Christopher Trapani

Christopher Trapani
Born New Orleans, LA
Occupation composer, guitarist[1]
Years active since 1996
Known for contemporary classical music
Website christophertrapani.com


Christopher Trapani is an American composer of contemporary classical music. In 2007 he won the Gaudeamus Award of the Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation.

Reception

Trapani was the winner of the Gaudeamus Award for young contemporary composers of the Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation in 2007. The prize was awarded for his composition Sparrow Episodes, for ensemble with solo electric guitar, which was performed in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam by the Asko Ensemble under Étienne Siebens, with Trapani on guitar.[2] In September 2008, his commissioned piece Üsküdar was performed in the same hall by the Nieuw Ensemble.[3]

His composition Rust and Stardust was performed during the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow in 2015; the Guardian reviewer found it "accomplished and dreary,"[4] while The Scotsman spoke of "... kaleidoscopic explosions that ... gave structure and shape to its insistently concise material".[5]

Also in 2015, Trapani was among the recipients of a Charles Ives Scholarship for promising students from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[6] and received a commission from Chamber Music America.[7] In 2016 he was among the winners of a Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, receiving the Luciano Berio award for his work Recording Islands, Transcribing Mosaics.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Anthony Tommasini (5 December 2010). On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys. The New York Times. Accessed August 2018.
  2. ↑ Christopher Trapani Wins Gaudeamus Prize 2007. Gaudeamus Foundation. Archived 13 November 2007.
  3. ↑ Programma Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2008 (in Dutch). Muziek Centrum Nederland. Archived 13 September 2008.
  4. ↑ Kate Molleson (4 May 2015). Tectonics review – classical meets abstract sound-art in fruitful festival collision. The Guardian. Accessed August 2018.
  5. ↑ Kenneth Walton (4 May 2015). Classical Review: Tectonics Glasgow. The Scotsman. Accessed August 2018.
  6. ↑ 2015 Music Awards Winners. American Academy of Arts and Letters. Accessed August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Chamber Music America 2015 commissions".
  8. ↑ American Academy in Rome Announces 2016–2017 Rome Prize Winners & Italian Fellows. American Academy in Rome. Accessed August 2018.


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