Catching up with Christopher Cerrone:
world premieres with the Detroit Symphony, Jennifer Koh, the Calder Quartet, Third Coast Percussion – and more!

After a 16/17 featuring premieres at Miller Theatre by Tim Munro; by Third Coast Percussion and Rachel Calloway at Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center; the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with Jeffrey Kahane; and much more, composer Christopher Cerrone heads into a new season absolutely brimming with new works and performances, including:
 

 

 

 

And this weekend, Christopher Cerrone is in Michigan, where Michigan State University offers an all-Cerrone concert, and in Detroit, where Latitude 49 and Vicky Chow perform Cerrone works on the New Music Detroit festival, Strange Beautiful Music X.

Please explore Christopher Cerrone's full calendar to learn about many more upcoming performances, in Italy, Poland, Spain, Italy, at the Kennedy Center, and elsewhere.

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On Will There Be Singing, with LACO and Jeffrey Kahane: 
“Composer Christopher Cerrone contributed a stunning new piece […] The title comes from Bertolt Brecht: ‘In dark times/Will there also be singing?’ Cerrone doesn’t need Brecht’s question mark, so sure is he that the answer is yes. Yet in the end Cerrone produces far more light than darkness in the 11-minute score, which opens with the radiance of ringing bells and flows through a wondrous soundscape of glowing winds and rapturous string harmonics.”  
– Mark Swed, LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 22, 2017
(Listen to an excerpt here.)

On the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's Cerrone Composer-of-the-Year Portrait:
"PNME increasingly has programmed Mr. Cerrone’s music over the past few seasons, and the pairing between this ensemble and artist is a natural one. The Brooklyn-based composer frequently collaborates with PNME percussionist Ian Rosenbaum. His music, which is full of literary and geographical references, lends itself well to PNME’s visual approach."
- Elizabeth Bloom, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, July 29, 2017

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Enjoy videos of recent Cerrone works below, and contact Emily Motherwell, OtherARTS, to inquire about lead and co-commission opportunities in coming seasons.