Christopher Rountree

Bio

Christopher Rountree is a three-time Grammy-nominated conductor, composer, curator, bandleader, and educator. He is the founder and artistic director of the orchestral collective Wild Up, the music director of Long Beach Opera, a co-founder of the Los Angeles Conducting Co-op, and the curator of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Fluxus Festival. He has presented compositions and concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Palais Garnier, Mile High Stadium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kennedy Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Hammer, the Getty, LACMA, and the National Gallery, behind NPR’s Tiny Desk, in a grove of old California oak trees, on a basketball court, in a museum bathroom, and at Lincoln Center during the New York Philharmonic’s Biennial.