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About Chris Opperman
- Chris Opperman (born November 20, 1978[1]) is an award-winning composer who has recently emerged into the mainstream.
- Opperman is known mostly for his work orchestrating the music of guitar heroes Steve Vai and Mike Keneally for their respective performances with Holland's Metropole Orkest.
- Opperman also performed on Steve Vai's first round of orchestral concerts and the song "Lotus Feet" was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
- Also, the song The Attitude Song from Vai's Sound Theories Vol.
- I & II album was nominated for the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. However, Opperman has several albums of his own music which is essentially a cross between 1990s alternative rock and his favorite 20th-century composers (Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern, and Zappa).
- His main instrument is the piano.
- However, he has also been known to play the trumpet and the guitar on occasion, and will rarely sing.
- Opperman lived in Los Angeles, California, from 2000 to 2008, when he moved back to New Jersey, where he earned a master's degree in music theory/composition from Montclair State University in May 2010.[2] Opperman now works as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he is earning his Ph.D.
- in music composition.
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