Chris has wandered in and under the bass clef (and, if pressed, a whole step or so above) for much of his life. As a grade-schooler, his long arms made him the band director's target for trombone, and his voice register easily relegated him to bass. He was able to manage both singing and playing through high school and college, but the time pressures of graduate school required a choice and singing won out. Chris is a neuroscientist, having held faculty positions at Yale, as Biophysics Group Leader at Los Alamos, and Vice President of the Santa Fe Institute until he retired after a bad cancer diagnosis in 2016. The Chorale has been an essential part of Chris’ life in more ways than singing: he met Nancy when he joined the Chorale in 1989 and they were married in 1994. Their children, grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter live in Switzerland, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico. Chris believes there is a requiem for every occasion: he and Nancy programmed a movement of the Rutter requiem among the music at their wedding. Chris has also tried to convince every choral director with whom he’s sung to perform Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium, a 40-part, one-voice-per-part Renaissance motet. George?
