R. Christopher Teichler Composer

Consortium opportunity for Grade 2 Concert Band! Only $100 to join; includes score and parts (PDF delivery) and a 9-month premier window. Please feel free to share, and contact me with any questions.

You can join the consortium by clicking…

On the newest episode of The Meatball Composer, I interview my friend and fellow music professor Dr. David Toledo. David teaches at California Baptist University and is the Director of Worship Studies. (Read more about him here.) 

David…

Grade 2 and Grade 3 Consortium opportunities to commission new music for your band! 

I am thrilled to announce the release of two of my works from Lorenz Music. 

Take Up Your Cross is a new choral anthem for SATB and piano. This text grabbed me immediately, and musical ideas came to me quickly…

On Wednesday, November 6, I went back to my old junior high in the Chicago suburbs for the premier of my newest band piece, Gateway Overture. Blackhawk Middle School (Bensenville, IL) and director Mr. William Winters commissioned the piece,…

For the past year and a half, I was running a podcast, "The Meatball Composer," just for fun while trying to improve my verbal communication skills. I decided to move it to a video format, and I've completed the first…

I'm happy to announce that I've completed a solo piano arrangement of the contemporary hymn "My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness," written by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty. This setting is at an intermediate level, and I wrote it specifically…

My newest band piece Gateway Overture will be premiered on November 6th at Blackhawk Middle School in Bensenville, IL. Commissioned by Blackhawk and director of bands Mr. William Winters, this piece is the culmination of several months of planning, discussion,…

Here's a video I made for the Easter anthem consortium I'm putting together, and my goal is to have several churches take part in creating new music for worship! Click here to be taken to the consortium website. Feel…

After months of planning and preparation, I'm please to announce my Eight Christmas Carols for Brass Quintet is hot off the press! The collection features the following holiday tunes:

O Come, All Ye Faithful
Once in Royal David's City
Ding…

Click here to download the performance of "Love's Philosophy," performed by the MidCities Chamber Singers. You can own it for only $.99! Get a Grande instead of a Venti for one day, and you've budgeted plenty for it! :-D