BIOGRAPHY

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Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984, Huntington, NY) is a composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electronic music residing in New Haven, CT. Currently a graduate student of Martin Bresnick and Ingram Marshall at the Yale School of Music, he received his undergraduate degree in 2007 from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting. This past year Christopher Cerrone has received performances in the US and Europe from the Orchestra National de Lorraine (Metz, France), Flexible Music (New York), 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), the Zwo Concert series (Berlin), as well as Red Light New Music, the New York City-based ensemble and concert series that he co-directs. This summer, he will be in residence at the Centre Acanthes in Metz.

He has been the recipient of awards and scholarships from the Lumina String Quartet, TACTUS, The Manhattan School of Music, the Cantemus Choir, New York University, Yale School of Music, among others and has been invited to present his music to composers including Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino, Ezra Laderman, Fabien Levy, Christopher Theofanidis, Richard Danielpour, Steven Schick, Julia Wolfe, and Carlo Pari.

Mr. Cerrone is also an enthusiastic writer on the topic of music and has corresponded frequently for Opera News, specializing in contemporary and world music. 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 this past year. 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 will begin teaching electronic music at Yale College in the fall.

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