music for christian worship

original songs:

Satisfied (2010)

Secure (2010)

His by Grace (2009)

Arise, My Soul, Arise (2009)

God of Mercy (2008)

hymn settings:

What Child Is This? (2009)

‘Tis Finished!  The Messiah Dies (2008)

The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns (2008)

In addition to writing music, Kris is a music theorist and a church musician.  He directs the Sunday morning service music ministry at Trinity Baptist Church in New Haven, Conn., where he is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at Yale University.  Kris is currently working on a dissertation on György Ligeti's approach to consonance, dissonance, and non-standard tuning, particularly in his later works.  Besides studying the music of 20th-century composers, his academic interests include music cognition, popular music theory and analysis, and the role of technology in various musical disciplines.  He holds a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Arts in music theory from Yale University, a Master of Music in orchestral performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and a Bachelor of Music in performance (with an honors thesis in music theory) from Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Kris also plays (French) horn and performs from time to time as a freelance musician in Connecticut and Massachusetts.  He has performed with the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra (Williamstown, Mass.), the Illinois Symphony (Springfield, Ill.), and the Green Bay Symphony (Green Bay, Wis.).