CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA 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 has created 3 large scale works for The Great Learning Orchestra (Stockholm) - an improvising orchestra that specializes in concert-installation and premiere performances of graphically notated scores. 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 the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Anti-Social Music, 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.

Selected works: BETWEEN THE, for “Just Rhodes”, commissioned by Music for Contemplation (2025), TRACES, a soundwalk for Boston Common, created for the International Computer Music Conference (2025), THE VISITATION, an opera for a vanishing world (in-process), THE VISITATION, site-specific sound walk (Jackie Robinson Park), ALL THINGS FROM ZERO (concert-installation for The Great Learning Orchestra, Stockholm), 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).

Campanella has performed in downtown theater and independent film since 1997, in works created and/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.

Schmetterling is an evolving original instrumental project with various members making the music shine in ways I can’t make it shine on my own. I cant thank the players enough that helped me make this music what it is.  To follow the band, go to IG at @schmetterling_music 

I'm a freelance bassist, vocalist and producer, based in LA, via 14 years living in NYC, and originally from Bloomington Indiana.  For more info on what I do outside of Schmetterling, go to my personal website :  robcalder.com

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