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Imani Winds

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Recent Grammy-winning wind ensemble Imani Winds takes the stage to perform “Grooves and Meditations”. The ensemble delivers a captivating program of works by modern composers including a newly commissioned work inspired by contemporary issues and historical events.

Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schubert’s chilling yet charming two-movement symphony, nicknamed the “Unfinished.”

Kelli O’Hara in Concert

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

From her Tony-winning performance in The King and I, to starring in The Hours at the Met and The Gilded Ageon HBO, Kelli O'Hara dazzles at every turn. Her eagerly anticipated company debut, in concert with the LA Opera Orchestra, promises a heart-filling evening of beloved show tunes and more.

Lunar New Year with Pacific Symphony

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Join the Pacific Symphony’s annual festivities honoring Lunar New Year with a color presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance. Photo: A number from Pacific Symphony’s 2022 Lunar New Year program | Credit: Doug Gifford

Celebrating MTT With Yuja Wang

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Michael Tilson Thomas has been part of the LA Phil family for more than five decades, and the orchestra celebrates MTT's 80th birthday with a not-to-be-missed special night of music.

Pines of Rome

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Bernstein’s high-spirited musical prelude sets the stage for two contemporary works that follow: a new piano concerto by esteemed composer Adolphus Hailstork and a new and colorful orchestral work by Pacific Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence, Viet Cuong.

Tchaikovsky & The Mermaid

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conductor Xian Zhang leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, and pianist George Li effortlessly performs Tchaikovsky’s titanic Piano Concerto. Photo: Xian Jiang courtesy of the L.A. Phil

Symphonic Journeys: Strauss, Walton, Brahms

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Music Director Rafael Payare conducts the Symphony in Strauss’ powerful tone poem along with William Walton’s beautifully lyrical and nostalgic Viola Concerto with Chi-Yuan Chen on viola. The concert ends with Brahms’ melancholy and hauntingly beautiful Second Symphony.

Lise Davidsen

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Winner of the Operalia competition in London, opera superstar, Lise Davidsen returns to the BroadStage for the Celebrity Opera Series.

Seong-Jin Cho, A Colburn Celebrity Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Seong-Jin Cho, a pianist beloved by audiences worldwide, returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a highly anticipated recital of music by Maurice Ravel, showcasing his tender yet assertive technique

Ravel & Brahms

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to join the LA Philharmonic for Ravel’s joyful Concerto in G, and Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi leads a Brahms quartet lovingly orchestrated by Schoenberg.

An Evening with Joshua Bell & Larisa Martínez: Voice & the Violin

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Husband-and-wife duo Joshua Bell and Larisa Martínez present Voice and the Violin, exploring repertoire from classical art song and opera to musical theater and selections by Puerto Rican and Spanish composers. They join Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St.Clair for a special evening during this celebratory season.

A Night at the Copa

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

A mystery awaits Pacific Symphony with a audience favorite group that returns by popular demand. This ensemble from Portland, Oregon mixes it up with a cocktail of classical zest, Latin heat, and jazz-tinted pop in a polyglot’s dream of seven languages. They’ll be celebrating 30 years of musical escapades this season.

Takács Quartet with David Requiro, Cello

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

The world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to Samueli Theater with a beautiful program that will include Haydn, Britten and Schubert.

Dvorák Cello Concerto

Ambassador Auditorium 131 S St. John Avenue, Pasadena, CA, United States

Brett Mitchell leads a program with Mark Kosower performing Dvorák’s Cello Concerto. The program will also highlight Wagner’s “Maghic Fire Music” from Die Walküre and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

MTT’s Street Songs and Winter Daydreams

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Beloved American conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas makes his SDSO debut in this special program that opens with his own Street Song for Symphonic Brass. Rising star pianist Parker van Ostrand will join Tilson Thomas and the Symphony for Rachmaninoff’s demanding Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Hector Olivera, Organ Recital

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Argentinian organist Hector Olivera exercises his remarkable finger and footwork with the 6,134 pipes of “Hurricane Mama.”.

Rachmaninoff and the Tsar

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

Hershey Felder's newest musical play will feature him in the role of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff alongside British-Italian actor Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicholas II.

Mahler’s Journey: Mahler Grooves Festival

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Gustavo Dudamel leads Mahler’s Blumine, Symphony No. 10: Adagio, and musical poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn in the opening weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival.

Lucia Micarelli: ROOTS

broadstage 1310 11TH STREET, Santa Monica, CA, United States

Lucia Micarelli presents her newest project “Roots”, a journey through the diverse tapestry of American music—soulful strains of classical masterpieces to the infectious rhythms of jazz and timeless melodies of the Great American Songbook.

Víkingur Ólafsson & Yuja Wang

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Two of today’s finest pianists team up on technically and emotionally complex piano works for four hands, ranging from Dave Brubeck, John Adams, and Arvo Pärt to Rachmaninoff’s nostalgic Symphonic Dances and Schubert’s Fantasie..

Song of the Night

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

For the first time, Gustavo Dudamel will lead the LA Phil in Mahler’s Seventh, “a symphony of everything: from chaos to glory, sarcasm to tenderness, from a funeral march to a seductive tango.”

Carmina Burana & Bach

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

The Grammy Award-winning Pacific Chorale takes centerstage for Carmina Burana, the most frequently performed choral work of the 21st century.

Vänskä Conducts Sibelius and Beethoven

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä is a leading authority on the music of Jean Sibelius, having recorded all seven of the composer’s symphonies. On this program, he leads the Symphony first in Sibelius’ dark and brooding tone poem Tapiola. Rounding out the program is Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto performed by Finnish pianist and Beethoven expert Paavali […]

To the Fullest: The Music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The multi-Grammy nominated experimental orchestral collective Wild Up brings together notable guest artists to celebrate the work of avant-minimalist disco composer Arthur Russell with a new series of collaborative arrangements: The Arthur Russell Songbook.

Gustav and Alma

Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

In the final weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Dudamel explores the marriage Gustav and Alma Mahler through their music.  The program includes Gustav’s Fifth Symphony and Alma’s Five Songs

Calidore String Quartet

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United States

The Calidore String Quartet, comprised of four millennial musicians, is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory. They take the Samueli Theater stage with the world premiere of String Quartet No. 3 by Han Lash commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for the Segerstrom Chamber Series.

Mother Goose, Symphonic Dances and More

Jacobs Music Center 1245 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California

Conductor Matthias Pintscher begins the concert with the beautiful glittering colors of Ravel’s Mother Goose, And Alexi Kenney makes his Symphony debut with his interpretation of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2.

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