2024 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 21 FEATURED COMPOSERS NINA YOUNG Sponsored by Liza Culick & Geri Migielicz and Leslie & Richard Andrews Chamber Orchestra, to hear the things we cannot see for Hub New Music featuring the poetry of Rosie Stockton, and Nothing is not borrowed , in song and shattered light –an immersive audio-visual installation experience commissioned by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer that showcases their High-Resolution Wave Field Synthesis Loudspeaker Array and recordings by the American Brass Quintet. Upcoming projects include new works for the Grossman Ensemble and Decoda. A graduate of MIT and McGill University, Young completed her DMA at Columbia University. She is faculty of the Juilliard School and is the Slee Visiting Associate Professor in Music Composition at the University at Buffalo. Her music is published by Peermusic Classical. Ensemble Moderne, the Aizuri Quartet, Sixtrum, Matt Haimovitz, and others. Winner of the 2015-16 Rome Prize and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, Young has received recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, the Fromm Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, and BMI. Young’s current interests are collaborative, multidisciplinary works that touch on issues of sustainability, historical narratives, experiences with contemporary technologies, and women’s rights. In 2023, the ACO with vocalist Sidney Outlaw premiered the Carnegie Hall commissioned work Out of whose womb came the ice: a monodrama for baritone, orchestra, electronics, and generative video, commenting on the ill-fated Ernest Shackleton Trans- Antarctic Expedition. Other recent projects include Tread softly for the NY Philharmonic’s Project 19 series, Violin Concerto: Traces for Jennifer Koh co-commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Composer and sonic artist Nina C. Young (b. 1984) creates works, ranging from acoustic concert pieces to interactive installations, that explore aural architectures, resonance, timbre, and the ephemeral. Her music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO), the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the Nouvel ☆ BORA YOON Sponsored by Robert & Carolyn Levering of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA), and SozoMart, and recordings distributed by Innova Recordings, Naxos, and Journal of Popular Noise. Yoon’s music has provided the live score for Haruki Murakami’s  Wind Up Bird Chronicle and an additional film score for Apple TV+’s  Pachinko. Her music has been awarded by the New York Foundation of the Arts (Music/Sound), Foundation for Contemporary Art, Asian American Arts Alliance, Princeton University, Fromm Foundation at Harvard Music, Barlow Endowment, Sorel Organization, and Opera America. TED, and the National Endowment for the Arts podcast. Through her unusual instruments and everyday found objects as music, she evokes what George Lewis describes as “a kind of sonic memory garden” using voice, viola, Tibetan singing bowls, vocoder, Bible pages, bike bells, turntable, walkie-talkies, chimes, water, and electronics. As a performer/composer, Yoon has presented her work around the globe at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAM, Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Festival of World Cultures (Poland), Nam Jun Paik Museum (South Korea), PROTOTYPE Opera Theater Now Festival—and served as artist in residence with the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), The Hermitage, and TED Fellows. As a composer, she has been commissioned by So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Voices of Ascension Chorus, and Orchestra with select scores published by Boosey & Hawkes, Guild Bora Yoon is a Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist who conjures audiovisual soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries to formulate storytelling through music, movement, and sound. Called “Exquisite” by  The New York Times , Yoon has been featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, WIREmagazine, ☆