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Camilla Tassi

EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIP

Yale School of Drama

Special Research Fellow

in Projection Design '19

Dartmouth College
M.A. in Digital Musics, ‘18

 

University of Notre Dame

B.A. in Music &

B.S. in Computer Science, ’16

PROJECTION DESIGN (2018 & 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECENT INSTALLATION

- Yale School of Architecture: Sounding Sacred 2/19

- Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media: Traintime 12/18

DIRECTOR [Music and/or Stage Director]

- Talk To Me Like the Rain, opera. Moore Theater, Dartmouth. 4/18

- Opera scenes stage director, Oberlin in Italy. Teatro Petrarca. Arezzo, Italy. 8/17
- Serse, Handel opera, assistant director. Oberlin in Italy. Piazza della Badia. Arezzo, Italy. 8/17
- Steps & Sounds: Verum, Voice ensemble director for modern dance concert. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, NH. 5/2017
- Pen Tormenti, baroque production on Carissimi, director and conductor. Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, NH. 3/4/17
- If This is a Man: music, science, and humanity, director. Jordan Hall of Science, Notre Dame, IN. 4/28/16

 

ITALIAN TRANSLATOR/COACH

- Il Primo Omicidio. Yale Voxtet. Sprague Hall. 11/18

- L'Orfeo. Apollo's Fire. 2018 Tour: Cleveland, Michigan, California. 4/18
- L'Arpeggiata. Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall. 10/6/17
- La Cecita` del Misero Mortale. Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, IN, 5/16

 

ROLES PERFORMED

STAGED

Filia in Jepthe by Giacomo Carissimi, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Winter 2018
Norina, Opera Scenes, by Gaetano Donizetti, Dartmouth College Visual Arts Center, Spring 2017

Celia in As You Like It by Roger Steptoe (opera commissioned for Notre Dame), Spring 2016

Cunegonde in Candide by Leonard Bernstein, Spring 2015, Opera Notre Dame
Drusilla in L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, Spring 2014, Opera Notre Dame

 

NON-STAGED ORCHESTRAL
Widow, Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn, Dartmouth Glee Club, November 5, 2017
Alto Soloist, Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein, Dartmouth Handel S., November 15, 2016

Soprano Soloist, Se questo e` un uomo by Ennio Morricone, April 28, 2016
Soprano Soloist, Mass in C Major Op. 86 by Ludwig van Beethoven, November 21, 2014

 

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Italian, Spanish, and English.
Diction proficiency in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Latin

 

CURRENT ENSEMBLES

Yale Schola Cantorum (current)

Founded ensemble: Clamare singers of Dartmouth (2017-current)

INSTRUMENTAL PROFICIENCY

Harpsichord

Piano

 

AWARDS

Berlin Opera Academy. Directing and Design Assistantship, Summer 2018

Oberlin in Italy, Summer Opera Festival, Arezzo, Italy. Awarded Design & Production and Stage Direction Assistantship. July 2017

Dartmouth College Alumni Research Award, Summer 2017

Dartmouth Fellowship, full tuition, 2016-2018.
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Research & Materials Grant Winner for Producing and Directing “If This is a Man”, April 2016
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Research & Materials Grant Winner for Producing and Directing Handel’s “La Resurrezione”, March 2015
Joseph Italo Bosco Fund Winner for Producing and Directing Handel’s “Resurrezione” HWV 47, April 2015
Nanovic Center of European Studies Summer Travel & Research Grant - Recipient May, 2014

Personal topic: An exploration of the process of music transcription through the manuscripts of Giacomo Carissimi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Projection Designer & Italian Coach, Apollo’s Fire

Soprano, Yale Schola Cantorum

Projection Designer, Yale University
Stage Manager, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH

Concert Committee Chair, Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley, NH
Assistant Director & Stage Manager, Oberlin in Italy, Arezzo, Italy
Projection Designer, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
Projection Designer, Sacred Music Notre Dame, IN

Computer Science Researcher, Notre Dame, IN

eCommerce Strategy & Planning, Grainger, Chicago, IL

Designer & Soprano        camillatassi.com                                               Dual Citizen: Italy & United States

                                 

Software: Isadora, TouchDesigner, Watchout, Adobe Photoshop &

After Effects, Autodesk Maya, Max & Jitter, Processing, Arduino, Final Cut, Ableton

Programming: SuperCollider, OpenGL, C++, Python, HTML5

Lighting Consoles: Proficient in ETC (EOS series)

PUBLICATION

"The Musician Designer: Integrating the Projection Medium Into Dramatic Musical Narrative". Academic Thesis. Dartmouth Press.

321-745-0707        camtassi@gmail.com                                               227 Church St. Apt 8B, New Haven, 06510.

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