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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music presents new works by living composers led by Music Director & Conductor @cristian.macelaru in Santa Cruz, CA

🎉🎉Stronger@60🎉🎉We are returning to LIV

🎉🎉Stronger@60🎉🎉We are returning to LIVE, IN-PERSON performances next summer—our 60th anniversary season! We'll announce the 2022 program in March, and we're working now to produce an in-person season that ensures the safety of our artists, audiences, hosts, and volunteers. Stay tuned!

Tuesday is for lovers (music lovers, that is)—Sh

Tuesday is for lovers (music lovers, that is)—Show your love for bringing great new music to life this #GivingTuesday by supporting Cabrillo Festival, with 5 easy ways to give! 💟➡ Just hit the link in our bio to give us some love (cabrillomusic.org/support-the-festival/)

Today, we're sharing our immense thanks for our Fe

Today, we're sharing our immense thanks for our Festival Orchestra musicians, whose commitment, resilience, and beautiful playing kept us moving forward over the past two virtual seasons!

🎶 "Sprout" by @seanshepherdcomposer reflects on the resilience of the forest after wildfire. Produced and edited by @svetstoyanov, Executive Producer and Festival percussionist.

📺 Rewatch the entire program for free on-demand, on our website (or YouTube!): cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/melt-sprout-concert/

"Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather, the Reckoning at Sta

"Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather, the Reckoning at Standing Rock"—The @camilleseaman Interview (premiered during our 2021 Virtual Season) has just been released by the @kitchensisters in podcast format: Listen at apple.co/kitchensisters

Plus, revisit more of her incredible photography that accompanies the interview at kitchensisters.org!

All photos by Camille Seaman

🔊🎶Composer Sean Shepherd's Sprout, reflectin

🔊🎶Composer Sean Shepherd's Sprout, reflecting on the resilience of the forest after wildfire, was brought to life with breathtaking imagery by animation artists David Murakami and Sam Clevenger. 👏👏👏

📺 Rewatch the entire program on our website (or YouTube!): cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/melt-sprout-concert/

#CabrilloFestivalOrchestra #WorldPremiere #contemporarymusic #newmusic #orchestralmusic #orchestra #VirtualOrchestra #composer #musician #climatechange #wildfire #forestfire #climatecrisis #climateemergency #BayArea #SantaCruz #redwoods

🔊 🎶 "Blown away by Melt & Sprout"—a Festiv

🔊 🎶 "Blown away by Melt & Sprout"—a Festival viewer who loved our 2021 program featuring two works on climate change by @seanshepherdcomposer. This clip of Melt features the amazing photography of @camilleseaman. Watch the entire program on our website (link in bio) or YouTube!
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Join Ensemble for These Times for its 2021/22 h

Join Ensemble for These Times for its 2021/22 hybrid season, Dark Universe/ Mysterious Spaces, opening October 15 with "Alchemy"—more info and trailer below!

E4TT's 14th year of diverse, innovative programming features five Bay Area concerts, including commissions by Vivian Fung, Emily Doolittle, David Garner, and six emerging composers; works by @gabrielalenafrank, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, @gabrielaortizcomposer, Angélica Negrón, Zosha Di Castri, @lisabielawa, Elena Ruehr, and more.

E4TT will welcome a limited number of in-person attendees; concerts will also be live-streamed free of charge. www.E4TT.org
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Reposted from @e4tt E4TT's season opener Old First Concerts on Friday, October 15 at 8 p.m. focuses on identity and musical transformation. Featuring commissions by Brennan Stokes ("The Unseen," poetry by Sara Teasdale) and Mary Bianco, and music by E4TT's August #MTA composer Marcus Norris, Gabriela Ortiz, Pablo Ortiz, Darian Donovan Thomas, Julia Perry, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and George Walker. With guest coloratura Chelsea Hollow. Pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. Check the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzhxECScC-w

Get your tickets for viewing in-person or RSVP for online viewing: https://bit.ly/3fAEkYN

#bstoked #LGBTQ #identity #transformation #newmusic #premieres #cello #chelseaHollowsoprano #whoisabby #gabriela.ortiz.9212

"...Contested Eden provided mesmerizing catharsis.

"...Contested Eden provided mesmerizing catharsis." Just one of the many wonderful comments we have received about this work by @gabrielalenafrank! Watch now on our website (link in bio) or find us on YouTube!

We are wishing all who celebrate the Jewish High H

We are wishing all who celebrate the Jewish High Holidays a very happy and sweet new year. The extraordinary tales of INTONATIONS and the Violins of Hope offer us an opportunity to reflect on history, the human capacity for resilience, and the power of music. Despite the struggles, we are left with a sense of hope. The panel discussion is a great precursor and the performances are remarkable. Watch on our website or find us on YouTube! 🎻🎵

Beautiful memories from our very special 2021 Dono

Beautiful memories from our very special 2021 Donors Concert at 1440 Multiversity, featuring our dear orchestra friend and incredibly talented cellist, Kathleen Balfe. 📸 by @r._r._jones_photography

Have you ever seen the underside of an iceberg? Th

Have you ever seen the underside of an iceberg? This video that National Geographic photographer @camilleseaman so generously shared with us is "just the tip of the iceberg" in a fascinating conversation with Nikki Silva of NPR's Kitchen Sisters—a 2021 Festival favorite! Watch the entire interview via the link in our bio - or on YouTube!

Coming in 2022! #TheEndOfRain • • • • •

Coming in 2022! #TheEndOfRain
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Reposted from @scott.ordway.composer “The End of Rain” is a project blending music and landscape photography with crowdsourced text to explore impact of fire and drought on California communities. As I continue to work on the project, I’ll be sharing excerpts from the crowdsourced texts with some of the photographs I’ve taken in the regions those texts describe. The piece will premiere in July 2022 with @roomfulofteeth and the @cabrillofestival orchestra in Santa Cruz, CA.

Learn about the heartrending story of 14-year-old

Learn about the heartrending story of 14-year-old 'Motele' told in the 4th movement of Intonations: "Motele Schlein was a child prodigy with a promising career when he and his family were imprisoned. After his family was murdered, he was randomly selected to entertain at the Nazi Officers Club. At 12 years old, he devised a plan to avenge his family. Week by week, he smuggled gunpowder in his violin case to create a bomb in the basement of the Officers Club. He set it on fire and ran to the woods to watch the explosion and witness the destruction. Through it all, he was never really alone. He always had his violin and music." -Program note by Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer
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Reposted from @sashamezzomama #tbt
"...Cabrillo festival brought together the creative team and musicians for this beautiful project and I felt so lucky to be a part of it. Even with all of the Covid protocols and California restrictions they somehow made it happen. We had the amazing cinematographer Frazer Bradshaw, Elena Park directing, and David Bowles on sound. Violinist Ben Beilman and the St Lawrence String Quartet were stunning and I hope I get to see all of them again soon.

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer wrote this piece, Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Music at Kohl Mansion commissioned the premiere and Cabrillo commissioned the orchestral version. We haven’t gotten to do it yet in person with the orchestra but we will! Can you hear the instruments here that aren’t seen?"

@musicatkohl @frazerbradshawfilm @elenalumahai @benbeilman @stlawrencequartet #thaischernyavsky @gene.scheer #jakeheggie #holocaust #violin #jewish #violinsofhope @cristian.macelaru @suluandexcelsior @swineshead.productions @cranewaypavilion @jasonjosefferdp @yungbibimbap

We were deeply saddened to learn of the recent pas

We were deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Michael Morgan, music director and conductor of the @oaksym for a remarkable 30 years. In appreciation of his commitment to contemporary music, we’d like to share this photo of Morgan with composers @missymazzoli and @masonbatesmusic, taken at Cabrillo Festival in 2018 in front of the @santacruzcivic. To learn about his legacy, check out the 8/20 @sfchronicle_datebook article by Joshua Kosman.

We're back from a little post-Festival break, and

We're back from a little post-Festival break, and rewatching our season programs! Did you know our entire 2021 Virtual Season is up on YouTube as well as our website? Check it out and see what else you notice when you rewatch!

Anna Clyne's DANCE has passed 5 MILLION plays on S

Anna Clyne's DANCE has passed 5 MILLION plays on Spotify! The recording features Inbal Segev and the @londonphilharmonicorchestra with @marinalsop.conductor. We continue to feel so honored to have presented the world premiere of this work, as its popularity grows! Cheering for all involved!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Reposted from @inbalsegevcello #FlashbackFriday to the premiere of @annaclynecomposer's concerto, DANCE. The first movement has over 5M plays on @spotify, and we hope that you continue to enjoy this piece as much as we do!

The whole concerto is linked in my stories for your weekend listening! 😎🎧

Our entire 2021 Virtual Season is available to wat

Our entire 2021 Virtual Season is available to watch and re-watch via the link in our bio - cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/ (and on YouTube too!) 📺🎻🎺🎶 Endless thanks to all who tuned in to the premieres and to our incredible artists. This season felt so spectacular and powerful to us. If it did for you too, please share far and wide! THANK YOU!

The Melt + Sprout finale was the perfect way to cl

The Melt + Sprout finale was the perfect way to close a fantastic 2022 Virtual Season! Thank you, everyone, for joining us, and so much gratitude to all our artists and staff. Everything is available to rewatch on demand at the link in our bio 📺🎶🎉
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Reposted from @seanshepherdcomposer I wanted to have a real premiere for myself! So I waited until yesterday’s virtual premiere of Melt + Sprout and watched the AWESOME beautiful and haunting imagery of @CamilleSeaman and terrific new animation by @MurakamiDavid.

Thank you to @CabrilloFestival, @Cristian.Macelaru, @SvetStoyanov and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra for this program. So happy to see Sprout digitally premiered last night, and see Melt brought into a new, vital life.

You can rewatch the premiere at cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/melt-and-sprout-concert

Please join us in cheering for our generous 2021 V

Please join us in cheering for our generous 2021 Virtual Season Sponsors and Community Partners! Thanks to your support, we are still presenting "the HERE and NOW of contemporary music," even through these unpredictable times.
Full list via link in bio: https://cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/in-appreciation/

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🎉Our finale Melt + Sprout Concert starts at 7pm

🎉Our finale Melt + Sprout Concert starts at 7pm Pacific!🎉

💧Melt is Sean Shepherd’s critically acclaimed musical lament on climate change and the disappearance of the world’s glaciers. Co-commissioned and performed by the #CabrilloFestivalOrchestra with Cristian Macelaru in 2018, now renowned National Geographic photographer Camille Seaman has set her breathtaking imagery to the archival recording for a deeply moving experience.

🌱Shepherd’s new Festival commission, Sprout, is a hopeful sequel that reflects on the resilience of the forest after wildfire. The digital #worldpremiere features the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra and is presented in two captivating versions: one brought to life by animation artists David Murakami and Sam Clevenger, and a second produced and edited by Svet Stoyanov, putting our orchestra musicians squarely in the spotlight.

📺🎶Enjoy the concert and the Post-Concert Artists Talk with us via the link in our bio: cabrillomusic.org/2021-season/

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