Christopher Cerrone (born March 5, 1984) is an American composer based in New York City. He was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, [1] a 2014 Fromm Foundation commission recipient, [2] a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, [3] and has received numerous awards from ASCAP. [4] [5] [6]
Cerrone was born in Huntington, New York, United States. He studied music composition at the Manhattan School of Music with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting, [7] and then earned his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Yale studying with Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Ingram Marshall, and Ezra Laderman. [8]
In 2014 Cerrone's opera Invisible Cities based on Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities was produced by the Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry, the LA Dance Project, and Sennheiser. The production received glowing reviews and had a sold-out run of performances. [9] [10] [11] Cerrone has received commissions from ensembles including eighth blackbird, [12] the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Present Music, [13] and he has been the Composer-in-Residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, [14] and with Exploring the Metropolis/ConEdison. [15]
Cerrone was a founding member and co-Artistic Director of Red Light New Music [16] [17] and currently a member of the composers' collective Sleeping Giant, consisting of Timo Andres, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Andrew Norman. [18] [19]
His works are published by Project Schott New York [20] and Schott Music. [21]
Opera
Orchestra
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Vocal
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