Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers

Adam Millstein Recital with David Hausknecht 
Bösendorfer Salon, Musikverein Vienna
September 29, 2026  

Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers Program Director and violinist Adam Millstein joined David Hausknecht for a sold-out performance at the legendary Bösendorfer Salon in Vienna. Programming for the evening included Korngold, Mozart, Schulhoff, Arlen, and Smetana.

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Voices of Vienna
Villa Aurora: Remembering the Exiles
October 28, 2026 @ 7:30 pm 

An esteemed panel leads a discussion of exiled Austrian composers—Kauder, Zeisl, Toch, and Krenek—who found new homes and creative outlets in the United States. Colburn Conservatory of Music students join Music Restored Program Director Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli in performing repertoire from the composers. 

Panelists: 

• Adam Millstein, Program Director, Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers Program Director 
• Joy Calico, Chair, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles Herb Alpert School of Music
• Barbara von Bechtolsheim, Executive Director, Hugo Kauder Society 

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Max Kade Institute For Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, University of Southern California, Dornsife
October 29, 2026 @ 7 pm
Los Angeles, California 

Barbara von Bechtolsheim and Adam Millstein offer engaging insights on Kauder, Zeisl, Toch, and Krenek, who the Nazis had labeled as “degenerate,” but who also made an impact on 20th-century music. Colburn Conservatory of Music students join Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli in performing repertoire from the composers.

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Voices of Vienna
October 30, 2026 @ 7 pm
6 pm, Pre-concert Discussion  

Voices of Vienna concludes with a full performance by Music Restored Program Director Adam Millstein, pianist Dominic Cheli, and Conservatory of Music students. Come early for a pre-concert discussion with The New Yorker’s critic Alex Ross, who will join Barbara von Bechtolsheim and Millstein.  

KAUDER  String Quartet No. 2 in G Major
ZEISL  Sonata for Violin and Piano, “Brandeis” 
TOCH Three  Piano Pieces, Op. 32; Kleinstadtbilder (Echoes from a Small Town), Op. 49; Three Burlesken (3 Burlesques), Op. 31 
KRENEK  Triophantasie (Trio Fantasy) Op. 63   

Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers is made possible through the generous support of Marilyn Ziering, alongside the many donors who are inspired by this incredibly important work at Colburn School.  

This concert is made possible by Erica Clark in recognition of the extraordinary Music Restored initiative, and the equally extraordinary musicians who bring it to life. 

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Echoes of Exile
April 22, 2027
Thayer Hall

6:30 pm
Pre-concert discussion with Music Restored’s Artistic Director James Conlon and Program Director Adam Millstein 

7 pm Concert 
Colburn students offer an entrancing performance of works by Polish composers Fitelberg and Weinberg along with an intriguing performance of Ullmann’s String Quartet No. 3.  

ULLMANN  String Quartet, No. 3
FITELBERG  Quartet for Strings, No. 6
WEINBERG  String Quartet, No. 5, Op. 27 

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The Royal Conservatory, The Glenn Gould School Presents:
Music Restored and ARC Ensemble
April 26, 2027
Mazzoleni Concert Hall, 7 pm 

In 2024, the ARC Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble also committed to illuminiating music suppressed and marginalized by repressive regimes, joined Music Restored for a performance in Colburn’s Thayer Hall. 

In 2027, Music Restored’s Adam Millstein and Colburn students perform at The Royal Conservatory. 

FITELBERG  Quartet No. 6
WEINBERG  Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28, Quartet No. 5, Op. 27, and Piano Trio, Op. 24 

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The Royal Conservatory Presents:
James Conlon Conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra
Mira Kardan, Cello
April 30, 2027
Koerner Hall, 8 pm 

Colburn alumna Mira Kardan will be featured these evening as James Conlon conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra 

ULLMANN  Don Quixote tanzt Fandango (1944)
SCHUMANN  Cello Concerto, Op. 129 (1850)
DVOŘÁK  Symphony No. 8   

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NOV 6 · Adam Millstein, Violin and Dominic Cheli, Piano
Violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli performs works by innovative Czech composers who profoundly impacted the trajectory of 20th-century music.

MARTINŮ Sonatina for Violin and Piano, H. 262
KAPRÁLOVÁ Elegy
SMETANA From My Homeland, Op. 128
SCHULHOFF Sonata for Solo Violin
MARTINŮ Violin Sonata No. 2 

MARCH 7 · Exploring Czech Masterworks
James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, leads the Music Restored Ensemble in a love letter to Bohemian melodies.

DVORAK Nocturne in B Major
KAPRALOVA Partita for Piano and Strings
MARTINU Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani

SEPT 17 · ARC Ensemble
Canada’s Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory), a group dedicated to the recovery of suppressed and lost 20th-century music, performs a program of rarely-heard works for clarinet, piano, and strings. 

KAUFMANN Sonatina No. 12 for Clarinet and Piano
KANITZ String Quartet in D Major
BLOCK Suite for Clarinet and Piano
LAKS Quintet for Piano and Strings 

MARCH 15, 2025 · The Music of Poland
Despite being a friend and contemporary of Shostakovich, the musical genius of Mieczysław Weinberg went unrecognized for much of the 20th century due to Soviet-Era suppression. This concert highlights three of Weinberg’s more than 150 works: a playful flute concerto, a concertino for violin and string orchestra, and a dramatic chamber symphony.

WEINBERG Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra
WEINBERG Flute Concerto No. 1
WEINBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1 

OCT 26, 2023 · Exiles in Hollywood Violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli in recital, performing music by composers who shaped the sound of film music. All of the composers were from different parts of Europe and were forced into exile following the rise of the Third Reich due to their Jewish Heritage.

DEC 10, 2023 · Shostakovich and Weinberg, A Journey toward Hope  In response to the sold-out performance of the Shostakovich and Weinberg Piano Trios last season, this recital paired the composers’ intimately connected piano quintets.

MAR 15, 2024 · The Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Walter Arlen Dedicated to emigre, composer, and long-time Los Angeles resident Walter Arlen, this program featured premieres of works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Walter Arlen, who both fled fascism and artistic repression in Europe and made their home in Los Angeles.

OCT 12, 2022 · Album Launch: Shapeshifter
JAN 29, 2023 · Shostakovich and Weinberg: A Story of Loss and the Healing Power of Friendship
APR 10 and 11, 2023 · The Mondavi Center presents Music Restored
APR 12, 2023 · Colburn Orchestra

MAY 15, 2021 · The Music of Suppressed Composers of the 20th Century with Adam Millstein, Rebecca Stewart, and Shulamit Sarid
MAY 23, 2021 · James Conlon and Musicians from The Colburn School at the Library of Congress
MAY 24–28, 2021 · Recovered Voices Quartet at Nevada Chamber Music Festival
MAY 29, 2021 ·Recovered Voices Quartet perform Schulhoff 1st Quartet with Numi Opera and Gail Gordon at Broad Stage
JUL 11–25, 2021 · Recovered Voices Quartet at Chigiana Chamber Festival in Siena, Ital

• In the Colburn School’s academic setting, Conlon brings his artistry, energy, and knowledge to the next generation of great musicians from the Colburn Conservatory as well as dozens of adult learners each year through a semester-long class. This course is offered each spring, for free to the public, as well as to Colburn students.
• Colburn has hosted two international symposia, welcoming over two dozen scholars and performing musicians from four countries and attended by hundreds of interested members of the public from around the U.S. These symposia have covered two themes, “Music, Censorship and Meaning in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union: Echoes and Consequences” and “How Should We Perform the Troubled Past?: A Weekend of Concerts and Conversation,” and have brought together musicians and scholars to ask questions about the performance of works composed in fraught circumstances.

• • Colburn Conservatory students and faculty have learned and continue to perform chamber works by a wide range of composers, including:

• Colburn cello faculty member Clive Greensmith recorded works by composer Pál Hermann for the album Pál Hermann: Complete Surviving Music, Volume One (2021) on the Toccata Classics label. Read more.

• Young Artist Competitions have inspired young musicians of instrumental and vocal works to learn works by composers who were suppressed or killed by the Nazi regime. These competitions offer cash prizes and include a public performance with live jury; students then adopt these works as part of their standard repertoire in their future careers.