Composer and guitarist Chris Parrello has been awarded grants/residencies by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Con Edison Exploring the Metropolis program, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kimmel Center, and The Blue Note, his music has premiered at National Sawdust, The DiMenna Center, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he has been commissioned to compose for MoMA and Storm King Art Center. His collaborations with new media artist Jeremy Couillard have exhibited at NADA New York, The Bass, Art Fair Philippines, and Transmediale Studio; Jeremy's Fuzz Dungeon was nominated for two IGF Awards in 2021. Their most recent work, Escape From Lavender Island, released in September 2023 and will exhibit at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in summer/fall 2024. Their De Lune music video was winner of the Prize of the Mayor of Wrocław at the Kinomural Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland, 2023. Chris holds a B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory and an M.A. from the City College of New York.