Simple ingredients = luminous results.
Composer / “chef” @chriscerrone has cooked up an exhilarating and rhythmic double concerto for @anthonymarwood and @colemanplayscello with LACO.
🎶Come hear it live 🎟️ at 🔗 in bio
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Photo from last night’s first orchestral rehearsal for “Selah,” a new double concerto for violin, cello, and chamber orchestra. No matter how many times I’ve done this — and this is my 14th orchestra piece — the terror doesn’t go away. You prepare all you can, orchestrate with care, but there’s always that quiet fear that none of it will work, that you’re going to bury the soloists, and that writing for orchestra is always, to some degree, educated guesswork.
And then, within a matter of minutes, the relief that it’s all going to work floods over you. “Selah” is my first orchestra piece since my son Matteo was born, and his existence — the sheer urgency of it — has pushed me toward the most direct and emotionally clear version of myself I’ve ever been as a composer. That directness is all over this piece. So is the input of @anthonymarwood and @colemanplayscello , who from the very beginning demanded both virtuosity and clarity from their parts, in equal measure
Having those two as your soloists, musicians who have given themselves so completely to the work, makes all the difference. And playing for an orchestra of soloists like @lachamberorchestra , with @jaime_martin_conductor at the helm — you feel it immediately.
World premiere run: May 14 at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall (Costa Mesa) · May 16 at Zipper Concert Hall (downtown LA) · May 17 at the Wallis Annenberg Center (Beverly Hills).
Christopher Cerrone’s “The Year of Silence, I. Shortly after two in the afternoon” is now available to stream on @spotify@applemusic@amazonmusic@tidal and many more.
“I began writing the piece in December 2022, a few months after our American president declared the pandemic over. I wanted to capture a range of conflicting emotions: the desire to remember, the desire to forget, and the need to find meaning in a difficult time... The story of humans becoming obsessed and fascinated and eventually bored with the mysteries of the world is a deeper and older story than any specific moment.” Christopher Cerrone
‘The Year of Silence’ will be released digitally in full on June 26th. Listen to the single now: lnk.to/YearofSilence | #linkinbio @louisvilleorchestra@teddyconducts@chriscerrone@jeffreykahane@21cmediagroup@primoartists
🌟 COMING SOON: The Louisville Orchestra with Music Director Teddy Abrams, Dashon Burton, and Jeffrey Kahane present ‘The Year of Silence’, featuring newly commissioned works by Christopher Cerrone and Andrew Norman.
Cerrone’s ‘The Year of Silence’ is inspired by Kevin Brockmeier’s short story about a city that mysteriously falls silent. Choosing to preserve as much of the text as possible, Cerrone shapes the work around a narrator who moves between speech and song – written with Burton’s voice in mind – while the orchestra evokes a world where silence is not emptiness but a warm, enveloping presence.
In contrast, ‘Split’ – composed by Norman and performed by Kahane – offers a sharply kinetic counterpoint, its restless energy exploring fragmentation and duality.
‘The Year of Silence’ will be released digitally on June 26th. #comingsoon @louisvilleorchestra@teddyconducts@chriscerrone@jeffreykahane@21cmediagroup@primoartists
Photo 2 (c) Jacob Blickenstaff
Photo 3/4 (c) O’Neil Arnold
Start with Mozart at his most electric. Move into something brand new. End with Tchaikovsky looking back—and transforming it all. Led with precision, clarity & connection by @jaime_martin_conductor
Anthony Marwood and Coleman Itzkoff play on the world premiere of @chriscerrone ‘s double concerto, Selah, written exclusively for this collaboration!
May 16 in Downtown LA + May 17 in Beverly Hills
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The Industry welcomes Grammy-winning composer Christopher Cerrone back to our stage on May 15th at Monk Space. The program highlights his recent vocal works, including excerpts from his latest opera, In a Grove, performed by Industry company members, Cedric Berry, Ashley Faatoalia, Kelci Hahn, and Lucy Yates. The program will also feature special guests The Living Earth Show (Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson) and Tanner Porter performing their chamber piece, Canto Selah, a prelude to Cerrone’s double concerto, Selah, commissioned by @lachamberorchestra .
Chris first collaborated with The Industry as the composer for Invisible Cities, directed by Industry founder Yuval Sharon in 2013. Currently one of our artistic advisory group members, Chris has since become known for work characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations.
The Industry’s Spring Listening Parties are presented as part of OperaFest LA, a collaborative celebration of opera across Los Angeles. We hope to see you there!
Listening parties are back, and our next one will feature Grammy-winning composer Christopher Cerrone at Monk Space on May 15th. The program highlights his recent vocal works, including excerpts from his latest opera, In a Grove, performed by Industry company members, and a chamber piece, Canto Selah commissioned by The Living Earth Show, who will perform it live with singer Tanner Porter.
Commissioned by the LA Opera, Chris describes In a Grove as “something unconventional—a story told over and over again from different perspectives—and marry it to something familiar: music, where themes, repetition, and variation help us navigate and understand this mysterious tale.”
Similarly, Canto Selah explores repetition through the concept of mirrors and their abilty to endlessly reflect and refract. Over the course of the work the singer engages with pre-recorded versions of herself against cascading delays in the guitar and vibraphone, creating a piece that is suspended in time.
Chris first collaborated with The Industry as the composer for Invisible Cities, directed by Industry founder Yuval Sharon in 2013. Currently one of our artistic advisory group members, Chris has since become known for work characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. We are thrilled to be working alongside him again for this Listening Party, and we hope to see you there!
The Industry’s Spring Listening Parties are presented as part of OperaFest LA, a collaborative celebration of opera across Los Angeles.
Next weekend, experience the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble live in a can’t-miss concert inspired by the sea and sky. ✨ Tickets start at $30, 🔗 link in bio!
So happy to finally share this — on July 19, Sandbox Percussion, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, and director Mary Birnbaum will give the world premiere of The Only Way is Through at Caramoor’s Sunken Garden. It’s a FREE show, and I’d love to see as many of you there as possible. Huge thanks to Caramoor and Music Academy of the West for co-commissioning this piece. More soon about the Santa Barbara premiere — more info at the link in bio 🎶
New video: Third Coast Percussion performing my percussion quartet concerto Meander, Spiral, Explode with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Ken-David Masur conducting. Newly remastered, remixed, and re-edited. Link in bio.
We’re thrilled to share the great news that our 2025 album Don’t Look Down, featuring music by our friend and longtime collaborator Chris Cerrone, won a GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical at the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
A huge congratulations to the winners— Mike Tierney, the album’s engineer, and Alan Silverman, the mastering engineer—whose incredible ear and technical wizardry made the album sound crisp, big, and exciting. Mike and Alan really captured the brilliance of Chris’ music, and the wide variety of percussion sounds, rhythms, melodies, grooves and noises that his meticulous scores call for.
Thank you to our fans, Chris, the Pentatone label, all voting members, and especially Mike and Alan for their engineering work on the album, a highlight of our recording career to date. They delivered a masterclass in audio detail. Congrats!
Congratulations to Chris Cerrone (CRF 2012) and Gabriela Ortiz (CRF 2009) on last night's Grammy wins! Tania León (2003) and Immanuel Wilkins (CRF 2025) were also nominated.
Chris' "Don’t Look Down" took home the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical. It was also nominated for Best Classical Compendium, and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. "Don't Look Down" was engineered by Mike Tierney (engineer) and Alan Silverman (mastering engineer), and performed by Sandbox Percussion.
Gabriela took home the Grammy award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for "Dzonot," Best Choral Performance for her album "Yanga," and Best Classical Compendium for "Yanga". Alisa Weilerstein, and Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic were also honored for their work on "Dzonot". Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, chorus master (Los Angeles Philharmonic & Tambuco Percussion Ensemble; Los Angeles Master Chorale) were honored for their work on "Yanga".
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