Christopher TIN

Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer of concert and media music. Born and raised in California to immigrant parents from Hong Kong, Christopher began learning to play instruments and studying music at an early age. Christopher’s training, as reflected in his works, is grounded in classical but dosed with a heavy amount of jazz, musical theater, and “the 90’s underground rave scene of San Francisco.”

Christopher has been signed with Universal Decca since 2020, releasing his latest album “To Shiver the Sky.” The album debuted at #1 in Billboard's CLASSICAL CROSSOVER charts. Prior to signing with Universal Decca, Christopher self-released two albums. The First, “Calling All Dawns,” won him a Grammy in 2011 for Best Classical Crossover Album. The second, “The Drop That Contained the Sea,” debuted at #1 on Billboard’s classical charts.

His song 'Baba Yetu', a Swahili setting of The Lord's Prayer, also received a Grammy Award in 2011 for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals. Originally written as the theme song for the video game Civilization IV, ‘Baba Yetu’ has become one of the all-time best selling choral octavos for Alfred Publishing and can be found in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first piece of music written for a video game ever to win a Grammy.

Christopher’s works can also be heard in scores written for films such as, Suddenly Seventeen, Tess, Dante's Inferno and Crazy Rich Asians; as well as games including critically acclaimed music for Civilization IV and Civilization VI.

Christopher did his undergraduate work at Stanford and Oxford, graduating with honors with a BA in Music and English, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. He then received a MMus with Distinction from the Royal College of Music in London, where he graduated at the top of his class and won the Joseph Horovitz Composition Prize. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, Sundance Institute Fellowship, and BMI Conducting Fellowship.