Christopher Wicks at the piano.
Christopher Wicks has been blessed by many performances of compositions of his, but some notable recent ones include nine of his organ sonatinas played in a concert sponsored by the Portland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists at the Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon in February 2024, and the staging of his one-act chamber opera "The Curse on Dyved" after Welsh folklore at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia in March 2024, directed by Jamie Webster. Christopher holds a MM in composition from the University of Montreal, as well as a BA in Music from Marylhurst College near Portland, although he did most of the work for that degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists.
Christopher says: "While I am grateful to my academic training in various rule-bound methods of composition, such as eighteenth-century common practice tonality, sixteenth-century counterpoint, atonal twelve-tone techniques and Hindemith's play of the tones, I have arrived through much trial and error and striving at a style which incorporates elements of these without adhering to any entirely, and which I believe that I may call truly my own. I am also grateful to my performance instructors (in organ, piano, voice and violin, in descending order of my proficiency) for their role in giving me a sense of what is idiomatic for these various instruments, and for the opportunity to perform my own music with them."