Applications Open for the 2025 Emerging Black Composers Project
We’re excited to share that the 2025 Emerging Black Composers Project (EBCP) applications are open. EBCP represents an exciting expansion of the Festival’s commitment to
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Second Cabrillo Emerging Black Composers Prize Awarded to Tyson Gholston Davis
Davis will receive a commission, serve as Composer-in-Residence, and have their piece premiered during the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Contact: Steph C Sherwood
New Additions to the 2024 Cabrillo Festival “Music as Movement” Season: West Coast Premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto and Composer Clarice Assad in Residence
This is an update to our 2024 Season Announcement, found HERE. Santa Cruz, CA – May 30, 2024 – The Cabrillo Music Festival announces exciting
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces 2024 Season: Music as Movement
Contact: Steph C Sherwood or Steven Swartz Season highlights include four world premieres, eight West Coast premieres, fourteen composers in residence, and the inaugural Creative
Meet Our New Executive Director
Dear Friends of Cabrillo Festival, I am pleased to announce that D. Riley Nicholson has assumed his role as our new Executive Director, beginning this
2023 Poet-In-Residence and Community Poem Prompts
Poet-in-Residence FARNAZ FATEMI An Iranian American poet and writer, Farnaz Fatemi is Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024. She is a founding
First Cabrillo Emerging Black Composers Prize Awarded to Nathaniel Heyder
Heyder will receive a commissioning award, serve as composer-in-residence and have his piece premiered during the 2024 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music season. Contact: Mona Baroudi
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Names New Executive Director
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Names New Executive Director Riley Nicholson to assume role October 1, 2023 Contact: Mona Baroudi SANTA CRUZ, CA—June 1, 2023–The Cabrillo
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces its 61st Season
Contact: Mona Baroudi Season highlights include two World premiere commissions, one US premiere, nine West Coast premieres: three percussion concerti; a tribute to Cabrillo Festival
Emerging Black Composers Project to Partner with Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Offering Additional Prize Commission
Winner will be chosen from 2023 pool of applicants, EBCP deadline extended to February 13, 2023. SAN FRANCISCO, CA—February 9,2023 —The San Francisco Conservatory of
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces that Executive Director Ellen Primack will step down after the 61st Season, August 2023
Contact: Mona Baroudi415.615.2735mona@monabaroudipr.com SANTA CRUZ, CA—January 17, 2023—Ellen Primack, longtime Executive Director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, has announced she will step down
A Letter from Ellen
To my beloved community, After a profoundly rewarding career stewarding the Cabrillo Festival for more than three decades, I have decided now to step down