2025 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

56 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 2025 IN MEMORIAM There are some who bring a light so great into the world that even after they have gone the light remains. Sandra Cohen (1946 – 2024) Festival Scullery Crew Captain Robert McKim (1926 – 2022) Mary Spire (1936 – 2024) Festival Board Member Laurie MacDougall Festival Director (1941 – 2025) Frederica “Fritzie” Culick (1937 – 2025) Gabrielle Stocker (1935 – 2025) LongtimeFestivalsubscriberanddonor,GabrielleStockerwasborn in Lucerne, Switzerland, one of three sisters—“all of whom loved music,” according to her obituary. In 1941 her family immigrated to the U.S. and settled in North Carolina where her father was an eye doctor and taught at Duke University. Gabrielle went on to earn a BS in Biochemical Science from Radcliffe College. She married a fellow Harvard graduate and moved to Seattle where she worked as a medical research technician and continued her study of mathematics. During this time Gabrielle also developed a lifelong love of hiking and mountaineering; as well as played Renaissance music in a recorder consort. All the while, she had two children and in 1968 moved to San Jose, California, where she earned her Secondary Teaching Credential in Mathematics from SJSU and immersed herself in playing Renaissance and Baroque music. Gabrielle moved to Santa Cruz in 1976, where she became deeply connected to both the cultural and physical environments. She began teaching recorder ensembles, and delighted in performing on recorders, crumhorns and viola da gamba with the Antiquarian Funks. In 1982, Gabrielle earned a BA degree in Music at UCSC and then a Teacher’s Certificate in the Orff Schulwerk approach to music instruction. She taught music and recorder privately and in local schools until 2004. She concurrently discovered her joy of singing and increasingly shifted her focus to vocal music, singing in the UCSC Chorus, Cabrillo Concert Choir, The Choral Project, Santa Cruz Renaissance Singers, and finally the Santa Cruz Chorale. Gabrielle continued her interest in hiking, backpacking, and studying natural history and was a volunteer docent at Natural Bridges State Beach. For decades, Gabrielle was a Festival ticket holder and generous donor and, in 2012, for Cabrillo Festival's 50th anniversary, she co-commissioned one of the woman composers of Hidden World of Girls: Stories for Orchestra . Enthusiastic about championing women, Gabrielle made that special gift “to honor her daughter Carol, and granddaughters Erin, Ananda, and Adinda.” Gabrielle passed away on June 23, 2025, and Cabrillo Festival is honored to be among those remembered in her estate plans. Now, more than ever, we know just how vital these legacy gifts are in sustaining new music and the voices of our times. Gabrielle’s love of music and her impact at Cabrillo Festival will endure for years to come.