Roberto Campa

Saxophonist Roberto Campa has been recognized both nationally and internationally as a soloist — having won prizes in the 2022 Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition, the 2022 MTNA Young Artist competition. Additionally, being selected as a contestant for the eighth Adolphe Sax International Competition in Belgium, as well as recipient of the Hans-Schaeuble award and winner of the 2024-25 Tuesday Musicale of Detroit Award. He has been invited to perform with a number of orchestras and organizations, most notably with the Clear Lake Symphony, the Little Orchestra Society, and with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings.

An active chamber musician, he is the soprano saxophonist in the Cerus Quartet, 2025 CAG Louis and Meisel Competition Winner, gold medalists in the 2025 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, winners of the 2024 MTNA Chamber Music Competition and the 2023 Briggs Chamber Music Competition. Cerus’ mission is to place the saxophone quartet at the heart of 21st century classical music. The quartet’s engagements have taken Roberto from coast to coast, with an upcoming concerto feature with the UM Symphony Band in November 2025. 

Roberto is an advocate for new music, having organized commissions and premiered works by composers such as Jennifer Higdon, Karalyn Schubring, Ryan Lindveit, Joey Karz, and Garrett Schumann, among others. Most recently in 2025, Roberto premiered Dark Tales, Intrigues, and Gathering Clouds, a tone-poem for soprano saxophone and piano written by Ann Arbor-based composer and flutist Peter Cohn. 

Currently based in Ann Arbor, Roberto serves as the saxophone Graduate Teaching Instructor at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing his Doctorate in Musical Arts in saxophone performance. He’s also holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Michigan where his primary teacher has been 2x GRAMMY award-winning artist Timothy McAllister.