LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Holland, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallWhat a great weekend! I will be the Upbeat Live speaker for a terrific program: a new work by American composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, Ravel's Tzigane (spotlighting concertmaster Martin Chalifour) and Mother Find out more »
LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Holland, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallWhat a great weekend! I will be the Upbeat Live speaker for a terrific program: a new work by American composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, Ravel’s Tzigane (spotlighting concertmaster Martin Chalifour) and Mother Goose Suite, and Find out more »
LA Opera: Opera in the Classroom Seminar
ZoomPart of the LAO's “Opera for Educators” seminars, this particular event aims to educate—and inspire—K-12 teachers about ways to incorporate opera into their lesson plans. My presentation, "Fairy Tales, Opera, Find out more »
LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Holland, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallWhat a great weekend! I will be the Upbeat Live speaker for a terrific program: a new work by American composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, Ravel's Tzigane (spotlighting concertmaster Martin Chalifour) and Mother Find out more »
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Invited Rehearsal Lecturer
BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert HallThe Los Angeles Philharmonic's free Invited Rehearsal program for music students is BACK! I had so much fun being a part of these special events before COVID hit, and now 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 first Salon de Musiques of the spring season offers two of my favorites works: Mozart's String Quartet in C Major ("Dissonance") and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (in an arrangement for Find out more »
Preconcert Lecture: Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony
McCallum Theatre 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, CA, United StatesMusic Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony come to the desert! I will be introducing their all-Sibelius program, part of the wonderful concert series presented by the Palm Find out more »
Opera for Educators: Verdi’s “La traviata”
ZoomIn this "Opera for Educators" seminar—offered by LA Opera Connects—I'll be talking about the role of production in creating new meanings of older works such as La traviata, Verdi's most enduringly Find out more »
Book presentation: “Understanding the Women of Mozart’s Operas”
ZoomThe Barrington Area Library invited me to speak about my book, Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2007, 2021), a critical re-evaluating source materials as well as Find out more »
Narrating “Concerts for Fifth Grade” / Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA, United StatesThe Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents their Concerts for Fifth Grade, starring the Orange County Youth Symphony led by Music Director Johannes Müller Stosch. And I have the honor Find out more »