New Contributor - Chris Murray

NMC is pleased to announce that Chris Murray has joined us as a special assistant. Chris graduated from the Eastman School of Music this spring with a BM in composition and an Arts Leadership Certificate from Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership. During his undergraduate years, Chris studied with Rouse, Schwantner, Liptak and Morris. At NYU he is currently studying composition with Elizabeth Hoffman, as well as taking classes in theory and ethnomusicology to prepare for his upcoming orals.

As a child, his mother’s piano playing always captured his attention. Chris has studied and played piano from the age of three. In grade school and high school he played double reeds in orchestras and began to compose and take theory lessons from John Morrison at Luther College in his hometown of Decorah, Iowa. Writing has also always been one of his interests, and through an internship at Rochester’s Geva theatre, Chris had the opportunity to write study guides and dramaturgical notes for various productions.

Chris finds it thrilling to be finally living in his favorite city, New York, and in beautiful Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Just a few months into the doctoral program in theory and composition at NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he hopes to divide his time between academic pursuits and freelance composition. He is excited about the possibility of writing for NMC.