Chris Blacker is a pianist, composer, and songwriter. He was a winner of the 2006 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, and has released four albums to date: one of original jazz compositions and three of original songs with lyrics.

He spent seven years performing professionally on the West Coast with an eclectic array of artists such as the cabaret-noir group Circus Contraption, gypsy-jazz group Pearl Django, and classical pianist/composer Amy Rubin, as well as leading a jazz quartet of his own.

Chris currently lives in New York City.  His musical “The Lady Takes The Mic” (with a book by Romie Faienza) was a semi-finalist for the National Music Theater Conference, and his 10-minute musical “First, Contact” (book by Romie Faienza) was presented as part of Theatre Now’s Sound Bites XII Festival.  He is currently a composer and lyricist in the Advanced Songwriting group of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and he works as a collaborative pianist at New York University, a piano bar entertainer, a freelance musical director, and arranger.