Vocal – Christopher Cerrone

Text adapted from the story of the same name by Kevin Brockmeier Orchestration 2(I,II=Picc).EH.2(II=Bcl).1-2.2.2.0-Narrator/Baritone-perc(4)-hp-pft(amp)-strings(min 8.7.6.6.4) Duration 23 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere The Louisville Orchestra; Teddy Abrams, music director The Year of Silence was premièred on May 11 and 12, 2023 with Dashon Burton, baritone, Teddy Abrams, conductor Score Rental inquiry form Note I stumbled on Kevin…

Orchestration for full SATB choir, 2.2.2.2/2.2.2/perc.hrp.pf/strings, and electronics Duration 5 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Premiered by NC State’s Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra (Peter Askim, conductor) and the NC State Chorale and University Singers (Nathan Leaf, conductor) on April 10, 2022. This work was commissioned by the NC State University Department of Music and the…

Orchestration mezzo-soprano and piano Duration 3 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Commissioned and premiered by Sasha Cooke and Kirill Kuzmin at the Davies Symphony Hall, presented by the San Francisco Symphony, on January 30, 2022 in her program “How do I find you“. Score Score is held in exclusivity until January, 2024. Listen “Everything Will Be Okay”…

Orchestration for SSSSMMAA choir, amplified with live electronics + visual projections Duration 35 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere November 3, 2023, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtLorelei EnsembleBeth Willer, conductor Commissioned by Stephen Block, Raulee Marcus, and The Adele and John Gray Endowment with support from the National Endowment of the Arts, New Music USA, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and…

Orchestration amplified voice, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, vionocello, and looping electronics Duration 8 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Albany Symphony Orchestrawith Funds Provided by the Music Alive Residency Program of New Music USA.This version specifically created for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Summer 2017 Score Purchase from Project Schott New York. Listen Electronics Download electronics. The singer…

Orchestration for SSAATTBB choir

Orchestration for solo amplified voice and pre-recorded voicesor three sopranostext by: Kurt Vonnegut Duration 6 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Daisy Press, voice and prerecorded voicesNew Music New Haven, Yale University, December 2007 Score Contact me Note Requiem for K.V. was composed in September 2007 and was very much inspired by my now fifteen-year-long relationship with the author…

Orchestration baritone voice, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and pre-recorded electronics(also available in a version for string quartet and electronics) Duration 4 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere LoadbangThe Yale Club, New York, NYFebruary 23rd, 2010 Version for string quartet was commissioned by the Argus Quartet.James Madison University’s Contemporary Music Festival, Harrisonburg, VirginiaFebruary 14, 2017 Score Purchase from Project Schott New…

Orchestration soprano and pianotext by: Tao Lin Duration 5 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere OPERA America to celebrate the opening of their new opera centerPremiered by Mellissa Hughes at the National Opera Center on March 20, 2013 Score Published in The Opera America Songbook by Schott NY. Purchase from Hal Leonard or Amazon. Listen Note That Night with the…

Orchestration soprano, clarinet or soprano saxophone, piano, and percussionor soprano and pianotext by: Tao Lin Duration 18 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Programwith generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationand the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.Premiered by The Color Field Ensemble at Constellation, Chicago, IL on August 18, 2013 Score Purchase…

Orchestration men’s choir (a cappella)text by: Ryōkan Duration 4 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Cornell University Glee Club; Robert Isaacs, Music DirectorOctober 14, 2014 at Cornell University Score Purchase from PSNY. Listen Note A cold night – sitting alone in my empty roomFilled only with incense smoke.Outside, a bamboo grove of a hundred trees;On the bed several volumes…

Orchestration 8 singers (SSAATTBB) or small choir and 10 players (1.0.1.0 1.0.1.0, perc., pno, string quartet) Duration 22 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Sunday, November 22, 2015Cathedral of St. John the EvangelistPresent Music and the Hearing Voices Ensemble Kevin Stalheim, music directorThe Branch Will Not Break was commissioned by John Shannon and Jan Serr Score Available from Project…

Orchestration high soprano and 14 players (1.1.1.1 1.0.1.0 2perc pno hp 4str)also available in a chamber version for 10 players (1.1.1.0 1.0.0.0. pno perc 4str) Duration 20 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Music DirectorWalt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CAJohn Adams, conductorHila Plitmann, sopranoMay 26, 2015 Score Original version for chamber…

Orchestration baritone or mezzo soprano (with reverb and looping capabilities) and fl, ob/eh, cl, bsn, hn, tbn, p.no, vn, va, vc, and d.b. (click here for the version for voice and sextet) Duration 8 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Albany Symphony Orchestrawith Funds Provided by theMusic Alive Residency Program of New Music USA Score Purchase from Project…

Orchestration for soprano, guitar, prepared piano, and vibraphone Duration 3 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting and the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The world premiere was given by Third Coast Percussion and Rachel Calloway on February 4, 2017. This version was premiered as part of the New York Festival…

Orchestration for solo mezzo-soprano and percussion quartetalso available in a version for soprano and percussion quartet Duration 21 minutes Commissioned by/Premiere Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting and the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The world premiere was given by Third Coast Percussion and Rachel Calloway on February 4, 2017. Score Purchase Mezzo-Soprano Version from Project…