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Coleman Chamber Music — Calder Quartet

Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA

The passion of the Calder Quartet was apparent in 2002 when it won the Coleman Competition Saunderson Prize, and again with the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the quartet’s desire to bring immediacy … Read More

Takacs Quartet w/ David Requiro, Cello

Samueli Theater 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA

Program: Haydn: String Quartet Op. 54, No. 2 Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major Op. 36 Schubert: Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956 This year, the world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to … Read More

LBMF Night One Caroline Shaw & Friends

Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA

Featured Performers Caroline Shaw, Artistic Director Program Program to be announced. The Festival’s opening concert features Caroline Shaw joined by a string quartet and chorus. Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a … Read More

LBMF Night Two Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion

Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA

Featured Performers Caroline Shaw, Artistic Director Sō Percussion Program Program to be announced. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion dissolve the boundaries between classical and pop, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as James Joyce, ABBA, American roots music, and Christian … Read More

LBMF Night Three Caroline Shaw & Gabriel Kahane

Laguna Playhouse 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA

Featured Performers Caroline Shaw, Artistic Director Gabriel Kahane Program Program to be announced. After more than a decade of musical friendship, composer-performers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane embark on their first large-scale collaboration, orbiting a new work inspired by Jorge … Read More

Lucia Micarelli: ROOTS

BroadStage 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, CA

Introducing "ROOTS," Lucia Micarelli's newest project, where she embarks on a journey through the diverse tapestry of American music. From the soulful strains of classical masterpieces to the infectious rhythms of jazz and timeless melodies of the Great American Songbook … Read More

Calidore String Quartet

Samueli Theater 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA

World Premiere - String Quartet No. 3 by Han Lash commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for our Chamber Series "Four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one” – The Washington Post “a major new presence … Read More

Coleman Chamber Music — Esmé Quartet

Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA

Praised for their warm sound and powerful stage presence, the Esmé Quartet was formed in 2016 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany by four musicians who were already friends and shared common interests and passions in … Read More

Denis Bouriakov, flute – Music by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Frank, and Norfleet

St. Matthew’s Church 1031 Bienveneda Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States

The Chamber Orchestra will open with the world premiere of a new Music Guild commission by Los Angeles-based Dawn Norfleet, a versatile composer, performer and bandleader with a broad range of roots and inspiration, from Claudio Monteverdi to Charles Stepney. … Read More

Harlem Quartet with Aldo López-Gavilán

BroadStage 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, CA

BroadStage presents the mesmerizing combination of GRAMMY® Award-winning Harlem Quartet and Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán, who shares a special bond with the quartet as the brother of violinist Ilmar Gavilán! Harlem Quartet has been hailed in the Cincinnati … Read More

Tetzlaff Quartet

IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE 4242 Campus Dr, Irvine, California

Featured Performers Tetzlaff Quartet Program MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13  Jörg WIDMANN: String Quartet No. 2, Choralquartett DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in A-flat major, Op. 105  Praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic, energetic playing,” the Tetzlaff Quartet performs … Read More

Theotime Langlois De Swarte & Les Arts Florissants

Samueli Theater 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA

Program: Claudio Monteverdi (1567 -1643) Adoramus te, SV 289, transcription. Antonio Vivaldi  (1678–1741) Concerto for strings and basso continuo Madrigalesco” R.V. 129 Marco Uccellini (1603-1680) : Bergamasca Vivaldi:  Concerto in D-Minor, RV 813 Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762):  Concerto XII in D-minor “Follia”. … Read More