Chris P. Thompson (b. 1978) is a composer and percussionist who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

For the past twenty years, Thompson has been a member of contemporary music chamber-band Alarm Will Sound, with whom has has performed all over the world, premiered 150+ new works, recorded twenty studio albums, and won a 2026 Grammy Award.

As a composer, Chris has produced five albums of original music, most recently the LP Stay the Same, described as a "strangely accessible masterwork of both microtonal music and experimental electronica - top 9 albums of the year" (the Pop Descriptivist) "frothy, fun, and smart," (anEarful) and "a pointed commentary on our lives in the digital age" (WNYC New Sounds). While his music leans heavily into the mathematics of rhythm and harmony, the influence of a childhood performing in the high-energy sound world of marching percussion and drum & bugle corps is always right beneath the surface, resulting in music that is as emotionally gripping as it is theoretical.

A veteran performer in New York City, he was an early member of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, founded the Line C3 Percussion Group, and has for many years been a frequent performer in the pits of Broadway show productions including Wicked, Back to the Future, Anything Goes, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and The Phantom of the Opera.

Chris is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles ('01) and The Juilliard School ('03).