Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli (b.1969) creates works in virtually every medium available to the contemporary composer including concert works, film scores, dance and theater works, and popular songs. Integrating classical training and an interdisciplinary spirit, Anderson-Bazzoli has developed a body of work characterized by emotional depth, melodic invention, and exceeding craft.

Once a student of film scoring greats Henry Mancini and David Raksin, Anderson-Bazzoli was nominated for an Emmy® Award for his first professional score, A Year to Remember on CBS News. He has since thrived in independent film where critics often point out his unique contribution. LA Weekly hailed Shooting Creek, a dramatic short set in the American Civil War, as having "wonderful period music," while T.V. Guide characterized Revolution OS as coming "complete with a nice soundtrack...unusual for this kind of documentary." His most recent films include the Venezuelan thriller Elipsis, starring Edgar Ramirez (Carlos) and Seu Jorge (City of God), and the popular animated video Angel Wars: The Messengers (both distributed by 20th Century Fox). The Wind and The Water, the first narrative feature film from Panama, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and Kunjo, a short shot in Punjab, India, won the Audience Award at the 2010 Los Angeles Indian Film Festival. The Sundance Institute also invited him to participate in its prestigious Sundance Composers Lab in the summer of 2003.

Anderson-Bazzoli's concert and theater works have been performed internationally by organizations such as the London-based Yorke Dance Project (Badderputtle), Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA (Barter for women's chorus), Germany's Domfestspiele Verden (Terra Incognita).  Prayer of the Heliotrope, a 2002 work for percussion duo is winner of the 2010 Ironworks Percussion Composition Competition. Gentrify, written for the cutting-edge rock string quartet The Section, received a 2005 Subito Award from the American Composers Forum.

Also active as a studio conductor and orchestrator, Anderson-Bazzoli has worked with artists such as Michael Bublé, Christina Aguilera, Dido, and Goo Goo Dolls for producers Linda Perry, John Brion, and Dr. Dre. He spent the '05-'06 season orchestrating and producing synth-tracks for Paramount's Star Trek: Enterprise with composer Jay Chattaway.

Outside the realm of composition, Anderson-Bazzoli works regularly with many of today's pioneering musical minds. In 1995 he assisted stage director Peter Sellars as rehearsal conductor for Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at the Royal Opera in London. In 2002 he performed with composer and vocalist Meredith Monk in Mercy at UCLA's Royce Hall. He has also worked with renowned composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, editing several of his compositions including LA Variations (Sony Classical), consulting on his Filmharmonic series with the LA Philharmonic, and serving as score reader for the PBS Great Performances special on the inauguration of Walt Disney Concert Hall. He recently performed the same duties on Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert, a video produced by Deutsche Grammophone to celebrate the arrival of the orchestra’s phenomenal new Music Director, Gustavo Dudamel.

A native of California's Monterey Peninsula, Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli earned a B.A. in Tuba Performance and an M.A. in Composition from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he studied with Ian Krouse, Paul Reale, and Roger Bourland. He attended the composition program at the 1991 Aspen Summer Music School where he studied with Jacob Druckman and Michael Tchaikowski. Also a graduate of Music for People’s Musicianship and Leadership Program, Anderson-Bazzoli recently formed the True Freshman Ensemble, a music improvisation group open to musicians of all styles and levels of experience, that meets once a month in Hollywood, CA.