At the age of 18, Christopher moved to Cardiff and studied composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from where he graduated in 2014.
Solo commissions include Owen Farr, Stephen Sykes, Brett Baker, Tom Hutchinson, Steve Stewart, Lode Violet, and a work for Eminence Brass Quartet, comprising members of the Black Dyke Band, Cory Band and London Symphony Orchestra.
In the same year, 'The Diamond Jubilee Fanfare' was commissioned and performed in the presence of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Christopher wrote and compiled the soundtrack for 'Magic in the Skies', the annual summer season of firework displays held at Land's End in Cornwall, featuring the voice of Miriam Margolyes.
[2] His first commission came at the age of sixteen, when he won a competition to write a fanfare for the Cornwall Youth Brass Band to open their fifty-year course anniversary concert.