Christopher Cerrone

Composer Christopher Cerrone has earned an international reputation for music that is at once lush and detailed, rigorous, and sensuously appealing. Winning or appearing on shortlists for some of the American music world's top prizes, he is often commissioned by major performing organizations to compose new works. Cerrone was born March 5, 1984, in Huntington, New York, on Long Island. He attended the Manhattan School of Music, studying composition with Nils Vigeland, and then moved on to Yale for master's and doctoral degrees. Among his teachers there were Christopher Theofa...