Chris Mandra

Chris Mandra is a composer and performer whose work has been performed in Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; a certificate of study from the Liszt Ferenc Zeneakademia in Budapest; two Master’s degrees – one in music composition and one in computer music, both from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he also completed all of the coursework for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree before abandoning that program. In 2004 he was awarded a fellowship to STEIM in the Netherlands to work on his wearable performance interface “the manDrum”. He currently lives in Baltimore, gets to help create cool audio processing software (that he likes to use himself) for the company Intelligent Devices, and plays guitar for and performs extensively with the celebrated original psychedelic dance band TELESMA.