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Christopher Sainsbury is a composer
and guitarist living in a coastal community near Sydney, Australia. Christopher
has written for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic
and several community orchestras, choirs and ensembles. His work has been
performed at leading festivals in Australia and in Germany.
In recent years Christopher has focussed on
writing for guitar within ensemble contexts. Various pieces have come
out of this work, including the 'Concerto for Guitar - The Luthier', 'Melaluca
Dream' for wind quintet with guitar, and a String Quartet with fretless
bass. He has also transposed a number of piano works by Schoenberg, Ives
and Grainger for the new Sydney Institute of Technology ensemble 'SITE'
(scoring is for saxophone, mandolin and guitar). Christopher enjoys all
music and writes in a wide variety of styles. He publishes his own music
for guitar which is available through his business Guitar Spectrum Australia.
Christopher has advanced the timbral palette
available to the contemporary guitarist through new developments in bi-tone
performance and notation. His work in this field is now in text form and
is also available through Guitar Spectrum Australia.
Christopher is married with three children,
and holds the position of Head of Arts & Media at the Eora College
of Sydney Institute, where he teaches guitar, songwriting and composition.
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