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Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026—”What if″
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaThis compelling SummerFest program brings together very different masterworks "shaped by youth, urgency, and historical circumstance, inviting us to imagine what could have been." Lili Boulanger’s Two Pieces for Violin Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026—”Vienna 1900″
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaThe La Jolla Music Society celebrates its 40th SummerFest season with an extraordinary month of musical events. This celebrates some major forces that shaped the Viennese—and world—music scene at the Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Alexandre Kantorow
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaAlexandre Kantorow makes his LA Jolla Music Society debut! In addition to winning the Gold Medal at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, Kantorow also received the rarely awarded Grand Prix—a Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2025 with Renée Fleming
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaThis is a dream concert: the miraculous Renée Fleming singing Strauss's Four Last Songs (with chamber orchestra) paired with Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Both of these works, deeply Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Lucas Debargue
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaThe composer-pianist Lucas Debargue comes to La Jolla with his sharp creative intellect and astounding technical gifts. Born in 1990, Debargue forged a highly unconventional path to success. Having discovered Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Nobuyuki Tsujii
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaBlind from birth, Japanese pianist Nobuyuki "Nobu" Tsujii won the joint Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. He will bring his extraordinary artistry and virtuosic Find out more »
Prelude Lecture / La Jolla Music Society
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaOutstanding pianist and creative thinker, Jeremy Denk comes to the La Jolla Music Society with a program celebrating women composers from the 19th to 21st centuries along with works by Find out more »
La Jolla Music Society: Hélène Grimaud
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaI'm delighted to continue my collaboration with the La Jolla Music Society, offering the preconcert lectures for a stellar piano concert series. This season's opening concert? The marvelous Hélène Grimaud Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: “Resilience” (La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2024)
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaAnother wonderful concert at the SummerFest! The theme of resilience connects the works on this unusual program featuring Fanny Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor, Maio Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Guitar Quintet, Erwin Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: “Baroque Fantasia” (La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2024)
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaLove that old-time baroque music! My preconcert lecture delves into this fantastic musical program featuring programmatic works by four composers from four different countries: Henry Purcell (The Fairy Queen), Jean-Féry Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Bruce Liu
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaMy 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 »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Yefim Bronfman
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaSuperstar pianist Yefim Bronfman presents a program that links in numerous ways with the city of Vienna: Beethoven's Piano Sonata in D Major, Opus 10, No. 3, Schubert's Piano Sonata Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Lucas & Arthur Jussen
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaChampioning repertoire for two pianists, brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen offer a challenging program showcasing the range of possibilities: Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448, Schubert's Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Seong-Jin Cho
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaMy preperformance talk will introduce the recital program of pianist Seong-Jin Cho, an artist who is wowing crowds over the globe. This particular musical journey includes a delightful Haydn Sonata, Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Alice Sara Ott
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaI will offer an immersive introduction to the musical works for this "multimedia reimagining of the piano recital." Accompanied by a full-length video installation designed by architect Hakan Demirel, this Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: La Jolla Music Society presents Igor Levit
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La JollaI'm heading back to the beautiful Conrad-Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla! I'll be giving the Prelude lecture for this recital by one of my favorite pianists: Igor Levit! Find out more »
Prism V / Bach, Webern, Beethoven – Danish String Quartet
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaThe 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 JollaThe 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 JollaThe 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 »
SummerFest Finale / Nicholas McGegan
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaThe finale concert of SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan’s inaugural season celebrates the concerto grosso. Conductor and harpsichordist Nicholas McGegan leads the SummerFest Chamber Orchestra. Great masterworks pair in exciting Find out more »
La Jolla Music Society / Finckel & Han
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall @ The Conrad 7600 Fay Ave, La JollaPrelude 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 »