Christopher Rountree is a three-time Grammy-nominated composer, conductor, curator, band leader, and educator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the orchestral collective Wild Up, Music Director of Long Beach Opera, co-founder of the Los Angeles Conducting Co-op, and curator of the LA Phil’s Fluxus Festival.

Rountree has become regarded as one of the most iconoclastic conductors and programmers in classical music, his inimitable style leading to collaborations with: Björk, John Adams, Yoko Ono, David Lang, Scott Walker, La Monte Young, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alison Knowles, Ragnar Kjartansson, Dev Hynes, Sigourney Weaver, Tyshawn Sorey, Sarah Davachi, Julia Holter, Ryoji Ikeda, John Luther Adams, Allora and Calzadilla, Raven Chacon, and many of the planet’s greatest orchestras and ensembles including the National, San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati, and Chicago Symphonies, the LA Philharmonic, Roomful of Teeth, Ochestre de Paris, the Washington National, Los Angeles, Omaha, San Diego, Detroit, and Atlanta Operas, and the Martha Graham Dance Company who tours the world with his revival of Graham’s solo Immediate Tragedy.

He has presented compositions and concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Palais Garnier, Mile High Stadium, The Metropolitan Museum, Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Hammer, The Getty, LACMA, The National Gallery, in a grove of old California oak trees, on a basketball court, in a museum bathroom, and at Lincoln Center on the New York Philharmonic’s Biennale.