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HISTORY > ABOUT THE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR |
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CHRISTOPHER DRUMMOND is a classical recording and mixing engineer, music producer, composer, and session violinist. In 1996, he founded Cairo Productions, a film-scoring and audio-postproduction company. Christopher has composed and produced original musical scores for 14 independent films, including collaborations with Fulvio Valsangiacomo (editor on the Eddie-winning/Oscar-nominated editing team for The Gladiator) and Ralph Farris (Grammy-nominated arranger of The Lion King NYC, Roger Daltrey, and Depeche Mode). His engineering and production style is greatly influenced by a six year mentorship with the renowned seven-time Grammy nominated, Emmy-winning classical engineer, Edward Kelly and by electronic music pioneer and IMAX scoring veteran, Michael Stearns.
Christopher operates in Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA, and is the technical director for Robert Aubry Davis’s Millennium of Music, a weekly radio program celebrating the mainstreams of European music for the thousand years preceding the birth of J. S. Bach. Millennium airs on XM Classics, XM Vox, and over 150 National Public Radio affiliates. Christopher has produced feature programming for XM and NPR featuring Paul McCartney, Sting, Billy Joel, Jon Anderson, Kiri TeKanawa, Bryn Terfel, Anonymous 4, the Cistertian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz and many others.
In 2007 Christopher composed the score for the ECG Productions film “Between A Rock and A Stone,” which won both the Sponsor’s Award and the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the Atlanta Film Festival.
In 2004 he recorded and mixed the 20th anniversary celebration recording for the World Folk Music Association at The Birchmere.
In July 2003 Christopher recorded Denyce Graves live at the Mann Center in Philadelphia, guest starring Patti Labelle and Take 6, for the PBS special, Denyce Graves: Breaking the Rules (aired March 2004). He served as an audio-postproduction engineer for Ms. Graves.
Also in 2003 Christopher composed the score for Suspended, the Grand Prize Winner at the prestigious Aurora Experimental Film Festival, and was the sound designer and sound design mixer for the Hallmark Entertainment documentary, “Turkey: The Other Holy Land.”
In 2001 Christopher joined a select group of producers and other nationally recognized creative talent to help launch XM Satellite Radio, the nation’s premier satellite radio service. As a production and technical director he created the sonic branding for three of XM’s channels (XM Classics, Watercolors, and The 40’s); wrote and produced original, special, and feature programming; and provided additional production for 12 other channels. While at XM, he formed a lasting production partnership with Junior Marvin, lead guitarist for Bob Marley & The Wailers. Christopher has performed as Junior Marvin’s violinist for east coast engagements, including a sold-out performance at the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts.
Christopher Drummond began his musical career with piano lessons at the age of 3. At 7, he began playing the violin and, at 14, began playing violin professionally. In 1987, he won the Connecticut All-State Orchestra Competition and was named the Concertmaster of the Connecticut All-State Orchestra. That year, he was also the recipient of the James Madison University Performance Scholarship. While attending Madison, he composed, produced and performed original music for contemporary dance and theater productions. Christopher was sound designer and sound design mixer for over 30 experimental theater productions and acted as a technical consultant for Madison’s electronic music lab.
In 1985, while attending the premier of the groundbreaking IMAX film Chronos at San Diego's Ruben H. Fleet Space Theater, he realized the course his life would take. The elevating electronic compositions by IMAX film composer and space-music pioneer, Michael Stearns, had opened the door to a universe of possibility. It ignited Christopher’s primal love of the desert and the American Southwest. This catalyst shifted his emphasis from pure performance to a symbiosis of performance, composition and production.
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