The American pianist Vicky Chow will perform a concert featuring a new work in progress by Christopher Cerrone, Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Compostion at the American Academy in Rome, that was inspired by Potenza’s Ponte Musmeci. Cerrone’s new work is inspired by both the interlocking curves of the bridge’s design as well as its brutalist use of concrete—which Cerrone translates musically into repetitive layers of icy rhythms that intersect and swell in a series of serpentine lines and whose overall architure mirrors the shape of the bridge.

In addition to this new work, Chow will perform Cerrone’s Hoyt-Schermerhorn (2001) for piano and electronics, as well as Vick(i/y) (2010), a work for prepared piano by Andy Akiho, a 2015 Fellow.

The evening will begin with a talk between Alexander Robinson, Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture, Cerrone, and Chow about the relationship between music, architecture, and landscape.

This project is made possible by the Fellows Project Fund of the American Academy in Rome.