“one of the area's most innovative music showcases”
"Founded and nimbly run by young composer-violinist Matt McBane, the festival provides a fresh West Coast forum for new music, commissioned, performed and served up with seriousness as well as audience accessibility.”
“Carlsbad exemplifies the way a young generation of composers rethink accepted musical pigeonholes—classical versus pop, chamber versus orchestral, harmony versus noise—that fogeys like me once held sacred."
- Alan Rich
"...making a significant statement. It reminds me of what the Ojai Festival was before it became famous."
“…magnificently enlightening…”
