"There's so many things that music does for us. It can be a way for people to get together and be in community with each other and it's there. Throughout our lives all the time."

Christopher Healey is a composer of music for modern hearts and minds—solo pieces to full-bodied orchestral scores, one-minute  miniatures to 80-minute operas, transfixingly tender to disturbingly  macabre. Modern listeners are multi-dimensional and emotionally complex;  contemporary art music should be the same.

Melbourne-based composer Christopher Healey holds a Bachelor of Music (Composition),  Honours (Class I), from the University of Queensland. He has studied  with renowned Australian composers Gerard Brophy and Robert Davidson.  From 2018 to 2019, he also undertook further composition studies with  the eminent American composer Daron Hagen. Additionally, he has received  mentoring from Australian composers Carl Vine, Christopher Gordon, and Holly Harrison, as well as American composers Nico Muhly, Christopher Cerrone, and Missy Mazzoli.

Christopher Healey's music is eclectic in style, atmospheric, and evocative, ranging from the transfixingly tender to the disturbingly macabre. He strives to create an emotionally  and intellectually meaningful journey for his listeners, engaging and  challenging them by combining the warmth of lyrical melodies with extended harmonies, contemporary textures, and unusual musical forms.  His catalogue comprises over 90 diverse works, including instrumental  and vocal compositions, choral music, full-bodied orchestral scores, a set of miniatures, and a chamber opera.

He has received commissions from ensembles and arts organizations in Australia, China,  France, Holland, and the USA, including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra  (Cybec), Rockhampton Symphony Orchestra, Bendigo Symphony Orchestra,  Omega Ensemble, 4MBS Classic FM, Camerata—Queensland's Chamber  Orchestra, the BRON Saxophone Quartet, Divisi Chamber Singers, BoB -  Best of Brass, Ensemble Francaix, Ensemble Fabrique, the Nickson Quartet  and many others. Christopher has also received prizes including the  Alan Lane Award, the A.G. Francis Prize, second place in the Arcadia  Winds Composition Competition, second place in the ANZVS Composition  Competition, and the Australian Postgraduate Award.

In  2024, Christopher, Adam McMillan, Niels Bijl & Eliza Shephard joined forces to create Ensemble CANE, a new ensemble that champions the words  of composers past and present, with a focus on Australian composers and underappreciated voices.