Camila Agosto is a composer, interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator based in New York City. She is drawn to the ways sound can hold memory, shape emotion, and spark connection, creating immersive sonic environments that invite deeper listening and reflection. Her work explores themes of memory, perception, psychoacoustics, and somatic experience, focusing on how sound and vibration shape our emotional and physical relationship to music. Working across acoustic and electroacoustic concert formats, installations, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaborations with visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and instrument builders, her compositions range from fully notated to improvisational works. She explores the sonic potential of acoustic and electronic instruments through extended techniques and tactile electronics, centering embodied approaches to music-making and listening that highlight the human element of live performance. Storytelling and sharing histories are integral to her work, helping to construct worlds and soundscapes that create spaces for healing.

Camila was honored to be the youngest fellow to be accepted to the American Academy in Berlin, where she received the Fall 2023 Berlin Prize and Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition. Her music has been featured by Lincoln Center, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, National Sawdust, Symphony Space, Roulette Intermedium, Kasser Theatre, New Latin Wave Festival, Bar Harbor Music Festival, North American Saxophone Alliance, Atlantic Music Festival, FETA FM Festival, Sala Neumann, Blanton Art Gallery, Boston Public Library, International Saxophone Symposium, Arété Gallery, Maison Française at Columbia University, Spectrum, Tenri Cultural Institute, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music (SEAMUS), Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and KINDL-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, and has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including Ensemble Musikfabrik, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Rhythm Method, Semiosis Quartet, Berrow Duo, Eunbi Kim, Walter Aparicio, Ensemble Échappé, to name a few. A finalist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic National Composer Intensive, her music was featured at the Walt Disney Concert Hall during the LA Phil's Noon to Midnight Series.

Camila often works with visual artists, choreographers, and film directors on a variety of multimedia projects. Past collaborations include imprint, an electroacoustic installation piece commissioned by Berrow Duo, featuring projected visual media and artwork created by artists from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent projects include Shimmer Furnace for brass quartet commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik and The Shape of Forgetting, for chamber ensemble and shared lung commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble. Upcoming projects include In the wake of remnants, for solo piano and electronics commissioned by Eunbi Kim, expected to premiere in 2027-2028 season; a new work for solo flute and electronics commissioned by the National Flute Association expected to premiere in August 2027; and a new work for string quartet, commissioned by JACK Quartet expected to premiere in 2028.

In the summer of 2020, Camila became a certified yoga instructor and created the Meristem Artist Retreat, a virtual space to connect a variety of artists across different disciplines while learning holistic and balanced practices to help them sustain a healthy artistic life. Since then, Camila has founded Meristem Artists, to extend this work outside of the retreat. She has also developed and led workshops for artists and scholars through the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Writing Studio, Columbia University Computer Music Center and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Studio, as well as the International Contemporary Ensemble’s Ensemble Evolution summer program and the Meristem Artist Retreats.

Camila recently received her doctoral degree in music composition at Columbia University, where she received the Charles S. Miller Award. She holds a Master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's in Music from Montclair State University. Camila has been a composition fellow at the Cortona Sessions for New Music, the New Music on the Point Festival, the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, and most recently at the American Academy in Berlin. A recipient of the Randolph S. Rothschild Scholarship, Camila has also received awards from the Marshall M. Williams Endowment, Isobel and Tom Rolston Fellowship in Music Endowment, Diversity Provost Fellowship, Repsol Emerging Artist Award, and the Sorel Organization.