Chris Toelken currently owns and operates Toelken Music Productions (TMP) in Black Rock, CT. For over twenty years, Chris has worked on stage and in the studio with artists ranging from the internationally known to the local. As a performer, he has toured both nationally and internationally and brings this wealth of experience to his projects at Toelken Music Productions

TMP also has an impressive client list in the corporate world having scored many industrial films for area producers.

This is a partial list of Chris’ professional recording and performance experience as Vocalist, Keyboardist, Composer and/or Producer:
• Kenny Aronoff
   (Bob Dylan, Smashing Pumpkins, John Mellencamp)
• Jeff Berlin
   (Bill Bruford, the Brecker Brothers, Yes)
• Angela Bofill
• Joe Bouchard
   (Blue Oyster Cult)
• Jeff Bova
   (Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock)
• Sarah Brooks
• Deborah Gibson
• Stanley Jordan
   ("Bolero" - Arista)
• Brian Keane
   (Grammy Award-Winning guitarist, producer & composer)
• Kenny Kirkland
   (Sting, Branford Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie)
• Cecil McBee, Jr.
• Richard Martel
   ("Opening Doors" - World Alert Records)
• Michael Mugrage
   (Orleans)
• Adam Nussbaum
   (John Scofield, Dave Liebman, Bill Evans)
• Bernard Purdie
   (Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan)
• Ali Ryerson
• Vicki Sue Robinson
   (RCA Records)
• Neil Smith
   (Alice Cooper)
• Rob Zantay
   (Stanley Jordan, Bob James, Suzanne Ciani)

Education:
4 years private jazz piano studies: John Mehegan ( Juilliard Jazz Educator )
2 years private vocal training: Thermon Bailey (NYC)
5 years private classical piano study