2016 Season Announcement
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music celebrates Marin Alsop’s 25th Anniversary Season and her final as Music Director and Conductor of the Festival August 5-13, 2016.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music celebrates Marin Alsop’s 25th Anniversary Season and her final as Music Director and Conductor of the Festival August 5-13, 2016.
“The Festival is a chance to hear one of the finest orchestras anywhere, magically materializing on our shores for two blazing weeks of new, challenging music. Expect fireworks for the ears!” —Christina Waters, Good Times Weekly
Photos from the 2015 season.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music announced today that Maestra Marin Alsop will step down from her role as Music Director and Conductor in August 2016, following her 25th anniversary season.
The Cabrillo Festival has announced to the press and public that Maestra Marin Alsop will step down as Music Director and Conductor following her 25th anniversary season, August 2016.
Robert Pollie of the 7th Avenue Project interviews Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo.
For composers and musicians, labels can be limiting. They usually aren’t coined and settled until after a musical movement is past, but they stick around long after they would have been useful.
Ask your average classical concertgoer what they think of when they hear the phrase “new music” and after a moment of trepidation, their answers are likely to fall along a few well-worn narratives.
Missy Mazzoli first came to Cabrillo Festival in 2007 to participate in the Composer Workshop. On Saturday, Aug. 15, her piece River Rouge Transformation will receive its West Coast debut.
Robert Pollie of the 7th Avenue Project gets inside the minds of three composers from our Wish You Were Here concert and more.
Composers are famously isolated creatures who treasure solitude, and not without good reason.
Percussionist Colin Currie returns for the U.S. premiere of MacMillan’s second percussion concerto.
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