Brian Lloyd Christian
Chicago Chapter Administrator and Artist

Brian Lloyd Christian is a composer who works within the concert music tradition. His works are primarily for piano, chamber ensemble, and voice. He focuses on the performance of live music with acoustic instruments and unamplified voice.

Born in Berkeley, California, he has played piano since age five and composed since age eleven. He studied composition with David Pereira, Peter Josheff, Nicholas Maw, and Kevin Puts, piano with Machiko Kobialka and Jeanne Stark and conducting with David Milnes and Marika Kuzma. He has also had composition lessons with Chen Yi and Libby Larson.

Christian graduated from the preparatory division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and earned a B.A. in music from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2001, he won the collegiate division of the Twenty-First International Bartók-Prokofiev-Kabalevsky piano competition. He played Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with the U.C. Berkeley orchestra in 2002.

He has worked as both accompanist and director for the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the Spindrift School of Performing Arts, the U.C. Berkeley opera workshop, and the Piedmont Boys Choir. In 2003, he composed, directed, and accompanied his opera, the Journey, based on "Le Petit Prince" by Saint-Exupery. In 2008, he graduated from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University with a M.M. in Composition, and received Peabody's Gustav Klemm award for exemplary work in composition.