About

Gracie Caggiano is an eclectic poet-composer, vocalist, and guitarist based in Kansas City, MO. In the spring of 2023, she earned a Master of Music in Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, where she studied with Yotam Haber, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi, and Zhou Long. Gracie earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition in 2021 from Stetson University (Deland, FL) where she studied with Manuel de Murga (composition) and Karen Coker Merritt (voice). In contemplation of complex emotions and other profoundly human experiences, she crafts poetic spaces with diverse tonalities, textures, and media. In current work, she also explores the significance of disability in her own lived experience. Gracie embraces both her popular music background and classical training, wandering beyond the boundaries of genre and embodying a conglomerate of all musics she has encountered. 
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In 2019, Gracie placed third runner-up in ACDA’s Raymond W. Brock Competition for Student Composers for her SATB choral work The sun kept setting… (2019). In spring 2022 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, she was selected for a composition residency with the UMKC Graduate Fellowship String Quartet, during which she composed Samara. The Lyric Opera of Kansas City performed her new micro-opera Becoming in June 2023. Later that year, Gracie invited listeners into her poetic space with "To Love Is to Be Honest" (feat. Lydia Rose & Kwan Leung LING) and "Don't Look at Me That Way" (feat. Benjamin Baker) in anticipation of her debut album I can't be anything but human (released May 10, 2024).

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Gracie values collaboration, leading to involvement in multimedia projects. View her IMDb page for information on film score credits.