Carlyn will perform her 4th season as a member of the Festival Orchestra

COLORFUL & COURAGEOUS

“July 27 – August 10, 2025, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music presents the full spectrum of orchestral possibility, illuminating vibrant hues of music today. This transformative season features over 20 composers, nine in residence, seven guest artists, and the Festival Orchestra, four Festival commissions and bringing three world premieres to life. In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of LGBTQIA Pride in Santa Cruz and the legacy of queer voices that have shaped the Festival, we present a co-commission by Jake Heggie. The season also showcases a new Creative Lab commission by Darian Donovan Thomas honoring the queer experience, and pays tribute to luminaries who have influenced the Festival, including Lou Harrison, John Corigliano, and Jennifer Higdon. True to our mission, the Festival continues to amplify established and emerging voices, embracing a kaleidoscope of new music.

Widening programmatic breadth even further, the Festival announces special guest conductor Daniela Candillari, bringing her “confidence and apparently inexhaustible verve” (The New York Times) as well as new composers never heard by Festival audiences to the first two concerts of the season. Cabrillo Festival Music Director, Cristian Măcelaru will return for the final two concerts. By choosing Candillari, the Festival widens perceptions on the colors of music today even further – Candillari collaborated with Music Director Măcelaru in selecting composers for the 2025 Season. An alumni of the Cabrillo Festival’s Conductors/Composers Workshop, Candillari has gone on to conduct with preeminent orchestras around the globe, and has a proven and deep history of championing new music and new voices in the field – a force for creative innovation and contemporary ideas.

This year’s composers in residence are Jake Heggie, John Corigliano, Stacy Garrop with a new orchestral song cycle, Missy Mazzoli, Jennifer Higdon, Tyson Gholston Davis, Rene Orth, Aleksandra Vrebalov, as well as Creative Lab composer and guest artist Darian Donovan Thomas. Works by Lou Harrison, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Adolphus Hailstork, Julia Wolfe, Karen LeFrak, Nina Shekar, and Frank Duarte are also on the program. This year’s guest artists include Jennifer Koh and Justin Bruns on violin, Tim McAllister on saxophone, soprano Michelle Areyzaga, mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz, as well as baritone Sidney Outlaw.

As well as the concerts, the Festival will continue its tradition of hosting Open Rehearsals, Meet the Composers, pre-rehearsal talks, special workshops, additional performances, community partnerships, and multiple free concerts spotlighting the work of emerging composers and artists.”

Member of the Faculty

Carlyn is a member of the band

World Premiere! Now playing through June 22nd at the Hollywood Fringe Festival!

Five shows only!

• Saturday Evening Preview, June 7, 2025, 8:00

• Saturday Opening Night, June 14, 8:00

• Sunday Matinee, June 15, 3:00

• Saturday Evening, June 21, 8:00

• Sunday closing Matinee, June 22, 3:00

Eastwood Performing Arts Center, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles, CA  90029

In 1911 the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre, feared missing forever. Skulking in Paris for instigating the Spanish-American War, Hearst yellow journalist Karl Decker sets out to redeem his tarnished reputation by cracking the Mona Lisa case. Along the way there’s singing, can-can, butting heads with France’s Sherlock Holmes Police Inspector Louis Lepine, and uncovering the beginnings of love and redemption with an aspiring Italian artist coincidentally named Lisa. Experience irresistibly catchy songs from Multi-GRAMMY nominated Recording Artist David Arkenstone along with book/lyrics by Fringe Veteran Steven Vlasak, and story/music/lyrics by Musical Theatre Legend Wayne Moore, and with additional dialogue and lyrics by Director Christopher Strand.

4 performances, December 21-22

Home Alone in Concert

Deck the Hall Holiday Concerts

David Newman leads John Williams’ score at this special screening of the holiday classic.

Artists

• Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

• David Newman, conductor

About this Performance

A true holiday favorite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams' charming and delightful score performed live to picture, conducted by David Newman. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who's accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must defend his home against two bungling thieves. Hilarious and heart-warming, Home Alone is holiday fun for the entire family!

Join Carlyn as a member of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in Santa Cruz this summer!

SCHEDULE

Friday, August 2, 8pm –  Parade

Vivian Fung: Parade (West Coast Premiere)              

Helen Grime: Violin Concerto (Leila Josefowicz, violin) (West Coast Premiere) 

Nina Young: Tread Softly (West Coast Premiere) 

Karim Al-Zand: Al Hakawati (Miriam Khalil, soprano) (World Premiere | Festival Co-commission)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 7PM – UNBOUND

Daniel Kellogg: The Golden Spike (West Coast Premiere) 

Nathaniel Heyder: unbound: Phase 1 (World Premiere | Festival Commission) 

Lembit Beecher: Tell Me Again (Karen Ouzounian, cello) (West Coast Premiere)

Iván Enrique Rodríguez: Casting the Dice (World Premiere | Festival Commission)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1PM – FREE FAMILY CONCERT 

Greg Smith: VIBE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 7PM

In Concert with Philippe Quint: The Muse

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 7PM – CREATIVE COAST

Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast (Gabriel Cabezas, amplified cello)

Bora Yoon: PARHELION, Creative Lab (World Premiere | Festival Commission)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 7PM – PASSAGE

Clarice Assad: Baião ‘N Blues (West Coast Premiere) 

Errollyn Wallen: Violin Concerto (Philippe Quint, violin) (West Coast Premiere)  

Pierre Jalbert: Passage (West Coast Premiere) 

Juan Pablo Contreras: Mariachitlán

Dates: Fri, July 12, 2024, Sat, July 13, 2024, Sun, July 14, 2024, Thu, July 18, 2024, Fri, July 19, 2024, Sat, July 20, 2024, Sun, July 21, 2024, Fri, July 26, 2024, Sat, July 27, 2024, Sun, July 28, 2024

Teaching and performing for the duration of the week!

Thursday, 10/26 - Evening - 7:30p

Friday, 10/27 - Evening - 8p

Saturday, 10/28 - Matinee - 2p

Saturday, 10/28 - Evening - 8p

Sunday, 10/29 - Matinee - 1p

Sunday, 10/29 - Evening - 6p

Friday, 11/3 - Evening - 8p

Saturday, 11/4 - Matinee - 2p

Saturday, 11/4 - Evening - 8p
Sunday, 11/5 - Matinee - 1p

Friday, August 4, 8pm –  Forward 

• Sebastian Currier: Track 8 (West Coast Premiere)

• Jennifer Higdon: Duo Duel (Svet Stoyanov and Matthew Strauss, percussion) (West Coast Premiere | Festival Co-commission) 

• Sarah Kirkland Snider: Forward into the Light (West Coast Premiere) 

• Bora Yoon: The Wind of Two Koreas (West Coast Premiere) 

Saturday, August 5, 7pm – Tears of Nature  

• Peter Shin: Relapse 

• Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony (West Coast Premiere)

• Andrea Reinkemeyer: Water Sings Fire

• Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature (Beibei Wang, percussion)

Sunday, August 6, 7pm – Kronos Quartet in Concert

• Featuring the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet 

Saturday, August 12, 7pm – Rise & Fly

• Gabriela Ortiz: Tzam (West Coast Premiere) 

• Julia Wolfe: riSE and fLY (Colin Currie, percussion) (West Coast Premiere)

• Robert Hughes: Uutiqtut

• Gabriella Smith: f(x)=sin2x-1/x (West Coast Premiere) 

• Olga Neuwirth: Dreydl  (US Premiere) 

Sunday, August 13, 7pm – Wild Geese 

• Dan Caputo: Liminal 

• Xavier Foley: Double Concerto for Violin & Bass (Xavier Foley, bass, Eunice Kim, violin) (World Premiere | Festival Commission)

• Robert Hughes: Estampie 

• Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra (West Coast Premiere | Festival Co-commission) 

• Anna Clyne: Wild Geese (World Premiere | Festival Commission)

Thu, MAY 18 Vancouver, Canada

Fri, MAY 19 Delta, Canada

Sat, MAY 20 Victoria, Canada

Sun, MAY 21 Monroe, WA

Mon, MAY 22 Tacoma, WA

Wed, MAY 24 Astoria, OR

Thu, MAY 25 Eugene, OR

Fri, MAY 26 Mount Shasta, CA

Sat, MAY 27 Lakeport, CA

Sun, MAY 28 Cloverdale, CA

Tue, MAY 30 Berkeley, CA

Principal cello, soloist

Friday Evening (Preview), 4/14/23 at 8:00 pm

Saturday Evening, 4/15/23 at 8:00 pm

Sunday Matinee, 4/16/23 at 1:00 pm

Thursday Evening, 4/20/23 at 7:30 pm

Friday Evening, 4/21/23 at 8:00 pm

Saturday Matinee, 4/22/23 at 2:00 pm

Saturday Evening, 4/22/23 at 8:00 pm

Sunday Matinee, 4/23/23 at 1:00 pm

Sunday Evening, 4/23/23 at 6:00 pm

Friday Evening, 4/28/23 at 8:00 pm

Saturday Matinee, 4/29/23 at 2:00 pm

Saturday Evening, 4/29/23 at 8:00 pm

Sunday Matinee, 4/30/23 at 1:00 pm

Tosca (February 12-March 19)

The Daughter of the Regiment (February 19-March 18)

The Pearl Fishers (March 5-19)

Attila (March 12-22)

Join co-directors Carlyn and Victoria Lewis for 2 weeks of musical fun!

Courses Include Cello or Violin Group Classes, Music History/Listening Classes, 2 Kids Yoga Classes, Special Kids Cooking Class, Mid-Camp Performance Workshop, Sibling Chamber Music, and Final Performance. Read more here!