Christopher Allpress is a bassoonist based out of North Carolina. A well-rounded chamber performer, Christopher has served as the bassoonist for a number of quintets and trios, and many orchestras across North Carolina and Colorado Christopher studied at Western Kentucky University and the University of Northern Colorado and is completing his dissertation for a D.M.A. at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His principal teachers include Michael Burns, Tristan Rennie, Andrew Witherington, and Larry Long. When Christopher is not bassooning, he can be found serving as a vegetable butler to his five rescue guinea pigs.