As a performer, Kamala Sankaram has collaborated with and premiered pieces by the Philip Glass Ensemble (EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH), the Wooster Group (LA DIDONE), Anthony Braxton (TRILLIUM E), John Zorn, eighth blackbird, Phil Kline, David T. Little, Corey Dargel, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tristan Perich, Fred Ho, the Dogs of Desire, and Anti-Social Music, among others.  She has recorded with Anthony Braxton (TRILLIUM E: Braxton House), Phil Kline (Around the World in a Daze: Starkland Records), End (The Sick Generation: Hymen Records), Death Comet Crew (Dominatrix), the Albany Symphony Orchestra and Anti-Social Music.

As a composer, Kamala Sankaram’s music has been praised as “strikingly original” (Allan Kozinn, NY Times), and performed as part of American Opera Projects “Opera Grows in Brooklyn” series, at HERE Arts Center, the Stone, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival, among others. She had the featured commission on the 2009 21C Liederabend, selected as one of Time Out’s 10 Best Classical Concerts. Her music for SOUNDING (directed by Kristin Marting) was praised as “gorgeous pop-rock interludes” (Time Out NY). She was the 2011 Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. As a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, a steampunk murder mystery opera called “enjoyable, utterly original opera” (NY Post) and “among the very best theater achievements of 2012” (NYTheater.com).

She is also collaborating with acclaimed playwright Susan Yankowitz on “The Thumbprint of Mukhtar Mai,” a new chamber opera blending Western and Hindustani classical music. Kamala has trained with Siti Company, the South Wing, and Red Bastard and studied composition with Chester Biscardi and George Tsontakis. In addition to her musical pursuits, she has created voice characters for the Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, and Studio Mouse.