Music Director and Conductor Cristi Macelaru sends this holiday message to all our …read more »
Festival Fun
Tim Munro Pirouettes
Tim Munro has added a new title to his long list of accolades and vocations. In addition to being Cabrillo Festival’s principal flute, an active performer, writer, speaker, thinker and doer, Tim is also now a father! He recorded this very special rendition of Amy Beth Kirsten’s wild work for …read more »
What We’re Loving Now
As we work from home and shelter in place, the Cabrillo Festival’s staff and board have been sending each other exciting, moving, mind-blowing, or just plain fun content as a way to stay in touch. We loved each others shares so much, we thought you might too! Here is a …read more »
Happy Messages for Cabrillo Festival
Meet the Composers videos
The Festival Through My Eyes: An Interview with In the Works Composer Maya Miro Johnson
On Tuesday, July 30th, I had the pleasure of attending In the Works, a concert which showcased the new compositions of three emerging composers: Costas Dafnis, Maya Miro Johnson, and Annika Socolofksy. Each work was performed twice with a different conductor. This gave concert-goers the opportunity to experience the variations …read more »
The Festival Through My Eyes: The Student Staff Program
If you attended any of the concerts this season, you likely received a program book from a person wearing a blue Cabrillo shirt. Chances are, this person looked to be around the age of a high school or college student, and was a member of the Festival’s Student Staff Program. …read more »
The Festival Through My Eyes: Expressions of Community
During the open rehearsal of Concerto in D for violin and orchestra (2015), which will be a part of tonight’s concert, Wynton, Wynton gave the orchestra many notes which approached technical specificities through larger ideas having to do with the emotions behind the work, as well as the communal experience of …read more »
The Festival Through My Eyes: Works in Process
It is Thursday of the first week of the Festival, and there has been so much to take in that I’ve had trouble deciding where to begin this post. From Open Rehearsals to Student Staff projects, Megan Levad’s poetry workshop, and the astounding In the Works concert, this Festival is …read more »
Clarice Assad talks about her new Family work E Gol!
The Festival Through My Eyes: The Place of the Civic Auditorium and the Space of the Listening Body
Part one: The Festival in Production We’re just one day away from the first Open Rehearsal, meaning, the Festival season is upon us! I’m working on this post today from the staff lounge, where I can inconspicuously listen to Michael Sheppard rehearse on the piano. I’d be lying if I …read more »
Inbal Segev gives a preview of Anna Clyne’s new cello concerto
Inbal Segev took some time to record a little preview for us! Heralded by The New York Times as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods,” Anna Clyne returns to the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with DANCE for cello and orchestra, co-commissioned with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Based …read more »
The Festival Through My Eyes: An Introduction
Coffee in one hand, bike helmet in the other, and a pounding chest accompanying my steps up the stairs and through the door, I enter the building which houses the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Office—my destination. In the entryway, I observe a row of potted and hanging plans which …read more »
Esteli Gomez of Roomful of Teeth is excited to come home!
It turns out Esteli Gomez of Roomful of Teeth is a Santa Cruz native! She sent us a sweet greeting via this video… enjoy! And then join Esteli and her “band” for their two concerts: Notorious (Aug. 2) and Roomful of Teeth in Concert (Aug. 4), and for a free …read more »
David Murray and Elise Blake unbox 2019 music!
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra musicians come to us from across the country and beyond, where they play in some of the best orchestras around. Our music librarian, also based remotely, has the gargantuan task of acquiring, organizing, and distributing scores to all the players. Once the musicians receive their music, usually …read more »
Enter to win 2019 Opening Night tickets!
Enter here for a chance to win two tickets to our 2019 Opening Night concert, including two dinner tickets! The entire evening program will be dedicated to the world premiere of composer Kristin Kuster’s When There Are Nine, with a libretto by poet Megan Levad inspired by Supreme Court Justice Ruth …read more »
