Composition Professor wins Two Opera America Awards
Kamala Sankaram wins two Opera Grants for Female Composers.
Opera America awarded a total of $98,000 in Opera Grants for Female Composers to five companies to promote the development of works by women and raise the visibility of women writing for the operatic medium.
Two of those five grants went to Purchase faculty member, Kamala Sankaram. The first to Opera on Tap for Looking at You, and the second to Washington National Opera for Taking Up Serpents.