Oakland California native Christopher Ferreira’s first foray into the arts came in the form of musical theatre at Bishop O’Dowd high school. His early experiences of working, singing, and acting with the many talented people he found himself surrounded by in the drama department forged his love for the arts and paved the way for his future in musical composition.

In his early twenties, finding himself more and more drawn to music, Ferreira jumped at the chance when a friend’s parents offered him their piano. From that moment on the piano became a major source of inspiration for him. This led to the pursuit of an education in music and the private study of the piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He began composing and recording music using not only the piano, but guitar and other instruments as well. When a friend heard some of his recordings and asked him to write music for a short film he had directed, it was to be the first of many such projects. After composing music for student films, independent features, web projects and industrial commercials, Ferreira scored his first major independent feature film Illusion starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Michael Goorjian. Following Illusion, Ferreira resumed his education with the formal study of harmony and counterpoint.This led to the writing of Two Worlds Apart, a piece of music written for and performed by the Berkeley Youth Orchestra. Recently he worked with American Zoetrope, providing music for Coda: Thirty Years After, a documentary on Francis Coppola and the making of his film Youth Without Youth. His latest project was an original musical score for the film Shift, starring metaphysical author Wayne Dyer.

Ferreira’s experience in film is not limited to music composition. He has worked in film as an actor, set designer, boom operator, in post production sound and even as a dog wrangler! He production designed and had an acting role in Groove , which was shown at Sundance and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Classics. He also played the role of “Jesus” in the short film Ripple which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. While still holding out for that romantic leading role in an epic drama, Ferreira spends most of his time composing in his Oakland studio, on the very same piano he was given fifteen years ago.