Christopher Prosser

Christopher Prosser is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. He has composed works for orchestra, the theater, chamber ensembles, choir, art songs, and solo pieces. His work is inherently programmatic and focused on constructing narratives infused with musings of spirituality and aesthetic beauty that stem from a pursuit of the divine. He primarily writes acoustic music, which draws from a wide breadth of historical traditions, styles, and genres. It is often characterized by centric, nonfunctional, triadic harmonies, melodic lines that unfold slowly over time, contrapuntal textures that create colorful and dramatic gestures, and an innate rhythmic intensity.

As a music educator, Prosser has held teaching positions at Tarleton State University, The China Conservatory of Music, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and The University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music. At UT Austin, he was a Kent Kennan Graduate Teaching Fellow in Music Composition and the recipient of the Robert Jeffry Womack Endowed Presidential Scholarship. He currently serves as a Lecturer of Music at UT Austin where he teaches classes on musical form, counterpoint, and music theory.