Staff Sergeant Christopher Barnes joined the West Point Band in 2020. He began his enlisted career in 2011 as a saxophone player and, in 2014, he attended the Naval Sound Reinforcement Course to begin his work as an audio engineer. He has previously served as a music production technician instructor at the Army School of Music, production NCOIC and saxophone player at both the 282nd Army Band at Fort Jackson and the Army Ground Forces Band at Fort Bragg, and as a saxophone player in the Maneuver Center of Excellence Band at Fort Moore.
