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Chris Huntley is a graduate of Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, under concert pianists Mikhail Kazekevich and the late John Bingham.

Chris received critical acclaim for his performances of Sergei Prokofiev’s 2nd piano concerto, which he last performed in a joint concert with concert pianist Karl Lutchmayer at The Warehouse, Waterloo, in October 2006 as part of the ‘Conversational Concerts’ series.

Recent professional engagements include Musical Director for ‘The Dummy Tree’ for Youth Music Theatre UK, Musical Director for La Boheme East Asian Tour with The European Chamber Opera 2008, and ‘copyist’ to Mr Maritn Lowe (Mamma Mia) on Loserville the musical written by James Bourne and Elliot Davis.  He has also worked for P&O Cruises, backing acts such as Mark Rattray, Greg Scott and Francisco Yglesia, as well as directing the P&O Passenger Choir.

Chris has played/MD'd on many productions including ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’, ‘West Side Story’, 'Kiss Me Kate', ‘The King And I’ and ‘The Saint Of Bleecker Street’ amongst others. In September 2004 Chris played for former Prime Minister Tony Blair at the TUC Conference in Brighton as an Assistant Musical Director for the National Youth Music Theatre. He then went on to become Musical Director for the musical ‘Born of Glass’ at the Albany Theatre for the Y-Touring Company in 2004, and was Musical Director for Howard Goodall’s musical ‘The Dreaming’ for the Hazlitt Youth Theatre in October 2005. In August 2006 Chris worked on Broadway on Grant Olding’s ‘Three Sides’ (New York Musical Theatre Festival) as Associate Musical Director and in October 2006 Chris was Assistant Musical Director for the English Theatre’s production of ‘City Of Angels’ (directed by Nikolai Foster) and Musical Director for ‘Bat Boy’ at the Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone, Kent.

Chris orchestrated and directed the first cast recording of the acclaimed 'Yeti: An Abominamusical', first seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006.