CARUSO, Lucia

Lucía Caruso is an Argentine composer and pianist, born in Mendoza and based in New York City. She studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music and composition and film scoring at New York University. Together with composer and guitarist Pedro Henriques da Silva, she co-founded the chamber orchestra Manhattan Camerata, where she serves as artistic director.

Caruso describes her musical language as “transclassical music”. It combines classical forms and techniques with improvisation, world-music traditions and instruments from different cultures. She writes orchestral and chamber music, piano concertos, vocal works and scores for film and television. Her compositions include the piano concerto Light and Wind, Clouds for piano and orchestra, Titania’s Lullaby, The Universe Echoes Back and Folía, written with da Silva. She also composed the music for the documentary Forte, in which she appeared as one of its featured artists.