2024 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 17 NATHANIEL HEYDER  Sponsored by Michèle & Larry Corash FEATURED COMPOSERS the American Composer’s Forum, Honorable Mention in the Webster University CMS Young Composers Challenge, the Emerging Composer honor in the 2020 Division 2 Young Composer Competition by Tribeca New Music, the 2021 Nief-Norf Summer Festival International Call for Scores, and the first Emerging Black Composers Prize by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Heyder's music has been performed by members of both The Cleveland Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. His orchestral piece  Iterations was premiered by the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta. He has also been awarded both the Donald Erb Scholarship in Composition and the Gertrude E. Freeman and Lisa Freeman Roberts Memorial Fund, presented by the Cleveland Institute of Music where he completed his undergraduate studies as a student of Keith Fitch. Heyder completed his Masters degree at the Juilliard School in May 2023 as a student of Andrew Norman. He is also a multi-genre musician. Composer Nathaniel Heyder currently resides in New York City. He has attended festivals such as the Luzerne Music Center, the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, the Atlantic Music Festival, and Mostly Modern Music Festival. Recognition for his compositions include the YoungArts Merit Award (2017), the Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Scholarship from the Interlochen Arts Academy, the 2017 NextNotes High School Composition Competition award presented by PIERRE JALBERT  Sponsored by Mark Kalow & Marlene Pitkow and Eric & Sheryl Lewis recently,  Terra Incognita (String Quartet No. 5) (2023), which features the Escher String Quartet.  Jalbert is Professor of Composition at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, where he has taught since 1996. He is co-founder of Musiqa, a Houston-based new music collective, and his music is published by Schott Music. Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Stoeger Award, given biennially "in recognition of significant contributions to the chamber music repertory."  Jalbert has drawn inspiration from a variety of sources, from plainchant melodies to the natural world, and performances include those by the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, the London Symphony, and the Emerson String Quartet. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the California Symphony under Barry Jekowsky, and Music in the Loft in Chicago. Hailed as "an acknowledged chamber- music master" by  The New Yorker , his chamber music has been commissioned and performed by the Ying, Borromeo, Maia, Enso, Chiara, Del Sol, Jupiter, and Dover Quartets, violinist Midori, and the Music from Copland House ensemble, among others. Recent album releases include his Violin Concerto (2019),  String Theory  (2021),  Air in Motion  (2022), and most Earning widespread notice for his richly colored and superbly crafted scores, Pierre Jalbert has developed a musical language that is engaging, expressive, and "immediately captures one's attention with its strong gesture and vitality" (American Academy of Arts and Letters). Among his many honors are the Rome Prize, the BBC Masterprize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Fromm Foundation commission, an Academy ☆ ☆ Learn more about the Emerging Black Composers Project and next year's recipient of the Cabrillo Prize, Tyson Gholston Davis, on page 59