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…