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Charles Cacioppo is a composer, performer, scholar, and educator.

As a composer, Cacioppo has collaborated with many stellar artists and ensembles, among them Charles Abramovic, violinist Joseph Lin, the Israeli Chamber Project, Scott Robinson, Ariana Kim, Randall Harlow, the Talea Ensemble, the Argento Ensemble, the Momenta Quartet, Santiago Rodriguez and the Left Bank Concert Society, the Alba Music Festival Trumpet Ensemble, the University of Maryland Trumpet Ensemble under the direction of Chris Gekker, soprano Jenny Chen, the Ceccomori-Harbova Duo of Rome, Bobby Avey, Ikuko Tsukamoto, and Arnaud Schotte.  Internationally, his music has been performed at the American Academy in Rome (Villa Aurelia) in conjunction with the festival “Nuovi Spazi Musicali,” at Palazzo Albrizzi and Teatrino Groggia in Venice, and in Bulgaria at the Union of Composers Concert Hall in Sofia.  His music can be heard in recording on the CD Ghosts (Beauport Classical, 2009), on the multi-national release Dialogues (L.P. Records, 2010), and online.

Cacioppo is active as a trumpeter in performances of his own works, and in collaboration with his brother, drummer Nic Cacioppo.

The breadth of Cacioppo’s musical interests is reflected in transcriptions and writings that span repertoire from Dufay to Hugo Wolf to rapper Kool Keith.  In 2014 he earned a D.M.A. in Composition from Cornell University, where he worked with composers Steven Stucky, Kevin Ernste, and Roberto Sierra, and authored a dissertation dealing with modern jazz trumpet styles, wherein he transcribed, analyzed, and critically commented upon over 30 solos spanning over eight decades of the music’s rich recorded history.

In addition to teaching at Rowan, Cacioppo is the Director of Jazz Ensembles at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, and teaches trumpet, theory, and composition both privately and at The Haverford School.