Pianist Juho Pohjonen leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes.
In Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band THE TRUTH — pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas — take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability.
Music Academy students show off their talents in this intimate recital series featuring a delightful mix of repertoire. This performance will be livestreamed.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles.
Lovely Day – Bill Withers Cruisin’ – Smokey Robinson I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye Son of a Preacher Man – Dusty Springfield Use Me – Bill Withers At Last – Etta James Feel Like Makin’ Love – Roberta Flack Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin Stand By Me – Ben E. King Think – Aretha Franklin Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Performers: R&B Trio – Carey Frank
The season opens with an evening of soulful masterworks rife with musical and emotional turmoil. The ever-shifting textures and styles of Nielsen's single-movement clarinet concerto are paired Brahms’s Third Symphony, which exudes the composer’s characteristic angst as it alternates between major and minor. The moody prelude to Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde rounds out the program.
WAGNER Prelude from Tristan und Isolde NIELSEN Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F Major
Jasmin Solfaghari is known throughout Europe as an author, teacher, dramatic coach and most well-known as an opera director. She has directed Rigoletto, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tannhäuser, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, and has reached critical acclaim by her recent and ongoing production of Parsifal in Dornach, Switzerland at the Goetheanum. In this lecture she will discuss directing Parsifal with its important nuances and the complexities of doing so in a non-traditional opera house.
Experience great artistry as students from the Conservatory of Music perform solo and chamber works in this weekly recital series. Performance Forum is generously underwritten by Alice Steere Coulombe. This performance will be livestreamed.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. The Orchid Quartet performs the music of Taylor Swift under the gentle glow of candlelight.
“Love Story” “Cardigan” “Blank Space” “Enchanted” “Anti-Hero” “Lavender Haze” “Fortnight (ft. Post Malone)” “All Too Well” “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” “Cruel Summer” “But Daddy I Love Him” “You Belong With Me” “Shake It Off”
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. The Orchid Quartet perform songs by Prince, Childish Gambino, and more under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Prince – Purple Rain Lauryn Hill – Ex-Factor Alicia Keys – You Don’t Know My Name Sade – Smooth Operator D’Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel) Childish Gambino – Redbone Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You Boyz II Men – The End of the Road Miguel – Adorn SZA – Good Days H.E.R. – The Best Part Erykah Badu – Tyrone Solange – Don’t Touch My Hair
Join us for an enchanting evening of classical orchestral chamber music, featuring exceptional performances by talented musicians in an intimate setting. A memorable experience awaits!
Pianist Louis Lortie leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes.
Colburn partners with violinist, entrepreneur, and Tonic app cofounder Ray Chen for a special two-day conference in DTLA. Enjoy masterclasses with renowned artists, open classes with Colburn’s esteemed faculty, expert panels, and evening concerts on both days. This performance will be livestreamed.
Talented ensembles and soloists from the Conservatory of Music present programs of beloved classical works.
Join us for an immersive exploration of a time when Paris reigned as the undisputed heart of artistic innovation and operatic splendor. This lecture will delve deep into the lush cultural landscape of the Second Empire (1852-1870), exploring how the city’s fervor for the arts and the Universal Exposition provided fertile ground for opera.
Celebrated for his passionate playing and unique musical interpretations, award-winning French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie boasts an impressive career as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He takes the stage for a program of innovative chamber works by French contemporaries Saint-Saën, Fauré, Roussel, and Hahn. This performance will be livestreamed.
SAINT-SAËNS Caprice sur des airs danois et russes for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Piano FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 2 ROUSSEL Divertissement for Winds and Piano HAHN Piano Quintet
Students from the Conservatory of Music present dazzling chamber works in this intimate recital series. This performance will be livestreamed.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. The Range Ensemble will perform ABBA under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Dancing Queen SOS Money, Money, Money The Winner Takes It All Voulez – Vous Angeleyes Waterloo Fernando Knowing Me, Knowing You Chiquitita Lay All Your Love On Me Super Trouper Mamma Mia
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. Discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Zipper Concert Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight, performed by the Range Ensemble.
Discombobulate – from Sherlock Holmes Spirit – from Spirit This Land – from The Lion King The Last Samurai Theme – from The Last Samurai Chevaliers de Sangreal – from The Da Vinci Code Time – from Inception Dune Main Theme – from Dune Day One – from -Interstellar Maestro – from The Holiday Tennessee – from Pearl Harbor The Dark Knight – from Batman Man of Steel – from Man of Steel Now We Are Free – from Gladiator
The LA community is invited to explore, be curious, pop in, and choose their own adventures at more than 10 participating cultural institutions. Stop by Colburn's Plaza for fun family activities, then visit our friends on Grand Avenue.
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert spotlights the Community School’s esteemed instructors.
World renowned guest artist Stephen Drury will celebrate the 150th birthday of America’s great original composer, Charles Ives, with a special performance of Ives’ complete sonatas for piano.
The dynamic alumni duo of violinist William Hagen and pianist Albert Cano Smit take the Colburn stage once again for a program of Dvořák, Schumann, Bartok, and Ravel.
SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 DVOŘÁK Sonatina BARTOK Rhapsody No. 1 RAVEL Tzigane
Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for an all-Finnish program featuring some of Sibelius’s greatest hits. After an ethereal piece by Kaija Saariaho – a work dedicated to Salonen himself – the violin shines in Sibelius’s brooding Violin Concerto before the soaring melodies and triumphant timbre of Sibelius’s Second Symphony close out the concert.
SAARIAHO Lumière et Pesanteur SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D Minor SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Archive of Desire is a multidisciplinary production combining live music, poetry, and visual art, created for the 160th anniversary of the birth of Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. The performance is set to the images of a constellation of abstract works by Broad collection artist, Julie Mehretu.
Led by Eleanor Núñez, the Community School's orchestras present a rich program of varied work.
Camerata Pacifica artists are representative of the world’s finest, bringing to our stage their highly individual personalities for dynamic performances of music that span the huge, eclectic range of the chamber music repertoire.
FUKUSHIMA Mei for Solo Flute RACHMANINOFF Moments musicaux, Op. 16 STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet SCHOENBERG, arr WEBERN Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Performers: Sooyun Kim, Jose Franch-Ballester, Alena Hove, Ani Aznavoorian, Irina Zahharenkova
Directed by Ted Atkatz, the Colburn Contemporary Ensemble takes over Performance Forum with a program of original works from innovative 20th and 21st-century composers. Performance Forum is generously underwritten by Alice Steere Coulombe.
JOHN ADAMS Road Movies MESSIAEN Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds) AURÉL HOLLÓ José / beFORe JOHN5
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert features a pair of Dvořák piano trios.
DVORAK Piano Trio in B-flat Major DVORAK Piano Trio in G Minor
Leading guest dance artists collaborate with Conservatory musicians in an evening that illuminates the creative process.
Baroque composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and more are spotlighted in this intimate performance of masterworks.
Cellist Paul Watkins’s remarkable artistic resume includes membership in the famed Emerson String Quartet, eight concerto appearances at the BBC Proms, and regular performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He curates a program sure to excite both wind and string lovers alike with its unique instrumental combinations.
CARLOS SIMON be still and know for Piano Trio COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet WAGNER Lohengrin Prelude for Cello Quartet MOZART Horn Quintet BRITTEN Sinfonietta for Wind and String Quintets
Students from the Conservatory of Music present dazzling chamber works in this intimate recital series.
The acclaimed Calidore String Quartet returns to its alma mater to perform the complete cycle of Korngold’s String Quartets. The composer’s three string quartets are technically challenging, with melodies that harken to the composer’s successful film music career and vastly different styles and textures.
KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 1 in A Major KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 3 in D Major
The acclaimed Calidore String Quartet continues its week-long residency with a program of eclectic works for four, six, and eight string instruments. Following Wynton Marsalis’s New Orleans-inspired string quartet, the group is joined by Quartet Integra, Colburn’s ensemble-in-residence, for works by Korngold and Mendelssohn.
WYNTON MARSALIS Selections from String Quartet No. 1 (“At the Octoroon Balls”) KORNGOLD String Sextet MENDELSSOHN String Octet in E-flat Major