Carol Plantamura

She graduated from Occidental College and was an original member of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo, under the direction of Lukas Foss. She has collaborated with such composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Vinko Globokar, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Foss, Betsy Jolas, Will Ogdon, Bernard Rands, Frederic Rzewski, and Robert Erickson. Beginning in 1966, she was an original member of the improvising electronic music collective Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome, Italy.

Plantamura joined the staff of the University of California, San Diego in 1978 and also serves on the San Diego Early Music Society (SDEMS) Advisory Panel

She made six recordings for Composers Recordings, Inc., and has recorded for Wergo, DGG, Fonit/Cetra, and Leonarda.

Books

Plantamura, Carol (1983). Woman Composers. Bellerophone Books. (a coloring/paper-doll book)
Plantamura, Carol (1996). The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe. Citadell Press.