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Chris Royal, Associate Professor, Department Chairman Jazz Studies Music Technology Studies (202) 806-7082 Room LVC 3004
Chris Royal, Associate Professor (Jazz Theory, Jazz Arranging, Electronic Music), Bachelor of Music, cum laude, Master of Music, Howard University. Arranging studies with Reppard Stone. Trumpet and Orchestration studies at Peabody Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College Conservatory. Winner of multiple Downbeat Magazine College Awards for Extended Composition, Jazz Arranging, Jazz Improvisation. Has performed (on trumpet) in concert and/or televised performances and recordings with Henry Mancini, the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington, Whitney Houston, Lionel Hampton, the Temptations, Johnny Mathis, Stevie Wonder, Anita Baker, Barbra Streisand, Donnie McClurkin, Petula Clark, and Dionne Warwick. Mr. Royal continues to be active as a freelance trumpet performer for musicals, recordings, and concerts in many different genres. Many theatrical credits include "Five Guys Named Moe," "Grease," "The Hot Mikado," "Sophisticated Ladies," "The Gospel at Colonus" (Original Broadway cast and recording). Artist-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Institution's "The Music of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five/Seven 1926-1931." Featured soloist with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble, the Baltimore Jazz Orchestra, and the Soulful Symphony. Composed and arranged music for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the TV series "America's Most Wanted," as well as many theatrical and recording productions, such as the Helen Hayes Award winning production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Catalyst Theatre in Washington, DC. A second collaboration with Catalyst produced the critically aclaimed "Roundheads and Peakheads" in which he again composed all new music. He also composed music for the opening session of the Nancy Hanks Lecture on the Arts honoring Ken Burns. Mr. Royal is also in demand as a studio arranger and as an independent audio recording, mixing, and mastering engineer. Mr. Royal holds active memberships in the The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), NARAS (The Grammy Foundation), and MENC: The National Association for Music Education. |
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