Chris Pattishall is a pianist and composer working in a diverse range of music. He is a featured performer on a wide range of recordings from the Grammy-nominated debut of drummer/vocalist Jamison Ross to the film score of Rian Johnson's Knives Out and the radical deconstructions of guitarist/composer Rafiq Bhatia's Standards, Vol. 1. 

Recent performance highlights include appearances at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall; with Bria Skonberg and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra; and at the Whitney Museum in conjunction with Jason Moran's exhibition.

Pattishall is a 2019 awardee of the Aaron Copland Fund to record his original suite Fictions, based on the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. He is currently preparing the release of his debut album Zodiac, a reimagining of the Zodiac Suite by pioneering pianist Mary Lou Williams.

Pattishall has collaborated as a composer and performer with a variety of forward-looking artists working in multiple disciplines. He scored two films by visual artist Kambui Olujimi: 2018's Skywriters premiered at the Newark Museum and 2017's Where Does The Time Go? premiered at Lincoln Center's Rubenstein Atrium. Pattishall worked with writer Simeon Marsalis to develop the multimedia essay “Why Jazz? A Festival Review.” He is currently developing a collaborative film project with filmmaker/scholar Camila Moreiras-Vilaros based on the writings of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector.