Christopher Gainey, Ph.D. in progress
Guitar
Christopher Gainey (b. 1981) did his undergraduate and Master's level work at the Peabody Conservatory earning Master's degrees in composition, guitar performance and music theory pedagogy. At Peabody he was awarded the Gustav Klemm prize in composition for his Iago for violin solo, which is now being published in the SCI Journal of Music Scores and has been selected for an SCI CD to be released in 2009. He also won first prize in the 2006 Virginia Carty DeLillo composition competition. He was awarded a commission from the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society to compose Chupacabra for two guitars, which was subsequently published by Vogt & Fritz in Sweinfurt, Germany. His Nantucket Sleighride for orchestra and four guitars has been recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic as part of ERM Media's "Masterworks of the New Era" series. His ballet, No Sleep for the Wicked, was recently staged by the University of Iowa Dance Department, and his Flowing Through: Rhapsody on a theme of Egberto Gismonti has been performed multiple times by the San Francisco Guitar Quartet and will be included on their forthcoming CD. He is currently the guitar instructor at Coe College and a doctoral student in composition at the University of Iowa, studying with David Gompper, where he is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Henry and Parker Pelzer Prize in composition, and a 2008-2009 Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship.
