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: Fred Lerdahl, 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, Paris, France Composition Cursus, 2008-2010 Composition with Yan Maresz Masterclasses with Brian Ferneyhough, Philippe Hurel, Marco Stroppa, Emmanuel Nunes Conservatoire Erik Satie, Le Blanc-Mesnil, France DEM, 2007 Composition with Philippe Leroux Royal College of Music, London, 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: Bernard Rands, Helen Vendler New England Conservatory, Boston, 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 Charles Ives 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 Morton Gould 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, San Francisco, CA 2005 John Green prize in composition, Harvard 2001 AWARDED COMMISSIONS Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress 2018 Chamber Music 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, Frankfurt, Germany 2015 Atlas Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2014, 2012, 2011 Darmstadt 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 Wolfgang Rihm Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, Asnières-sur-Oise, France 2004 Courses with Brian Ferneyhough, Luca Francesconi, and Philippe Leroux American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Reading Sessions, New York, NY 2004 with mentor composers Stephen Hartke, Michael Daugherty, and Robert Beaser 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 Chicago 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 Guitar: steel-stringed acoustic, electric, hexaphonic electric guitar Piano 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 Guitars — 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 pianos, four guitars, two basses, and two percussionists 2018 Commissioned by Ravenna Festival Premiered 21 June 2018 Ravenna