NEWS

— 6 February 2012: Interval 5.3 — Curating a concert on the MATA Festival Interval series, with the theme of Beaubourg to Brooklyn: Electro-Acoustic Music from Paris. Works by Andrea Agostini, Ann Cleare, Paul Clift, Aaron Einbond, Juan Camilo Hernandez Sanchez, and myself. Performed by Carol McGonnell (bass clarinet), Ryan Muncy (saxophones), and Bill Schimmel (accordion).

— 12 October 2011: JFund — Thrilled to have been awarded a commission from the Jerome Foundation, for a new work for voice and ensemble (including myself, on a panoply of plucked strings), to be premiered by the Talea Ensemble in New York City during the 2012-2013 season

— 5 October 2011: Where You've Been — A spotlight on the Cyprus premiere of Passing Through, Staying Put in Tim Rutherford-Johnson's New Music Box article

— 4 August 2011: Chicago to Darmstadt — Selected for the Ensemble Composition Workshop with ensemble dal niente at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in July 2012

— 28 May 2011: Atlas in Amsterdam — Taking part in the Atlas Academy in Amsterdam in August 2011

— 6 December 2010: New York Times review of Westering with the ACO here

— 23 November 2010: TACTUS young composers' forum in Brussels. Expanded version of The Geography of Cities on Water to be read by the Brussels Philharmonic in January 2011

— 7 August 2010: What's it all about? — A new thematic index to the list of works

— 10 July 2010: East Coast bound — Moving to New York City in September 2010, on a fellowship for doctoral study at Columbia University.

— 12 February 2010: άskόdar on the south bank — Portrait concert in London on the Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today series in March 2011

— 28 January 2010: ACO premiere — A new work for the American Composers Orchestra, slated for December 3, 2010 at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

— 16 October 2009: Agora — Plans are in place for this year's big project at IRCAM: A piece for Ensemble L'itinιraire, two soloists (Julian Jalal Eddine Weiss on qanun, Christelle Sιry on hexaphonic electric guitar), and electronics, slated for June 2010 in the Agora festival.

— 3 September 2009: Venice — Christopher will spend two weeks in Venice to take part in the ENPARTS campus hosted by the Biennale, working with video, theater, and dance artists on a collaborative project to be presented October 2nd.

— 15 April 2009: Leo Kaplan Award — Christopher has been awarded the top prize in the 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and is traveling to New York to accept the prize in May.

— 4 April 2009: Cursus 2 — Christopher has been accepted for a second year of study at IRCAM which will culminate with a premiere at the end of the 2009-2010 season.