The 2020 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, at which Caputo was to serve as a composer-in-residence, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The current imperative for “social distancing” is exactly why Cristi, the Board of Directors, and staff believe it is necessary for us to cancel the 2020 Festival season. Even if…

Caputo’s Liminal will be performed by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under conductor Cristian Măcelaru as part of the 2019 NJSO Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. The Institute, directed by Steven Mackey, will include rehearsals, professional workshops, and a performance on July 20th in Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium. The other composers featured at the 2019 Cone Institute…

Caputo’s out of nothing (2016) for piano trio will be performed on Saturday, May 4th, 2019 as part of the Hear Now Music Festival at the First Lutheran Church of Venice. Entering its ninth year, the Hear Now Music Festival is an annual festival of works by Los Angeles-based composers. Please consider supporting the Hear Now Music…

I am very excited to announce that I have been selected as a composition fellow for the 2017 Blackbird Creative Lab, the first in a series of annual summer musician and composer training programs with renowned new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird. As part of the program, I will be writing a piece to be premiered by musician-fellows in a…

A preview recording of Rictus has been posted on SoundCloud and can be found on the above-linked page. An excerpt of the piece was performed by Ensemble Dal Niente in a student-composer reading session held at USC on October 28th, 2016. The full score can be found on ISSUU. . . .