Chamber Music Concert
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesA Russian tea! The program for this delectable Salon highlights works by Taneyev, Borodin, and Rachmaninoff. Plus a line-up of truly fabulous and engaging musicians: Kyle Gilner (violin), Agatha Blevin Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesHeading into the winter holiday season with the marvelous Quartet Integra at the Salon de Musiques in beautiful La Jolla, California. Artistic Director and founder François Chouchan has put together Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesIt's the opening of a new season with Le Salon de Musiques! The program features two perennial favorites—piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms—and the Duo for violin and viola by Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe finale of the 2023-24 Salon de Musiques season, featuring an extraordinary trio of artists: Vijay Gupta (Street Symphony Founder, MacArthur Fellow, and first-class violinist!), pianist Dominic Cheli, and cellist Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Bruce Liu
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesMy final Prelude Lecture of LJMS season will introduced a sold-out concert! Pianist Bruce Liu, first prize winner of the 18th Chopin Piano Competition 2021 in Warsaw, makes his debut Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe March concert of the Salon de Musiques concert series features two celebrated works by Edvard Grieg: the impassioned String Quartet in G Minor and the Concerto in A Minor Find out more »
Mason Concert
Mar Vista, CAWhat's better than ONE fabulous pianist? Why, TWO fabulous pianists, of course! Mason Home Concerts welcomes the exuberant Vieness Piano Duo—wife and husband, Eva Schaumkell and Vijay Venkatesh—in a "beast" Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesVive la France! The February Salon spotlights two French composers of the later Romantic era: Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. My preconcert introduction will explore the importance of chamber music Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe music of Robert Schumann, one of the most literary of canonic composers, headlines this Salon program: the gorgeous song cycle "Dichterliebe" (Poet Love) and the dramatic Piano Quintet. Also Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe holiday-season program for this special Salon features music by Beethoven, Brahms and 19th-century Jewish composer, Salomon Jadassohn, an accomplished theorist and teacher whose students included Busoni and Grieg. Artists: Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe second offering in the 2023-24 season of this unique chamber-music series features works by Mozart, Schubert, and American composer Rubin Goldmark. The first-rate trio of performers comprises two Salon Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe new Salon de Musiques season begins! This unique chamber-concert series in the heart of La Jolla offers an intimate musical experience with close-up seating, a Q&A with me and Find out more »
Mason Concert
Mar Vista, CAThe final Mason Concert of the 2023 season—and it's going to be amazing! LA Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour is joined by three talented friends—cellist Cécilia Tsan, violist Victor de Almeida, Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesFor the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, I'm returning to the marvelous Salon de Musiques chamber-concert series—now in La Jolla!—to introduce the program and moderate the post-concert Find out more »
Introduction/Interview: Mason Concerts
Mar Vista, CAThe first concert of this intimate chamber-music series features the Zelter Quartet playing works by Haydn, Puccini, Todd Mason, and Jessie Montgomery. Dr. Brown-Montesano will offer a short introductory "lesson" Find out more »
FB Live-stream Lunch / Beethoven & Calidore Quartet
Colburn FB Live-streamColburn Presents A Serving of Beethoven Lunchtime Concerts. Colburn continues its celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. What's new? A series of lunchtime concerts highlighting the composer’s most beloved works. Join me Find out more »
Bach to Piazzolla / Mason House Concert
Mar Vista, CAPiazzolla, Gershwin, Schubert, Brahms, Mozart, Bach. The Vieness Piano Duo perform music spanning music history—and the globe. Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano provides live program notes. And leads an informal conversation between Find out more »
Russian Chamber Music / Salon de Musiques
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - 5th Floor Banquet RoomThree Russian masters: Tchaikovsky, Arensky and Rachmaninoff. Presented in a unique chamber music format. Join musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano as the Salon's hostess. Providing informative live program notes. And moderating the conversation Find out more »
Prism V / Bach, Webern, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Find out more »
Prism IV / Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Find out more »
Prism III / Bach, Bartók, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe Danish String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation, continues their three-year La Jolla Music Society residency with five concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Find out more »
10th Anniversary / Le Salon de Musiques
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 5th floor banquet roomHappy anniversary! For 10 years, Francois Chouchan has offered chamber music fans a unique afternoon of artistry and socializing. And on Sunday, October 6th, I hope you'll us for this Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques / Brahms & Beethoven
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - 5th Floor Banquet RoomLe Salon de Musiques - Concert & La Conversation. A regular at Salon, public musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano provides live program notes. At the concert's end, she moderates a conversation Find out more »
La Jolla Music Society / Finckel & Han
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United StatesPrelude Pre-Concert Lecture @ 7pm (Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano). Concert @ 8pm David Finckel and Wu Han are recipients of the 2010 Musical America’s Musicians of the Year award, one of Find out more »
La Jolla Music Society / Shaham & Eguchi
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United StatesPrelude Pre-Concert Lecture @ 7pm (Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano). Concert @ 8pm LJMS welcomes back longtime friend Gil Shaham! Because of Shaham's mastery, he is a sought-after concerto performer with leading orchestras Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques / Violin, Cello and Piano
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - 5th Floor Banquet RoomThe Program J.S BACH: Sonata for Violin & Piano in B Minor - BWV 1014 C. SAINT-SAENS: Sonata for Violin & Piano N.1 in D Minor - OP 75 F. Find out more »
Mason House Concert / The Lyris Quartet
This concert features The Lyris Quartet performing works by Haydn, Johnson, Mason, Beethoven. Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano provides the live program notes, and leads an informal conversation between the audience and artists. About Find out more »
La Jolla Music Society / Danish String Quartet
The Auditorium - The Scripps Research Institute 10620 John J Hopkins Dr, San Diego, CA, United StatesLJMS 50th Anniversary Season The Danish String Quartet begins year one of their three year residency with La Jolla Music Society with three unique concert experiences celebrating the quartet’s diverse Find out more »