Christopher Winders, originally from central North Carolina, is finishing a Ph.D. in composition at the Eastman School of Music. His dissertation advisors are Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (composition) and Dave Healdam (thesis). While at Eastman he recieved the McCurdy Prize in 2003 and the Samuel Adler Scholarship in 2004, in addition to a departmental assistantship. His principal teachers have been Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, David Liptak, Allan Schindler and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. In 2006-07 he was a teaching assistant in the Eastman Computer Music Center.
Christopher holds both a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he was a teaching assistant in the theory and aural skills divisions. While there he also was responsible for all departmental audio recordings for faculty and students (1998-2002).
Prior to his study at NCSA, Christopher studied Film Composition at Berklee College of Music, including film history and sound design.
Current research includes theoretical extensions of George Perle's Twelve-tone tonality, as well as java programming for generating analytical and compositional tools.