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                                          "An uncontrived, vigorous musicallity"
                                                                                                                                 Richard Ormrod



                                                                                                                                                                   



Chris Huntley has worked on many shows including ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘The King And I’, ‘The Saint Of Bleecker Street’ and many more. In September 2004 Chris played for Tony Blair at the TUC conference in Brighton as an assistant musical director for the National Youth Music theatre. He then went on to be 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 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 in Kent. Chris has also worked on Broadway on Grant Olding’s ‘Three Sides The Musical’ (New York Musical Theatre Festival) as associate musical director and in August 2006 his orchestration for the premiere run of Yeti An Abominamusical (Songs and lyrics by Grant Olding and Toby Davies) was also heard at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Chris regularly features in orchestral and chamber music concerts in and around London and has worked extensively as an accompanist. As well as giving performances at both London’s Café de Paris and The Groucho Club he has received critical acclaim playing ‘Prokofiev’s 2nd piano concerto’, which he recently performed as part of concert pianist Karl Lutchmayer’s ‘conversational concerts’ series at ‘The Warehouse’ on London’s south bank.
Chris is currently working as musical director for a full cast recording of Yeti An Abominamusical.



News, Future Appearances

News


Chris has finished the work as editor of Grant Olding's and Toby Davies' Yeti An Abominamusical which include Chris' original orchestrations written for the RSAMD production. Mixes are on the way! Chris' credits include Executive Producer, Musical Director and Pianist for the recording.
During the Summer Chris directed a devised theatre workshop at the Hazlitt theatre in maidstone as part of their summer festival.
He has also recently finished directing The Witches Of Eastwick at the Kenneth More Theatre and
Aladdin at the Bridewell Theatre off Fleet Street.



Future Appearances

Chris is currently Music Director for the European Chamber Opera Company's Tour of Puccini's Opera La Boheme in Japan, UAE, Thailand, Egypt and Laos from 28th October to 6th December 2008.





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