LIVE at the Howard Brubeck Theatre! Back on Stage and In Person!
Palomar Performing Arts Proudly Presents
CONCERT HOUR
Every Thursday at 1pm

Join us every Thursday at the Howard Brubeck Theatre on the San Marcos Campus for a FREE LIVE Concert Hour Performance at the Howard Brubeck Theatre on the Palomar College Campus, San Marcos. Palomar Performing Arts is excited to open its doors to our students, staff and community members for our Free Concert Hour Series in person every Thursday at 1pm LIVE on the Howard Brubeck Theatre Stage.

Concert Hour is a FREE music enrichment series presented for our students and the community by the Palomar College Performing Arts Department.

Parking is Free in lots 1 & 15 during Concert Hour.

Cassandra, also known as Cassandra Pinataro, is an opera singer and pop
singer-songwriter with strong vocals and a range that spans over four octaves.
Cassandra’s pop career began in 2021 with monthly releases of singles leading
up to her latest release, “Queen of Every Night,” which utilizes her operatic
vocals in “Der Holle Rache” from Mozart’s The Magic Flute and her pop/ rnb
vocals throughout the song. Blending her talents, she has created a new genre of
“Popera” and is working on an album of this music. Last month, Cassandra
performed this song on NBC’s “Today in Nashville”. With her opera vocals,
Cassandra won the Miss America Organization talent awards in both Tennessee
and Massachusetts as Miss Music City 2023 and Miss Boston 2022 respectively.
She is the 2023 finalist winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Competiton for
her original song, “Love Country,” a 2023 semi finalist in the International
Songwriting Competition for her original song, “Queen of Every Night,” and
regularly travels to Los Angeles to write pop rnb songs with her team. She
recently graduated with a Masters of Arts in Music Business from Berklee
College of Music Online and with a Bachelors of Music in Classical Vocal
Performance at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA where she performed
in jazz and contemporary improvisation ensembles and starred in her first opera
roles as Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Gianetta in Donizetti’s L’Elisir
d’amore, Lisavetta in Lee Hoiby’s A Month in the Country, and Suzanna in
Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro. With 12 years of dance experience, 10 years of
piano, and 7 years of violin and musical theater, Cassandra has been exploring a
wide range of experiences on stage. Currently, Cassandra is living and creating
music in Nashville, TN while performing with the Nashville Opera, most recently
in The Magic Flute and the traveling Opera on Wheels program, gigging on the
iconic Broadway strip in Nashville, traveling for recording projects, and running
an online vocal studio to teach her students the art of crossing over from the
classical to contemporary world of singing.