recent projects

This year Chris Walden embarks on a new musical adventures as he founded the PACIFIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA, LA’s resident 40-piece ensemble for jazz and beyond. The inaugural concert season starts this fall with concerts featuring Ledisi, TAKE 6, Rufus Wainwright, Aaron Tveit, and many more.

Chris Walden served again as the lead arranger for the 96th Oscars telecast and he recently wrote music for these Film & TV projects:
UNITED STATES VS. ANDRE NORMAN - Documentary feature film
PENA AJENA - TV comedy series on Pantaya, score for 10 episodes
HALFTIME - Jennifer Lopez documentary on Netflix, arr. end title song
AFI Award Julie Andrews - “Edelweiss” arr. for Cynthia Erivo
Kennedy Center Honors - CBS

Chris wrote arrangements for the recent album releases of:
CLIFF RICHARD - My Kinda Life
DAVID FOSTER & KATHARINE MCPHEE - Christmas Songs
HAUSER - Christmas
LEANN RIMES - God’s Work
JOSH GROBAN - Harmony
IL VOLO - Sings Morricone

Chris recently conducted the Metropole Orkest in Holland, as well as WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany.

BIG BAND ALBUM

Our new album MISSA IUBILEUM AUREUM, a jazz mass for big band, choir, and organ, feat. TIERNEY SUTTON & KURT ELLING was released on Origin Records.

Listen to previous Chris Walden Big Band albums on Spotify or AppleMusic.
PDF charts of Chris’ arrangements are available on sheetmusicplus.com