FILM COMPOSER/ SOUND DESIGNER / CONCERT MUSIC COMPOSER

www.chkaufman.com / 631-332-9858 / email: jmusic800@optonline.net

ADDRESS: 276 Westminster Road, Brooklyn, NY 11218
Agent: Jeffrey James - www.jamesarts.com, Jamesarts@Worldnet.Att.net, 516 -586-3433

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

A D MU S I C
'JDRobb_Salvation' - Putnam Press (cable TV), ‘Creating Tomorrow Today’, ‘Forward Thinking’ - Wall Street 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.)

CONCERT MUSIC : Over a hundred pieces, including:
‘Imagined Scenes;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ - (full orchestra) • Island (‘Eeslahnd’) - (full orchestra and narrator) - commissioned by Daniel Rieppel with Icelandic poet Bill Holm • The Phoenix - (chamber ballet) with flutist Robert Dick • ‘Mythagos, ‘The Gardens of Lemuria’ and ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ (Orchestra Series) • Spirit (orchestra) • Madrigal in Spring (piano trio) - commissioned by the Ithaca Piano Trio (Sera Jane Smolen director) • Brass Quintet (theme and variations on a theme by T. ’Fats’ Waller) - Bombastiq Brass and Westwind Brass • Waken (viola concerto) for George Rosenbaum • Symphonic Waves (wind ens. - for Encore Summer Music).

E D U C AT I O N
Cornell University - DMA • Ithaca College - MMA • The Cleveland Institute of Music - BMA • New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts - High School
Principal teachers - Pulitzer Prize Winners Karel Husa and Steven Stucky and Donald Erb, Eugene O’Brien, Sydney Hodkinson, Bert Braud.

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.

Christopher Kaufman - Film Composer/ Sound Design/ Concert Music