This website is dedicated to my original music and lyrics. If you want to keep up with my performance schedule, the best way to do that is to follow me on social media. Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy what you hear!
Latest News:
I’m happy to announce that First, Contact; my 10-minute musical (with a book by Romie Faienza,) will be featured in Sound Bites XII—Theatre Now’s annual festival of 10-minute musicals! Join us at Merkin Hall on May 5th, 2025. The shows start at 7pm.
Bio
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 and works as a musical director, accompanist, and arranger. His musical “The Lady Takes The Mic” was a semi-finalist for the National Music Theater Conference. He is currently a composer and lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
Saga: A Musical Triptych
Anne Brown creates the role of Bess in Gershwin’s iconic opera, then flees top Norway to escape American racism. Joachim Rønneberg leads a platoon of skiers on a mission to prevent the Nazis from attaining a nuclear weapon. Two elderly people meet on a park bench and realize they were once young lovers, separated by class differences, all in one act.
The Lady Takes The Mic
Death and Cupid visit a piano bar one night, and jump into the lives, pasts, futures, hopes and dreams of the regulars.
