A confident, fully-grown composing talent. -WASHINGTON POST ........................................................................................... Inspired, well-devised touches throughout. Mr. Rogerson has a gift for transitions, for moving us from moment to moment, section to section, while maintaining the coherence of the work as a whole. -THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Recently hailed by the Washington Post as a “confident, fully-grown composing talent,” 23-year old Chris Rogerson’s music has been praised for its “virtuosic exuberance” and “haunting beauty” (The New York Times).
He has received commissions and performances from ensembles such as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, and the JACK Quartet. His music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall.
Recently, Chris was honored with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition, his music has won awards from ASCAP, the Theodore Presser Foundation, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Association for Music Education, the New York Art Ensemble, the Aspen Music Festival (Jacob Druckman Award) and the Society for New Music.
Chris spent the past summer at the MacDowell Colony and the Cabrillo Festival. He has also been Young Composer-in-Residence at Music from Angel Fire, a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and the Norfolk New Music Workshop, and a participant of the Bowdoin International Music Festival and California Summer Music.
Chris is represented by Young Concert Artists and is their current Composer-in-Residence. Currently, his upcoming projects include commissions from the Buffalo Chamber Music Society for the Attacca Quartet and the Chicago Sinfonietta, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. This summer, he will be in residence at Yaddo and the Ucross Foundation, and will serve as Composer-in-Residence for the Chamber Music of Lexington, which has commissioned a piano quartet.
Born in 1988, Chris started playing the piano at age two and cello at eight. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale University, where his primary teachers were Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Kernis, and Martin Bresnick. He has also studied composition with Robert Beaser, Richard Danielpour, and Christopher Rouse. This fall, he will be a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University.
Duration: 5 minutes
2-2(EH)-2-2, 4-3-3-1, timp+3, hp, pno/cel, strings
Commissioned by the New World Symphony
Premiered by Joshua Gersen and the New World Symphony in March 2012
Duration: 10 minutes
2-1-2-1, 2-2-0-0, timp+2, hp, solo cello, strings
Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony
Premiered by Jay Campbell and the New York Youth Symphony with Ryan McAdams conducting at Carnegie Hall
Duration: 7 minutes and 30 seconds
2-2-2-2, 2-2-2-0, timp+2, hp, pno/cel, strings
Written for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Subsequent performances with the Yale Philharmonia, Palm Beach Atlantic Symphony, Kansas City Philharmonia, and Harrisburg Youth Symphony
Duration: 4 minutes
2-2-2-2, 4-2-2-1, timp + 2, hp, strings
Commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for Paul Ferington
Subsequent performance by the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 6 minutes
2-2-2-2, 4-2-2-1, timp+2, hp, strings
Commissioned by the Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Subsequent performance with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Duration: 7 minutes and 30 seconds
2(picc)-2-2-2, 4-2-2-1, timp+3, hp, strings
2011 Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Award
Premiered by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Subsequent performances with the Aspen Concert Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Symphony
Duration: 5 minutes
3(picc)-2-2-2, 4-2-2-1, timp+3, hp, pno, strings
Premiered by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Subsequent performances with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Symphony
Duration: 18 minutes
Commissioned by Young Concert Artists, Inc.
Premiered by Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo in the Kennedy Center, the Philadelphia Art Museum, Merkin Hall, and the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston
Duration: 8 minutes
Written for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
Duration: 5 minutes
Commissioned by Natalie Helm
Lullaby: no bad dreams, for violin and piano (2009)
Duration: 7 minutes
2011 National Federation of Music Clubs Marion Richter Award
Commissioned by Curtis-on-Tour for Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo
Premiered at venues including the Library of Congress, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Ravinia Festival
Duration: 12 minutes
2010 New York Art Ensemble Composition Contest Winner
2010 Society for New Music Prize
Commissioned by Music From Angel Fire, Ida Kavafian, Director
Performed by the Old City String Quartet and the JACK Quartet
Duration: 18 minutes
Commissioned by the Curtis Institute of Music
Premiered by Vicki Powell and Lio Kuokman
Duration: 10 minutes
2009 counter)induction composition competition winner
Premiered at the Tenri Cultural Center in New York City
Duration: 17 minutes
2008 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award
Premiered by Yao Zhai and Lio Kuokman
Performed at venues including Chamber Music Northwest, Third Angle New Music, and ClarinetFest!
Duration: 7 minutes
Written for Robert Belinic
Premiered at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Duration: 12 minutes
Commissioned by Brook Speltz
Premiered at Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University
Duration: 15 minutes
Commissioned by Young Concert Artists, Inc.
Premiered by Charlie Albright in the Kennedy Center and Merkin Hall
Duration: 6 minutes
Commissioned by Milena Pajaro van-de-Stadt
Duration: 7 minutes
Premiered by Hans Boepple in Pebble Beach, CA
That Blue Repair, for cello and orchestra
Our Game,
for orchestra
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For a full electronic press kit, bio, and list of compositions, please visit my page at yca.org.
If you have any questions and would like to email me, my email is rogerson.chris@gmail.com.
