About
Christopher Ciampoli is a composer and performer who takes interest in the intersections of "old" and "new," with frequent inspiration from visual art, poetry, anthropology, and astronomy. A guest composer for Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute 2019 National Youth Orchestra and a recipient of the Peabody Conservatory's Randolph S. Rothschild award, Ciampoli's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia by renowned artists such as cellist Coleman Itzkoff, violinist Conrad Harris, pianist Edwin Sungpil Kim, soprano Tony Arnold, and soprano Ah Young Hong.
As a violinist, Ciampoli has premiered, performed, and recorded the works of many composers and contemporary masters, along with routinely displaying and teaching music of the traditional repertoire, in venues ranging from nature preserves in North Carolina to St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University in New York City. Ciampoli has served as Concertmaster of the Occasional Symphony, Principal Violin II of Symphony Number One, Concertmaster of the Peabody New Music Ensemble (Gene Young), along with performing solo recitals and concerts ensembles such as Mind on Fire, earspace ensemble and the Bergamot Quartet.
In addition to his violin training, Ciampoli commands a piano repertoire of solo works from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, and Schumann through Ravel, Schoenberg, and Scriabin. Ciampoli has premiered his own solo piano works and performs collaborative piano.
Ciampoli is an adjunct faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory, where he teaches music theory, an adjunct faculty member at Towson University, where he teaches music theory and aural skills, and an adjunct faculty member at Harford Community College, where he teaches composition lessons, violin lessons, chamber music, electronic music, and popular music. He has presented his compositions and performed violin in masterclasses with Georg Friedrich Haas, Christopher Rouse, Kate Soper, Miranda Cuckson, and Jennifer Koh.
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