2026 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

discography includes The Stradgrass Sessions, featuring original works and collaborations with Jon Batiste, Sierra Hull, and Michael Cleveland, as well as recordings of repertoire by Ysaÿe, Bartók, and Corigliano. A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and numerous competition prizes, Lark studied at New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School. She performs on a ca. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin, generously loaned through the Stradivari Society. OCTAVIO MÁS-AROCAS SPONSORED BY LOIS SPRINGSTEEN & BILL BRYANT Octavio Más-Arocas is the Director of Orchestras at Michigan State University, Music Director of the Mansfield Symphony in Ohio, the Marquette Symphony in Michigan, and the Clinton Symphony in New York, and Conductor-in-Residence at the Cabrillo Festival in California. Previous positions include Principal Conductor of the Green Bay Symphony, Resident Conductor of the Unicamp Symphony in Brazil, Director of Orchestras at Ithaca College, Lawrence University, Baldwin Wallace University, and Interlochen Arts Academy, Resident Conductor of the Sewanee Music Festival and the National Repertory Orchestra. He is the winner of the Felix Mendelssohn Award, the Robert Harth Conducting Prize, the Thelma Robinson Award, and Prize Winner at the European Conductors Competition. In the last few years Más-Arocas has conducted orchestra across North and South America and Europe including the Filarmonica George Enescu in Romania, the Orquesta de Valencia and Granada City Orchestra in Spain, the Leipziger Symphonieorchester in Germany, the Orquestra Sinfônica da Unicamp in Brazil, the Syracuse Orchestra, Green Bay, Traverse City, Bluewater, Catskill, Clinton, Fort Worth, Spokane, Toledo, Phoenix, Memphis, Kansas City, and San Antonio Symphonies, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Manhattan School of Music Symphony, the orchestras of Viana do Castelo and Artave in Portugal, the Interlochen Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Brass in the Netherlands, the Ciudad Alcala de Henares Symphony and the National Youth Orchestras of Portugal and Spain among others. PHILIPPE QUINT SPONSORED BY EARLEEN OVEREND & WAYNE PALMER AND BRUCE & LINDA NICHOLSON Philippe Quint, hailed by the United Kingdom’s Daily Telegraph for his “searingly poetic lyricism,” Philippe Quint has established himself as one of America's preeminent violinists, enchanting audiences through his performances that seamlessly blend consummate musicianship with “breadth of tone and passion” (The New York Times) . Quint’s relentless pursuit of the novel and unconventional, coupled withaninsatiablecuriosity,exemplifieshisuniqueapproachtowards music. Continuously at the forefront of his commitment to classical music, Quint’s artistic philosophy is inherently uncomplicated: “Art, as great as classical music, is absolutely essential to our society”, he once shared with the Gramophone magazine. With multiple GRAMMY® Award nominations to his name, Quint is celebrated for his distinctive approach to classical core repertoire, advocacy for contemporary music, rekindling of neglected repertoire,andpioneeringofanoriginalmusicincontextmultimedia format. Quint has soloedwith some of theworld’s finest ensembles across the globe including the London Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Quint'sunwaveringdedication tocontemporarymusichas resulted in numerous premieres of works by some of the most exceptional composers of today including Lera Auerbach, James Lee III, Alyssa Weinberg, Errollyn Wallen, and Jakub Ciupinsky while continuing to highlight eminent American composers William Bolcom, Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Cowell, and Ned Rorem. CARLOS FERREIRA PHILIPPE QUINT TESSA LARK OCTAVIO MÁS-AROCAS ZACHARY JAMES GUEST ARTISTS 25 CABRILLO MUSIC.ORG