Christopher Rountree is an American conductor known for founding the Los Angeles chamber group wild Up, an ensemble that blends new music, classical repertoire, performance art and pop.
[1][2] Rountree has also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Brooklyn new music festival, the San Diego Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra.
He has worked with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York's Prototype Festival and Beth Morrison Projects, and assisted conductor Alan Pierson on the critically acclaimed opera "Dog Days."
[6] Rountree holds his master's degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan,[7] graduating in 2009.
As a performer, in 2004, he won Drum Corps International's euphonium soloist competition.