Donato Cabrera Appointed Music Director of California Symphony

The California Symphony has been without a music director since founder and longtime MD Barry Jekowsky was ousted several years back. Now Donato Cabrera has been appointed Music Director. Cabrera has worked at both SFO and SFS, and he's currently resident conductor and conductor of the SFS Youth Symphony at the latter.

Congratulations to Donato Cabrera!

Here's California Symphony schedule for 2013-14, about half classical, half pops:

California Symphony Orchestra 2013-2014 Season Calendar

Classics I: A NEW ERA BEGINS!

Cabrera Conducts Mozart and Dvorak

September 29, 2013 

Adams – Chairman Dances 

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466

          Kuok-Wai Lio, piano (Winner of the 2013 Avery Fisher Award)

Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World, Op. 95

Classics II: ANNIVERSARIES AND TRIBUTES

Tomasz Golka Conducts Elgar and Strauss

January 19, 2014 

Shafer Mahoney – Triple Point

Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11

          Robert Ward, horn

Bach/Golka - Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Elgar – Enigma Variations 

Classics III: CATCH A RISING STAR

Cabrera Conducts Mendelssohn and Strauss

March 2, 2014

Mark Grey - ‘Leviathan’ Overture for Orchestra

R. Strauss – Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)

Wagner - Flying Dutchman Overture

Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

          Kenneth Renshaw, violin

Classics IV: A RUSSIAN SPECTACULAR

Cabrera Conducts Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov

May 4, 2014

D.J. Sparr – World Premiere

Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

          Ilya Yakushev, piano

Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade

Pops I: CALIFORNIA! From the Golden Gate to the Silver Screen

Target Pops on the Plaza

Todos Santos Plaza, Concord, CA

August 29, 2013

Donato Cabrera, conductor

Pops II: MOVIES AND MUSICALS

October 17, 2013

Sean O'Loughlin, pops conductor

Pops III: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Cabrera Conducts Holiday Favorites

December 23, 2013

Donato Cabrera, conductor

Pacific Boychoir

Kevin Fox, conductor

Pops IV: BE MY VALENTINE

February 11, 2014

Donato Cabrera, conductor

Looks like an all-guy season, unless D.J. Sparr is a girl.