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   Christopher Willes is an artist and music maker living in Canada. Through concerts, exhibitions, performance and theatre projects his work explores an ongoing interest in collaborative processes, interdisciplinary activity, and various sound making practices. He studied music at the University of Toronto and has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta Canada, and STEIM Foundation in the Netherlands among others.

  As a composer and musician he has shown work at the Music Gallery and the Nuit Blanche Festival in Toronto, at the North Sea Festival in The Netherlands, and he plays regularily in several creative music groups in Toronto and Montreal. An exhibition of his work was shown at Labspace Gallery in the summer of 2009 which featured two installations working with both sound and images. Christopher has collaborated on the creation of a number of group projects in performance and contemporary dance as well, most notably having public works commissioned by Toronto's Nuit Blanche Art Festival in both 2007 and 2008, performing at Toronto Harbourfront Centre's next step series 09' and at Studio 303 in Montreal. In 2008 his collaboration with choreographer Brian Solomon was shown in the Toronto Fringe Festival, and again in 2009 at Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario. More recently he has worked with dancer/choreographer Julia Male for the past two years giving music and advice on two of her solo dance performances, both of which were shown at Tangente in Montreal.

  In 2010 Christopher will be taking part in a collaboration led by performance artist Myra Davies interpreting Wagners "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in collaboration with pianist Gregory Oh and artist Lee Henderson at the X Avant Festival in Toronto. He has also been commissioned by Nadina Mackie Jackson to write a new piece of music for solo bassoon which will be presented in 2011.

He lives in Toronto and likes noodles.         

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