Christopher Yavelow is an award-winning composer and author with graduate degrees in composition and theory from Boston University, Harvard, and several European conservatories. He has taught at the University of Maryland, Claremont Graduate School, the University of Texas, Schiller College, and Harvard. His compositions have been honored with more than three-dozen awards, and his opera, Countdown, received accolades as the first computer-assisted opera, the first opera performance with a virtual orchestra (February 12, 1987; by the Boston Lyric Opera), and the first opera in cyberspace (December 1, 1994). His 1400-page Music and Sound Bible received the Computer Press Association Award and intensified the use of computers in music education and the entertainment industry.