Biography

His works have been performed across the United States and abroad in venues including the Helsinki Music Centre, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall… Ensembles that have performed his music include the Helsinki Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Britten-Pears Contemporary Ensemble...

Adrift, is his first work for orchestra (see detail note).

More recently Chiappetta completed Circle Limit, for solo cello to Rainer Eudeikis from the Utah Symphony, and This is no less curious for piano.

To date his work has been recognized by ASCAP (2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Award), The American Academy of Arts and Letters (2011 Charles Ives Scholarship), and the Cleveland Institute of Music (2011 Donald Erb Prize). In 2012 he was also the recipient of a Fulbright grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State, and spent a year in London as a Fulbright postgraduate scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Chiappetta holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Cornell University. His principal instructors have been Julian Anderson, Steven Stucky and Keith Fitch. He has also taken part in workshops and courses mentored by Kaija Saariaho, Oliver Knussen, Michael Gandolfi and Derek Bermel amongst others. In March 2012 he participated in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute professional training workshop lead by Kaija Saariaho and the cellist Anssi Karttunen which included the premiere of his string trio Loops, Clocks, and Shadows at Zankel Hall. In 2016 Chiappetta was the recipient of the Patricia Plum Wylde composition fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center.