An award-winning songwriter and jazz singer based out in New York City, Laura has performed with various musical ensembles throughout Europe and America, and continues to produce a wide range of music: from Jazz, Folk and Rhythm & Blues, to traditional Sicilian and Mediterranean songs. She also writes original songs in English, Italian and Sicilian, and sings in Italian, English, Spanish, Punjabi, Portuguese, French, Sicilian and Neapolitan.

Since in New York, Laura has performed at many prestigious venues and clubs such as The Kitano, Bar Next Door, Zeb’s, New York University, Westchester Italian Cultural Center and the Italian American Museum, among others. She has also performed at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, in front of 3.000 people, with the SGI Youth Ensamble. She has collaborated with many accomplished international musicians such as Ameen Saleem, Jon Davis, Tommy Campbell, Saul Rubin, Gianluca Renzi, Fabio Morgera, Christos Rafalides and Salvatore Bonafede, to name a few. In 2013, she started a collaboration with the Pakistani cultural community in New York, getting Pakistani players involved in her bands, mixing their sounds with Jazz and Italian music. On the other hand, she’s challenging herself with Sufi traditional compositions in Sanskrit and with Panjabi music.

International performance highlights of Laura Campisi include presenting her project “Sicily Revisited” at the Italian American Museum in New York in June 2014 and bringing it out to Italy later that Summer; the show “Vedrai Vedrai, Music of Luigi Tenco and Beyond” created for the Kitano Jazz Club of New York, and there presented in April 2014; an Italian tour on January 2014 with the “Back Home” Trio (with special guest international saxophonist Gianni Gebbia) and on January 2013 with the “Laura Campisi Roma Quartet” featuring Domenico Sanna and Enrico Zanisi on piano, Luca Fattorini on bass and Enrico Morello on drums; an appearance in the documentary film by director Nello Correale “La voce di Rosa”; the Rosa Balistreri e Alberto Favara Award in 2011 for her active role in spreading Sicilian music and culture in the world; a 2010 winter tour in New York City; first place at the 2010 Bianca D’Aponte Award, a competition dedicated to female songwriting; first place at the 2009 Lucca Jazz Donna Award, and a performance, later that year, at the Italian Embassy in Lisbon for the Festa della Repubblica; a tour in Paris in 2008; and an appearance at the Langnau Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2004. 

Laura’s featured on “Walnut Street Station”, a documentary film on the American and Italian Jazz scene in New York and New Jersey by director Gianluca Bozzo, shot in 2013 and released in 2014. She’s also featured on “Prospero”, Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio’s new album (2014), with the song “Never been so well” which she performs and wrote original lyrics for. 

Her story is featured in a published book named “Dall’altra parte della luna”, a collection of interviews to Sicilians who made their ways in the United States. She’s been a guest at many radio and TV shows both in American and Italy.

Laura is currently working on her first official album, a double trio featuring International Jazz stars drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Ameen Saleem, together with Italian bassist Gianluca Renzi and drummer Flavio Li Vigni, plus special guests Vincen Herring on sax and Giovanni Falzone on trumpet. She’s also working on a new project, Sicily Revisited, a tribute to her roots through a Jazz and modern rendition of Sicilian traditional tunes. The project features international jazz pianist Andrea Beneventano and bassist Alberto Fidone, and it will be out with an album recorded in the Summer of 2014.

Laura is an expert of Sicilian musical tradition, she is a voice teacher and a musical clinician, with a Bachelor Degree in Musical Arts.