Cabrillo Festival Goes Romanian

Conducting wizkid Cristian Măcelaru teams up with seasoned composer Dan Dediu to premiere the latter’s "Levante", a passionate, chimeric musical map of his native Brăila, the charming port-city at the mouth of the Danube. The dream-like composition, transposing a spiritual, imagined topography of "the East", is presented, with the support of RCI, at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Californian musical feast curated by Cristian Măcelaru. The piece will be performed as part of ”Contrasts” Orchestra Concert at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on Saturday, August 3, 7pm.

Dan Dediu was born in 1967 in Brăila, Romania. He earned his undergraduate degree in composition at the Academy of Music in Bucharest and attended postgraduate courses at HMdK in Vienna. He later earned his Ph.D. at the National University of Music in Bucharest. Dediu was awarded scholarships and fellowships by the Alfred-Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg; Alban-Berg Foundation, Vienna; New Europe College, Bucharest;…