Christopher Young (born April 28, 1958) is an American composer and orchestrator of film and television scores.
Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Young stated composers like Bernard Herrmann, David Raksin, David Newman, Peter Bernstein, Michael Kamen, Jean-Michel Jarre, Joel Goldsmith, Carter Burwell, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Hans Zimmer, Mark Isham, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Leonard Bernstein, Chris Mancini, James Horner, Dimitri Tiomkin, John Debney, George Bruns, Oliver Wallace, Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill, Paul Smith and Carl W. Stalling as influences.