Get Your Phil

CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association – is celebrating its century with 12 concerts featuring the world’s finest instrumentalists.

Highlights will include appearances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, violinist extraordinaire Itzhak Perlman, the Russian National Orchestra, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen in its International series at the Granada.

The eclectic program by our Eden by the Beach’s oldest arts organization was revealed after an afternoon musicale at Trinity Episcopal Church in partnership with the UCSB Department of Music and featured pianist Robert Koenig, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, and flutists Claudia Anderson and Jill Felber, conducted by Angeleita Floyd.

CAMA has a rich and varied history with past performers including Isaac Stern, Marian Anderson, Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Horowitz, Pablo Casals, Paul Robeson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Schnabel, and Leonard Bernstein, to name just a few.

And under its Masterseries umbrella, performed at the Lobero, the program will include acclaimed pianist Richard Goode, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, violinist Augustin Hadelich – his fourth CAMA performance in as many years – and cellist Mischa Maisky.

Fasten your seat belts.