Noise Uprising / Siemens Foundation Grant Funding from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for the Noise Uprising project, premiering in October 2023 Horizontal Drift CD release New CD out now on New Focus Recordings, featuring works for unusual solo instruments + electronics Barlow Honored to have been awarded the 2020 Barlow Prize from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. I’ll be composing a song cycle for soprano and piano for 2022! Bogliasco Happy to be spending January 2020 at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria, Italy, as the recipient of the 2020 Edward T. Cone Fellowship. Fromm Commission Happy to have been awarded a 2019 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. UT covers the story. the Guggenheim vine Honored to be named as a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. Best of 2018 Waterlines figured in year-end round-ups on Sequenza 21, An Earful, and 5 Against 4. Koussevitzky Commission Awarded a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress, in support of Isolario: Book II with the Spektral Quartet and electronics by Grame (Lyon, France). Premiere slated for May 4, 2019 in Chicago. CD release! Waterlines, Christopher’s first portrait CD is being released September 28, 2018 on New Focus Recordings. Performances by include Talea Ensemble with singer Lucy Dhegrae, Longleash Trio, pianist Marilyn Nonken, qanûn player Didem Başar, and JACK Quartet! KLANG! A special prize for Spinning in Infinity given by the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie in the KLANG! 2018 International Electro-Acoustic Composition Competition.