Lucía Caruso
Composer, pianist, GRAMMY® and LATIN GRAMMY® voting member.
Photography by Elias Wessel
2023 academy of st. martin in the fields: Release of her piano concerto “light and wind” as soloist, abbey road studios
2023 Buenos Aires Philharmonic Concert presenting her Piano Concerto
2023 United Nations Symphony concert Selected to represent south america by united voices 4 peace
2023 cannes festival panel discussion women composers in the film industry by united voices 4 peace
2022 Forte: documentary Starred and scored by Lucía Caruso
2021 South By Southwest Film Festival: Winners, Audience Award & Jury Award “4 Feet High”
2021 Official Selection: london film festival “4 feet high”
2020 Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Venice Biennale “4 Feet High”
2019 Cannes Film Festival: American Pavilion - Winners, Best Emerging Documentary “Death Metal Grandma”
2016 - 2020 orchestra of the swan: composer and artist in residence, uk
We are incredibly excited to be in this year’s LATIN GRAMMYS® 1st round ballot with our album: “Transclassical Concertos”
We recorded it with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at Abbey Road Studios, conducted by Royal Shakespeare Company music director Bruce O’Neil.
The album features two concertos by Lucía Caruso and Pedro H. da Silva, their joint composition “Folía”, and Pedro’s arrangement of “Here Comes the Sun”.
The album’s engineers are the best in the business, with multiple GRAMMY® awards between them: Stephen McLaughlin (co-producer), Alan Silverman (mastering), Paul Geluso (mixing), and Pedro (producer and editing).
As new GRAMMY® and LATIN GRAMMY® voting members, Lucía and Pedro are excited to be a part of this process and advocate for lesser-known but vital musical voices.
We are very grateful for your consideration
Lucía and Pedro
Echoes of nature: Live From shakespeare’s church
Echoes of Nature features two world premiere symphonic song cycles composed by Lucía Caruso and Pedro H. da Silva — Nine Shakespeare Songs and Echoes of Nature (poetry by Ahae). Recorded live at Shakespeare’s church in Stratford-upon-Avon, the music draws on classical techniques, improvisation, and elements from various cultures and eras. Echoes from the Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic opera, and Impressionism pervade the two song cycles, as well as new sonorities, and the magical combination of celesta and Portuguese guitar with choir and orchestra.
The album features the great French soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and the composers Lucía Caruso on piano and celesta, and Pedro H. da Silva on Portuguese guitar, joined by the Royal Shakespeare Company music director Bruce O’Neil conducting the Orchestra & Choir of the Swan.
NEW ALBUM! TRANSCLASSICAL CONCERTOS
This album features two concertos written in a Transclassical™ style, which combines classical music, improvisation, and elements from various cultures and eras: the first concerto for Portuguese guitar and orchestra by Pedro H. da Silva, and “Light and Wind” Piano Concerto that uses innovative techniques by Lucía Caruso. Nature photography inspired both works, especially the interplay of light and wind, and dusk, night, and dawn, with the orchestration reflecting the change of light and weather. Both works use various devices to create inventive sounds, including an electronic bow, a musical hammer, playing the piano strings with drumsticks, picks, and palms, and more. The album also features both composers’ joint composition "Folia" for Portuguese guitar, piano, and orchestra, and a special arrangement of "Here Comes the Sun" for Portuguese guitar and strings. Recorded with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields—considered by many the finest chamber orchestra in the world—at the legendary Abbey Road studios on the fiftieth anniversary of the day the Beatles recorded the same song in the same studio.
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Composed and Performed by Lucía Caruso
Light and Wind is a Transclassical Piano concerto. Transclassical Music™—a term Lucía Caruso coined to describe a style based on classical music techniques, improvisation, and elements from different cultures and eras in a variety of styles and genres, integrating classical and world instruments. The term Transclassical implies that this genre can bridge different classical traditions from around the world.