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 Bachelor of Music in 2007 from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting.

His music has been performed by groups including Flexible Music (New York), the Manhattan Composers' Orchestra (New York), the New Music Collective (Charleston), The New Music Institute of the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns Eisler" (Berlin), The Zwo Concert Series (Berlin), and Red Light New Music (New York).

He has been the recipient of awards and scholarships from the Lumina String Quartet, TACTUS, The Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Yale School of Music, among others and has been invited to present his music to such luminaries as Pierre Boulez, Richard Danielpour, Steven Schick, Julia Wolfe, and Carlo Pari (Rimini Conservatory). Recent and upcoming performances have taken place at John Zorn's "The Stone" in New York, the Italian Academy for Advanced Study at Columbia University, the Hochschule fur Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, and the Frederick Loewe Theatre at NYU.

Mr. Cerrone is the co-director of Red Light New Music, an ensemble and concert series based in New York dedicated to presenting new and exciting works of young composers. He 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 and given lectures at Columbia University in New York and the Berlin University of the Arts.