2024 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 20 GREGORY SMITH Sponsored by George & Mary Reynolds and Anonymous its 24th year at Tokyo Disneyland. Smith’s broadcast credits include composing scores for the Star Trek TV shows, Warner Bros. cartoons, themes for CBS, TNT, ABC, Headline News Sports, ESPN, and major sports teams including the NY Mets, the New Jersey Devils, and the Tampa Bay Lightning. On the grandest scale, Smith composed the music for the Salt Lake Paralympic opening ceremonies broadcast worldwide by ABC. Recent projects include composing scores for a pair of shows at the newly opened Sea World Abu Dhabi, songs and arrangements for a live show at Tokyo Disneyland, and opening this Spring, an ambient, synchronized score for The Orlando Science Center titled Life . As a conductor, Smith has recorded with orchestras in London, San Francisco, Prague, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and numerous studio orchestras in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. performances by more than 200 orchestras worldwide. Orchestras such as the Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Houston, Cincinnati symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic, along with numerous orchestras in the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Germany, Canada, Greece, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere have embraced Smith’s blended style of entertainment and education. Many of his works in this genre were premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and conducted by his longtime champion, Marin Alsop. Enjoying a long association with the Walt Disney Company, Smith has written themes, arrangements, and songs for their animated features, movies, and all of their worldwide theme parks. Notable among these is Wishes, the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom fireworks spectacular that ran for 14 years. And Dreamlights , a reimagined symphonic version of the famous Electrical Parade now entering The music of composer Gregory Smith covers a wide range of the musical world entertaining thousands every day and night at Disney theme parks while reaching millions on television networks throughout the world. His family/educational symphonic works are among the most performed in the genre and have been honored with over 1,000 ☆ More information and content is available at www.cabrillomusic.org FEATURED COMPOSERS FEATURED COMPOSERS ☆ COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE ERROLLYN WALLEN Sponsored by Earleen Overend & Wayne Palmer and Mary James and George Cook ☆ Middleton.WithMyleeneKlass, Errollyn recently co-presented a three-part series, Musical Masterpieces, for SkyArts television. Errollyn Wallen’s book,  Becoming a Composer  was published by Faber in November 2023 to critical acclaim and will be translated into Spanish.  Errollyn is amongst the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers. Errollyn Wallen composes in a Scottish lighthouse and her recordings have travelled 7.84 million kilometers in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA’s STS-115 mission. COP 26, 2021, a re-imagining of  Jerusalem  for the Last Night of the Proms 2020, a new work for BBC Proms 2023. BBC Radio 3 featured her music for Composer of the Week, and she has made several radio documentaries including Classical Commonwealth, nominated for the Prix Europa. Errollyn collaborated with artist Sonia Boyce on her installation,  Feeling Her Way , for the British Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion prize. Her critically acclaimed opera,  Dido’s Ghost  (libretto by Wesley Stace) was premiered at the Barbican in 2021 and received its United States premiere in San Francisco in November 2023.   Recent premieres include a Wigmore Hall debut performance of songs from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook, a violin concerto for Philippe Quint,  Dances for Orchestra for Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Irish Chamber Orchestra and  Night Thoughts , a song cycle for Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi-award-winning Belize-born British composer. Her prolific output includes over twenty operas and a large catalog of orchestral, chamber, and vocal works, which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She has composed for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a specially commissioned song for