Emmy Award-winning trumeter Chiz Rider will be performing at the McKeesport Alliance Church on Friday, December 18 at 7:00pm.  Chiz performs a blend of traditional and contemporary Christian music but on this occasion will perform primarily Christmas Music.  The concert is free and open to the community.  A love offering will be received.

Some of Rider’s career highlights follow:

When not recording for the Myrrh record label, Rider plays over 200 concerts annually throughout North America and all over the world.

• He won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Broadcast Performance for PBS’s “Chiz Rider, Fast Forward.”
• He has appeared in the Pittsburgh Billy Graham Crusade and at the Crystal Cathedral

When Chiz was four he discovered his father’s trumpet in a closet and has been playing ever since.  Chiz is ninety percent self-taught, but he studied for a short time under the direction of Don Smith, then assistant Penn State University Blue Band director and David O’Neill of Nashville.  Chiz’ fresh musical style embodies a jazz/pop sound that has been influenced by such versatile jazz musicians as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Maynard Ferguson, Louis Armstrong and Jon Faddis.