Recent works range from a piece for mezzo soprano, percussion, and electronics to background music for a new translation and production of Euripides' Orestes. Ms. Staffaroni is currently a Masters of Music candidate in Composition at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She has studied composition with Richard Carrick, Martin Brody, Jenny O. Johnson, Jeremy Van Buskirk, and John H. Morrison. She is also the co-author of a scientific paper on the differences in the ways adolescent musicians and non-musicians experience sound.