Biography

"If it sounds good, it is good"--Duke Ellington's credo has become the personal motto of Chris DuBrock, who as a high school student in Anchorage Alaska was equally at home composing classical chamber pieces and arranging for jazz big band. DuBrock holds a Bachelor's in Jazz Trumpet and a Doctorate in Composition from Rutgers University.

DuBrock has scored three documentaries that have run on PBS, including the award-winning maritime doc First Light. He has scored two animated TV shows, and a host of independent films; he's also worked on two full-length musicals as an orchestrator/co-producer . DuBrock's concert music has been performed by notables such as Paul Rosenthal (Sitka Chamber Music Festival) and pianist Thomas Tirino and is published by Art of Sound Music. As a trumpeter DuBrock has performed and/or recorded with The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, The Illinois Jacquet Big Band, Pinetop Perkins, The Max Graham Band and The Infernos.

Credits

Film / TV

Diznei On Ice (44 Toons, 2011) composer
Metal Gear (Kennedy Entertainment, 2011) composer
The Green Light (2010, KO Films) composer
Mandate (2009, Brooklyn Films) composer
Tugging Through Time (Third Wave Films, 2008) composer
Nine Tails Fox, episodes 2 and 3 (Bang Music, 2007) composer
Rick's Run (Entropic Productions, 2007) composer
First Light (Third Wave Films, 2006) composer
The Apartment (Brooklyn Films, 2006) composer
Tide and Time (Third Wave Films, 2004) composer
The Record Deal (Clayborne Entertainment, 2003) composer

Musical Theater

Hour of the Frogs (Kale Aluli, in progress) orchestrator / co-producer
Hawaiian Messiah (Kale Aluli, 2010) orchestrator / co-producer

Concert Music

Winter Landscape for Brass Quartet (2011)
Psalm 62: Tone Poem for Brass Band (2007)
Galapagos Sketches for solo piano (2006)
Morning Star for band (BOCES commission, 2003)
Astral Zephyrs for string quartet (2002)