Dear Friends, I’m excited to announce my debut album with Pentatone, “Don’t Look Down,” featuring Sandbox Percussion with pianist Conor Hanick, mezzo-soprano Elspeth Davis, and produced by Mike Tierney. Stream or download the album here: https://lnk.to/CerroneDontLookDown The album opens with “Don’t Look Down,” written during the pandemic, which reflects that period’s strangeness and instability. The piece moves from…

Dear Friends, What a start (in every sense) to 2025. I’m thrilled to share some exciting news and updates with you.  First, I’m delighted to report that my opera IN A GROVE (created with Stephanie Fleischmann and Mary Birnbaum) had a tremendous run at the Prototype Festival, with all five performances completely sold out. The New York Times called…

Dear Friends, I’m very excited to share that, along with my colleagues from Lorelei Ensemble and conductor Beth Willer, I’ve been nominated for the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. This is my third album to be nominated for a Grammy and my first as producer as well as composer. Beaufort Scales is a 35-minute composition…

Dear Friends, I hope you are faring well and safe. I spent my summer composing and workshopping a new piece with the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. The composition, entitled “Friday’s Saints,” is written for the low voices of the ensemble and uses recordings taken in Sicily of various singing traditions and merges them with new music…

Dear Friends, I hope all is well! I’m excited to share that my new album, Beaufort Scales, is available everywhere today from Cold Blue Music. Stream it on your favorite platform or buy a CD or download from Bandcamp. Beaufort Scales was commissioned and performed by the incredible Lorelei Ensemble and conducted by Beth Willer. It was recorded and mixed by…

I had the pleasure of working with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony and my dear friend, and ongoing collaborator, Lindsay Kesselman on the world premiere of “Darkening, Then Brightening,” five songs based on the poetry of Kim Addonizio. You can watch the premiere video here!

Dear Friends,  I hope this imminent spring finds you well. I’m writing to share some upcoming performances and announce a new album! This week, on March 7, Lorelei Ensemble, begins of a tour of Beaufort Scales, my 35-minute oratorio for high voices, live electronics, and video at Yale’s Schwarzman Center and continues it later this month to Pennsylvania and Syracuse. The album version…

Dear Friends, I hope you’re doing well. I’m really excited to let you know about some of the upcoming premieres and performances in the year ahead. 

 This season kicks off with a portrait concert in Basel, Switzerland. As part of a residency with the Laurenz House Foundation, I will present an evening of six…

I’m profoundly excited to share that the world premiere recording of In a Grove, my new opera written with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, is available now as a digital download and a limited edition CD (designed by Still Room), and for streaming on all major platforms from In a Circle Records.  The album features the luminous voices of Lindsay Kesselman, Chuanyuan Liu,…

I am very, very excited to announce the release of IN A GROVE, a new opera written with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann coming out on July 7 on In a Circle Records. The album features Lindsay Kesselman, Chunyuan Liu, Andrew Turner, John Taylor Ward and Metropolis Ensemble was produced by Mike Tierney, Andrew Cyr, and myself. On this album, we’ve gone further than ever…