PROFILES + NOTES
Hall, the premiere of a solo guitar work at Wolf Trap, and performances at the Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, the Philadelphia Art Museum, and the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston. He is represented exclusively by Young Concert Artists, Inc. and is their composerin-residence.
Oaken Sky notes
Christopher Rogerson composer The music of 22-year old composer Chris Rogerson has been praised for its “virtuosic exuberance” and “haunting beauty” (New York Times). Leading ensembles such as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the JACK Quartet have performed his work at venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center. Chris has won awards from ASCAP, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and the Theodore Presser Foundation, and was recently honored with a MacDowell Colony fellowship. His music has been featured at Angel Fire, Aspen, Bowdoin, Cabrillo, Norfolk, and Ravinia, and on NPR’s Performance Today, CBC (Canadian national radio), Radio France, Italian National Radio, and Radio New Zealand. Chris’s 2011– 2012 season includes a mini-residency with the Grand Rapids Symphony, a cello concerto for Jay Campbell commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony to be premiered at Carnegie
Oaken Sky was written in June 2011 and premiered by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in August. The title of the work is simply an image: imagine it’s night and you are standing under a tree looking at the stars. Some of the light from the stars is blurred by the branches of the tree. I try to recreate this “blurry” effect in the orchestra in addition to moments of pure clarity.