Lucia Caruso is an Argentine born composer and pianist based in NYC. AS artistic director and co-founder with Dr. Pedro Henriques da Silva of Manhattan Camerata, an innovative chamber orchestra, SHE coined THE TERM TRANSCLASSICAL MUSIC, to define A unique style of composition. Grounded in classical technique. her compositions BLEND improvisation WITH elements from varIOUS cultures AND incorporatE world instruments in a range of styles and genres.
LUCÍA CARUSO is an Argentinean composer and pianist based in New York, whose numerous awards include Second Prize in composition at the World Piano Teachers Association (WPTA) International Piano and Composition Competition in 2021 and 2022, Best Emerging Documentary at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, a 2017 Portuguese International Music Award, and three ASCAP Plus Awards 2015, 2016, 2020 & 2022. Lucía was elected by unanimity of the jury to become a member of the Argentine Association of Composers in 2020. She has an international career with commissions for orchestra, dance, and film. Lucía composed the score for the TV and virtual reality series “4 Feet High” for Arte France. She stars in and composed the score of “Forte”, a feature documentary about her life and other two groundbreaking women in music.
As composer and artist-in-residence with Orchestra of the Swan since 2016, she premiered one of her Shakespeare Songs for choir and orchestra at the Shakespeare 400 Memorial in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK in 2019. She recorded a complete Shakespeare song cycle in 2019 with the choir and Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by Bruce O’Neil, music director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. At Abbey Road Studios, she recently recorded her piano concerto with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Lucía has performed in the most important concert halls in the world including Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center in the U.S; Kew Royal Palace in the U.K, the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles in France, among others. Lucía trademarked the term “Transclassical Music”, and co-founded the “Manhattan Camerata” (manhattancamerata.com) as well as “Light & Sound Film Scoring” (lightandsoundscoring.com). After receiving her bachelor’s degree in classical piano from the Manhattan School of Music, she obtained a master's degree in Composition and Film-Scoring from New York University.