ICIYL: At Cabrillo 2024, Contemporary Music Continues to Reign with 15 Composers in Residence

“Also among the nine West Coast premieres – which include works by Errollyn Wallen, Vivian Fung, Clarice Assad, Daniel Kellogg, and Wynton Marsalis – is the sparkling and agitated Violin Concerto by Helen Grime. It will be performed on August 2 by the new-music specialist Leila Josefowicz, who has played it since 2022, “completely inhabit[ing] the character of the piece,” Grime commented in an email. The same evening, Nina C. Young, a faculty member leading the composers’ workshop, presents the West Coast premiere of Tread softly, one of the pieces from the New York Philharmonic’s Project 19 commissioning program, celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment.”