Christopher Weiss’ music has been praised as “wonderfully fluid [with a] cinematic grasp of mood and lighting” (New York Times) and for having “released a flood of profound emotions” (Huntsville Times). His opera Service Provider, written with librettist John de los Santos, was commissioned by Washington National Opera and hailed as a “crowd pleaser” (Washington Post) following its Kennedy Center premiere. It has had subsequent performances by Arizona State University, Fort Worth Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Helios Opera, The Modern Opera Company, Opera Idaho, Opera Memphis, Painted Sky Opera, Seagle Music Colony at the Lake George Music Festival, Small Opera at TEDxCharleston, Texas Christian University, Towson University, UrbanArias, Virginia Opera, and Westminster Opera Theatre.

Christopher’s opera In a Mirror, Darkly, written with librettist S. O’Duinn Magee, was awarded a Domenic J. Pellicciotti Prize by SUNY Potsdam. Excerpts have been performed by Crane Opera Ensemble and Orchestra, Fort Worth Opera, New York City Opera, University of North Carolina Greensboro at the National Opera Association, and the Virginia Arts Festival. 

Christopher’s orchestra and chamber music has been commissioned and performed by Alarm Will Sound, Boston Chamber Orchestra, Columbia Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Gainesville Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Nu Deco Ensemble, and Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. He has been composer-in-residence at Twickenham Fest, young composer-in-residence at Music from Angel Fire, and a resident composer at the Mizzou International Composers Festival.

Christopher has been in residence at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Yaddo. He was a recipient of a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and in 2006 was the youngest competitor ever to win the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Fresh Ink” competition. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Rollins College, and the University of Michigan.