Christopher Preston Thompson is a New York City based tenor, historical harpist, and musicologist focused on early and new music. He has performed as soloist in venues throughout the United States, including NYC’s Carnegie Hall, and in 2019 he was honored to perform a solo concert for the Medieval Academy of America’s national conference. Christopher is the founding Artistic Director of Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music, which was featured in Chamber Music America’s Spring 2022 publication (vol 39, no 2). The ensemble’s “mesmerizing” (Early Music America) debut album, Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra (MSR Classics), was released under his direction in December of 2021 to critical acclaim, and in July of 2022, Cornell University Press published a collaborative book-recording project between Christopher, the ensemble, and medieval studies scholar, Sarah Kay, entitled Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera. The ensemble’s second album, based on the aforementioned collaboration, was released in October of 2023 (MSR Classics), and the ensemble was a 2023-24 artist-in-residence at the University of California-Davis. Christopher has also recently teamed with long-time friend and colleague, Hayk Arsenyan to form the chamber music group, Ensemble Rhétorique Musicale. Christopher is a regular member of Grammy-nominated ensemble for Renaissance polyphony, Pomerium, and has performed roles (onstage and/or off) for such companies as Heartbeat Opera, On Site Opera, Encompass New Opera Theater, The Great River Shakespeare Festival, Red Bull Theater, Tabula Rasa Dance Theater, and many others. He is on the voice faculty at New York University’s Steinhardt School for Culture, Education, and Human Development; the music faculty at Lehman College-City University of New York; and the voice faculty at BMCC-CUNY. Other publications and recordings include “Pizza, Opera, and Hybridity” in theedited collection Pizza is God (Düsseldorf: NRW-Forum, 2018); Musical Games, Riddles, and Puzzles of the Renaissance with Pomerium (Old Hall Recordings, 2019); Missa Tu Es Petrus with the Chamber Choir of St. Luke in the Fields (MSR Classics, 2018); and review articles for the Bulletin of the Historical Harp Society (vol. 28, no. 1, 2019) and Comitatus (vol. 51, 2020). Christopher has led performance practice workshops and given performance lectures for Princeton University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Modern Language Association, the Universities of California-Berkeley and Davis, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Bard College, Stanford University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, among others.