The Symphonic Sphinxes

CAMA, the Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara. hosted its last concert of its current Masterseries with the 18-member Sphinx Virtuosi at the Lobero.

The talented ensemble was founded in Detroit in 1997 to champion black and Latinx composers and musicians to bring more diversity to the arts.

The tony troupe performed four commissioned works, including two by members in Quentin Blache’s “Habari Gani” and Xavier Foley’s “Concertante for Two Double Basses and String Orchestra, ‘Galaxy,’” Andrea Casarrubios’ “ Herencia,” Javier Farias’ “Abran Paso,” and Adolphus Hailstork’s “Dona Nobis Pacem” and “Exultate” from Sonata da Chiesa.

The entertaining program concluded with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Sinfonietta No.2 ‘Generations.’”

No wonder the concert was sold-out…