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Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984, Huntington, NY) is a Brooklyn-based composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electronic music. His music, recently described as "inventive" and "most effective" by the New York Times, is made of delicate and intricate sound worlds that often evoke the many writers who have inspired him: Italo Calvino, Louise Glück, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges.His opera, Invisible Cities, which was praised as "mesmerizing" by QonStage Magazine and as "a series of arresting musical moments ... the most satisfying piece on the program" by the New Haven Advocate, has been performed as part of New York City Opera's VOX Festival, at the inaugural Yale Institute for Music Theatre, at the Virginia Arts Festival, New Music New Haven concert series. Invisible Cities will receive its fully staged premire in February 2011 with Red Light New Music in New York, directed by Luisa Proske. Upcoming projects include a commission for a new work for violin and orchestra for the New York Youth Symphony to be premiered at Carnegie Hall, a new trombone quartet for the New York-based Guidonian Hand. Recent performances include Bang on a Can Festival, Flexible Music (New York), the Yale Philharmonia, the Manhattan Composers' Orchestra (New York), the New Music Collective (Charleston, SC), the New Music Institute at the Hochshule fur Musik, Berlin, the Grenzelos Ensemble (New York/Berlin/Melbourne/Shanghai), as well as with Red Light New Music, the New York City-based ensemble and concert series that he co-directs, who recently performed his piece Reading a Wave at the John F. Kennedy Center. He has been the recipient of awards and grants from the ASCAP (the 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Award), American Music Center (CAP Grant 2009), and the Yale School of Music (Ezra Laderman Prize), among others and has worked with composers including Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino, Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, and Julia Wolfe. Christopher Cerrone is currently pursuing his doctorate at the Yale School of Music, where studied with David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Ingram Marshall. He received his undergraduate degree in 2007 from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting. Mr. Cerrone is also an enthusiastic writer on the topic of music and has corresponded frequently for Opera News, and currently writes program notes for the Yale Philharmonia. He also remains active as a performer and lecturer, having performed as a guest artist with Alarm Will Sound, TACTUS, and the Manhattan School Percussion Ensemble. He has taught music theory at the Manhattan School of Music, lectured on contemporary music at Columbia University and the Berlin University of the Arts, and has taught electronic music and composition at Yale College. » Short Biography: Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984, Huntington, NY) is a Brooklyn-based composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electronic music. His music, recently described as "inventive" and "most effective" by the New York Times, is made of delicate and intricate sound worlds that often evoke the many writers who have inspired him: Italo Calvino, Louise Glück, Kurt Vonnegut, Jorge Luis Borges. He music has been heard across the US and Europe, most recently at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and at the Bang on a Can Festival. His violin concerto, Still Life with Violin and Orchestra, commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony, will be premiered this spring by Violinist Hahn-Bin at Carnegie Hall. His music has been performed by New York City Opera, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the Manhattan Composers' Orchestra and the Yale Philharmonia, among others, and he is co-artistic director and composer-in-residence for the New York City-based ensemble Red Light New Music. He recently received a 2010 ASCAP Morton Gould Award, a CAP Grant from the American Music Center, and the Ezra Laderman Prize from the Yale School of Music. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at Yale University, where he also taught music composition and electronic music. www.christophercerrone.com |