Christopher Trapani earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, then spent most of his twenties in London, Istanbul and Paris, where he studied with Philippe Leroux and worked at IRCAM. At thirty he moved to New York City, earning a doctorate at Columbia in 2017. He is currently Assistant Professor of Electronic Music and Digital Media at Louisiana State University. Recent commissions have come from Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern and Radio France. His works have been heard at Carnegie Hall, Southbank Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Ravenna Festival and Wigmore Hall. Trapani is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019), winner of the Rome Prize (2016) and the Gaudeamus Prize (2007). Waterlines, his debut portrait CD, was released on New Focus Recordings in 2018, followed by Horizontal Drift in 2022 and Noise Uprising in 2024. He splits his time between his hometown of New Orleans and his European base in Palermo, Sicily.
As of: December 2025