
A return to composition over the past few years was prompted by a mission to compose new, accessible opera - a mission still underway. Studies in art-song became a new passion; Christopher founded Cult of Orpheus in 2013 as a publishing, performance and music production vehicle for such works.
Corbell served for two years as Executive Director of Classical Revolution PDX, a Portland 501(c)3 nonprofit devoted to making chamber music more accessible. As CRPDX director he programmed and produced community-based chamber-music shows, developed new programs, expanded the board of directors, and helped foster other local, emerging composers.
In 2014, faced with push-back from the CRPDX old guard over the amount of new music he was fostering, Corbell founded Muse:forward to promote emerging music in the Portland underground scene. The third Sunday of each month, he hosts the Muse:forward Emerging Music Salon at The Waypost, an open forum for experimental, electronic, ambient, compositional, improvisational and genre-defying music.
Three Representative Works: I Shall Forget You Presently (Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet) - 2013; Only Until this Cigarette Is Ended (Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet) - 2013; and Ein Gott vermags (Rainer Maria Rilke sonnet) - 2013
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Oregon Connection: I've lived in Oregon for over 20 years. For several years I lived in Astoria and participated in the music scene there, particularly in folk, americana, and barroom-rock-and-roll. After moving to Portland in 2000 I continued playing in indie bands and performing as a singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist. Meanwhile, I rekindled an interest in music composition (having studied it in college) and acquired my first piano.
Since about 2008 composition has been my primary creative focus, and in 2010 I encountered Classical Revolution PDX. I've premiered many works at CRPDX chamber jams, and from 2013-2015 served as Executive Director.