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Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music


  • Civic Auditorium 307 Church Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95060 United States (map)

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)