Philharmonia Fantastique Featured in Animation Magazine
Mason’s Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, has been featured in Animation Magazine, the no.1 magazine for business, technology, VFX and the art of animation.
The 25-minute concerto for orchestra and animated film, was directed by seven-time Academy Award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom (Titanic) and animation director Jim Capobianco (Ratatouille, Mary Poppins Returns), has recently been released on Apple TV app and is available to stream on Apple Music.
Read the full article on Animation Magazine’s website.
Upcoming live performances include:
January 29 2023 – Kansas City Symphony – Kauffman Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
March 4 2023 – New West Symphony – Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
March 5 2023 – New West Symphony – Rancho Campana Performing Arts Center, Camarillo, CA, USA
March 8, 13 & 14 2023 – National Symphony Orchestra –The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. USA
April 2 2023 – The Cleveland Orchestra – Severance Music Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
April 30 2023 – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra – The Orpheum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
April 11 2023 – Utah Symphony – Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, Orem, UT, USA
April 15 2023 – Utah Symphony – Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
April 16 2023 – Aurora Orchestra – Southbank Centre, London, UK
CBS News Profile
Mason joined Mary Lee on CBS News to talk all things classical and electronic music including Philharmonia Fantastique, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Mercury Soul’s Symphonic Techno event.
“San Francisco is where it all came together for me,” said Bates. “By day, I was writing symphonies for the Phoenix Symphony or the LA Philharmonic. And then at night, I would get out and DJ in SoMa. I finally decided one night, I was sitting at the turntables at an old place named Varnish, which has since disappeared. And I thought, why can’t I have an orchestra play with these beats at the same time?”
“For Mason, he’s a DJ and he’s all out in the community,” said Red Curtain Addict founder Kari Lincks Coomans. “He’s so charismatic. He’s an innovator, and getting to work side-by-side with him for events with Mercury Soul has been so exciting. He’s always pushing the envelope.”
Watch online on the CBS website.