Welcome to SOUNDARTUS. Explore and listen. Here you will find serious classical music, powerful works defending our natural environment, works for family audiences and works of imaginative fantasy. Each project page (found in the menu) is designed to give you a quick impression and provide the opportunity to delve deeper. Thank you for being here. Enjoy perusing my life’s work. SOUNDARTUS is my interface, an imaginative approach to sharing new music and art with the world.
Youtube Channel: SOUNDARTUS
Christopher Kaufman is a composer, author, teacher, performer and is the artistic director of CHIRON Performing Arts and The Phantastic Theater. He composes music for the classical concert stage and film. He creates multi-media books which combine story, illustrative art, fully realized audio albums bursting with symphonic music, narration, voice acting, sound design, video and live performances. He creates Environmental Works which include compositions featuring hundreds of natural sounds and have a powerful ecological message. He maintains a private studio of music students of all ages. Christopher lives in Brooklyn with his wife Maryclare, his daughter Sophie, who has performed with him on stage often in a lead role, and their dog, Angel and cat, Pluto, who protect them from all manner of monsters. Resumé , BROCHURE
NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Here I conduct ISLAND with the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra – press picture to see/hear excerpt
CHIRON Performing Arts and The Phantastic Theater
Springing from the traditions of the fine arts, ‘The Phantastic Theater’ presentations introduce young people to the transformative power of imagination though engaging and educational interdisciplinary works and remind adults of the time when they first experienced the arts.
MISSION: This unique presentation system combines fine arts education with live performance, workshops and individual presentation. We provide opportunities for fine arts educators and performers to share with young people and their families the impact the arts have had on their lives, and how they began their lives in the arts. Teaching elements are firmly embedded in our presentations, both specifically and intrinsically. We reach out to diverse audiences and under-served communities.
[presenting since 2014]
UPCOMING – THE PHANTASTIC THEATER ’25
Through CHIRON Performing Arts I have presented the work of hundreds of Artists of All Disciplines.
[since 1991]
Festivals:
CHIRON Performing Arts 3/1/20 – CHIRON Festival 2018 – CHIRON Festival 2017
Visit Resumé for more archives
DONATIONS
(for CHIRON Performing Arts and The Phantastic Theater)
I have recently vaulted into the realm of podcasts. I enjoy being a guest on many casts and talking about The Transformative Power of Fantasy and my works of classic fantasy ‘Tales Of The Ocean City’. :TOURS:
Here is the new cover for book one created by artist Anna Mitura-Laskowska. Press the cover and it will take you to my ‘author’s page’ where you may read more about these works.
Press cover to visit my online store SOUNDARTUS BOOKS and read the many review.
Have been member of The New York Composer’s Circle.
