Originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Chris King enjoys performing a wide variety of music around Central Florida and abroad, ranging from traditional Jazz, to Funk, Pop, R&B, Salsa, Ska, and Hip-Hop. He has been a seasonal cast musician for Walt Disney World since 2005, and has has the pleasure of working with many local Orlando, and nationally-touring popular music acts. He can be seen playing in the Central Florida area with such groups as the Casablanca Orquesta, Johnny Plastic & the Rubber Band, Sonido Criminal, the Frank Vardaros Jazz Orchestra, and his own jazz quartet. To his credit are appearances as a performer on both local and nationally-syndicated television programs. In the past, he has been afforded the opportunity to perform with such artists as Béla Fleck, Sam Rivers, and Tzimon Barto.
No stranger to other genres of music, Chris has made appearances in trumpet sections of orchestras throughout the state of Florida, and is a co-founding member of the brass quintet, Hornography, which specializes in movie/TV music, and reaches out to the community through both educational and comedy-based concerts. He has been in the pit orchestra for many Central Florida musical theatre productions, and exercises his versatility as a soloist in occasional chamber orchestra programs around the state.
Chris is a member of the American Federation of Musicians (Local-389), has been teaching trumpet since 2003, and is currently on the lesson faculty at Lake Mary Preparatory School, and Classic Rock School of Music in the Waterford Lakes Town Center. While not performing or teaching, he divides his time between duties as a composer/arranger, and brass instrument repair technician. He attended Rollins College for his formal musical education.
Hi Chris, thanks for the invitation. It's a great honour for my, to share with you east space. Congratulations for your music and the way you play it!!! Greetings from Spain.
Hey Chris, really like your sound and your wide range of style. Thanks for finding me here in Space. Hope to use you for some horn arrangements sometime! Peace from Nashville - Joni Louis / c joni bishop
