’s Alliance, June in Buffalo, Harvard University, the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, The Schubert Trio and Concerts in the Heights • Kaufman works with Peter Nashel of Duotone Audio • His work is included in music libraries such as Music for Hollywood, Music outside the Box and Krystal/Chastin Music.

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" Christopher’s music really takes my humble films up a notch. I’m always surprised and delighted by the original compositions he comes up with."
- writer/director Julian Overall
"Oxalis - coffee and tea"
- with Julian Overall


"I Love Working with Christopher Kaufman! He is Brilliant. Best artistic experience of my life."
- witer/director Veronia Caicedo
" Little Courage"
- with Veronica Caicedo

Screenings:
"Chris is a great composer. He is very creative and professional, it was really a pleasure to work with Chris."
- writer/director Eliana De Paolis
"AZREAL"
- with Eliana De Paolis