Discipline: Music Composition

Christopher Cerrone

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015, 2017

Christopher Cerrone is working on a new work for voices and instruments commissioned by the Milwaukee-based ensemble Present Music. His opera, Invisible Cities, was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He will begin his Rome Prize fellowship in the fall of 2015.

Portrait by Fabio Bracarda

Studios

Watson

Christopher Cerrone worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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