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SANTA CRUZ CIVIC AUDITORIUM
MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
MARIN ALSOP
MUSIC DIRECTOR | CONDUCTOR
OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
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CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 1
2 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
JULY 27–AUG 10
2014
SANTA CRUZ OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
PROGRAM BOOK CONTENTS
The 2014 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 5 Calendar of Events
Program Book is a publication of Summer Fests, 7 President’s Message
a Cultural Arts Collaborative of: 9 Board of Directors & Staff
11 Music Director Marin Alsop
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 12 Hall of Fame
Santa Cruz Shakespeare 13 Festival History
14 Cabrillo Festival Experience
For information contact:
16 Church Street Fair
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
19 Creativity Tent for Kids
147 South River Street, Suite 232
20 Guest Composers
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
26 Guest Artists
www.cabrillomusic.org
28 2014 Festival Orchestra
831.426.6966
30 Conductors/Composers Workshop
info@cabrillomusic.org
31 In the Works
2014 Program Book Design and Print Production: 33 Student Staff Program
Elise Huffman 35 Opening Night: PLAY
37 PLAY Program Notes
2014 Program Book Cover, Brochure and Poster Designer: 41 HOPE
Salal Moon Rinaldo 43 HOPE Program Notes
Cover Art:
47 Free Family Concert
Photo of Marin Alsop by Adriane White 49 Free Family Concert Program Note
Artwork by Glenn Owen (See bio on page 8) 50 In the BLUE ROOM with Time for Three
52 Music in the Mountains
SummerFests Advertising Sales Director: 55 FIRE
Sandy Kurz 57 FIRE Program Notes
61 San Juan Day
63 DREAM: Music at the Mission
67 DREAM Program Notes
68 In Memoriam
69 New Music Forever Endeavor
70 Grantmakers
As a courtesy to all patrons, latecomers to Cabrillo Festival
72 AIR Fund Contributors
concerts Zill be seateG by tKe usKers GurinJ tKe Àrst convenient
73 Lead Sponsors
pause in the program. Children under six years of age will not
be permitted into performances with the exception of the 74 Donor Recognition
Family Concert. 77 Corporate & Community Sponsors
78 Acknowledgements
CAMERAS AND RECORDING EQUIPMENT ARE NOT ALLOWED 80 New Works in the Works
IN THE PERFORMANCE HALLS DURING CONCERTS. 80 Index to Advertisers
PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES, ALARMS, AND
PAGERS.
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CALENDAR
CALENDAR O
OFFE
EVENTS
V E NTS SUNDAY AUGUST 3
All events take place at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 11am-8pm Church Street Fair MEETUP! Free
unless otherwise noted. The revelry continues on Church Street!
Please visit CABRILLOMUSIC.ORG for complete details on these events
and more. 1:00pm Free Family Concert—The Conference of the Birds Free
The event begins with a tour of the orchestra followed by a concert
SUNDAY JULY 27 featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.
Jonathan Sheffer The Conference of the Birds (Jonathan Sheffer, narrator)
7:00pm Open Rehearsals Begin Free [World Premiere | Festival Commission]
You have the chance to watch the music come to life as the musicians 8:00pm In the Blue Room with Time for Three $35 $27
and composers sculpt their pieces for performances day by day. A detailed This chamber concert In the Blue Room offers high-velocity music from a
schedule of Pre-Rehearsal Talks and Open Rehearsals can be found online. dynamic young trio, Time for Three!
WEDNESDAY JULY 30 TUESDAY AUGUST 5
5:30-6:45pm Special Concert: In the Works Free 6:15pm Pre-Rehearsal Talk Free
Featuring works by three young composers, performed by members of Alexandra Arrieche, Cabrillo Festival Assistant Conductor, on the DREAM
the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra led by emerging conductors studying in Orchestra Concert works.
the Conductors/Composers Training Workshop.
7:30pm Béla Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto $10 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6
Documentary film screening at the Del Mar Theatre followed by a Q&A 6:15pm Pre-Rehearsal Talk “An Inside Look” Free
session with composer/banjo master Béla Fleck. Tickets available
Moderated by Faye Crosby, composers Michael Daugherty, Stacy Garrop,
through the theatre, www.thenick.com.
and Clarice Assad discuss the student/teacher, mentor/mentee relationship.
THURSDAY JULY 31 THURSDAY AUGUST 7
6:15pm Pre-Rehearsal Talk Free 6:30pm Music in the Mountains: A Benefit Concert
Philip Collins, composer, lecturer and New Music Works’ Artistic Director, Nestldown, Los Gatos $175
on the PLAY Orchestra Concert works. Wine and food tastings in a spectacular mountain retreat setting, and
a chamber music concert featuring pianist/composer Clarice Assad,
FRIDAY AUGUST 1 Concertmaster Justin Bruns and members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra.
6:30-7:45pm Pre-concert Dinner Alfresco MEETUP! $32 SATURDAY AUGUST 9
7:00-7:30pm Pre-concert Talk with Marin Alsop 2:30pm Student Staff Ensemble Concert Free
8:00pm PLAY—Orchestra Concert $55 $47 $32 Featuring original works composed and performed by the young members
Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop. of the Festival’s Student Staff program.
Dylan Mattingly Sky Madrigal [World Premiere] 8:00pm FIRE—Orchestra Concert $55 $47 $32
Béla Fleck The Impostor Concerto (Béla Fleck, banjo) [West Coast Premiere] Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.
Andrew Norman Play [West Coast Premiere] Gabriella Smith Tumblebird Contrails [World Premiere | Festival Commission]
John Adams Saxophone Concerto (Timothy McAllister, saxophone)
SATURDAY AUGUST 2 [West Coast Premiere]
Brett Dean Fire Music [U.S. Premiere]
11:00am-8:00pm Church Street Fair MEETUP! Free
Post-Concert: Dessert Reception for Audience & Orchestra MEETUP!
On Church Street outside the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium—with a full
SUNDAY AUGUST 10 SAN JUAN DAY
day of live music and dance; free art workshops for kids; and art, wine
and food artisans.
4 & 7:30pm DREAM: Music at the Mission
1:30pm Meet the Composers $12 Mission San Juan Bautista $55 day $45 eve.
Inside the Civic Auditorium, an informal discussion takes place with Afternoon and evening Grand Finale performances in the splendor of
Marin Alsop, and composers TJ Cole, Jennifer Higdon, Dylan Mattingly, the old Mission sanctuary, featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra,
Andrew Norman, Jonathan Sheffer, Gabriella Smith and Mark-Anthony conducted by Marin Alsop.
Turnage.
Stacy Garrop Thunderwalker
8:00pm HOPE—Orchestra Concert $55 $47 $32
Clarice Assad Dreamscapes (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin)
Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.
Michael Daugherty Fallingwater (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin)
TJ Cole Megalopolis [West Coast Premiere] Detlev Glanert Three Songs without Words [U.S. Premiere]
Jennifer Higdon Concerto 4-3 (Time for Three, string trio)
Between Concert: Picnicking in the Olive Grove MEETUP!
Mark-Anthony Turnage Speranza [West Coast Premiere]
Pack a basket and join other Festival-goers in the Olive Grove adjacent to
Post-Concert Talkback Session Mission San Juan Bautista.
Concertgoers are invited to a post-concert talk with Marin Alsop, guest Post Concert: Finale Reception at Jardines de San Juan MEETUP!
artists, and composers. Audiences are invited to stroll to Jardines de San Juan restaurant (115
Third Street) to bid the season and its music-makers a fond farewell.
TICKETS: 831.420.5260
SAVE OUR DATES! 2015: August 2-16
WWW.CABRILLOMUSIC.ORG 2016: July 31-August 14
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SUNSET PRESENTS 2014/2015 SEASON
LeAnn Rimes Trio Kathleen Madigan Buddy Guy
Friday, September 26 at 8PM Saturday, January 17 at 8PM Friday, April 3 at 8PM
Cirque Zuma Zuma Mavis Staples Martha Graham Dance
Friday, October 24 at 8PM Sunday, January 18 at 3PM Company: Essential Graham
Olivia Newton-John Spyro Gyra Wednesday, April 22 at 8PM
Sunday, October 26 at 7PM Friday, February 6 at 8PM Fancy Nancy The Musical
Mummenschanz An Evening of Spirit Saturday, April 25 at 3PM
40th Anniversary Tour with James Van Praagh ABBA Mania
Saturday, November 1 at 8PM Saturday, February 7 at 8PM Thursday, April 30 at 8PM
Seasons of Broadway Rosanne Cash Natalie MacMaster
Saturday, November 8 at 8PM Thursday, March 19 at 8PM Friday, May 1 at 8PM
America’s Test Kitchen Live! New York Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
Wednesday, November 12 at 8PM Gilbert and Sullivan Players: G AL A E VENT!
The Second City Nut-Cracking HMS Pinafore Saturday, May 9 at 8PM
Holiday Revue Friday, March 20 at 8PM
Tuesday, November 25 at 7PM
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jim Petersen
President
Michel Protti
Vice President
Fran Fisher, C.P.A.
Chief Financial OfÀcer
Liza Culick
Secretary
Dina Hoffman
Immediate Past President
Diane Craddock
I
t’s with great pleasure that I welcome you to designed to create a more vibrant, functional, Tom Ellison
the 52nd season of the Cabrillo Festival of safe and comfortable performing arts and Richard Fabrikant
Contemporary Music—and with gratitude for cultural center. A planning committee, led by Margaret Gordon
the tremendous behind-the-scenes effort by the our own Executive Director Ellen Primack and Nancy Loshkajian
Festival’s staff, board, volunteers and donors to members of the Festival board, and including
Jonathan Miller
prepare for the 2014 season. It’s heartening to prominent leaders from other arts organizations,
Bruce Nicholson
see such energy and single-minded devotion, Arts Council Santa Cruz County, Community
with so many people committed to bringing to Foundation Santa Cruz County, and Santa Cruz Earleen Overend
life the rich and compelling experience that city government, was formed to initiate a planning Marcia Smith
Cabrillo Festival promises year after year. I also process and develop a proposal for the Civic’s Richard Wilson
feel a deep sense of pride in seeing Cabrillo renovation. Generously funded by The David and
Festival and our esteemed music director Marin Lucile Packard Foundation, this phase included LIFE MEMBERS
Alsop continue to earn phenomenal recognition engaging the noted Àrm ELS Architecture & Urban Fran Fisher
in the international arena—for example, in March Design to create conceptual designs to enable Marion Taylor
the American Composers Forum named Marin the Santa Cruz community to better assess and
a “Champion of New Music,” and in May the visualize the potential beneÀts of upgrading PAST PRESIDENTS
New York classical music station WQXR named this important cultural asset. We’re working T. Jerome Barnes 1963
Cabrillo Festival one of the top five incubators of on the roll-out of the design and next planning
Paul Sandas 1964
new music in the world! Astonishing accolades phases now. As members of the Cabrillo Festival
that affirm our important work! community, you are very important constituents Suzanne Paizis 1964-65
for this long-term effort, and we sincerely hope Bud Kretschmer 1966-67
2014 presents exciting new horizons for the that we can earn your support. J.A. Wyckoff 1968
Festival. As we complete six years as part of The
James Irvine Foundation’s Arts Regional Initiative, Ruth Frary, M.D. 1969-72
I would like to especially thank the Cabrillo
and the myriad capacity building and cultural Festival’s family of individual donors. Your Manuel Santana 1973-77
participation initiatives which have brought us generous contributions are truly the lifeblood Earleen Overend 1978-80
to this point of organizational vitality, the board of the Festival, and form a signiÀcant portion Carol Brancich 1981-82
and staff are now engaged in developing a new of our revenue. Without your important support
Robert Korns, M.D. 1983-84
strategic plan to ensure the long-term success we would not be able to bring the breadth and
and Ànancial well being of the Festival. This effort quality of the Cabrillo Festival experience to Gayle Ortiz 1985-86
will be guided by the insights and needs of our Santa Cruz each year. All of us at the Festival— Mary K. Hubbard 1987-88
extended Cabrillo Festival community, so I hope Marin, the artists, board and staff—thank you Manuel Santana 1989
you will take the opportunity to speak with our sincerely for your continuing support. We are Richard Klein 1990-91
staff or board members during the Festival to forever grateful. Celia Hartman 1992
share your thoughts on how you envision Cabrillo Robert Scrivener 1993
Festival in the future. We’ve already conducted a To all of our loyal supporters and music
enthusiasts, and to our talented and generous Howard Sherer 1994-96
great amount of audience and donor research in
orchestra members, composers, and guest Elizabeth Irwin 1997
the last couple of years and would love to hear
artists, we hope you enjoy every moment of this Gail Oakes 1998-2000
what’s on your mind!
Cabrillo Festival and look forward to exciting Nancy Loshkajian 2001-05
Another exciting opportunity in front of us Festivals in the years to come! Bruce Nicholson 2006-2009
is a much hoped-for renovation of the Civic Dina Hoffman 2010-2013
Auditorium. A number of organizations have Jim Petersen 2014-present
come together with the City of Santa Cruz in the
last year to consider how the Civic could be re- Jim Petersen
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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Board of Directors
Left to right: Fran Fisher, Dick Wilson, Dina Hoffman, Michel Protti, Diane Craddock,
Jonathan Miller, Nancy Loshkajian, President Jim Petersen, Tom Ellison, Richard Fabrikant,
Bruce Nicholson, Margaret Gordon, Marci Smith, and Liza Culick.
ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE CHAIRS PRODUCTION
ELLEN M. PRIMACK EARLEEN OVEREND MIKE JOHNSON
Executive Director Fund Development Chair Technical Director
JESSICA FRYE RICHARD FABRIKANT ERIK FINLEY
Associate Director Finance Committee Chair Orchestra Manager and Staff
Stage Manager Jessica Frye, Lyndsey Loosley, Ellen Primack
LYNDSEY LOOSLEY JIM PETERSEN
Director of Operations Strategic Planning Chair ELLA FREDRICKSON
and Programs Music Librarian
DINA HOFFMAN
VALERIE HAYES Board Development Chair DREW YERYS
Housing Coordinator Recording & Sound Engineer
DIANE CRADDOCK
MONA BAROUDI Personnel Committee LAURA ANDERSON
Publicist Chair Assistant Stage Manager Mike Johnson Erik Finley Ella Fredrickson
JIM BROWN BARBARA LAWRENCE KRISTEN KLEHR
Civic Renovation Study Music in the Mountains Production Assistant
Project Manager BeneÀt Event Chair
JENNIFAH CHARD
MARGARET GORDON House Manager
MARCI SMITH Drew Yerys Laura Anderson Kristen Klehr
BeneÀt RafÁe Co-Chairs MEMBERS OF I.A.T.S.E.
LOCAL 611
NANCY LOSHKAJIAN Stage Hands
RICHARD WILSON
Civic Auditorium
Leadership Team
Jennifah Chard Jim Brown Valerie Hayes
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Marrin Alsop is an inspiring and
powerfful voice in the international
mussic scene, a Music Director
off vision and distinction who
passion
onately believes that “music
has the power to change lives.”
Shhe is recognized across the
world for her innovative approach
to prog
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commitment to education
and to the development
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of audiences of all ages.
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arin Alsop’s success as Music Director Marin Alsop has guest-conducted the America’s Conductor of the Year. She was
of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra great orchestras of the world: Philadelphia, inducted into the American Classical Music
since 2007 has been recognized by Cleveland, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Hall of Fame in 2010 and was the only
two extensions in her tenure, now confirmed Concertgebouw, La Scala Philharmonic, classical musician to be included in The
until 2021. As part of her artistic leadership Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony. Guardian’s “Top 100 Women,” celebrating
in Baltimore, Alsop has created bold initiatives In Europe, she regularly returns to the Frankfurt the centenary of International Women’s Day
that have contributed to the wider community Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in 2011. In 2012 Alsop was presented with
and reached new audiences. In 2008 she and the Czech Philharmonic. She has a close Honorary Membership (HonRAM) of the Royal
launched ‘OrchKids,’ which provides music relationship with the London Symphony and Academy of Music, London, and in 2014 she
education, instruments, meals and mentorship London Philharmonic, appearing with both was presented with the “Champion of New
of the city’s neediest young people. Engaging orchestras most seasons, as well as with the Music” Award by the American Composers
the local community, the BSO Academy and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She Forum.
‘Rusty Musicians’ programs also allow adult is also Artist in Residence at the Southbank
amateur musicians the chance to play alongside Centre in London. Alsop’s extensive discography on Naxos
members of the orchestra under Alsop’s baton. includes a notable set of Brahms symphonies
with the London Philharmonic and a highly-
SO
Alsop took up the post of Principal Conductor “Alsop is one of a relatively few praised DvoŐik series with the Baltimore
of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012 conductors who know how to Symphony. The first disc of her Prokofiev
and became Music Director in July 2013. She challenge listeners while shifting symphonic cycle with the São Paulo
continues to steer the orchestra in its artistic Symphony was Orchestral Choice in BBC
the paradigm — democratizing the
and creative programming, recording ventures Music Magazine. Other award-winning
presentation, making classical
and its education and outreach activities. She recordings include Bernstein’s Mass (Editor’s
music feel cool, not elitist.”
led the orchestra on a European tour in 2012, Choice, Gramophone Awards 2010) and
with acclaimed performances at the BBC –San Jose Mercury News Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto
Proms in London and at the Concertgebouw (Grammy Award 2010). Her next release on
in Amsterdam, and they returned to Europe in Naxos in September 2013 is Brahms’ Ein
October 2013, with concerts in Berlin, London, In September 2013, Alsop made history as the Deutsches Requiem with the MDR Leipzig
Paris, Salzburg and Vienna. first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra.
of the Proms in London. Other highlights of Alsop has also recorded for Decca Classics,
Since 1992, Marin Alsop has been Music 2013-14 included a performance of Mahler’s Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical.
Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of First Symphony with RSO Wien at the Vienna
Contemporary Music, where she has built a Konzerthaus, and return engagements with Born in New York City, Marin Alsop attended
devoted audience for new music. Building an the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Czech Yale University and received her Master’s
orchestra is one of Alsop’s great gifts, and Philharmonic orchestras. Degree from The Juilliard School. Her
she retains strong links with all of her previous conducting career was launched when,
orchestras: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop is the recipient of numerous in 1989, she was a prize-winner at the
(Principal Conductor 2002-8; now Conductor awards and is the only conductor to receive Leopold Stokowski International Conducting
Emeritus) and Colorado Symphony Orchestra the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, given Competition and in the same year was the
(Music Director 1993-2005; now Music Director to US residents in recognition of exceptional first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky
Laureate). creative work. In 2008 she became a Fellow of Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and, Center, where she was a pupil of Leonard
in the following year, was chosen as Musical Bernstein.
CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 11HALL OF FAME
THE LOU HARRISON AWARD
The Lou Harrison Award is the pinnacle
of recognition bestowed by the Cabrillo
Festival. Presented first in 1997 to the
award’s eminent namesake, the honor
is intended to elevate extraordinary
service to perpetual acclaim.
LOU HARRISON (1997)
ERNEST T. KRETSCHMER (1998)
DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES (2003)
MARIN ALSOP (2006)
HALL OF FAME AWARD
The Festival Hall of Fame recognizes
outstanding achievement by individuals
whose exceptional contributions have
made a permanent and very positive
difference in the pursuit of the Festival’s
goals. Although there have been literally
hundreds of wonderful volunteers,
musicians and staff affiliated with the
Festival over its five decades, to-date
there have been only 15 individuals
whose service has been honored with
inclusion in the Hall of Fame. New
members are not necessarily selected
every year; instead, membership
is awarded only when there is truly
exceptional service to recognize.
FESTIVAL HALL OF FAME
1995 (CHARTER MEMBERS)
DR. RUTH FRARY
LOU HARRISON
ERNEST T. KRETSCHMER
EARLEEN OVEREND
ROSEMARY PURSER, PH.D.
MANUEL SANTANA
MARION TAYLOR
1996
FRAN FISHER
KEN HARRISON
RICHARD KLEIN
HOWARD SHERER, PH.D.
1998
JACK BASKIN
TOM FREDERICKS
ELLEN M. PRIMACK
2000
RICK LARSEN
12 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICFESTIVAL HISTORY
Winner of the League of American Orchestras and ASCAP’s 2008-2009 John S. Edwards
Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music, and winner of their Award for
Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music from 1982-2013, Cabrillo Festival
of Contemporary Music is America’s pre-eminent contemporary music festival.
O
ur story begins in the summer of 1961 a long succession of distinguished music
when young composer-musician Robert directors dedicated to new music for orchestra:
Hughes stepped from a Greyhound Gerhard Samuel (1963-68), composer Carlos
bus at the Sticky Wicket, an Aptos, California Chávez (1970-73), conductor Dennis Russell
coffeehouse along the then two-lane Highway Davies (1974-1990), and American composer
One. He had just arrived from Italy to study John Adams (1991).
Sticky Wicket, 1960s
with composer Lou Harrison. At the same
time, Hughes joined Sticky Wicket owners Since its founding, the Festival has presented
Vic and Sidney Jowers and others to present 149 world premieres, 67 U.S. premieres, 138
quality music and theater at the coffeehouse. West Coast premieres and countless local
Nearly 200 people could be seated before a premieres and included the participation of
wooden stage in the field next door to enjoy a more than 230 composers, including John
Stravinsky opera or a chamber music concert. Adams, William Bolcom, John Cage, Elliott
Carter, Carlos Chivez, Aaron Copland, John
A year later, Cabrillo College opened its Aptos Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Philip Glass,
campus. Faculty choral director Ted Toews and Osvaldo Golijov, Lou Harrison, Jennifer Higdon,
soprano Alyce Vestal joined the Sticky Wicket Aaron Jay Kernis, Libby Larsen, Tania Leon,
gang and Lou Harrison to help shape the James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, Pauline
expansion of the Sticky Wicket Concert Series Oliveros, Arvo Pärt, Christopher Rouse, Joseph
into Cabrillo Music Festival. Gene Hambelton Schwantner, Virgil Thomson, and Joan Tower.
and area newcomer Bud Kretschmer became The Wall Street Journal has called it “two of
The Festival Tent at UCSC, 1987 part of that group as it progressed. the most thoughtful and original summer
musical weekends anywhere in America.”
About 300 people attended opening night at
the Cabrillo College Theater, August 21, 1963. At Symphony magazine declared, “According
8:15 p.m., a thrill rippled through the audience to all the traditional marketing dicta, not to
when the Festival’s Àrst music director, Gerhard mention the persistent nay-saying Cassandras
Samuel, stepped to the podium! of the orchestral world, this is a formula that
is not supposed to work. More than just an
Now audiences Àll Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, improbable enterprise, and it’s an improbable
home to the Festival since 1991, under the success story.”
leadership of Marin Alsop, who in 1992 joined
1992–Present
Marin Alsop
“At the Cabrillo Festival of
Contemporary Music, new works 1963–1968 1970–1973 1978 1974–1990 1991
Gerhard Samuel Carlos Chávez Composer Dennis Russell John Adams
are always the main course. Under Aaron Copland Davies
music director Marin Alsop, the
annual event offers a total immersion
experience, exploring a full range
of stylistic concerns and often
presenting young composers before
they become household names. In
the process, Cabrillo has become a
summer mecca for musicians and a
premier musical destination
for audiences.”
–San Jose Mercury News
Concerts at Mission San Juan Bautista, c.1970s Festival moves to SC Civic Auditorium in 1991
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13CABRILLO FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
All events take place at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and are free, unless otherwise noted.
OPEN REHEARSALS PANEL DISCUSSIONS
You have the chance to watch the music come to life as the community of Pre-Concert Talk on Opening Night
conductors, musicians, and composers sculpt pieces for performances. Friday, August 1, 7:00pm
A detailed schedule including repertoire is posted on our website and at
the Civic Auditorium. Join Marin Alsop and featured composers outside the Civic for a pre-
concert introduction to the 2014 season!
MORNINGS: 10:00am–12:30pm July 29, 30; August 6, 7
AFTERNOONS: 4:00pm–6:30pm July 29 (Conductors Workshop) Meet the Composers
2:30pm–5pm July 28, 31; August 5, 8 Saturday, August 2, 1:30pm, $12
EVENINGS: 7:00pm–9:30pm July 27, 31; August 5, 6 Inside the Civic Auditorium, an informal talk takes place with Marin Alsop
Open Rehearsals are supported by an anonymous donor. and composers TJ Cole, Jennifer Higdon, Dylan Mattingly, Andrew
Norman, Jonathan Sheffer, Gabriella Smith, and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Post-Concert Talkback
Saturday, August 2
Following the HOPE concert, concertgoers are invited to stay for a talk
with Marin Alsop and the evening’s featured artists.
Pre-Rehearsal Talks
Thursday, July 31, 6:15-6:45 pm
Philip Collins, composer, lecturer and New Music Works’ Artistic
Director, on the PLAY Orchestra Concert works.
Tuesday, August 5, 6:15-6:45 pm
Alexandra Arrieche, Cabrillo Festival Assistant Conductor, on the
DREAM Orchestra Concert works.
Wednesday, August 6, 6:15-6:45 pm
FREE CONCERTS Moderated by Faye Crosby, composers Michael Daugherty, Stacy
Garrop, and Clarice Assad offer “An Inside Look” into the student/
BY EMERGING ARTISTS teacher, mentor/mentee relationship.
In The Works
Wednesday, July 30, 5:30pm
A special concert featuring new works by three young composers—
Emily Cooley, Patrick Harlin, and Eric Nathan—conducted by emerging
conductors, all studying in the prestigious Conductors/Composers Workshop.
Student Staff Ensemble
Saturday, August 9, 2:30pm
The Student Staff Ensemble, made up of young musicians ages 16-24,
produce and perform a concert of all original works! Come witness their
boundless creativity, and hear the future of new music, now.
RELIVE the EXPERIENCE on KUSP
This season radio station KUSP (National Public Radio for the Central
Coast; 88.9 FM, Monterey Bay Area; 89.1 FM, Hollister and Gilroy; 89.3
FM, Downtown Santa Cruz; 91.3 FM, Palo Colorado Canyon; 95.3 FM,
Big Sur Valley) celebrates 37 years of broadcasting
the Cabrillo Festival. KUSP will present radio on-air
broadcasts and webcasts of the 2014 Festival
Season on the following schedule:
PLAY: Opening Night LIVE Broadcast Friday, 8/1, 7:00pm
HOPE Tuesday, 8/12, 7:00 pm
In the BLUE ROOM with Time for Three Friday, 8/15, 8:00pm
FIRE Tuesday, 8/19, 7:00pm
DREAM: Music at the Mission Friday, 8/22, 8:00pm
In the Works & Free Family Concert Tuesday, 9/9, 7:00pm
14 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
MEET UPS PHOTOGRAPHER IN
Béla Fleck Film IN RESIDENCE
Wednesday, July 30, 7:30pm R.R. JONES
The documentary Àlm Béla Fleck: How To A brilliant fine arts photographer, Ron
Write A Banjo Concerto will be screened Jones’ rich portraits taken across
at the Del Mar Theatre, and followed by a Indonesia, Thailand, and Mexico
Q&A session with Béla Fleck. $10 tickets have distinguished him as a Santa
available through the theatre. Cruz treasure. For well over a
decade, Jones has been the Cabrillo Festival’s primary photo
Church Street Fair documentarian, and as our Photographer-in-Residence we will
Saturday & Sunday, August 2 & 3, 11am-8pm again feature his incredible work on display in the lobby of the
Bring your friends, family, and love of fun in the sun to Downtown Santa Civic Auditorium during the Festival season. You can also enjoy
Cruz for two full days of local music, art, food, wine, and kids activities slideshows of images from past seasons at cabrillomusic.org.
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in front of the Civic Auditorium. ones was born in Houston, Texas in 1949, and moved to Santa
Cruz, California in 1986, where he continues to make his living
Dessert Reception as a photographer. Jones has works in permanent collections
Saturday, August 9 including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Denver Museum
Immediately following the FIRE concert, of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Center for Visual Art at Stanford
concertgoers are invited to join orchestra University; University of California Santa Cruz Special Collections; and
members and guest artists outside the Civic the Center for Photographic Art at Santa Clara University. In 2001
for a dessert reception. Jones was the recipient of a Gail Rich Sponsored by:
Award, and in 2005 was the subject
Mission San Juan of a one-man show at Santa Cruz’
Sunday, August 10 Museum of Art & History.
BETWEEN-CONCERT PICNICKING
Pack a basket and join other Festival-goers in the Olive Grove adjoining
the historic Mission.
POET IN RESIDENCE
POST-CONCERT RECEPTION J. ZIMMERMAN
Stroll to Jardines de San Juan to bid the orchestra and the 2014 season Born in Britain, J. Zimmerman is a student
a fond farewell. of Japanese poetry forms, particularly the
haiku, the tanka, and the haibun. Recently
her haiku were featured for four weeks at
the international Daily Haiku web site,
including seven haiku written during
2013 CFCM Open Rehearsals. She was
a selected poet for the 2013 “New Resonances” haiku anthology.
She writes articles on the Japanese forms and teaches workshops
on tanka. Her poems have been translated into Japanese, Chinese,
and German. She is an active member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku
Society (youngleaves.org), which will celebrate its 40th anniversary
in 2015.
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. Zimmerman finds great inspiration for her poetry in the creative
mélange among the CFCM composers, the musicians, and the
maestra. This season, as the Cabrillo Festival’s inaugural Poet
in Residence, the poet will write haiku and tanka that arise from her
experience, capturing moments where the Festival generates feelings
that generate poems. Her haiku range from the traditional 5-7-5-syllable
haiku embedded in nature to the contemporary one-line “monoku.” Her
tanka range from the traditional 5-7-5-7-7-syllable tanka through the
contemporary to the collaborative and experimental tan-renga.
high windows a salt-tangled breeze ruffles the trombone’s pages
Look on our website and Facebook page throughout the season for
more of J. Zimmerman’s inspired poems.
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1511 AM–8PM CHURCH STREET STAGE
CHURCH STREET FAIR IS PRESENTED BY THE CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND THE SANTA CRUZ CIVIC AUDITORIUM
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aturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd see the return of Cabrillo Festival’s
popular Church Street Fair! The two-day “festival within the Festival”
continues to offer an inspiring celebration of the arts–featuring premier
music, art, food, and wine. Now in its 23rd year, this summer the Fair features
local food purveyors and Santa Cruz Mountain vintners, plus an expanded menu
of musical genres on the outdoor stage. Dozens of artists and craftspeople will
sell their treasures all along Church Street in front of the Civic Auditorium; while
the Church Street Stage takes audiences on a journey across the country
and across the globe, from Jazz to Soul music, from Bombay to Brazil; from
Folklorico to Funk; and from Celtic to classical styles–there’s something
for everyone, including the kids! The Church Street Stage is hosted by our
always fabulous master of ceremonies, KUSP programmer Brett Taylor.
The Mosaic Quartet
Shakti Bhakti Ensemble
Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre
Brett Taylor, Church
Street Stage emcee.
AZA
The Church Street Stage is sponso
sponsored by:
The Great Morgani Pacific Voices
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6SATURDAY AUGUST 2 SUNDAY AUGUST 3
11:15am THE GREAT MORGANI Master accordion player, Frank Lima, 11:15am WORLD MUSIC HARP DUO
is a Santa Cruz treasure and he starts off the Church Street Stage Features local favorites Jesse Autumn
entertainment with flair. He has over 1,000 songs from around the and Shelley Phillips performing Irish,
globe in his repertoire, and performs in handcrafted costumes that are Welsh, Scandinavian, Chinese, Japanese,
as engaging as his music. Part of the fun is just seeing him clad head and Zimbabwean tunes adapted for harp.
to toe in flamboyant performance attire! (www.thegreatmorgani.com) Audiences are invited to greet the morning
with an eclectic musical mix crafted by these
12:15pm SAMBA CRUZ QUARTET Brazil comes to our doorstep in the two accomplished harp virtuosos. (www.
hands of Pablo Riviera, Vivian Simon, Carl facebook.com/jesseautumnsongs )
Herder, and Jesse Van Hiller, performing
works that span the full spectrum of 12:15pm SANTA CRUZ BALLET THEATRE This acclaimed company o off
Barzilian music styles—from sambas, to young dancers will charm children and adults alike with their exquisite
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bossa novas, baiao, choro, and more — choreography, remarkable musicality, precision training, and indomitable
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on guitar, flute, percussion, bass, and spirit. From the irresistible dancers in the Petite Performance Company,
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vocals, all for your listening and dancing to the burgeoning ballerinas in their teens, Santa Cruz Ballet Theatrere
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pleasure! (www.sambacruz.com) presents ballet with fresh inspiration. (www.scbt.org)
1:15pm SHAKTI BHAKTI ENSEMBLE Led by founder and artistic 1:00pm CABRILLO FESTIVAL FREE FAMILY CONCERT inside the e
director Revital Carroll, Shakti Bhakti Ensemble presents the art of Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. It starts with an up-close and personal al
classical Indian dance. The group is dedicated to India’s oldest surviving Tour of the Orchestra; and continues with a very special world premiere re
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dance form, Odissi, which originated in Odisha. Shakti Bhakti dancers performance of composer Jonathan Sheffer’s new family work, The e
are passionate about sharing this ancient and exotic art form with the Conference of the Birds. Narrated by the composer, the piece is inspired d
perspective of modern temple dancers. They make their Church Street by a Persian folk tale about a flock of birds on a spiritual journey and d
Fair debut this year. (www.shaktibhakti.com) explores the orchestra’s ability to imitate the chirps, coos, and calls of
our feathered friends. Marin Alsop conducts the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra.
a.
2:15pm REBECCA LOMNICKY & DAVID BREWER
Just returning from living in Scotland, duo 2:30pm WATSONVILLE TAIKO brings
performers David Brewer of the popular Celtic band rhythm, movement, and harmony
Molly’s Revenge, and Scotland’s International together with mind, body and spirit.
Fiddle Champion Rebecca Lomnicky perform Artistic Director Ikuyo Conant once again
Scottish music which bridges the gap between leads them on the Church Street stage
traditional fiddle and bagpipe music–two worlds in traditional and modern works in this
united. They explore this classical repertoire ancient Japanese drumming tradition. An
with fiddle, bagpipes, guitar, bodhran frame annual Church Street favorite! (www.watsonvilletaiko.org)
drum and penny whistle–and with contagious
passion and energy. (www.davidbrewer.com; 3:30pm XOCHIPILLI COMPAÑIA DANZA DE E
www.rebeccalomnicky.com) MEXICANA Under the leadership of José Manuel el
Cuéllar and Cynthia Cuéllar, this popular Mexican folkk
3:30pm DIASPORA DANCE COMPANY is the resident dance company dance company returns to the Church Street Stage gee
of Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, and seeks to explore the to celebrate a diversity of Mexican culture. Xochipillilii
urban cultural experience through presents a broad sampling of dance traditions from m
collaborative expression and multiple Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon, and d
dance styles. Today they will make their Jalisco, with colorful costumes and joyful energy. y.
Church Street Stage debut presenting (www.x-cdm.com)
a diverse program of traditional Haitian
dances as well as contemporary works. 4:15pm ON THE SPOT TRIO is a fiercely funky threesome of Santa a
(www.tanneryworlddance.com ) Cruz musicians determined to espouse the doctrine of soul jazz dance e
parties across the land! Danny Mayer, guitar, Jeff Wilson, drums, andd
4:15pm PACIFIC VOICES This powerful and popular community chorus Kristopher Yunker on Hammond organ, Rhodes, Clavinet, and bass s
specializes in sacred choral and folk music from traditions around the keys, make up the trio. Their inspiration is rooted in 1970s soul jazz
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world, composed over the past eight centuries! Pacific Voice’s eclectic and funk, but they’ve created their own unique mélange of rock, jazz,
z,
repertoire is sung in 15 languages, with styles ranging from Gregorian afro beat, and improvisational groove. (www.otstrio.com)
to Gospel, from Kirtan to Celtic, from Baroque to Barbershop, and from
Renaissance to Rock. Conducted by Dr. Sean Boulware, they make 5:15pm KAT PARRA WORLD LATIN ENSEMBLE
their CSF debut. (www.pacificvoices.org) Kat Parra fuses jazz vocals, Jewish and Hebrew
melodies, and a wealth of Afro-Latin genres, for a
5:15pm DESERT DREAM MUSIC & DANCE sound and unique style that has made her one of
Directed by Janelle Rodriguez, Mark Bradlyn, the Bay Area’s most successful Latin Jazz artists.
Geoff Childers, Victoria Regan, and Maya She’ll be joined by Santa Cruz favorite Dan Robbins
Borgueta will play modern and traditional on bass when her five piece ensemble make their
Arabic melodies in accompaniment with the debut performance on the Church Street Stage!
Desert Dream Dance Company, and special (www.katparra.com)
guest dancers from Persephone Tribal Belly
Dance. Desert Dream performs traditional 6:30pm AZA is the letter “Z” in the Tamazight alphabet, the language of of
Folkloric, Egyptian Raks Sharqi, Tribal Fusion, Turkish, and more, and the indigenous people of North Africa, and it is the symbol of the Amazigh gh
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they’re back by popular demand! (www.JanelleDance.com) (Berber) identity. The band plays both Amazigh and Arabic music, infused d
with a western influence. Moroccan born Fattah Abbou and Mohamed
6:30pm THE MOSAIC QUARTET Santa Cruz’s own hometown piano Aoualou return this season with their large ensemble to bring the authentic
virtuoso, Chetan Tierra, has joined with multi-instrumentalists Jonathan flavor of their exotic lands to life, and to bring the Church Street Fair to a
Belanger, Patrick Knightly, and Melissa Creider, to create a progressive glorious close. (www.azamusic.net)
art-pop band that blends modern and classical music, in an uplifting
and energizing style that draws from influences ranging from Arcade Special thanks to Stage Manager Eileen Flynn, our
Fire to Rachmaninoff. Rooted in three of the band members’ extensive IATSE 611 Sound Engineer, and to the Santa Cruz Civic
training as world-class concert pianists, their unique indie song style Auditorium staff! And our deep
will bring the outdoor Saturday evening festivities to a compelling close. appreciation for support from:
(www.themosaicquartet.com)
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CREATIVITY TENT FOR KIDS
Welcome to the “Creativity Tent for Kids” at the Church Street Fair—two full days of free hands-on
music and art workshops under a beautiful white canopy in the gardens of the Santa Cruz City Hall!
Stop by to be inspired on Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd! Music and movement will be central
in sessions with Music Together, while professional artists will lead workshops in painting, drawing,
printmaking and assemblage. The Creativity Tent’s activities promise our younger generations hours and
hours of fun, and moments of enduring inspiration.
The Creativity Tent is one of the exciting components of children’s activities at the Festival; others include
our innovative Free Family Concert and free family performances on the Church Street Stage, and a few
fun surprises along the way! All workshops are free; stay as long as you like and enjoy!
SATURDAY AUGUST 2 SUNDAY AUGUST 3
MORNING WORKSHOP (11:00AM – 2:00PM) MORNING WORKSHOPS (11:00AM – 1:00PM)
Music Together Family Music Workshop Exotic Bird Masks – Fiona Frye & Lauren Taylor
Sing, dance, play instruments and have fun making Music Together! Children can practice their scissor skills when cutting around a pre-printed
All ages will have the chance to be playful and engage with each other paper bird mask. Then imaginations will take Áight as they decorate their
through music and dance. This is the ultimate in family music-making fun! creations with pastel and mixed-media collage!
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS (2:30 – 5:30PM) Monoprint Birds – Susana Terrell
Drawing and Painting – Carmen Leon Using precut models, children will decorate birds by decorating their
This workshop involves drawing with oil pastels, then painting lightly wings with monoprints. Working with poster paint and exploring color,
with watercolors, unveiling the delightfully unexpected aspects of this brush stroke, and design, they will add features to the birds with markers,
mixed-media “resist” method. Carmen combines gentle guidance and Ànishing them with a holding stick and ribbon streamer. Young artists will
inspiration from nature to encourage free expression and exploration of be proud to bring their creations into the 1pm Free Family Concert, The
the physics of her technique. Conference of the Birds!
Printmaking – Jennifer Cordery AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS (2:30 – 5:30PM)
Using a sheet of Styrofam and a pencil, here’s a quick and simple way of Mixed Media Owls – Claudia Stevens
making prints with great results. After the pencil drawing is pressed into the Inspired by reference material of Persian owls, and the music they’ve just
foam, colored printing inks are rolled over with a brayer. The drawing is then heard in the Free Family Concert, children will form the basic shapes for
transferred onto a piece of paper, and can be repeated in various colors. the owl’s body and facial features. Next, they’ll use pastels, watercolor
pencils and tempera paint to build color and repeated pattern, capturing
Didgeridoo Making – Kathy Pearson some of the feather textures. Lastly, they’ll put the bird into a nocturnal
Surrounded by inspiring samples of Australian Aboriginal art and music, environment with the Áicking of stars. Participants learn about line,
children will decorate their own didgeridoos, using paint and oil pastels. texture, pattern, and design, as well as owl habitat.
Drawing ideas will be taken from examples of Aboriginal dream-time
designs and young people will walk away with a beautiful playable Music-Themed Acrylic Stencil Paintings – Emma Garcia
instrument. First kids will paint their entire paper, using an array of colors in an
abstract form, and then be assisted in stenciling patterns and/or musical
Creativity Tent sponsored by:
imagery over their artwork. The result will be a complex work of art in a
MONTEREY PENINSULA highly contemporary style!
FOUNDATION YOUTH FUND
Dreamcatchers – Kyle Morris
Dreamcatchers are not only beautiful objects, they are also said to
promote good rest and happy dreams! Wooden or brass rings are wrapped
in leather and a hoop is made at the top of the circle, then a simple knot
is tied over and over again to create a net. Then leather tassels, feathers
With additional support from: and beads are added to complete a lovely and powerful Dreamcatcher.
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19JOHN ADAMS CLARICE ASSAD
Sponsored by Jim & Beth Petersen Sponsored by Ellen Kimmel
Composer, conductor, and creative thinker—John Described by the Los Angeles Times as a
Adams occupies a unique position in the world ”dazzling vocal soloist” and by Gramophone as
of American music. His works, both operatic “one of Brazil’s most brilliant young composers,”
and symphonic, stand out among contemporary Clarice Assad is a sought-after composer,
classical compositions for their depth of arranger, pianist, and vocalist of musical depth
expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly and ability. Her music embraces a wide variety
humanist nature of their themes. of styles.
John Adams
Works spanning more than three decades have Assad has received acclaim for her performances
entered the repertoire and are among the most of both original compositions and her own
performed of all contemporary classical music, arrangements of popular Brazilian songs and
among them Harmonielehre, Shaker Loops, his jazz standards and has performed at venues
Violin Concerto and Chamber Symphony, Doctor such as the Caramoor Jazz Festival, Jazz at
Atomic Symphony and Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Lincoln Center, Zankell hall, Concertgebow, San
Francisco Jazz, among others.
His stage works, all in collaboration with director
Peter Sellars include Nixon in China (1987) and She is the recipient of the Aaron Copland Award,
The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), El Niño (2000); several ASCAP awards, Van Lier Fellowship, the
Doctor Atomic (2005); A Flowering Tree (2006); Franklin Honor Society, as well as a nomination
Clarice Assad and the Passion oratorio The Gospel According from the Latin Grammy Foundation for best
to the Other Mary (2012). contemporary composition. She has been
commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Fundação
Among Adams’ recent works are City Noir, OSESP, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
written for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Music, Concordia Chamber Players, the Albany
Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra, Symphony, PRO MUSICA Chamber Orchestra,
based on fragments of late Beethoven quartets, and the BRAVO Music Festival. Assad has
commissioned for the San Francisco Symphony’s collaborated with a diverse array of musicians
100th anniversary. including Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Yo-Yo
Ma, the Assad brothers, the Turtle Island String
Adams has received honorary doctorates from
Quartet, the LA Guitar Quartet, Anne-Marie
Harvard, Northwestern University, Cambridge
McDermott, Ida KavaÀan, Mike Marshall and
TJ Cole University, and the Juilliard School. A provocative
Derek Bermel, to name a few.
writer, he is author of the highly acclaimed
autobiography Hallelujah Junction and is a frequent In 2014 Assad serves as Albany Orchestra’s
contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Composer-Educator partner, curating an
educational project with a local school, and
As a conductor, Adams appears with the world’s
will join the orchestra for a performance of her
major orchestras in programs combining his
Concerto for Scat-Singer, Piano and Orchestra
own works with a wide variety of repertoire
in May 2014. Assad is a resident artist at the
ranging from Beethoven and Mozart to Ives,
American Lyric Theater, writing a one act opera
Carter, Zappa, Glass, and Ellington. Recent and
which will be premiered in NYC in July 2014, and
forthcoming activities include the BBC Proms, a
is currently on tour with her project VOXPloration,
two-week residency with the London Symphony
a workshop on vocal improvisation and body
Orchestra, and appearances with the Seattle
Michael Daugherty percussion for underprivileged children and
Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
adolescents in Brazil. The project is made
New World Symphony, and concerts in Australia
possible through a grant from Caixa Cultural
with orchestras in Sydney and Melbourne. He
Federal.
is currently Creative Chair for the Los Angeles
Philharmonic. Assad’s Dreamscapes, for solo violin and
string orchestra, will feature Nadja Salerno-
The Cabrillo Festival has presented 17 works by
Sonnenberg on Sunday, August 10, during the
John Adams, including six premieres. This season
Music at the Mission Grand Finale concerts in
the Festival will present the West Coast premiere
San Juan Bautista.
of his Saxophone Concerto on Saturday, August
9, featuring soloist Tim McAllister and conductor
Marin Alsop.
Béla Fleck
expanded biographies
available online at
www.cabrillomusic.org
20 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICTJ COLE MICHAEL DAUGHERTY BÉLA FLECK
Sponsored by Tim & Marilyn Groves Sponsored by Jill Wilson, Attorney at Law Sponsored by Bruce & Linda Nicholson
and Lester & Martha Miller
TJ Cole is an American composer from Atlanta, Béla Fleck has reinvented the image of the
currently studying at the Curtis Institute of Music Michael Daugherty Àrst came to international banjo through a remarkable performing and
in Philadelphia under Jennifer Higdon, David attention when his Metropolis Symphony was recording career that has taken him all over the
Ludwig, and Richard Danielpour. performed by the Baltimore Symphony at Carnegie musical map and on a multitude of solo projects
Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s music and collaborations. The 15-time Grammy Award
Cole entered Interlochen Arts Academy for high has entered the orchestral, band and chamber winner is considered the premier banjo player in
school in 2010 where she studied under John music repertoire and made him, according to the the world. Born and raised in New York City, he
Boyle Jr. and Cynthia Van Maanen. In 2012 she League of American Orchestras, one of the ten began his musical career playing the guitar. In the
entered the Curtis Institute of Music where she most performed American composers of concert early 1960s, while watching the Beverly Hillbillies,
studies composition under Jennifer Higdon. music in the world today. the bluegrass sounds of Flatt & Scruggs Áowed
At Interlochen, Cole garnered the Neil Rabaut from the TV set and Earl Scruggs’ banjo style
Memorial Scholarship, an honor which can be Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is hooked Fleck’s interest. It wasn’t until 1973, the
awarded to a single young composer during any the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest week he entered New York City’s High School of
given year. In 2011, she won the Àrst annual of Àve brothers, all professional musicians. Music and Art, that his grandfather bought him a
Atlanta Music Club Composition Competition. Daugherty studied music composition at Yale banjo and it became his full time passion.
From the ages of 6-12, she wrote a series of University I.R.C.A.M. (Paris) and the Hamburg
piano pieces and self-produced her Àrst album Hochschule für Musik. His composition teachers Any world-class musician born with the names
entitled Solace (2005). Her second album, included Jacob Druckman, Roger Reynolds, Earle Béla (for Bartok), Anton (for Webern) and Léos
Anthology (2009) included her second set of Brown and György Ligeti. Daugherty was also an (for Janacek), as was Fleck, would seem destined
original piano music. assistant to jazz arranger to Gil Evans in New to play classical music. Already a powerfully
York from 1980 to 1982). In 1991, Daugherty creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock and
Cole has been commissioned by the University of joined the University of Michigan School of world beat, Fleck made his Àrst venture into the
Georgia for their gymnastics team’s documentary Music, Theatre and Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan classical music world with Perpetual Motion,
Àlm score, by the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, as Professor of Composition, where he is a his critically acclaimed 2001 Sony Classical
and by the Kelly Writers House with the Curtis mentor to many of today’s most talented young recording. It went on to win a pair of Grammys,
Institute of Music. Her work has also been composers. Daugherty is also a frequent guest including Best Classical Crossover Album.
performed by the Interlochen Arts Academy of professional orchestras, festivals, universities
Orchestra, the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, and conservatories around the world. Collaborating on Perpetual Motion was Fleck’s
the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, ensemble39, long time friend and colleague Edgar Meyer, a
and the Dover Quartet. Her orchestral works have In 2011, the Nashville Symphony’s Naxos bassist and composer whose virtuosity deÀes
been conducted under the batons of artists such recording of Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony labels. In the wake of that album’s release, Fleck
as Octavio Mis-Arocas, Vinay Parameswaran, and Deus ex Machina was honored with three and Meyer came up with the idea of a banjo/
and Kensho Watanabe. GRAMMY® Awards, including Best Classical bass duo, which they developed and reÀned
Contemporary Composition. His Naxos recordings during a concert tour of the U.S. They later went
Cole has also had master classes and/or of orchestral music include UFO, Colorado on to compose two concerti for the Nashville
lessons with composers Steven Stucky, Joan Symphony, Marin Alsop (1999); Fire and Symphony–a double concerto for banjo and
Tower, Marilyn Shrude, Shulamit Ran, Richard Blood, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neemi bass which debuted in 2003, as well as a triple
Danielpour, Krzysztof Penderecki, Roshanne Järvi (2005); Metropolis Symphony, Nashville concerto, The Melody of Rhythm, with Zakir
Etezady, Matthias Pintscher, and Gabriela Lena Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero (2009); Route Hussain, the Indian tabla virtuoso. In 2012
Frank. Her work has also been coached by Curtis’ 66, Bournemouth Symphony, Marin Alsop (2010) Fleck wrote Night Flight Over Water for Banjo
ensemble-in-residence, eighth blackbird. and Mount Rushmore, PaciÀc Symphony, Carl and String Quartet and recorded it with genre
St.Clair (2012). Daugherty’s music is published bending Brooklyn Rider.
In her free time, Cole enjoys dancing, coloring,
by Peermusic Classical, Faber Music, Boosey and
bike riding, and capturing photographs of the In 2011 Fleck premiered The Impostor Concerto
Hawkes and Michael Daugherty Music.
Philadelphian elderly community. with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He will
The Cabrillo Festival has presented 15 works perform its West Coast premiere with the Cabrillo
TJ Cole will be in residence for the 2014 Cabrillo
by Michael Daugherty, including ten premieres. Festival Orchestra on Opening Night, August 1,
Festival season; her work Metropolis will be
On Sunday, August 10, his recent work for solo 2014, conducted by Marin Alsop. The composer
performed by the Festival Orchestra on Saturday,
violin and string orchestra, Fallingwater, will and the making of The Impostor Concerto are the
August 2, at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
be performed at the Grand Finale concerts at subject of a newly released documentary which
Mission San Juan Bautista, featuring Nadja will be shown at the Del Mar Theatre, PaciÀc
Salerno-Sonnenberg. Avenue on July 30, 7:30pm. A Q&A with Béla
Fleck will follow.
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