Donato Cabrera
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Donato Cabrera | |
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| Born | Pasadena, California, United States |
| Occupations | Musician, Conductor |
| Years active | 1997 - |
| Website | www.donatocabrera.com |
Donato Cabrera is an American conductor with an active international career. He is the artistic director and music director of the California Symphony, and was the resident conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2009 to 2016.
Cabrera was born in Pasadena, California and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada and Reno, Nevada. He then studied at the University of Nevada, the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He made his professional debut with the Reno Chamber Orchestra in 1997 and in 1998 made his European debut conducting the Zwei Groschen Oper Summer Festival productions of The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, and Tosca.
While based in New York, Cabrera served as an assistant conductor to Zdenek Macal at the New Jersey Symphony where Cabrera went on to work as cover conductor for the symphony's subscription series and Guest Conductor for its education and outreach Concerts until 2006.[1] He concurrently had various guest conducting engagements including concerts for the Music Academy of the West in 2003 and the Norwalk Youth Symphony Orchestra and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2004.
Cabrera co-founded ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) with cellist Clarice Jensen and publicist Christina Jensen in 2004 and was the ensemble's music director for its inaugural season, conducting works by John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Donald Martino, Frederic Rzewski, and Elliott Carter.[2] He also worked as an assistant to James Conlon at the 2004 Spoleto Festival and the 2005 Ravinia Festival.
