He holds an undergraduate and a Master's degree from the University of Durham and is currently completing a DPhil (PhD) in composition at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford supervised by Professor Martyn Harry, whom he previously studied with at Durham. Previous teachers also include Dr. Matthew Shlomowitz and Professor Jeremy Dibble (musicology). As a native Atlantan who lived in England for nearly a decade, Chris' music centres on his love of the deep South and the English countryside. In addition to composing, Chris also writes for and performs on plucked-string instruments with fusion ensemble, Floyds Row. While at Oxford, Chris was the co-artistic director of the M@SH Centre for Experimental Music where he remains an artist-in-association. He lives with his wife, Amber, and two young children in North Atlanta.