Nisha Patel Caiozzi is a singer, improviser, teacher, and multimedia artist. She is interested in exploring the sonic and community-building possibilities of the voice, including discovering new sounds within her own instrument. This love of vocal exploration has been helpful for her desire to sing music by living composers. As an improviser, she has been working to create musical prompts that people of different musical backgrounds and different levels of experience can engage with simultaneously. She believes that musical spaces focused on openness, possibility, and listening- can be used to deepen communal relationships.

This summer, she is a studio artist at Central City Opera where she covered and performed The Nightingale in Once Upon A Mattress, sang in the chorus of The Knock, and in the scenes programs. In 2024, she was a finalist in Bard’s Concerto Competition and placed 2nd at the songSLAM competition where she performed a partially improvised art song of her own composition and poetry in collaboration with Michael Yang-Wierenga. Other recent performances include Bards production of Orphée aux enfers (Cupidon), Shir Hashirim (Lily) at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and various opera scenes with the Bel Canto Institute in Tuscany. Recent awards include the Ruth Cogan Memorial Scholarship in Voice Performance in 2023 and the Colburn Foundation Fellowship at Songfest in 2022. Nisha received her MM in Vocal Arts from Bard Conservatory in 2025 and a BM in Voice Performance with a minor in Ethnomusicology and a concentration in Pedagogy, Advocacy and Community Engagement from Oberlin Conservatory in 2023.