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Christopher Marianetti is a composer, producer and educator living in New York City. From producing electronic house music in Milan to the creation of a sound/art installation for eight cars and dancers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Marianetti’s music continues to cross genres. As a composer he has written music for film, theater, and dance and his works have been performed in the United States, Italy, and Austria.
In 2006 his chamber work, “Third Tongue” (based on the Emmy award winning poetry of Adriel Luis) premiered at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). His piece for piano and percussion “The Dream Diaries of Oliver Leslie” was a 2008 ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Award finalist. Marianetti’s latest work, a solo piece for piano and mouth-percussion premiered in May 2008 at Merkin Concert Hall. Past composition residencies include: the 2006 Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music, Sentieri Selvaggi’s Master-Class in Milan with Julia Wolfe as well as composition workshops with Claudio Ambrosini and Luca Francesconi. He was also a participant in the 2008 NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker.
Over the past two years Marianetti has created and implemented a unique set of music programs for high school students. The current programs based inside Bronx and Brooklyn charter schools work with students to create pieces of music exclusively using sounds recorded, discovered, and mixed in the classroom. Now sponsored by and partnered with the American Composer’s Orchestra (A.C.O.) as well as with Bang on a Can, the programs strive to expose students to music from a wide range of genres and origins and to develop students’ competency in audio production, composing and performing. The Bronx-based program is in the process of creating a full-length theater production to premiere in at Florida International University in Miami.
His past composition mentors include: Tania Leon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Meredith Monk, Steven Paulus, Pauline Oliveros, Luca Francesconi, Claudio Ambrosini, Filippo Del Corno and Tom Newman. Marianetti studied composition and electronic music at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan and received his Master’s in Music Composition from Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.