University of Toronto New Music Festival Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition

“For this year’s University of Toronto New Music Festival, Vivian Fung has been selected as the Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition. With a full schedule of master classes, lectures, and multiple performances of her works, the festival offers a rich opportunity to become more acquainted with this prolific, JUNO Award-winning composer. I spoke recently with Fung, gaining an insider’s view of the works being presented here and learning more about the wider scope of her music.”

The Festival’s Music Director Cristian Măcelaru and Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas serve as faculty for the Conductors Workshop sessions, and composer Vivian Fung joins them as faculty for the Composers Workshop. All student conductors and composers participate for the full five days of the program, which takes place in the context of the Cabrillo Orchestra’s rehearsal and performance schedule.

Selected composers will have their work performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra directed by participating Fellows. Two dedicated rehearsals will take place, culminating with an “In the Works” concert where each piece will receive two performances Composition Faculty will offer guidance and seminars throughout, other Festival composers-in-residence will participate, and direct feedback will be offered from the players and conductors.

Performance of Earworms by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Marie Jacquot on June 22, 2025.

Presented by the Presidio Theatre in celebration of the annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, The Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim turn their gaze to the full moon, in a journey to find harmony with our ancestors and within ourselves. 

Voices of mothers and daughters across continents and generations anchor this multimedia performance, featuring new poetry by Lim interwoven with new music and interviews by Chinese diaspora composers Vivian Fung, Meilina Tsui, and Theresa Wong.

Released in October 2023, The Jasper String Quartet’s Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung will receive the Album of the Year Award…Insects and Machines is Jasper Quartet’s eighth album and the first commercial release of Fung’s first four quartets. It received notable critical acclaim, including from Strings Magazine that praised the album for its “intensely dramatic energy… demonstrating both their advocacy of new music and their transcendent mastery.”