Louis Chiappetta

Louis Chiappetta (b. 1989) is a New York based composer. His works have been performed across the United States and abroad in venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Dartington International Summer School and Aldeburgh Music Festival. His recent projects have included "Fracture", a series of clarinet miniatures written for clarinetist Mark Simpson as part of a collaboration with the London Contemporary Dance School, "Chroma" which was performed by the American Composers Orchestra as part of the 2013 Underwood New Music Readings, a newly revised version of his quartet "…and again…" for Music from Copland House as part of the Copland House’s 2013 CULTIVATE workshop, and "Lonesome Traveler", a piece for large ensemble which was premiered at the 67th Aldeburgh Festival by members of the Britten-Pears Orchestra. In March 2012 Chiappetta participated in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute professional training workshop lead by Kaija Saariaho and Anssi Karttunen which included the premiere of his trio "Loops, Clocks, and Shadows" at Zankel Hall.

Chiappetta’s work has been recognized with several awards and accolades including an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2010), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship (2011), and the Cleveland Institute of Music Donald Erb Prize (2011). In 2012 he was awarded a Fulbright grant by the U.S. Department of State and spent a year in London as a Fulbright postgraduate scholar. He began his formal composition training at the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division at the age of thirteen, and holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM'11) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (MMus'12). Chiappetta’s principal instructors have been Julian Anderson, Steven Stucky and Keith Fitch. He has also taken part in workshops and courses mentored by Kaija Saariaho, Oliver Knussen, Joan Tower and Derek Bermel amongst others. Currently, he is a D.M.A. candidate at Cornell University under the tutelage of Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra.

Chiappetta’s latest work is "Adrift", a ten-minute piece for large orchestra commissioned in celebration of Kaija Saariaho’s 60th birthday. "Adrift "is published by Chester Music and will be premiered at the 2015 Musica nova Helsinki festival by John Storgårds and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

Louis Chiappetta’s tracks

• Circle Limit by Louis Chiappetta
• Adrift (2014) - opening: Fluid, Turbulent by Louis Chiappetta
• Adrift (2014) - excerpt: Anguished by Louis Chiappetta
• Lonesome Traveler (2014/15) for 14 musicians by Louis Chiappetta
• Fracture: five miniatures for solo clarinet by Louis Chiappetta
• ...and again... by Louis Chiappetta
• Some Remember, Some Dream by Louis Chiappetta