A curated playlist by Metropolis composer Chris Cerrone.This is a curated playlist by Chris Cerrone, featuring original music and inspired works from the next generation of composers and performers.
About Chris CerroneChristopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Christopher Cerrone holds degrees from Yale and the Manhattan School of Music and is published by Schott NY. He is on the composition faculty at Mannes School of Music and lives in Brooklyn with his wife. More info »
Metropolis Radio: Fill your day with music from the Metropolis community
In 2020-21, we created a weekly series of curated Spotify playlists from Metropolis composers and performers. We supported over 40 artists directly through this project during the pandemic.
Pianist Miki Sawada shares a playlist of pieces reflecting her experience during the pandemic.
Composer and producer Nnux curates a playlist featuring work by female Latin American experimental composers.
Giancarlo Latta shares tracks that turn towards ecstatic joy, deep pain, and everything in between.
Cassie Wieland shares her listening selections from regular walks up and down 6th Avenue near her Brooklyn neighborhood.
María Grand shares tracks that bring her sustenance, accompanying her through this learning, this uncovering, this remembering.
Mariel Roberts shares music she's particularly appreciated over the last year, that envelops and takes her out of her own head and into another captivating environment.
Phong Tran shares a bummer playlist packed with bangers, that plays on happiness despite the world being on fire around us.
Nina Young shares tracks that are her companions in escapism - a memory palace, beautiful and tarnished.
Timo Andres shares songs for a kind of shared intensity of spirit they all seem to possess.
Holland Andrews shares a playlist featuring devoted to reminding us to listen to music that is simple and joyful.
Pietro Amato shares pieces of music he's enjoyed listening to while having a glass of wine during this pandemic.
Dana Kelley shares a playlist exemplifying the state of mind over the past 10 months, with things changing on a daily basis.
Ayane Kozasa shares tracks she has leaned on heavily over the last year for escape, comfort, inspiration, and hope.
Guitarist and composer João Luiz shares a playlist that features composers and performers achieving a powerful communication with the listener.
Harpist Ashley Jackson shares a playlist celebrating the women who sang about it all: love, loss, legacy, and uplift. Issa vibe, from spirituals to southern grit, and everything in between.
JP Jofre shares a playlist of composers from Argentina and Uruguay he has been listening to lately.
Violinist Lauren Cauley shares a group of fifteen songs that helped her escape to possible futures, a glimpse into her exploration of comfort and the comfort she found in exploration.
Jenny Beck shares a collection of tracks that invoke entire worlds where the senses intermingle and the very air is sonified.
Tyondai Braxton shares selections he sat with in 2020, a year that forced a reexamination on how we go about our daily lives as well as our relationship with time.
Rajna Swaminathan shares a playlist questioning -- what intensities and multitudes are contained within this unprecedented stillness?
Brittelle formulates a playlist around the artists and inspiration behind the release of his recent digital single "Dido's Lament (Revisited)."
Pianist Erika Dohi curates a playlist that tries to find stillness amidst the chaos, with music reminding us that we will be okay.
Composer and performer Amino Belyamani highlights tracks with deep artistry coupled with tasteful and creative risk-taking.
Composer and performer Mattew Evan Taylor curates a playlist as an audio love letter to all the people that dared to hear differently and taught him to do the same.
In selecting week’s tracks, composer and performer Darian Donovan Thomas curated tracks related to the cartoon character Garnet, one of the crystal gems from the cartoon Steven Universe.