Celebrate Cabrillo Festival’s Opening Night (Reflecting, July 31) and Closing Night (Rising II, August 9) with a community at-home dinner! In a regular Festival season, Opening Night includes a catered dinner in front of the Civic Auditorium, and Closing Night features a prix fixe dinner at two excellent Downtown Santa …read more »
2020
2020 Virtual Season Announcement
Press: Contact Publicist Mona Baroudi | 415.615.2735 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Goes Virtual for 2020 July 25 – August 9 Featuring the world premiere of Stacy Garrop’s The Battle for the Ballot; virtual performances, archival recordings; panel discussions; behind the scenes conversations; and more SANTA CRUZ, July 8, 2020—The Cabrillo …read more »
Cabrillo Festival says NO MORE HATE
We at Cabrillo Festival stand with our brothers and sisters across this nation who have stepped forward to say “NO MORE HATE!” We commit today to denying racism a foothold in our organization, to listening well to our communities, and to undertaking a fierce attitude of self-reflection and informed action, …read more »
COVID-19 Festival Impact Updates
Cabrillo Festival has cancelled its originally-planned 2020 season, as a proactive measure in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are planning new ideas for the summer, and will post important communications here until then. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly. Thank you for …read more »
Cabrillo Festival Cancels 2020 Season
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces Unprecedented Cancellation of 2020 Season SANTA CRUZ, CA—March 28, 2020—The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, regrets to announce the cancellation of its 2020 Season, scheduled for July 26-August 9, 2020. For the past 58 years, the …read more »
Composers 20/20
As part of our 2020 virtual season, we released a series of ten interviews with composers both familiar and new to the Festival. Included in this playlist are interviews with composers Dan Caputo, John Harbison, Pierre Jalbert, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Sean Shepherd, Gregory Smith, and Sarah Kirkland Snider. …read more »
Season Announcement 2020
PR Contact: Mona Baroudi | 415.615.2735 | mona@monabaroudipr.com (access press photos here) Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces its 58th Season Season highlights include three world premiere commissions; the orchestral premiere of Jake Heggie’s Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope with a reprise by mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke; two works …read more »
Violins of Hope SF Bay Area begins
Cabrillo Festival is honored to introduce you to the Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area, and to be a collaborator in this profound series of events. For more than two decades, Israeli violin-makers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein have recovered and meticulously restored an extensive collection of string instruments played …read more »
Violins of Hope Events
Music at Kohl Mansion Presents VIOLINS OF HOPE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Public Performances, Exhibitions, Forums, Films and Events January 16 – March 15, 2020 PRE-VIOLINS OF HOPE RESIDENCY EVENTS Wednesday, December 4, 2019—February 24, 2020 EXHIBITION: The Weinsteins’ Workshop: The Luthiers Who Restored the Violins of the Holocaust; photography …read more »
