Camarata was born in Verona, New Jersey, and studied violin in his childhood. He later took up trumpet playing. He attended New York’s Juilliard School of Music, where he studied composition and orchestration.
In London, Camarata organized the Kingsway Symphony Orchestra, which included seventy trained musicians from the Royal Philharmonic and other British orchestras. For Decca Record Company, he made recordings of operatic highlights from the operas of Giacomo Puccini , Giuseppe Verdi...