EVENTS
Seattle Symphony
Oct.23.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Gabriella Smith + Gabriel Cabezas | Octave 9
Oct.24.2025 | Octave 9, Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
7pm and 9pm, program details TBD
Seattle Symphony
Oct.25.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.9.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.10.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.11.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.5.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.6.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.7.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Soundbox: curated by Gabriella Smith
Apr. 10 & 11, 2026 | SF Symphony Soundbox - San Francisco, California
details TBA
LA Phil Green Umbrella curated by Gabriella Smith
May.5.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
with special guests Gabriel Cabezas and Billy Childs
Cabrillo Festival
Aug.10.2024 | Civic Center Auditorium - Santa Cruz, California
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra
Wynton Marsalis: Concerto for Trumpet [West Coast Premiere]
Bora Yoon: PARHELION [World Premiere and Festival Commission]
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Cristian Mǎcelaru, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Michael Sachs, trumpet
Los Angeles Philharmonic
May 25, 26 & 27, 2023 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
May.28.2023 | The Granada Theater - Santa Barbara, California
Ellen Reid: West Coast Sky Eternal [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Gabriel Cabezas and Gabriella Smith at National Sawdust
Mar.23.2023 | National Sawdust - Brooklyn, New York
music from Lost Coast and more
Gabriel Cabezas: cello, electronics
Gabriella Smith: voice, violin, electronics
in collaboration with Billion Oyster Project
The New York Times “A New Climate” in San Francisco
Oct.12.2022 | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
New York Times’ climate conference at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco
“Hear from tech leaders, engineers, storytellers, musicians and creative pioneers, alongside innovators at the intersection of food and climate.”
Featuring:
Hannah Estrada, Activist, Youth vs. Apocalypse
Ana Teresa Fernández, Artist
Claudio Núñez, Santa Lucia Conservancy
Louie Psihoyos, Filmmaker and Executive Director, Oceanic Preservation Society
Somini Sengupta, International Climate Reporter, The New York Times
Gabriella Smith, Composer
Thor Steingraber, Executive and Artistic Director, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles
Leah Thomas, Founder, Intersectional Environmentalist
Katharine Wilkinson, Climate Author, Strategist, Teacher and Co-Founder, All We Can Save
Britt Wray, Author and Eco-Anxiety Researcher, Stanford University
and more
music by Gabriella Smith, Billy Childs, and Steve Mackey
performed by Delirium Musicum
Gabriel Cabezas and Gabriella Smith at Philharmonie de Paris
Oct.1.2022 | Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris
music from Lost Coast and new works
Gabriel Cabezas: cello, electronics
Gabriella Smith: voice, violin, electronics