Christopher Bill is best known as the most subscribed brass musician on YouTube. He’s a trombonist, arranger and marketing consultant based outside of New York City.
Christopher’s YouTube Channel of all-trombone arrangements of popular songs has been gaining popularity since the spring of 2014 when a cover of Pharrell Williams’ Happy where Christopher uses a looping station to compose the song on the spot went viral. His videos have since amassed over 85 million views and a following of over half a million followers across YouTube and TikTok. In February of 2017, Christopher independently released an original pop album called Half Man, Half Machine which mixes acoustic sounds with electronic instruments. He is the youth workshop director of the International Trombone Festival and a marketing consultant for the International Trombone Association. In 2018, his collaboration with the International Trombone Festival of Bohemian Rhapsody went viral.
He has been playing piano since he was six years old, trombone since he was ten, and he has been composing/arranging since he was twelve. Christopher has a Bachelor of Music for classical trombone performance from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music in New York. While at the conservatory he studied with critically acclaimed trombonists Weston Sprott (Metropolitan Opera), Denson Paul-Pollard (Metropolitan Opera), John Fedchock (Grammy Nominated Jazz Trombonist) and the absolutely incomparable Timothy Albright (Atlantic Brass Quintet).
Christopher enjoys a busy schedule of performances, clinics and masterclasses. In addition to producing a new video every Saturday for his YouTube Channel, he often performs at festivals such as the American Trombone Workshop, Midwest Clinic, Texas Bandmasters Association, Con Brio Festivals, Western International Band Clinic, TMEA, the NAMM Show and the International Trombone Festival.
Christopher performs exclusively on Denis Wick mouthpieces, and designed the CB Model Trombone in collaboration with BAC Musical Instruments in Kansas City.