by admin | Apr 10, 2024
The 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 string quintet and piano. Rounding out the offerings is... 
by admin | Jan 13, 2024
The 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: violinist Elizabeth Hedman, violist... 
by admin | Oct 6, 2023
The 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 the performing artists, and a delicious post-concert buffet with French champagne.... 
by admin | May 18, 2023
The 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, and flutist Rachel Mellis—for an evening of chamber... 
by Kristi | Mar 7, 2022
Fidelio—Beethoven’s only opera—continues to lend itself to dramatic innovation. Join me for Upbeat Live, where we review Fidelio’s history and prepare this new semi-staged collaboration between the LA Phil’s and Deaf West Theatre. Hearing vocalists sing...