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CHRISTOPHER ROTE
CHRISTOPHER ROTE is an Artist, Composer and Architectural Designer based in Barcelona, Spain and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied at Mannes School of Music, Manhattan School of Music and Parsons School of Design. He was Associate Producer of the original Broadway Production of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre. He was a Founder and Vice President of Golden Eagle Productions, a film and television production company based in New York City. He later changed careers and through 1996 worked principally in the Music Industry as a composer, producer, performer and recording engineer on a vast number of projects and with a great many artists. His last commercial musical endeavor was with Stefend, a singer who he produced in Paris from 1994 until 1996 when she won the French Grammy, or "Victoire de la Musique" in the Best New Artist Category. Since 1999 he has devoted the majority of his time to painting (which he pursued casually throughout his life). In 2005 he opened Altitude Fine Art, a gallery in Santa Fe renowned for exhibiting the work of leading international realist painters including Charles Pfahl, Rupert Alexander, Geoffrey Laurence and others. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

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