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Christopher Trapani weaves American and European stylistic strands into a personal aesthetic that defies easy classification. Snippets of Delta Blues, Appalachian folk, dance band foxtrots, shoegaze guitar effects, and Turkish makam can be heard alongside spectral swells and meandering canons. As in Christopher’s hometown of New Orleans, diverse traditions coexist and intermingle, swirled into a rich melting pot — an effect described by Paul Griffiths as “a music of routes without roots, or one where the roots lift into the air, and we do not know whether what lies below them is New Orleans or Istanbul.”

Christopher earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, then spent most of his twenties overseas: a year in London, working on a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music with Julian

Anderson; a year in Istanbul, studying microtonality in Ottoman music on a Fulbright grant; and

seven years in Paris, where he studied with Philippe Leroux and worked at IRCAM. Christopher

earned a doctorate in 2017 from Columbia University in New York City, where he studied with

Tristan Murail, George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Fred Lerdahl. He is currently Assistant

Professor of Electronic Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University.

Christopher Trapani maintains an active career in the United States, the UK, and in Continental

Europe. Recent commissions have come from Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, JACK

Quartet, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Radio France, and his works have been

heard at Carnegie Hall, Southbank Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Festival Présences,

Ruhrtriennale, Ravenna Festival, Ultraschall Festival, IRCAM, and Wigmore Hall.

Christopher is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019) and a winner of the Rome Prize (2016). He has held

fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Camargo Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

Christopher is the winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus Prize, the 2020 Barlow Prize, and has been

awarded commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, the Ernst von

Siemens Foundation, and Chamber Music America.

Waterlines, his debut portrait CD, featuring performances by Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet,

and others, was released on New Focus Recordings in 2018. A second recording of Waterlines by the Brussels ensemble ICTUS was released in 2020.

Noise Uprising, a 90-minute cycle for two voices, four guitarists, and electronics was released by New World Records in 2024. The CD features singers Sofia Jernberg and Sophia Burgos, plus the electric guitar quartet Zwerm – with whom Trapani himself plays lap steel guitar, Algerian mandole, microtonal Telecaster, and other assorted odd instruments.

Christopher splits his time between New Orleans and his European base in Palermo, Sicily.

For more information, please visit: www.christophertrapani.com

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