Camila Cortina Bello

Camila Cortina Bello is a Cuban-born pianist, composer, and educator whose music bridges ancestral memory and contemporary expression. Drawing from Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz improvisation, and classical form, she crafts soundscapes that speak to identity, resilience, and transformation.
A Yamaha Artist and Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grantee (2025), Camila was also a New Music USA Next Jazz Legacy Fellow (2023), mentored by Terri Lyne Carrington. Her artistry has brought her to stages across the Americas—including the DC Jazz Festival, Cape May Jazz Festival, Ecuador Jazz Festival, and Punta del Este Jazz Festival—and to collaborations with artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Dianne Reeves, and Miguel Zenón.
Her solo piano work Bravura premiered at London’s Barbican Centre (2024), and she appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk with OKAN. In 2024 she was also a finalist for the Cintas Foundation Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition.
Based in New Jersey, Camila is an active performer in New York’s jazz scene. Her music celebrates cultural hybridity while seeking new languages of expression—a continuous journey between rhythm, poetry, and self-discovery.