Current projects
IMMINENT CD RELEASE
Cacioppo’s Fantasy-Choruses on “This Little Light of Mine”, dedicated to pianist Althea Waites, will appear on the artist’s new CD Reflections in Time. The disc premieres music of Margaret Bonds recently discovered by musicologist Michael Cooper, new pieces by Jeremy Siskind, and is sponsored by Yamaha Los Angeles, MEM Productions, Santa Monica, and Kuumba Music, Long Beach, CA. Waites is a Yamaha Artist, and the 2024 Piano Spheres Leonard Stein Artist in Residence.
RECORDING IN VENICE, ITALY
Guitarist Mónika Minár records her new CD this month, which includes Cacioppo’s “Swan of the Sile”, written for her. The piece was premiered by Minár in early 2022 in Venice, and performed recently in Perugia. Release date forthcoming.
COMMISSIONS & PERFORMANCES
Cacioppo just completed a piece for the NYC-based Diálogos Duo in memory of jazz guitarist Jack Wilkins. Duo members are Louis Arques (clarinet/bass clarinet), and Richard Boukas (guitar). Rehearsals commence in September.
Earlier this season, his commissioned work “In Augusta’s Company”, for Progetto Franck 200, was presented by the Quartetto di Venezia and violinist Marco Rizzi and pianist Gabriele Carcano in Venice and Monfalcone, Italy. Additional commissioned works for pianist Paul Orgel and soprano Mary Bonhag, the Gruppo Ciampi di Piacenza, the Trieste Prima Festival, and harpist Paola Perrucci received premieres as well.
Cacioppo also contributed to the program “Piano Music of Protest” presented by Charles Abramovic and his graduate students at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance.
Inspired by a song given to him by his Dine’ mentor John Co’ií Cook, Cacioppo completed his 8th symphony early in 2023. Subtitled “The Mountains are Dancing”, the 35-minute long work is in a single movement, written for large orchestra.
With composer Gérard Pape, Cacioppo is organizing a commemorative program of music by George Cacioppo on the 40th anniversary of ONCE group co-founder’s untimely passing in 1984, to be presented in September of 2024 in the Loire Valley.
Cacioppo continues his association with counterparts in other fields of the arts, among them the Italian poet Luigi Cerantola, and the Chinese-American painter Ying Li.
Click here to view the John Thornton documentary entitled “Ying Li and Curt Cacioppo: A Synaesthetic Marriage of Art and Music.”
Curt Cacioppo, piano, with baritone Alex Dobson in Winterreise
Past Projects
For presenters and prospective collaborators, here are titles of some past productions that he has been involved in, reflective of various themes. For a complete annotated program of any event or series, please contact him through this site and material will be furnished in PDF or other formats as requested.
- “The West” – major festival sponsored by the ACF and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Horowitz, artistic advisor
- “American Roots” –major festival of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Newark Museum, Joseph Horowitz, artistic advisor
- “Fantasies and Reflections” – a program of premieres of new works, including the major piano cycle Three American Fantasies
- “A Celebration of Native American Ceremony: the Navajo Coyoteway” – week long residency with Navajo John Co’ií Cook & premiere by Moscow Quartet
- “The Distant Native Voice” – CD & Symposium highlighting the crossover of Native American and Euro-American musics
- “Incroci di Millennio/Millennium Crossings” – CD & tour – Italian and American piano music from the last quarter of the 20th century, a trans-Atlantic venture
- “Winterreise and Beyond” – an interdisciplinary celebration with baritone Alexander Dobson
- “Il pianoforte nel repertorio del Novecento e contemporaneo” – an atelier series for advanced students of piano and composition, with solo recital finale
- “Divagando attorno all’opera Sequenza del Vespero Vermiglio” – a dialogue with Luigi Cerantola, poet, & Curt Cacioppo, composer, sponsored by the Benetton Research Center, Treviso
- “Italy in Music, Verse and Vision” – a multi-media event, with international participation, centered on the work of Gabriele D’Annunzio
- “Liszt in Italy” – a multi-media realization of Liszt’s Italian-inspired solo works, with Kenneth Fearn, piano
- “Viva Vivaldi” – the premiere of oboe concerto, written for the International Venice Festival at the Chiesa della Pietà, based on Vivaldi’s famous Gloria
- “Beethoven for Bosnia” – all of the sonatas for piano and violin in a series of three benefit concerts to aid student refugees
- “German American Day” – featured artist for the 17th annual day of friendship, sponsored by the Deutsch-Amerikanischer Freundeskreis Niederrhein in Duisburg, Germany
- “Expressionist Miniatures” – a multi-media show combining music, art and poetry from early 20th century Germany and Austria
- “Channeling Tradition for the New Millennium” – a multimedia presentation showing how stylistic flexibility, audience outreach, and enhanced content recording widen public recognition
- “Stile e stilemi dagli Indiani d’America – a series of lectures on Native American music and its place in the broader cultural context, first offered at the Conservatory of Milan
Past Collaborators |
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Violin |
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| Eugenia Alikhanova Alberto Battiston Barbara Broz Ekaterina Budnikova Laurie Carney Che Hung Chen Melvin Chen Tomas Cotik William de Pasquale Francesco D’Orazio Eugene Drucker Jennifer Elowitch Franz Felkl Eva Gruesser Franco Gulli Daniel Han |
Solomiya Ivakhiv Gloria Justen Doosook Kim Nicholas Kitchen Galina Kokhanovskaia Marcia Littley Carlo Lazari Paul Manaster Luigi Mazzocchi Geoffrey Michaels Magdalena Modzelewska Marco Rizzi Paul Roby Domenic Salerni Leonard Samuels Philip Setzer |
Rick Shinozaki Kate Stenberg Jenny Shames Charles Stegeman Arnold Steinhardt Ari Streisfeld Igor Szwec Albert Tan Kristopher Tong Andrea Vio Misha Vitenson Peter Winograd Roger Zahab |
Viola |
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| Daniel Avshalomov Carol Briselli Giada Broz Joseph de Pasquale Lawrence Dutton Renard Edwards |
Michael Klotz Tatiana Kokhanovskaia Doris Lederer Charlton Lee Yi-Chun Lin | Luca Morassutti Raymond Montoni Mai Motobuchi Mario Paladino Giancarlo di Vacri |
Cello |
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| John Acosta Hannah Addario-Berry Derek Barnes Vivian Barton Klaus Broz Jason Calloway Eva Csaranko Robert Erhard Nicola Fiorino David Finckel |
Donna Fournier David Geber Yumi Kendall Yeesun Kim John Koen Tom Kraines Lawrence Lenske Julia Lichten Olga Ogranovitch |
Peter Rejto Alan Stepansky Rachel Steuermann Mark Tanner Carlo Teodoro Angelo Zanin |
Bass |
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| Chuck Israels Rob Kesselman |
Douglas Mapp Anne Peterson |
Aaron Robertson John Zugel |
Flute |
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| Jeanne Baxtresser Andrea Ceccomori David Cramer Cynthia Ellis Ellen Finks |
Jennifer Higdon Yoshimi Oshimi Evren Ozan George Pope Daniele Ruggieri |
Giorgia Santoro Mauro Scappini Mimi Stillman Adeline Tomasone Andrea Vecchiato Mary Youngblood |
Oboe/Clarinet/Bassoon |
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| Michele Antonello (oboe) Jonathan Blumenfeld (oboe) Evan Ocheret (oboe) Vance Reger (oboe) Jane Owen (oboe) |
Josh Kovach (clarinet) David Krakauer (clarinet) Benjamin Lulich (clarinet) Bruno Righetti (clarinet) |
Davide Teodoro (clarinet) Lynette Cohen (bassoon) David Intrator (bassoon) Angela Anderson Smith (bassoon) |
Horn |
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| Philip Myers William Purvis |
Peter Reit James Ross |
Karen Mendocha Schubert Frøydis Ree Wekre |
Trumpet |
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| Graham Ashton David Bilger |
Rich Clymer Douglas Hedwig |
Darin Kelly Eric Schweingruber |
Other instruments |
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| Tim Albright (trombone) Paul Bryan (trombone) Alejandro Cardona (guitar) Nina Kellman (harp) Barry McCommon (bass trombone) |
Mónica Minár (guitar) Anthony Orlando (percussion) Paola Perrucci (harp) Kimberly Rowe (harp) |
Stefano Tononi (percussion) Kyle Turner (tuba) Janet Witman (harp) Angela Zator-Nelson (percussion) |
Piano |
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| Charles Abramovic Adriano Ambrosini Emanuele Arciuli Peter Basquin Matthew Bengtson Ira Braus Sara Davis Buechner Gabriele Carcano Anne Chamberlain Chiara Cipelli Lisa Emmenheiser Kenneth Fearn Rob Frankenberry |
Anastasia Gromolgasova Charles Gangemi Elitza Harbova Debra Lew Harder Olga Kotlyarova Linda Laurent Monica Jakuc Leverett Arthur Maddox Giovanni Mancuso Alan Moverman Paul Orgel Aldo Orvieto Ben Pasternack |
May Phang Riccardo Piacentini Leslie Sixfin Wan-Chi Su Colette Valentine Alessandro Vena Althea Waites Bernhard Wambach Laura Ward David Allen Wehr Lisa Weiss Amy Yang Harold Zabrack |
Other Keyboard |
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| Richard Alexander (organ) Luigi Celeghin (organ) Scott Dettra (organ) |
Hans Fagius (organ) Robert Gallagher (organ) Ken Lovett (organ) |
Atsushi Takazumi (harpsichord) Tracy Richardson (organ & harpsichord) Giuseppe Zanaboni (organ) |
Conductors |
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| Claudio Ambrosini William Appling Salvatore Caputo José Cueto Harvey Felder James Freeman Angel Gil-Ordóñez Adrian Gnam Paul Goodwin Thomas Hong Heidi Jacob Christopher Kendall |
Clayton Krehbiel Louis Lane Stefan Lano Thomas Lloyd Andrea Manucci Edward McClary Mario Merigo Geoffrey Michaels Karl Middleman Joseph Modica |
Eddie Mora Donald Nally Tian Hui Ng Fabio Pirola Joseph Quittner Jeffrey Rink James Ross Carl St. Clair Eric Townell Daniel Walshaw James Yannatos Roger Zahab Nathan Zullinger |
Vocalists |
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| Justine Aaronson Nancy Armstrong Johanna Arnold Kristina Bachrach Jessica Beebe Kelly Ann Bixby Joy Blackett Karen Blanchard Alyssa Bowlby Brigitte Canins Alexander Dobson Suzanne DuPlantis |
Pura Fe & Ulali Janice Fiore Anne Fuchs Misoon Ghim Debora Govoni Mark Hagerty Leah Inger Maurizio Magnini Randi Marazzo Gaia Mattiuzzi Brian Ming Chu Michael Riley |
James Reese David Ripley Tiziana Scandaletti William Sharp Rebecca Siler Ágnes Sipos Cie Sotome Janet Steele Jane Struss Fiammetta Tacca Elizabeth Weigle |
Composers |
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| William Albright Ingrid Arauco Daniel Asia Louis Ballard Claude Ballif Marino Baratello Hans Christian Bartel John Benskin William Bolcom Charles Cacioppo George Cacioppo Beatrice Campodonico Robert Capanna Alejandro Cardona Robert Carl Joseph Castaldo Franco Cavallone Ernesto Rubin de Cervin Raven Chacon Andrea Clearfield George Crumb Tina Davidson Roberto de Mattia Bill Dobbins Daniel Dorff Michael Eckert |
Cynthia Folio Katherine Freiberger David Froom Orlando Jacinto Garcia Ada Gentile Peter Gilbert Jeremy Gill Luis Jorge González Mark Hagerty Stephen Hartke Jennifer Higdon Lee Hoiby Michael Hersch Joseph Hudson Massimo Iamone Louis Karchin Ulysses Kay Kendall Kennison Earl Kim Leon Kirchner Jan Krzwycki Robert Kyr Stefan Lano Robert Hall Lewis Ruth Lomon Daniel Luzko |
Robert Maggio Philip Maneval Jill McManus Larry Nelson Ketty Nez Karola Obermueller Riccardo Piacentini Claire Polin Robert Pollock Paolo Porto James Primosch Trevor Reed Barbara Rettagliati Jay Reise George Rochberg Michael Alec Rose Mathew Rosenblum Judith Sainte Croix Paul Salerni Christopher Shultis Kile Smith Larry Alan Smith Donald Sur Richard Trythall George Walker Robert Ward |
Ensembles |
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| Duo Alterno Fiore-Cacioppo Duo Ceccomori-Harbova Duo Trio Sona Dolce Suono Trio Sartory Trio American Quartet Amernet Quartet Borromeo Quartet Dakota Quartet De Pasquale Quartet Emerson Quartet Moscow Quartet Ravenhill String Quartet Lyric Fest New York Chamber Brass Quartetto di Venezia Libramentum Friends Chamber Group Philadelphia Brassworks Ensemble Ex Novo NED Ensemble |
Haverford Chamber Players Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players Network for New Music PostClassical Ensemble 20th Century Consort Left Bank Concert Society Virtuosi dell’ Ensemble di Venezia Venice Cello Ensemble Ensemble Solarium National Jazz Ensemble Orchestra 2001 Chamber Orchestra of Bryn Mawr Chamber Orchestra First Editions Bach Society Orchestra Alba Festival Orchestra Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra Philadelphia Classical Symphony American Composers Orchestra Yale Symphony Orchestra Curtis Symphony Orchestra University of Memphis Symphony University of Maryland Symphony University of Pittsburgh Orchestra |
Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia Chicago Symphony Milwaukee Symphony National Symphony Kansas City Symphony Tacoma Symphony Akron Symphony Rochester Symphony State Orchestra of Mexico Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia Cathedra Choir Maryland Chorus Coro Madrigalia Coro MensanaX Chapman University Chorus Choir of St. Paul’s Chestnut Hill Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chamber Singers Viva Voce Chamber Singers Voces Novae et Antiquae Chamber Singers of U Mass Boston The Crossing Coro Accademia Musicale di Venezia The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers |
Artists and people of letters |
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Renato D’Agostin (photographer, NY & Venice) Christopher Cairns (sculptor) Retha & Steve Gambaro (sculptor & photographer) Martha Kent (painter) Hee Sook Kim (print maker, painter, installation artist) Ying Li (painter) Charles Stegeman Sr. (painter) Kofi Agawu (musicologist) Stanislaw Baranczak (Polish poetry) Jeff Brown (NPR News Hour) Nevia Pizzul-Capello (author, President of the Goethe Institut/ACIT, Venice) Nancy Omaha Boy (the Native American experience) Luigi Cerantola (Italian poet) John Co’ií Cook (Navajo elder and spiritual leader) Paulita Aguilar (Indigenous Nations Library Program) Oliviero Corbetta (Italian actor) George Dameron (history of medieval Italy) Susan Dean (Native American Literature) Ada Deer (Cherokee tribal leader, activist) |
Ted Fernald (Athapaskan linguistics) Richard Freedman (musicologist) Shelley DePaul (Chief of the Lenape Nation) Ashok Gangadean (global philospher) Ray Evans Harrell (Cherokee elder, spiritual leader, musician) Berkant Haydin (president, Joseph Marx Society) Joseph Horowitz (author in music) Paul Humphreys (ethnomusicologist) Charles Krause (correspondent; founder, Center for Contemporary Political Art) Frederica de Laguna (anthropologist) Lidia Landriscina (classicist, author, Le Marche) Lia Laterza (printmaker, Piemonte) Robert Leverett (cofounder, Native Tree Society) Alessio Mancino (artist, designer Venice & London) Frederick Mauk (musicologist) David McAllester (ethnomusicologist) Jill McManus (jazz pianist, author, filmmaker, activist) Renzo Oliva (artist, author, Italian consul) |
Owen Owens (environmentalism & human rights) Vera Bauer Palmer (Native American studies) John Peters (Supreme Medicine Man, Wampanoag Nation) James Ransom (Native American Literature) Joseph Russo (classics, Sicilian folklore) John Thornton (videographer, digital artist) Harvey Sachs (author in music) Claudio Saltarelli (Italian poet) Christopher O. Scaife (poet, actor, educator, academic leader) Michael Sells (Islamicist & religion professor) John Sessions (contemporary Italian music) Tom Simone (Dante translator) Inés Talamantez (Native American religion) Vladimir Tamari (visual artist, physicist, inventor) Friedrich Thiel (poet & writer, German & English) Margot Villecco (design critic) Barbara Wall (Peace & Justice Education) Brian Yothers (Melville/Whitman scholar) Paul Zolbrod (Navajo language and legend) |
Venues, festivals, conferencesCurt Cacioppo has appeared at 60 or more venues on the U.S. college/university circuit, at over 40 gallery/library/community venues, at nearly 20 prominent domestic venues, and at some 50 foreign venues. He has participated in various roles at more than 70 festivals/residencies/conferences internationally. CommissionsFor those individuals and organizations who might wish to commission future works, please consult the works page to get a sense of his track record with commissions, grants, awards and prizes. |
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