Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
May 17, 2026 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
The orchestra culminates its season with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, performed alongside music by Khachaturian and Gliere
Ensemble Dal Niente
May 16 at Hairpin Arts Center - Chicago, IL
The return of Dal Niente's legendary evening length PARTY
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
February 15 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
The orchestra performs selections from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker alongside works by Moncayo, Lalo and Wieniawski
Chris Wild
Winter, 2026
Recording the Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach
Releases forthcoming on YouTube
The Way Out Album Release Concerts
December 14 at Northshore Unitarian Church - Deerfield, IL
December 13 at Constellation - Chicago, IL
Concerts supporting the release of a double album of Bjorn Berkhout's music, titled "The Way Out"
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
November 9 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
The orchestra performs Nielsen's Aladdin Suite alongside other works by Copland, Schubert and Saint-Saens
The Walden School Players
Late July, 2025 - Performing new compositions at The Walden School's Young Musicians Program - Dublin, NH
Purdue University Orchestras
May 2 & 3 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Purdue's four orchestras perform on two evenings, conducted by Adam Bodony & Chris Wild
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
April 26-27 at Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
Purdue University Orchestras
March 1 & 7 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Purdue's four orchestras perform across two weekends, conducted by Adam Bodony & Chris Wild
Network for New Music
February 21 at Settlement Music School - Philadelphia, PA
Guest conductor for a world premiere composition by Eliza Brown
Ensemble Dal Niente
February 17 at Western Michigan University - Chicago, IL
Performing chamber works and the premiere of David Colson's Dreamer for solo cello
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
February 9 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
The orchestra treats listeners to film scores by John Williams & Howard plus Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto
Purdue University Orchestras
December 6 & 7 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Purdue's two string orchestra conclude their semester, conducted by Chris Wild
Indiana University Composer Don Freund
November 17 at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music - Bloomington, IN
Performing chamber music by Don Freund with violist Rose Wollman
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
November 10 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
The orchestra kicks off a special 25th anniversary season with works by Grieg, Rossini, Saint-Saens & Sibelius
Recital at The Arts Club of Chicago
October 10 at The Arts Club of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Performing solos and duos composed by Isang Yun with pianist Mabel Kwan
Purdue University Orchestra & Purdue University Philharmonic Orchestra
September 27 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works for string orchestra and guest conducting the Philharmonic in Verdi's Overture to La forza del destino
Ensemble Dal Niente
August 17 at PianoForte - Chicago, IL
Performing chamber music with my colleagues in Ensemble Dal Niente alongside performances by members of the AACM and the Grossman Ensemble
The Walden School Players
Late July - Performing new compositions at The Walden School's Young Musicians Program - Dublin, NH
The Way Out
Mid July - Recording session at Kutztown University - Kutztown, PA
Ensemble Dal Niente
May 24 - Recording session with composers at Northwestern University - Evanston, IL
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
May 19 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Chabrier, Debussy, Faure, Sibelius and Yi
Purdue University Orchestra
April 26 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Beethoven, Bologne, Feese, Gliere, Phillips and Still
Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW
March 3 (2024) at Symphony Center - Chicago, IL
Performing chamber music by Tania León, Jessie Montgomery and Curtis Stewart
Purdue University Orchestra
March 1 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Grieg, Handel, Prokofiev and Miranda
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
February 25 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Borodin, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov
Ensemble Dal Niente
February 24 for the Frequency Festival at Constellation (Chicago, IL)
Performing new music by Louis Goldford and Kari Watson
Chamber Music Recital with Clare Longendyke & Lindsey Goodman
January 14 at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology - Terre Haute, IN
Performing works by George Crumb, Jennifer Higdon and Astor Piazzolla
Après L'Histoire - After the History
December 13 at Constellation (8:30pm) - Chicago, IL
Après L’Histoire moves beyond its source material, premiering imaginative musical theater works composed by Noah Jenkins and Jenna Lyle. Opening the show is the synth duo MEGA Laverne & Shirley
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
November 5 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint-Saens and Richard Wagner
The Walden School - Young Musicians Program
June & July - Faculty member for the pre-college summer music program, teaching classes on style and musicianship and performing new compositions and improvisations as a member of the Walden School Players
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
May 21 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
April 15 at the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
Cello soloist in Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto alongside violinist Carla Trynchuk
Ensemble CONCEPT/21
March 9 at Louise E. Addicott & Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall (Indiana University South Bend) - South Bend, IN
Guest conductor for new compositions by Antonio Sanz Escallón and Ryan Olivier
The Way Out
February 18 at Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Wabash Valley Youth Symphony
February 12 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts - Lafayette, IN
Conducting works by Antonin Dvorak, Giovanni Pergolesi, Bedrich Smetana and William Grant Still
The Way Out
January 22 at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point - Stevens Point, WI
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
MusicNow series' "Common Ground"
November 21 at Symphony Center (Chicago, IL)
Performing Mark O'Connor's String Quartet No.3 alongside the composer and members of the CSO
Ensemble Dal Niente
October 2-10 at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ensemble Dal Niente
September 24 at DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Season Opener concert featuring the works of composer Carola Bauckholt
Walden School Players
In residence at the Walden School (Dublin, NH), performing contemporary chamber music as a member of the Walden School Players
Euclid Quartet
Spring Performances on Tour in Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Ohio
Ensemble Dal Niente
March 25-27 at the Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN)
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
March 12 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (Berrien Springs, MI)
Performing Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration and the long-anticipated world premiere of James Lee III's violin concerto Teshuah, featuring violinist Carla Trynchuk
Ensemble Dal Niente
February 27 at Constellation's Frequency Series Festival (Chicago, IL)
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
February 5 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (Berrien Springs, MI)
The Department of Music's Young Artist Concert celebrates soloist winners of the Young Artist Competition plus a performance of the Ballet Music from Massenet's Le Cid
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
November 20 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (Berrien Springs, MI)
The orchestra's "Journey" program includes Duke Ellington's The River, the Overture to Handel's Esther, and music from the Lord of the
Rings movies
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
November 20 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (Berrien Springs, MI)
The orchestra's "Journey" program includes Duke Ellington's The River, the Overture to Handel's Esther, and music from the Lord of the
Rings movies
Euclid Quartet
November 19 at Indiana University South Bend
In residence at Indiana schools
Guest cellist for the string quartet for performances of works by Beethoven, Borodin, Clyne & Piazzolla
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
October 16 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (Berrien Springs, MI)
The orchestra's "Divine" concert includes Bruckner's Symphony No.6, Elgar's Sospiri & Sibelius' Pohjola's Daughter
Ensemble Dal Niente
October 1 at DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Performances at the Ear Taxi Festival
Walden School Players
In residence at the Walden School (Dublin, NH), performing contemporary chamber music as a member of the Walden School Players
Ensemble Dal Niente
May 3 via Live-Stream Video
Performing chamber works for a concert presented by the Americas Society (New York City, NY)
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
May 1 via Live-Stream Video from the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th Birthday with a socially-distanced performance of his complete Symphony No.9 plus the world premiere performance of a new work by Kaija Perry
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
March 13 at the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
Performing Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Dmitri Shostakovich's Polka from the Golden Age (arranged by Chris Wild) & Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 ("Emperor")
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
February 13 at the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
Performing the North American Premiere of Max Keller's composition The Genesis plus concerto selections by Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Simon Luke Brown featuring selected soloists from the university's annual Young Artist Competition
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
November 19 at the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
Performing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Mozart's Symphony No.29 and a variety of Christmas arrangements
Ensemble Dal Niente
October 16 via Live-Stream Video, now archived HERE
Performing Gerard Grisey's spectral masterpiece Vortex Temporum alongside performances of chamber works by Anthony Green, Melissa Vargas Franco & Rebecca Saunders
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
October 10 via Live-Stream Video, now archived HERE
The orchestra's "Awakening" program featured compositions by William Grant Still, Johann Strauss II, Manuel de Falla, Jean Sibelius & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Online Cello Recital
August 16 - Video Link is now archived HERE
In a recital benefiting the Musicians Foundation's Covid-19 Relief Grant program, I performed Benjamin Britten's Suite No.1, Drew Baker's Age of the Deceased (Six Months in Chicago), and Marcos Balter's memória
Walden School Players
July - Performer and faculty in the chamber ensemble Walden School Players for the Walden School's 2020 Online Young Musicians Experience
Ensemble Dal Niente
July - Performer and faculty along with members of Ensemble Dal Niente for DePaul University's online Summer Residency for New Music
Ensemble Dal Niente
June 27 at National Sawdust - Brooklyn, NY - POSTPONED
Performing Ted Hearne's "Authority"
Ensemble Dal Niente
May 15 performing new works at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) - POSTPONED
Ensemble Dal Niente
May 6-10 performing at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) - POSTPONED
University of Chicago Department of Music - POSTPONED
April 11 at the University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Soloist in a world premiere composition for cello & ensemble by Yuting Tan
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra - POSTPONED
March 28 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
The Howard Center presents the AUSO in the world premiere of James Lee III's Violin Concerto No.2 "Teshuah" featuring soloist Carla Trynchuk, plus excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin with tenor Charles Reid and Smetana's Vltava (The Moldau)
Andrews University's Music Festival
Leading students selected from throughout North America in a festival youth orchestra experience at Andrews University March 4-7 (2020)
Ensemble Dal Niente
February 26 - March 1 at the Phillips Collection (Washington, DC) and the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
February 22 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Conducting the orchestra's "Sweet Dreams" concert with works by Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
November 23 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Conducting the orchestra's "Thanksgiving Concert" with works by John Williams and Claude Debussy, an audience sing-along of the hymn Amazing Grace, and leading the orchestra from the cello as soloist in Haydn's Cello Concerto No.2
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
October 26 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Leading the orchestra's "Creation" concert with works by composers Bach, Britten, Haydn and Mahler
Andrews University
October 20 at the Howard Performing Arts Center - Berrien Springs, MI
The Howard Center presents faculty members performing string quintets by Franz Schubert and Adriana Perera
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
September 28's annual Alumni Gala at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Ensemble Dal Niente
June 4-9 at the University at Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
Performances at the 2019 June in Buffalo Festival
Ensemble Dal Niente
June 1 as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, CA
Performance of a new work by Anthony Cheung alongside pieces by Erin Gee, Igor Santos & Mario Davidovsky
Northwestern University Choirs
May 15 at Northwestern's Galvin Recital Hall - Evanston, IL
Solo cello & cello continuo parts for choral works by J.S. Bach & Kile Smith, conducted by Donald Nally
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
April 20 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Leading the orchestra in the program Breath Becomes The Wind, featuring romances and dances by composers Bela Bartok (Dance Suite), Alexander Borodin (Polovtsian Dances) & Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No.2), plus Pepe Guízar's mariachi song Guadalajara
Après L'Histoire - Centennial Commisioning Project
April 14 at Constellation (8:30pm) - Chicago, IL
To celebrate the centennial anniversary of Igor Stravinsky & C.F. Ramuz’s L’Histoire du soldat, Après L’Histoire has commissioned two new works for septet plus narrator through a call-for-proposals process - these dramatic new compositions by Sarah Westwood & Manel Ribera Torres will receive their premiere performances alongside Eliza Brown's Thirteen Trees (a collaboration with poet Stephen Collis) & Ted Hearne's response to L'Histoire du soldat, a set of miniatures titled Randos
Apasionado Duo
April 12 (Private Event)
Teaming up again with Gabriel Datcu (guitar) & Emi Tanabe (violin) for songs & improvisations in a variety of popular styles
Solo Cello Recital at Western Michigan University
March 29 at the Dalton Center Lecture Hall (7pm) - Kalamazoo, MI
Performing Domenico Gabrielli's Ricercar No.7, Jason Eckart's Practical Alchemy, Chris Biggs' Externalities, Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons & Mario Lavista's Cuaderno de viaje
DN Presents Tarn Travers & Chris Wild
March 15 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church (7pm) - 1650 W Foster Ave - Chicago, IL
Joining forces with violinist Tarn Travers to perform works new and old, including duos by Eliza Brown, Elliott Carter, Mathias Spahlinger & Guillaume Dufay, and solo works by Matthias Pintscher & Domenico Gabrielli
Andrews University Symphony Orchestra
March 9 at the Howard Performing Arts Center (8pm) - Berrien Springs, MI
Leading the orchestra in the program Spring Destiny, with exotic works by Maurice Ravel (Rapsodie espagnole) & Giuseppe Verdi (Overture to La Forza del Destino) alongside Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante (featuring faculty members Carla Trynchuk & Claudio Gonzalez as soloists)
South Bend Symphony Orchestra Rehearsal
On February 27, Chris will return to the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, where he occasionally assists Maestro Alastair Willis' rehearsals, and will lead the orchestra in excerpts from Johannes Brahms' Symphony No.1. The SBSO will perform Brahms' symphony on March 2 at the Morris Performing Arts Center alongside works by Sergei Rachmaninoff & John Estacio
Ensemble Dal Niente
February 24 at Constellation - Chicago, IL
As part of Constellation's annual Frequency Festival, Ensemble Dal Niente will give the world premiere performances of works by Ted Hearne & Viola Yip, and present a group improvisation
Herbert Blomstedt Residency
February, 2019
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt's residency at Andrews University, including rehearsals, discussions, and presentations February 12-15