Christopher TRAPANI 20-61 23rd Street Apt. #1 Astoria, NY 11105 USA +1 917 929-1703 [email protected] www.christophertrapani.com

EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York, NY DMA, Composition, 2017 Dissertation: “Convergence Lines: A Musical Distillation of Thomas Pynchon’s V.” Sponsor: , Chair: Georg Friedrich Haas Examiners: Brad Garton, Marilyn Nonken, Edward Mendelsohn

Columbia University, New York, NY MA, Composition, 2012 Language Proficiency Exams: French, Turkish Composition with Tristan Murail, Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas

IRCAM, , Composition Cursus, 2008-2010 Composition with Yan Maresz Masterclasses with , Philippe Hurel, Marco Stroppa, Emmanuel Nunes

Conservatoire Erik Satie, Le Blanc-Mesnil, France DEM, 2007 Composition with Philippe Leroux

Royal College of Music, , UK MMus, Composition, 2003 Composition with Julian Anderson, Electronic Music workshop with Jonathan Harvey

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA BA, Music and English and American Literature and Language, magna cum laude, 2002 Thesis: "Songs from the Plays: Creating a Musical Reflection of Kenneth Koch's Poetry" Thesis advisors: , Helen Vendler

New England Conservatory, , MA candidate for BA in Music Composition, 1998-1999 Composition with Malcom Peyton

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Luciano Berio Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome 2016-7 NewMusicUSA grant for collaboration with Collect/Project 2016 Copland Fund Award for Waterlines portrait CD 2016 Scholarship, American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 British Composers Award (BASCA) nomination for Visions and Revisions 2014 Julius F. Ježek Prize for young American composers 2013 New Forum Jeune Création laureate, Grame, Lyon, France 2012 Meet the Composer MetLife Connections grant for Westering 2011 AMC Composers Assistance Program Grant for Westering 2010 ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award for most outstanding score for Üsküdar 2009 ASCAP Young Composers Awards, New York, NY 2009, 2006, 2005 Gaudeamus Prize for Sparrow Episodes, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2007 BMI Student Composer Award, New York, NY 2006 Bearns Prize from Columbia University for Sing Into My Mouth 2006 Wayne Peterson Prize from Earplay for Sunflower Suite, , CA 2005 John Green prize in composition, Harvard 2001

AWARDED COMMISSIONS

Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress 2018 America 2016 JFund (Jerome Foundation) 2012

FELLOWSHIPS

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2019 Musical Research Residency at IRCAM 2012-2013 six-month research grant: Real Time Tempo Canons with Antescofo Fulbright Research Grant to Turkey 2007-2008 research in microtonality in Ottoman music, affiliated with MIAM, Istanbul Critical Language Enhancement Award for Turkish language study, four months Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Grant 2008 Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for postgraduate study in the UK, Harvard 2002 John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, Harvard Department of Music 2002

RESIDENCIES

Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (3 months) 2018 Copland House, Cortlandt, NY (1 month) 2016 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany (8 months) 2014-2015 Résidence Internationale aux Récollets, Paris, France (3 months) 2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (20 months) 2003-2005

COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

Ensemble Modern International Composition Seminar, , Germany 2015 Atlas Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2014, 2012, 2011 Ferienkurse, Darmstadt, Germany 2012 TACTUS orchestral reading sessions, Brussels, Belgium 2011 Courses with Augusta Read Thomas, Julian Anderson, and Bruno Mantovani ENPARTS campus, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2009 Interdisciplinary workshop for 16 European artists, directed by Luca Francesconi Centre Acanthes, Metz, France 2009 Courses with Hugues Dufourt, Ivan Fedele, and Bruno Mantovani Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Québec, Canada 2006 Courses with Denys Bouliane, Jean Lesage, and Lorraine Vaillaincourt New Music Technology summer course, IRCAM, Paris, France 2006 Centre Acanthes, Metz, France 2005 Courses with Pascal Dusapin and Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, Asnières-sur-Oise, France 2004 Courses with Brian Ferneyhough, Luca Francesconi, and Philippe Leroux American Composers Whitaker Reading Sessions, New York, NY 2004 with mentor composers , , and

CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS

Grids to Goldleaf: Electronics in the work of Julian Anderson 2020 Book chapter: Heaven is Shy of Earth: the Music of Julian Anderson (forthcoming)

Séminaire Recherche et Création on Spinning in Infinity, IRCAM, Paris, France 2016

Sketching, synthesis, spatialization: The integrated workflow of Cognitive Consonance Chapter: The OpenMusic Composers’ Book, Volume 3, IRCAM, Paris, France 2016

Real-Time Tempo Canons with Antescofo (with Jose Echeveste) Paper: International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece 2014 Best Presentation Award

Fine-Tuned Control of Concatenative Synthesis with CataRT using bach Library for Max (with Andrea Agostini, Daniele Ghisi, Aaron Einbond, and Diemo Schwarz) Paper: International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece 2014

Thirty-One to Forty-Nine: Composing for the Fokker Organ through OpenMusic Presentation: International Keyboard Symposium, Goldsmiths, London, UK 2012

Precise Pitch Control in Real Time with Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis (with Aaron Einbond and Diemo Schwarz) Paper: International Computer Music Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012

Targeted Transposition in CataRT Conference: Ghost in the Machine: Musical Interactivity Festival, NY 2012

“Unmagical Invitations" The Iconography of North from a Southern Composer’s Perspective Presentation: Music and the Imagination of the North and the Cold UQAM, Montreal, Canada 2012

Cognitive Consonance: Composing Precise and Practical Microtones in an Ensemble Context Presentation: Inharmonic/(X)enharmonic: Columbia University, NY 2011

Séminaire Recherche et Création on Cognitive Consonance, IRCAM, Paris, France 2011 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Columbia University Sound: Advanced Topics II G6611Y (co-taught with Brad Garton) 2015 - graduate seminar: iOS interface design Sound: Advanced Topics I G6610X (co-taught with Brad Garton) 2014 - graduate seminar: tools for electroacoustic composition Sound: Advanced Topics II G6611Y (teaching assistant for Luke DuBois) 2014 - graduate seminar: Musical Interactivity Sound: AdvancedTopics I G6610X (teaching assistant for Sam Pluta) 2013 - graduate seminar: History of Sound Art Music Humanities HUMA UN1123: Masterpieces of Western Music 2011-2012 - undergraduate core curriculum survey of music history (teaching assistant)

Invited Lectures and Master Classes Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Germany 2018 IRCAM, Paris, FR 2017, 2013, 2012 Birmingham Conservatoire, UK 2017 University of Huddersfield, UK 2017 Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billaincourt, Paris, FR 2017 Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, DE 2017, 2015 University of 2016 Tulane University 2015 University of New Orleans 2013 University of Memphis 2011

Composition Course Instructor Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, NL 2017 Atlas Academy, Amsterdam, NL 2014, 2012 - composition teacher, conductor - lectures on cross-cultural music and technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Proficiency Max IRCAM tools: OpenMusic, Modalys, CataRT, Antescofo~, Orchids, Spat, Audiosculpt DAW: ProTools, Logic

Instrumental Proficiency : steel-stringed acoustic, electric, hexaphonic electric guitar Auxiliary plucked strings: mandolin, banjo, dulcimer, pedal steel guitar, saz bağlama, kanun

LANGUAGE SKILLS

French (fluent), Turkish (nearly fluent), Italian (functional), German (intermediate) NOTABLE RECENT PERFORMANCES

Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2017 PolychROME, Ensemble Modern with Brad Lubman, conductor

MusicNOW, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2016 Waterlines, with Tony Arnold, soprano, Cliff Colnot, conductor

Festival Présences, Maison de la Radio, Paris, France 2015 Spinning in Infinity for orchestra plus live electronics by IRCAM

Royal Festival Hall, London, UK 2011 Portrait concert on the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today series Performances of Üsküdar and don't know what alright even means

Carnegie Hall, New York, NY 2010 Premiere of Westering with the American Composers Orchestra George Manahan, conductor, Christopher Trapani, solo hexaphonic guitar

DISCOGRAPHY

American Lament ICTUS Ensemble featuring Christie Finn, Liesa Van der Aa, Tom Pauwels 2019 Performances of Waterlines and Two Folksong Distortions Forthcoming release (Belgium)

Waterlines 2018 Performances by Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Longleash, Lucy Dhegrae, Didem Basar, Christopher Trapani, and Marilyn Nonken Portrait CD, New Focus Recordings Featuring Waterlines, Visions and Revisions, Passing Through, Staying Put, The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky, and Cognitive Consonance

Passage — Longleash Piano Trio 2017 New Focus Recordings. Features Passing Through, Staying Put

Microtonal Music for Two — Oh Mensch 2017 Seminal Records. Features Alcohol and Algebra

Give My Regards to 116th Street — Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar 2015 Carrier Records. Features Really Coming Down

Currents, Vol. 1 — Yarn/Wire 2014 Premiere recording of Writing Against Time LIST OF WORKS

Stellazione for two , four guitars, two basses, and two percussionists 2018 Commissioned by Ravenna Festival Premiered 21 June 2018 Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy

Single Coil étude for electric guitar and delay pedal 2018 Commissioned by Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt Premiered 25 July 2018 Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Creux for twelve players and electronics 2018 Commissioned by GMEM and Ensemble C Barré Premiered 18 May 2018 Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, France

Longue Durée for voice, accordion, and electronics 2017 Commissioned by Festival Musiques Démesurées Premiered 3 November 2017 Festival Musiques Démésurées, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Shotgun Shoegaze for four electric guitars and electronics 2017 Commissioned by Transit Festival and Ernest von Siemens Foundation Premiered 21 August 2017 by Zwerm Ruhrtriennale, Essen, Germany

PolychROME for ten players 2017 Commissioned by Wittener Tage für and Ensemble L’Itinéraire Premiered 25 April 2017 by ICE/Ensemble L’Itinérarie, J.-M. Lavoie, conductor Roulette, Brooklyn, NY Second premiere 7 May 2017 by Ensemble Modern, Brad Lubman, conductor Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Witten, Germany

Tesserae for d’amore and electronics 2017 Premiered 12 April 2017 by Marco Fusi Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, Rome, Italy

End Words for six voices and electronics 2017 Commissioned by Chamber Music America Premiered 20 May 2017 by Ekmeles DiMenna Center, New York, NY

Horizontal Drift for quarter-tone guitar and electronics 2016 Commissioned by Juuso Nieminen Premiered 1 October 2016 by Juuso Nieminen Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

Lost Time Triptych for solo piano scordatura 2016 Commissioned by Marilyn Nonken Premiered 23 May 2016 by Marilyn Nonken Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

Hafenlieder for voice, flute, and accordion 2016 Commissioned by NewMusicUSA Premiered 17 April 2016 by Collect/Project Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany

Isolario: Book of Known Islands for string quartet and electronics 2015 Commissioned by Grame (Lyon), MC2 (Grenoble), and Quatuor Béla Premiered 30 September 2015 by Quatuor Béla (electronics by Grame) MC2, Grenoble, France

Difficult Places for twenty-three instruments and video 2015 Premiered 28 November 2015 by Ensemble Modern, Johannes Kalitzke, cond. cresc... festival, Frankfurt, Germany

Two Folksong Distortions – arrangements for voice, guitar, , and electronics 2015 Commissioned by ICTUS Premiered 21 April 2015 by Liesa Van der Aa and Tom Pawuels Festival Extension, La Muse en Circuit, Paris, France

Alcohol and Algebra for two steel-stringed guitars 2015 Premiered 14 June 2015 by Oh Mensch guitar duo Der Somer in Stuttgart Festival, Stuttgart, Germany

Rust and Stardust for orchestra 2015 Premiered 2 May 2015 by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, cond. Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

Spinning in Infinity for orchestra plus live electronics 2014 Commissioned by Radio France, electronics realized at IRCAM Premiered 21 February 2015 by Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France Maison de la Radio / Festival Présences, Paris, France

Writing Against Time for two pianists, two percussionists, and live electronics 2014 Commissioned by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, Ježek Prize Premiered 1 May 2014 by Yarn/Wire Issue Project Room, New York, New York

Visions and Revisions for string quartet 2013 Commissioned by Wigmore Hall Premiered 23 January 2014 by JACK Quartet Wigmore Hall, London, UK

Convergence Lines for ten instruments and live electronics 2013 Premiered 23 January 2014 by Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Pierre-André Valade, conductor Festival Ultraschall, Berlin, Germany

Waterlines for soprano, eight players and electronics 2005/2012 Commissioned by the Jerome Foundation Premiered 28 September 2014 by Talea Ensemble Lucy Dhegrae, voice / James Baker, conductor Roulette, Brooklyn, NY

Widening Circles for eight instruments and electronics 2012 Electronics realized in collaboration with SWR Experimentalstudio, Freiburg Premiered 31 August 2012 by Atlas Ensemble, Christopher Trapani, cond. Atlas Festival, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, NL

Anyplace Else for ten instruments 2012 Premiered 21 July 2012 by Ensemble Dal Niente, Michael Lewanski, cond. Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Five out of Six for ensemble, live video, and electronics 2012 Collaboration with live video duo Things Happen (Madrid). Premiered 24 March 2012 Festival of Interactive Music, Miller Theater, NYC

Past All Deceiving: Cavafy Songs for soprano and seven instruments 2012 Premiered 18 March 2012 by Argento Ensemble Margot Rood, voice, Michel Galante, conductor St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, New York, NY

Passing Through, Staying Put for piano trio 2011 Premiered 14 September 2011 by Musiques Nouvelles The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus Leaving Lute for flute, viola, and harp 2011 Premiered 4 April 2011 by the Janus Trio The Tank, New York, NY

Forty-nine, Forty-nine for MIDI-controlled Fokker-organ 2011 Premiered 27 February 2011 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Westering for hexaphonic electric guitar, chamber orchestra, and live electronics 2010 Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra Premiered 3 December 2010 by American Composers Orchestra Christopher Trapani, hexaphonic electric guitar, George Manahan, conductor (Zankel Hall), New York, NY

Cognitive Consonance for qanun, hexaphonic guitar, ensemble, and electronics 2010 Premiered 9 June 2010 by Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Mark Foster, conductor Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss, qanun; Christelle Séry, guitar Festival Agora, IRCAM, Paris, France

Dance Etude for real time video, mandolin, and live electronics 2009 Collaborative work with live video duo Things Happen (Madrid) Premiered 2 October 2009 Biennale di Musica, Venice, Italy

The Geography of Cities on Water for orchestra 2009 Recorded January 2011 by Brussels Philharmonic, Michel Tabachnik, cond. Flagey, Brussels, Belgium don’t know what alright even means for , harp, piano, viola, , and bass 2009 Premiered 1 July 2009 Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine

Recession for accordion and live electronics 2009 Premiered 1 April, 2009 by Pierre Cussac IRCAM, Paris, France

Üsküdar for sixteen players 2008 Commissioned by Gaudeamus Music Week Premiered 4 September 2008, by Nieuw Ensemble, Micha Hamel, conductor Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Really Coming Down for guitar and electronics 2007 Premiered 30 June 2007 by Christelle Séry Le Blanc-Mesnil, France

–N’T GO ANY FURTHER for bass clarinet, tenor sax, violin, viola, and ‘cello 2007 Premiered 30 June 2007 by Ensemble Cairn, Guillaume Bourgogne, conductor Le Blanc-Mesnil, France

O now the drenched land wakes for double choir (text: Kenneth Patchen) 2006 Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts Premiered 4 March 2007 by the Providence Singers Providence, RI

Sparrow Episodes for sixteen players 2006 Premiered 24 August 2006 by Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillaincourt, conductor / Domaine Forget, St.-Irénée, Québec Also performed 5 September, 2007 by Asko Ensemble, Etienne Siebens, conductor Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sing Into My Mouth for eighteen players 2005 Premiered 19 July 2005 by the Orchestre Nationale de Lorraine, Metz, France

The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky for piano solo 2005 Commissioned by the FleetBoston Celebrity Series Premiered 16 April 2005 by Sergey Schepkin Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

Blues Wrapped Around My Head for three B flat and bass clarinet 2004 Composed for Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont Abbey Premiered 2 October 2014 by members of Nouvel Ensemble Moderne/ Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain Asnières-sur-Oise, France

Sunflower Suite for sextet (flute, clarinet, violin, ‘cello, piano, and perc.) 2003 Premiered 19 June 2003 by members of Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, London, UK Repeated 20 June 2003 at National Gallery, London, UK Also performed 13 March 2006 by Earplay, San Francisco, CA

North for orchestra 2002-3 Premiered 17 March 2004 Royal College of Music, London Also performed at American Composers Orchestra’s Whitaker Reading Sessions, May 20, 2004