Conductor and soprano Annabella Capaccio has spent her life devoted to music. Originally from Connecticut, she completed her bachelor of arts at Muhlenberg College with a double major in vocal performance and Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture. With the mentorship of  Patricia Caicedo, she pursued an academic focus in Latin American and Iberian art song. After finishing her undergraduate degree, Capaccio taught classroom music in Philadelphia through ArtistYear, an AmeriCorps program, and freelanced as a soprano and dancer; during her time as a resident teaching artist, she taught K-5 general music with a bilingual modality, private lessons, and music theory, and co-directed the choir at Franklin Learning Center. Capaccio then attended the Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Conducting Program, where she recently conducted scenes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Threepenny Opera, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, and Leonard Bernstein’s Candide in the 2026 Bard undergraduate Opera Workshop production. In addition to her curricular studies, she acted as the associate conductor of the Bard Symphonic Chorus. Capaccio is a dedicated choral musician and elementary music educator and strives to connect her love of music with her passion for community engagement.