Music by Chris Walton

Live performance of "I Want (Light Passing Through Prism)," lyrics by Sola Mahfouz and music by Christopher L. Walton, by mezzo-soprano Julia Cavallaro and fellow students at the Tufts Composers New at Noon concert event "Radio Global Kandahar: Afghan Memory Leaves Sounded with Sola Mahfouz," November 21, 2025. Composed for voice, two violins, and percussion (involving audience participation) in a...

New work for solo piano, performed in Distler Hall by John McDonald at the October 24, 2025, Tufts Composers New at Noon concert "Sonic Geo-Detection: Recovering Time and Place." "Far Away / In the West" refracts elements of a hymn I learned as a child in Utah, the Sacred Harp tune "All Is Well" that Mormon pioneers adapted into "Come, Come Ye Saints," the most enduring song about their exodus to...

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello in seven modes. MuseScore 4 demos. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, 6/8. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, 4/4. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duets for violin and cello (with bass). MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, 6/8. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, 4/4. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, 5/4. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Duet for violin and cello, Cut time. MuseScore 4 demo. © 2025 Christopher L. Walton

Performance of "First Day" by mezzo soprano Julia Cavallaro and pianist John McDonald at a Tufts Composers "New at Noon" concert, November 22, 2024. Text © 2016 by Regina Walton, from "The Yearning Life" (Paraclete Press), used by permission. Music © 2024 by Christopher L. Walton.

Model exercise based on Mozart's Minuet in D, KV 355. Performed by Thomas Stumpf at the Tufts Composers New at Noon concert, October 25, 2024. © 2024 Christopher L. Walton

Written in response to two measures in Mozart's Minuet in D, KV 355. Performed by John McDonald at the Tufts Composers New at Noon concert, October 25, 2024. © Christopher L. Walton

MuseScore 4 demo of a dance in A minor for string quartet.

Three-movement piece for two cellos. I: a short canon (1:08); II: a lyrical melody in 5/4 (2:08); III: a fantasia (4:21). This is a MuseScore 4 demo.

Musescore 4 demo of a medley of five Advent hymn tunes arranged for string quartet: "Conditor alme siderum" (plainsong, Mode 4): "Creator of the stars of night"; "O Heiland, reiss" (1666): "O heavenly Word, eternal Light"; "Veni, veni, Emmanuel" (plainsong, Mode 1; adapt. T. Helmore): "O come, O come, Emmanuel"; "Bereden väg för Herran" (1697): "Prepare the way, O Zion"; "Helmsley" (T. Arne, 1763)...

Trio arrangement for two violins and cello of the 16th century hymn tune for Psalm 42 in the Genevan Psalter by Louis Bourgeois (1551), harmonized by Claude Goudimel (1564), often paired with Catherine Winkworth's "Comfort, comfort ye my people," translated from a text by Johann Olearius (1671). This is a MuseScore 4 demo.

MuseScore 4 demo of a miniature for oboe, violin, viola, and cello.

Song for oboe, bass clarinet, string quartet, and drum kit! This is a MuseScore 4 demo.