2024 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 16 HELEN GRIME  Sponsored by Patrick McCabe and Jim Peterson VIVIAN FUNG  Sponsored by Dan McFadden & Nora Frimann the chance to perform Ominous Machine after a two-year delay. Down and Dirty received its West Coast premiere at the San José Chamber Orchestra’s NewYear’s Eve Celebration concert. Parade saw its Canadian premiere at the Open Waters Festival in Halifax and will have its West Coast premiere at the Cabrillo Festival summer 2024. Beibei Wang and Tangram included The Ice is Talking in their program at LSO St. Luke’s in England. Spring 2024 brought three new world premieres, with an expanded version of (Un)Wandering Souls for percussion quartet performed by Sandbox Percussion, a new work for the Grossman Ensemble, and Songs for the Next Generation , a song cycle composed in collaboration with the Jasper String Quartet, tenor Nicholas Phan, and pianist Myra Huang. She currently lives in California with her husband Charles Boudreau and their son Julian. the creation of Fung’s first opera, My Family // Cambodia, 1975 , in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek. Fung and Vavrek received a Canada Council grant to support research travels to Cambodia in the Fall of 2023, and the opera will be workshopped with the Canadian Opera Company in February 2025. Fung is collaborating with Vavrek on an additional song cycle for Andrea Núñez, as part of a residency at National Sawdust in Spring 2025. Fung is also working with the Del Sol Quartet to bring to life a new work for string quartet based on the poetry of San Francisco-based Jenny Lim. Fung’s 2023/24 season began with the world premiere of Down and Dirty for piano and clarinet at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Society, followed by the premiere of White on Black , a work commissioned by the Metropolis Ensemble and pianist Han Chen for the “Ligeti Etudes meets 18 Composers” project, celebrating the centenary of composer György Ligeti. Mary Elizabeth Bowden performed the world premiere of Fung’s piano reduction of her Trumpet Concerto, and the L’ Arc Trio finally had JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung has a unique talent for combining idiosyncratic textures and styles into large-scale works, reflecting her multicultural background. NPR calls her “one of today’s most eclectic composers” and The Philadelphia Inquirer praises her “stunningly original compositional voice.” Current and upcoming collaborations include More information and content is available at www.cabrillomusic.org FEATURED COMPOSERS FEATURED COMPOSERS ☆ COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, a Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie, which received its premiere performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop in January 2019,  Limina , a co-commission for Tanglewood Music Center and Boston Symphony Orchestra, and  Meditations on Joy  for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the BBC. music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms such as painting ( Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures ), sculpture (Woven Space), and literature ( A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina ) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling. Born in 1981, Grime attended St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and, following studies at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. Between 2011 and 2015, she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and, in 2016, was appointed Composer-in- Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music. Recent works include  Woven Space  (2017), which was commissioned by the Barbican for Sir Simon Rattle’s inaugural season as Music The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop, and Thomas Dausgaard. Her ☆ ☆