Double Happiness - Christopher Cerrone

Christopher Cerrone's "Double Happiness" (excerpt), performed by Trio Nebbia. Featuring @jihyepercussion on percussion, ⁨and @WinstonChoi on piano.

Double Happiness was commissioned by The Living Earth Show (Travis Andrews, piano and Andrew Meyerson, percussion) as was premiered by the same group at the Fast Forward Austin Festival in Austin, TX on April 4, 2013.

The version for piano and percussion was commissioned by Chris Sies, Jani Parsons, Garrett Mendelow, and Satoko Hayami and premiered at the Marimba Festival in Samobar, Croatia, on September 19, 2016.

Founded in 2020, Trio Nebbia combines winds, strings, and percussion to create a comprehensive sonic palate that can adapt to the vision of any composer. The members of the trio met and perform regularly at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy, one of the premiere summer programs for contemporary music. All three members are on faculty at Cortona, and also began performing recitals together in the United States in 2020. Trio Nebbia consists of percussionist Ji Hye Jung (Vanderbilt University), pianist Winston Choi (Roosevelt University), and saxophonist Geoffrey Deibel (Florida State University). Praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star, the Times describes percussionist Ji Hye Jung as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once.” Choi is chair of the piano department at Roosevelt University (Chicago). For over twenty-five years, he has been one of the most indemand pianists in contemporary music and has won the prestigious Orleans Piano Competition; a recent recording by Choi was given five stars by BBC Music Magazine. Deibel was a first prize winner in both the Fischoff and the NASA Quartet competitions, and has premiered hundreds of works for his instrument by both established and emerging composers. The ensemble itself has premiered music by Georges Aperghis and Jean-Patrick Besingrand, and will give the premiere of a new work written for the ensemble by Pulitzer Prize winner and McArthur Genius Grant winner Tyshawn Sorey in 2025.