Kamala Sankaram

Praised as “strikingly original” (NY Times), Kamala Sankaram has written music for theater, film, and concert. She has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Watermill Center, and the Hermitage, and was the 2011 Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Her music for SOUNDING (directed by Kristin Marting) was praised as “gorgeous pop-rock interludes” (Time Out NY). As a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, a steampunk murder mystery which was was named winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Also a performer, Kamala has collaborated with the Wooster Group, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and Anthony Braxton, among others.

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Bio as of February, 2013.

See highlights from the grant presentation here.

See music from Kamala here.