is a composer, vocalist, and sound artist with a deep history as a performer in theater, film, and opera. Her “moody, driving music”, “hymn-like songs” (New York Times), and “ethereal voice” (BUST Magazine) are the mainspring of her work across disciplines. Fusing songwriting and music composition with aural design, Campanella weaves ambient textures and a dreamy avant-pop sensibility into cinematic soundscapes and deconstructed art songs. She is a recipient of Opera America’s Discovery Grant for Female Composers, 3 NYSCA Individual Artist Commissions in Film, Media and New Technologies, a performance grant from Café Royal Cultural Foundation, commissioning from the Swedish Cultural Council, HERE Arts Center and independent curators, funding from, NY State Music Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New Music USA, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and individual patrons. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks, HERE Arts Center, and Whitman College.  

Recent work: The Visitation, a sound walk (Jackie Robinson Park/HERE) with Stephanie Fleischmann, All Things From Zero (concert-installation for The Great Learning Orchestra, Stockholm; Royal Academy of Fine Arts), Find Me (12:1 sound installation, HERE), Lighthouse 40°N, 73°W (headphone installation, NY Electronic Art Festival), Parts Are Extra (experimental cinema, Fylkingen), Breathe (sound installation, Museum at MIT), Red Fly/Blue Bottle (music-theater, EMPAC, Noorderzon, HERE) and Tinder (music-theater, EXIT Festival, HERE) both with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. Campanella has performed in downtown theater and independent film since 1997, in works created or directed by Richard Foreman, Phil Soltanoff, Theodora Skipitares, Jim Findlay, Mallory Catlett and others, and has played keyboards with various NY bands. She has sung works by composers Kitty Brazelton and Nick Brooke, and regularly performs the operas of composer/sound artist Joe Diebes. www.christinacampanella.com

is a librettist and playwright whose “lyrical monologues” (New York Times), “finely tuned” opera libretti (Opera News), plays, and music-theater works have been performed internationally and across the United States She is the recipient of the 2022 Opera America Campbell Librettist Prize.

Libretti: Another City (Jeremy Howard Beck, Houston Grand Opera); In a Grove (Christopher Cerrone, Pittsburgh & LA Opera); 2 operas with Michael Hersch: Poppaea (Wien Modern & Zeiträume Basel) & Medea (Ensemble MusikFabrik, Cologne); The Pigeon Keeper (David Hanlon, Santa Fe Opera); Dido (Melinda Wagner, for Dawn Upshaw & the Brentano Quartet, commissioned by 92nd Street Y, Hopkins Center and more); My Other Me (Matthew Recio, West Edge Opera); Tevye’s Daughters (Alex Weiser, ALT); The Long Walk (ALT; Opera Saratoga, Utah Opera); After the Storm (HGO); The Property (Chicago Lyric); Arkhipov (Peter Knell, Jacaranda). Choral works: Anna Clyne (Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Chris Cerrone (Yale, Northeastern, Conspirare), Gity Razaz (Brooklyn Youth Chorus), Olga Neuwirth (Aldeburgh, Basel, Berlin).

Selected plays/music-theater works: Sound House (New Georges); Red Fly/Blue Bottle (HERE; EMPAC; Noorderzon, NL), The Secret Lives of Coats (Red Eye, Minneapolis), with Christina Campanella; The Sweetest Life (New Victory LabWorks); Eloise & Ray (New Georges). Venues include: Roundhouse Studio (London), Exit Festival (France), MASS MoCA, Synchronicity, Roadworks, Soho Rep, Mabou Mines/SUITE, the Public. Grants/Fellowships: Café Royal Cultural and Toulmin Foundations, Venturous Theater Fund, Howard Foundation Fellowship, 3 NYSCA Individual Artist Commissions, NEA Opera/Music-Theater, 3 NYFA Fellowships, Tennessee Williams Fellowship, Frederick Loewe Award; MAPFund, Opera America, NY State Music Fund, Greenwall Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Fund, Macdowell, Hedgebrook. Alumna: New Dramatists; New Georges Audrey Residency; ALT; HARP. www.stephaniefleischmann.com