His work is represented on 16 albums, including the Grammy-nominated Ritornello on Navona Records. As a pianist with an active performing schedule, he programs works of fellow composers as well as his own, and is at home in standard art song and chamber music repertoire. He has collaborated with a variety of contemporaries in the arts and letters, pursuing intersections with the visual worlds of Ying Li, Lia Laterza, Renato d’Agostin, and Vladimir Tamari, and setting poetry of Friedrich Thiel, Claudio Saltarelli, Renzo Oliva, and Luigi Cerantola. Cacioppo involves himself deeply with Native American Studies. Much of his output expresses this aspect, such as the cantata Wolf on a text by Mohawk author and artist Peter Blue Cloud.