Christopher Cerrone

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Works

• All
  • All Wounds Bleed
    An Opera in One Act
    vocal score (2011, 2019 )
  • All Wounds Bleed
    a chamber opera in one act
    version with flute
  • All Wounds Bleed
    a chamber opera in one act
    version with saxophone (2011, 2019 )
  • Apocatastasis
    from Goldbeater's Skin
    (2016 )
  • The Arching Path
    for piano
    (2016 )
  • The Arching Path
    version for two pianos
    (2020 )
  • Area of Refuge
    for solo piano
    (2022 )
  • The Branch Will Not Break
    for vocal ensemble and 10 instruments
    (2015 )
  • Can't and Won't
    for string quartet
    (2017 )
  • Corridor of Uncertainty
    for piano and electronics
    (2022 )
  • Don't Look Down
    concerto for prepared piano and percussion quartet
    (2020 )
  • Double Happiness
    for electric guitar, percussion, and electronics
    percussion instrumentation: (vibraphone, 4 glockenspiel bars, 6 crotales, and one optional metal pipe) (2012 )
  • Double Happiness
    version for piano, percussion, and electronics
    (2012 (arr. 2016) )
  • Everything Will Be Okay
    for mezzo-soprano and piano
    (2020 )
  • Exhalation
    for cello and electronics
    (2021 )
  • Goldbeater's Skin
    for mezzo-soprano and percussion quartet
    (2017 )
  • Goldbeater's Skin
    version for soprano and percussion quartet
    (2017 )
  • Groundswell
    version for trombone or bass trombone and piano
    (2022 )
  • Groundswell
    version for tuba and piano
    (2022 )
  • Harriman
    piano and electronics (2012 )
  • High Windows
    study score
    concerto grosso for string orchestra (2012 )
  • How to Breathe Underwater
    male voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, pre-recorded electronics (2011 )
  • How to Breathe Underwater
    version for string quartet and electronics
    (2016 )
  • Hoyt-Schermerhorn
    piano, electronics (2010 )
  • Hoyt–Schermerhorn
    version for harp and electronics
    (2022 )
  • In a Grove
    an opera in seven testimonies
    (2021 )
  • Invisible Overture
    from the opera Invisible Cities
    flute, clarinet in B-flat, horn in F, tenor trombone (with F attachment), piano, percussion, harp, violin, viola, violoncello (2008, chamber orchestra version 2013 )
  • I Will Learn to Love a Person
    for soprano, saxophone or clarinet, piano, and percussion
    soprano voice, soprano saxophone or clarinet, percussion (vibraphone with motor and bows, glockenspiel), piano (2013 )
  • I Will Learn to Love a Person
    version for soprano and piano
    (2013 )
  • Liminal Highway
    for flute and electronics
    (2016 )
  • Liminal Highway
    version for soprano saxophone and electronics
    (2022 )
  • Memory Palace
    solo percussion and electronics (2012 )
  • Memory Palace
    version for percussion quartet and electronics
    (2012 [arr. 2015 for percussion quartet] )
  • The Naomi Songs
    for voice and 11 players
    (2015 )
  • The Naomi Songs
    version for voice and piano
    (2015 )
  • The Naomi Songs
    version for amplified voice and sextet
    (2015 (arr. 2017) )
  • A Natural History of Vacant Lots
    ambient music for percussion quartet and electronics
    (2018 )
  • A Natural History of Vacant Lots
    version for solo percussion and electronics
    (2019 )
  • Nervous Systems
    for clarinet quintet
    clarinet in Bb and string quartet (2022 )
  • New Addresses
    for flute, bass clarinet, violin, and cello
    (2020 )
  • The Night Mare
    for 7 players and electronics
    flute (afl), bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano and prerecorded electronics (2011 )
  • Not One Word
    for men's choir (TTBB)
    (2014 )
  • Ode to Joy
    for percussion quartet
    (2023 )
  • On Being Wrong
    for cello and electronics
    (2015 )
  • Passagework
    for solo piano
    (2020 [revised 2023] )
  • The Pieces That Fall to Earth
    for high soprano and chamber orchestra
    1.1(bcl).1(ca).1-1.0.1.0-2perc(I. mar [5 oct, ossia for 4.3 oct], crot, tam-t, guiro, sandblock, lg sus cym, tri, tibetan singing bowl [G#5]; II. vib, glsp, guiro, med sus cym, sizzle cym, sandblock, guiro, tri)-pno.hp-vn.va.vc.db (2015 )
  • The Pleasure of Being the Cause
    version for cello and piano
    (2021 )
  • The Pleasure of Being the Cause
    version for cello and percussion
    (2023 )
  • Recovering
    for seven musicians
    clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, violin, double bass (2011 )
  • Shall I Project a World?
    for solo violin
    (2015 )
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
    (2015 )
  • South Catalina
    for sextet
    (2014 )
  • Why Was I Born Between Mirrors?
    for chamber ensemble
    (2019 )
  • Wind Phone, Goleta, CA
    for choir (SATB), string quartet, and audio playback (opt.)
    (2022 )
• Solo (excluding keyboard)
  • Exhalation
    for cello and electronics
    (2021 )
  • Hoyt–Schermerhorn
    version for harp and electronics
    (2022 )
  • Liminal Highway
    for flute and electronics
    (2016 )
  • Liminal Highway
    version for soprano saxophone and electronics
    (2022 )
  • Memory Palace
    solo percussion and electronics (2012 )
  • A Natural History of Vacant Lots
    version for solo percussion and electronics
    (2019 )
  • On Being Wrong
    for cello and electronics
    (2015 )
  • Shall I Project a World?
    for solo violin
    (2015 )
• Solo keyboard
  • The Arching Path
    for piano
    (2016 )
  • Area of Refuge
    for solo piano
    (2022 )
  • Corridor of Uncertainty
    for piano and electronics
    (2022 )
  • Harriman
    piano and electronics (2012 )
  • Hoyt-Schermerhorn
    piano, electronics (2010 )
  • Passagework
    for solo piano
    (2020 [revised 2023] )
• Voice(s) and piano
  • Everything Will Be Okay
    for mezzo-soprano and piano
    (2020 )
• Chamber (2-5 players)
  • Apocatastasis
    from Goldbeater's Skin
    (2016 )
  • The Arching Path
    version for two pianos
    (2020 )
  • Can't and Won't
    for string quartet
    (2017 )
  • Don't Look Down
    concerto for prepared piano and percussion quartet
    (2020 )
  • Double Happiness
    for electric guitar, percussion, and electronics
    percussion instrumentation: (vibraphone, 4 glockenspiel bars, 6 crotales, and one optional metal pipe) (2012 )
  • Double Happiness
    version for piano, percussion, and electronics
    (2012 (arr. 2016) )
  • Goldbeater's Skin
    for mezzo-soprano and percussion quartet
    (2017 )
  • Goldbeater's Skin
    version for soprano and percussion quartet
    (2017 )
  • Groundswell
    version for trombone or bass trombone and piano
    (2022 )
  • Groundswell
    version for tuba and piano
    (2022 )
  • How to Breathe Underwater
    version for string quartet and electronics
    (2016 )
  • Memory Palace
    version for percussion quartet and electronics
    (2012 [arr. 2015 for percussion quartet] )
  • The Naomi Songs
    version for voice and piano
    (2015 )
  • Nervous Systems
    for clarinet quintet
    clarinet in Bb and string quartet (2022 )
  • New Addresses
    for flute, bass clarinet, violin, and cello
    (2020 )
  • Ode to Joy
    for percussion quartet
    (2023 )
  • The Pleasure of Being the Cause
    version for cello and piano
    (2021 )
  • The Pleasure of Being the Cause
    version for cello and percussion
    (2023 )
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
    (2015 )
• Voice(s) with instrument(s) (1-5 players)
  • Wind Phone, Goleta, CA
    for choir (SATB), string quartet, and audio playback (opt.)
    (2022 )
• Large ensemble (6-12 players)
  • Invisible Overture
    from the opera Invisible Cities
    flute, clarinet in B-flat, horn in F, tenor trombone (with F attachment), piano, percussion, harp, violin, viola, violoncello (2008, chamber orchestra version 2013 )
  • The Naomi Songs
    for voice and 11 players
    (2015 )
  • The Night Mare
    for 7 players and electronics
    flute (afl), bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano and prerecorded electronics (2011 )
  • Recovering
    for seven musicians
    clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, violin, double bass (2011 )
  • South Catalina
    for sextet
    (2014 )
  • Why Was I Born Between Mirrors?
    for chamber ensemble
    (2019 )
• Voice(s) with large ensemble (6-12 players)
  • All Wounds Bleed
    a chamber opera in one act
    version with flute
  • All Wounds Bleed
    a chamber opera in one act
    version with saxophone (2011, 2019 )
  • The Naomi Songs
    version for amplified voice and sextet
    (2015 (arr. 2017) )
• Choral (a cappella or with any number of instruments)
  • Not One Word
    for men's choir (TTBB)
    (2014 )
• Orchestra
  • High Windows
    study score
    concerto grosso for string orchestra (2012 )
  • Invisible Overture
    from the opera Invisible Cities
    flute, clarinet in B-flat, horn in F, tenor trombone (with F attachment), piano, percussion, harp, violin, viola, violoncello (2008, chamber orchestra version 2013 )
  • The Pieces That Fall to Earth
    for high soprano and chamber orchestra
    1.1(bcl).1(ca).1-1.0.1.0-2perc(I. mar [5 oct, ossia for 4.3 oct], crot, tam-t, guiro, sandblock, lg sus cym, tri, tibetan singing bowl [G#5]; II. vib, glsp, guiro, med sus cym, sizzle cym, sandblock, guiro, tri)-pno.hp-vn.va.vc.db (2015 )
• Opera
  • All Wounds Bleed
    An Opera in One Act
    vocal score (2011, 2019 )
  • In a Grove
    an opera in seven testimonies
    (2021 )