Mailing Address
School of Music
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, Texas 78666
Office: 512-245-2651
Fax: 512-245-8181
music@TxState.edu
Christopher Haritatos holds degrees from the University of Chicago (BA with honors, Phi Beta Kappa), the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where his major teachers were Alan Harris and Steven Doane. He also studied baroque cello with Jaap ter Linden as a Fulbright Scholar at the Akademie für Alte Musik Bremen. In Europe he performed with groups such as Fiori Musicali-Barockorchester Bremen, for whom he was continuo cellist and made numerous recordings and tours, and Andrew Lawrence-King's "The Harp Consort," with whom he also recorded and toured. Since returning to the US he has enjoyed a busy career as a freelance cellist with ensembles such as the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (with whom he was a regular substitute cellist), Tafelmusik (Toronto, Canada), the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the New York Collegium, the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra (with whom he was Interim Principal and Acting Principal cellist), Pegasus, ARTEK, Brandywine Baroque (Wilmington, DE), Concert Royal, the Dallas Bach Society, Pittsburgh Collegium Musicum, and Handel & Haydn Society (Boston). He has given master classes and clinics at Luther College, the University of North Texas and Baylor University. Currently he is a member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Texas State University Faculty String Quartet, and also plays regularly with The Publick Musick (Rochester, NY), Apollo's Fire (Cleveland), Ars Lyrica (Houston), and Context (Houston). He has taught at Texas State University-San Marcos since 2003.
