Donato Cabrera

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Donato Cabrera

Background information
Born February 4, 1973(1973-02-04)
Origin Reno, Nevada, United States
Occupation(s) Musician, Conductor
Years active 1997 -
Website www.donatocabrera.com

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Donato Cabrera (February 4, 1973 - ) is in the vanguard among young American conductors. He made his professional debut with the Reno Chamber Orchestra [1] at the age of 24. Since his 1998 critically acclaimed European debut with the Zwei-Groschen Kammer Oper München, he has pursued a multi-faceted career. He has gained expertise from working with some of the world's leading conductors while also conducting opera companies and symphonic orchestras of the highest caliber. His aptitude and potentiality have been recognized by critics and musicians alike for the rare combination of passion, talent, and experience to conduct in the concert hall and opera house. He is currently the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Opera.


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[edit] Biography

[edit] Opera

As the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Opera, Cabrera was first engaged to prepare the cast and conduct all of the initial rehearsals for the world premiere production of John Adams’s opera, Doctor Atomic. This process has been preserved in the award-winning documentary, Wonders Are Many [2], which will be nationally broadcast in the United States on PBS in the fall of 2008. At the San Francisco Opera, he has conducted and assisted on productions of Don Giovanni, Tannhäuser, Die Zauberflöte, La Rondine, The Rake’s Progress, La Forza del Destino, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Das Rheingold, Der Rosenkavalier, and Tristan und Isolde. He made his debut with the company in October 2006 conducting Die Fledermaus. Moreover, in December 2005, he made his highly acclaimed debut with the Portland Opera conducting Britten's The Rape of Lucretia [3]. Cabrera has recently been appointed as an Assistant and Cover Conductor for the Metropolitan Opera, where he will work with the New York Philharmonic’s incoming Music Director Alan Gilbert on a new production of Doctor Atomic.

[edit] San Francisco Bay Area

Cabrera has quickly established himself as an integral member of the Bay Area’s artistic community. He has frequently stepped in to conduct rehearsals for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra [4] and was a judge for their 2007 Concerto Competition. In the spring of 2008, he conducted a workshop of Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra and was immediately reengaged in the 2008-09 season to lead further workshops of the core repertoire. In March 2008, he made his debut with Berkeley Opera [5], conducting a production of L’Elisir d’Amore, which received unanimous praise and glowing reviews [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11].

[edit] New Music

As Music Director and co-founder of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) [12], Cabrera’s commitment to new music has been fully realized. With ACME, he was able to promote and perform works of promising young composers as well as to conduct modern-day masterpieces. To date, Cabrera has conducted ACME in works by John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Donald Martino, Frederic Rzewski, and Elliott Carter.

[edit] Music Education & Community Outreach

Cabrera is also dedicated to music education and community outreach. For over four seasons, he programmed and conducted Young People’s Concerts for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra , annually performing to over fifteen thousand children throughout the state of New Jersey. He frequently led the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra [13], an organization that is dedicated to providing a musically enriching and nurturing atmosphere to inner-city youth in and around the city of Newark. In addition, he has conducted the youth orchestras of Juilliard, Cincinnati, Norwalk, CT, and Ridgefield, CT. Cabrera is also committed to working with young singers and has worked with members of the young artist programs of the Portland Opera and San Francisco Opera on numerous occasions.

[edit] Summer Festival

Cabrera has been an Assistant Conductor at many prestigious summer festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. For two summers, he served as Resident Conductor at the Music Academy of the West. As an assistant conductor, he has worked with many of the world’s leading conductors, including James Conlon, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Nicola Luisotti, Zdenek Macal, Kurt Masur, Julius Rudel, Donald Runnicles, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.


[edit] Professional Engagements

[edit] Opera

[edit] Orchestra

[edit] Music Festival

[edit] New Music

American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Music Director & Co-Founder

[edit] Other

Recovering a Musical Heritage [15], Assistant Conductor to James Conlon


[edit] Education


[edit] Repertoire

[edit] Opera

Adams, John Doctor Atomic
Beethoven Fidelio
Bizet Carmen
Britten Rape of Lucretia
Donizetti L’Elisir d’Amore
Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors
Mozart La Clemenza di Tito; Così fan tutte; Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro; Die Zauberflöte
Poulenc Les Dialogues des Carmelites
Puccini La bohème; Gianni Schicchi; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La Rondine; Tosca
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rota, Nino Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze
Strauss, Johann II Die Fledermaus
Strauss, Richard Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky Mavra; The Rake’s Progress
Ullmann, Viktor Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Verdi Falstaff; La Forza del Destino; Rigoletto; La Traviata
Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander; Das Rheingold; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde


[edit] Symphonic

Adams, John Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Shaker Loops; Harmonielehre; Chamber Symphony;

Naïve and Sentimental Music; On the Transmigration of Souls
Arensky Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Bach Brandenburg Concerti; Orchestral Suites
Barber Adagio for Strings; First Essay for Orchestra; Violin Concerto
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra; Miraculous Mandarin; Piano Concerti 1 and 3; Violin Concerto no. 1
Beethoven Symphonies 1 – 9; Piano Concerti 1 – 5; Violin Concerto; Overtures: Egmont, Coriolan,

Leonore no. 3, Fidelio
Bernstein Overture to Candide; Symphonic Dances from West Side Story;

Symphony no. 2 “The Age of Anxiety”
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique; Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Bizet L’Arlesienne Suites; Symphony in C
Bloch Concerto Grosso no. 1
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings; Simple Symphony
Brahms Symphonies 1 - 4; Ein deutsches Requiem; Serenades 1 & 2; Piano Concerti; Violin Concerto;

Academic Festival Overture; Tragic Overture; Haydn Variations; Hungarian Dances 1, 3, 5
Bruckner Symphonies 4 - 7
Copland Symphony no. 3; Appalachian Spring; El Salon Mexico; Rodeo; John Henry
Debussy Prelude al'Apres-Midi d'une Faune; La Mer
Druckman, Jacob Come Round
Dvorak Symphonies 5 – 9; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto;

Overtures In Natur, Carnival, Otello, Water Goblin; Serenade for Strings
Elgar Symphony no. 1; Cello Concerto; Enigma Variations
Glass Violin Concerto
Grieg Peer Gynt (excerpts); Piano Concerto
Haydn Symphonies 6, 7, 8, 22, 82 – 104; Cello Concerti; Horn Concerti; Trumpet Concerto
Hindemith Concerto for Orchestra; Kammermusik no. 1; Mathis der Maler; Symphonic Metamorphosis
Hummel Trumpet Concerto
Mahler Symphonies 1 - 7, 9
Mendelssohn Symphonies 3 – 5; Piano Concerto no. 1; Violin Concerto;

Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Menotti L’Apocalisse
Mozart Symphonies 19, 25, 29, 35 – 41; Concerti: Flute K.314, Bassoon K.191, Clarinet K.622,

Piano K.466 and K.467; Requiem; Sinfonie Concertante K.364; Benedictus, K.117
Nielsen Symphony no. 4; Overtures Helios and Maskarade
Orff Carmina Burana
Pärt Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Poulenc Le Bal masqué
Prokofiev Symphonies 1, 5, 7; Piano Concerti 1, 3; Violin Concerti; Romeo and Juliet (selections)
Rachmaninov Symphony no. 2; Piano Concerti 2, 3; Isle of the Dead
Ravel Piano Concerto in G; Daphnis et Chloe Suite no. 2; Bolero; Rhapsodie Espagnol;

La Valse; Ma mere l’oye
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade; Cappricio Espagnol
Rossini Overtures William Tell, La Gazza Ladra, L’Italiana in Algeri
Schubert Symphonies 2, 3, 5, 8, 9; Overture to Rosamunde
Schulhoff, Erwin Symphony no. 5; Piano Concerto; Jazz Suite
Schumann Symphonies 1 – 4, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto; Overture to Manfred
Shostakovich Symphonies 1, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13
Sibelius Symphonies 1 – 7; Four Legends of Lemminkäinen; Finlandia; Violin Concerto;

Stenhammer; Piano Concerto no. 1
Strauss, Johann II Kaiser Walzer
Strauss, Josef Sphärenklänge Walzer
Strauss, Richard Also sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Ein Heldenleben; Four Last Songs;

Horn Concerto no. 1; Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite; L’Histoire du Soldat; Dumbarton Oaks; Le Sacre de Printemps;

Petroushka; Firebird Suite
Suppé Light Cavalry Overture, Poet and Peasant Overture
Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4 – 6; Piano Concerto no. 1; Violin Concerto; Overture to Romeo and Juliet
Ullmann, Viktor Symphony no. 2
Verdi Requiem
Zemlinsky Sinfonietta


[edit] Trivia

[edit] Photo Gallery

[edit] Portraits

Donato Cabrera, conductor At the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House

Donato Cabrera, conductor At the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House

Donato Cabrera, conductor At the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House

Donato Cabrera, conductor Between Act I and Act II of Tannhäuser at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, October 2007


[edit] On the Podium

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007

Donato Cabrera, conductor Conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, June 2007


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[edit] Audio Gallery


[edit] References

  1. ^ Reno Chamber Orchestra
  2. ^ Wonders Are Many: San Francisco Film Festival
  3. ^ Portland Opera's The Rape of Lucretia review by Willamette Week
  4. ^ San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
  5. ^ Berkeley Opera
  6. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by East Bay Express
  7. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by San Francisco Classical Voice
  8. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by Berkeley Daily Planet
  9. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by Bay Times
  10. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by Napa Valley Register
  11. ^ Berkeley Opera's L'Elisir d'Amore review by Opera News Online
  12. ^ American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
  13. ^ Greater Newark Youth Orchestra
  14. ^ International Orchestra Institute Attergau
  15. ^ Recovering a Musical Heritage


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