Pianist Christopher Andrew Maier is native of Howard County Maryland. At 14 years of age, he entered St. Charles Seminary and was chosen to apprentice on the chapel’s 1917 Casavant Frères pipe organ. His mentor Thomas Owen Parker coached him on the finer points of Gregorian Chant and four-part harmony structure. In this setting Christopher mastered Handel’s Water Music and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in Dm.

Post-seminary, Christopher opted for a teaching career…. Armed with a BA in Education from University of Maryland (1972), over three decades, he introduced nearly 10,000 middle school students to the wonders of Art, Music and Ideas, and retired in 2004.

In a series of extracurricular pirouettes, Christopher developed his personal style on grand piano at The Philadelphia Four Seasons Hotel and The Philadelphia Locust Club, 1984-1991. He learned American furniture history by operating an antiques shop in Mullica Hill NJ, 1996-2003. Concurrently he produced a major series of pleine air pastels, studio paintings and drawings, all now in private and institutional collections.

Fluent in Spanish, he designed and built Casa Desiderata, his dream home and studio in Costa Rica, with a view overlooking the Pacific Ocean, 2004-2012. He taught art in a one-room mountain school for two years, and served five years as musical director for Dominical Little Theater, near Lagunas de Baru, Puntarenas CR.

Arriving in Camden in 2013, he researched and has launched a multimedia presentation entitled “Just For The Record”, in which he channels Eldridge Reeves Johnson, the founder of Victor Talking Machine.

Christopher recently received The 2017 Martin Luther King Freedom Medal for nurturing the creative community in Camden New Jersey, which is overflowing with artists, musicians, actors, poets, singers and architects.
His ultimate joy? None other than CPR Music Invincible!