Formerly the Senior Vice President of Sony BMG’s International Masterworks Division (that incorporated Sony Classical, BMG, RCA and many other prestigious labels), Chris has also produced in excess of 400 recordings with many of the world’s top soloists and orchestras. He has been responsible for selling literally tens of millions of CDs, downloads and vinyl records, and also for breaking the careers of numerous new young artists into the global music market. He’s also well known as the producer of the original soundtracks for many Hollywood blockbuster movies including Interstellar and The Little Prince with Hans Zimmer. Among the leading superstar artists that he has either produced or marketed include: Lang Lang, Maxim Vengerov, Joshua Bell, Yo Yo Ma, Murray Perahia, Two Cellos, Nigel Kennedy, Viktoria Mullova, Barbara Bonney, Yuri Bashmet, Lindsey Stirling and many others.
He has also worked with many of the world’s top conductors and orchestras including Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Myung-Whun Chung as well as The London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony and English Chamber Orchestras, to name but a few.
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