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Christopher Marianetti is a composer, producer, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His works have premiered at Merkin Concert Hall, Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (Mass MoCA), The Stone, and Tenri Cultural Institute among others. His recent opera, A Novel In The Form Of A Car Bomb, an experimental radio play with a vehicular orchestra (8 cars) and a live chorus, premiered in May 2009 at Industry City, Brooklyn.  Chris has been a composer-in-residence with Bang On A Can Summer Institute of Music, NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, and in 2009 traveled to northern India to develop a project at the Ashram Paryavarn Vidhyalaya linking field recordings, music and meditation. In 2007 Chris co-founded Young Producers Project (YPP), a mobile production crew that explores computer-based music production and composition with young people. The project is sponsored by Bang On A Can and recently partnered with Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Chris trained in composition at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan, Italy and received his Master’s in music composition from Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.

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