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Christopher Trapani (born 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, currently based in New York City. He is the winner of the 2016-17 Rome Prize in Musical Composition, the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize, and a 2015 Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He maintains an active career in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in Continental Europe. Commissions have come from the BBC, the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Modern, and Radio France, and his works have been heard at Carnegie Hall, Southbank Centre, Ruhrtriennale, IRCAM, and Wigmore Hall.

Biography
Christopher Trapani was born in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, then spent most of his twenties overseas: a year in London, working on a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music with Julian Anderson; a year in Istanbul, studying microtonality in Ottoman music on a Fulbright grant; and seven years in Paris, where he studied with Philippe Leroux and worked at IRCAM. In 2015 he spent eight months in Stuttgart as a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, and in 2016-2017 spent eleven months at the American Academy in Rome.

Since 2010, Christopher has lived in New York City, where he earned a doctorate at Columbia University, with Tristan Murail, Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Fred Lerdahl.

Music
Christopher’s music weaves American and European stylistic strands into a personal aesthetic that defies easy classification. Snippets of Delta Blues, Appalachian folk, dance band foxtrots, and Turkish makam can be heard alongside spectral swells and meandering canons. As in Christopher’s hometown of New Orleans, diverse traditions coexist and intermingle, swirled into a rich melting pot.

Selected works
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Orchestral

 * Rust and Stardust (2015) for orchestra
 * Spinning in Infinity (2014) for orchestra and electronics
 * Westering (2010) for hexaphonic guitar and chamber orchestra
 * The Geography of Cities on Water (2009) for orchestra
 * Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night (2004) for orchestra
 * North (2003) for orchestra

Large Ensemble

 * Stellazione (2018) for 10 players
 * Creux (2018) for 12 players and electronics
 * PolychROME (2017) for 10 players
 * Convergence Lines (2013) for 10 players and electronics
 * Widening Circles (2012) for 8 players and electronics
 * Anyplace Else (2013) for 10 players
 * Cognitive Consonance (2010) for qanûn, hexaphonic electric guitar, 8 players, and electronics
 * Üsküdar (2008) for 16 players
 * Sparrow Episodes (2006) for 16 players
 * Sing Into My Mouth (2005) for 18 players

Chamber

 * Shotgun Shoegaze (2017) for four electric guitars and electronics
 * Isolario: Book of Known Islands (2015) for string quartet and electronics
 * Alcohol and Algebra (2015) for two steel-stringed guitars
 * Writing Against Time (2014) for two pianos and two percussionists
 * Visions and Revisions (2013) for string quartet
 * Passing Through, Staying Put (2011) for violin, cello, and piano
 * Leaving Lute (2011) for flute, viola, and harp
 * don't know what alright even means (2009) for clarinet, harp, piano, viola, cello, and bass
 * —N'T GO ANY FURTHER (2007) for bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin, viola, and cello
 * Half of Me is Ocean, Half of Me is Sky (Sea Surface Full of Clouds) (2003/4) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, bass, and piano
 * Blues Wrapped Around My Head (2004) for clarinet quartet (3 B flat clarinets and one bass clarinet)
 * Sunflower Suite (2003) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
 * History by Moonlight (2002) for clarinet, violin, and piano


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Vocal

 * End Words (2017) for six voices and electronics
 * Hafenlieder (2016) for soprano, flute, and accordion
 * Waterlines (2005/2012) for voice, 8 players, and electronics
 * Past All Deceiving: Cavafy Songs (2012) for soprano, flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
 * Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to (1998) for soprano and piano

Choral

 * O now the drenched land wakes (2006) for double choir a cappella
 * The sea is awash with roses (2000) for men's choir a cappella

Solo

 * Single Coil (2018) for electric guitar
 * Tesserae (2017/8) for viola d'amore and electronics
 * Horizontal Drift (2016) for quarter-tone guitar and electronics
 * Lost Time Triptych (2016) for piano scordatura
 * The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky (2005) for piano

Multimedia

 * Difficult Places (2015) for 23 players, electronics, and video
 * Five Out of Six (2012) for 6 players, electronics, and video

Arrangements

 * Two Folksong Distortions (2015) for voice, violin, guitar, and electronics
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Discography

 * 2018 Waterlines, New Focus Recordings (NCR 200)

Selected awards and fellowships

 * 2016 Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, Italy
 * 2015 Charles Ives Prize (Charles Ives Scholarship), American Academy of Arts and Letters
 * 2015 Chamber Music America Commission for Ekmeles
 * 2007 Fulbright Grant