Christopher Mallett is an American classical guitarist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Soundboard Magazine has described him as "Virtuosic," and he was dubbed a "trailblazer" by the St. Louis Dispatch. His performances have taken him to some of America's finest concert halls, Guitar societies, and festivals, including the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, Florida, The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, the 92nd St. Y in New York, the Guitar Foundation of America's Convention (GFA), the New York Guitar Society, the Austin Guitar Society, The Cleveland Guitar Society, & more. He also performed throughout Asia in Beijing, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Mallett's work with Duo Noire has been called "truly pathbreaking" by All music, and their most recent album, Night Triptych, was named one of the best classical albums in 2018 by both All Music, and I Care If You Listen. Mallett has commissioned new works by over a dozen composers. Mallett has been on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 2016 as a lecturer of classical guitar studies. In 2019 he joined the GFA's Board of Trustees. Mallett is the co-founder and co-director of the California Conservatory of Music. Mallett has been featured on the cover of Soundboard magazine and in Classical Guitar Magazine, the American Suzuki Journal, and Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Les Productions D'Oz recently published his arrangements as part of the GFA Spotlight Series.