Anne-Marie McDermott and LACO musicians trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his daughter, pianist/composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor.
Flower is an immersive experience in movement storytelling that highlights intergenerational equity in the community of Oakland, California and demonstrates how dance can be used as a powerful tool to provoke social change. Following the film screening, Lisa Ling hosts a panel discussion with producers Misty Copeland and Leyla Fayyaz. This event has reached capacity. Walk-up patrons without tickets will be asked to wait in the standby line and allowed into the hall 5 minutes before the show if space is available.
Experience great artistry as students from the Conservatory of Music perform solo and chamber works in this weekly recital series. This performance will be livestreamed.
Powerful X: Shine Your Light will celebrate the strength and resilience of women architects and allied professionals by shedding light on their achievements.
Guitarist Martha Masters leads an in-depth master class with Community School students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Masters achieved international recognition in 2000 when she won first prize in the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. Since then, she has been active as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, recording artist, concert soloist, and educator.
Music Academy students show off their talents in this intimate recital series featuring a delightful mix of repertoire. This performance will be livestreamed.
The season opens with a virtuosic performance of Brahms’s beloved violin concerto, played by the 2022 Conservatory Concerto Competition winner. This romantic masterpiece is followed by Stravinsky’s primal and percussive ballet The Rite of Spring. Join us in the lower lobby at 6 pm for an intimate pre-concert conversation with guest conductor Roderick Cox and Martin Beaver, violin faculty and the soloist’s teacher.
Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Arlo Parks in conversation with Lucy Dacus, discussing The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine–a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine.
Top chamber musicians lead an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. This event is nearing capacity. However, there are always no-shows for free events, and we have never had to turn away a patron. Those without tickets can wait in the standby line and will be allowed into the hall 5 minutes before the performance, if space is available.
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert spotlights the Community School’s esteemed instructors and features works by Mozart, Gluck, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, and more. This event is nearing capacity. However, there are always no-shows for free events, and we have never had to turn away a patron. Individuals without tickets can wait in the standby line and will be allowed into the hall 5 minutes before the performance, if space is available.
StudioEleven Artists is a community dedicated to attentive artistic exploration, growth, and accomplishment. This is the sixth annual exhibition of their work at the Colburn campus. This year’s exhibit includes 78 two-dimensional pieces by 21 artists. The exhibit is dedicated to the life and celebration of Margy Seivers, whose artwork serves as an indelible testimony to her artistic bravery, elegant aesthetics, unrelenting intellect, and indomitable loving spirit.
The exhibit will be available for the Colburn community to view beginning October 15. A small reception in the Café Plaza opens the exhibit on Sunday, October 15 between 11 am and 2 pm. The exhibit is viewable to the Colburn community and is featured in the Grand and Olive buildings.
Trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Since the beginning of her career, Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has championed the trumpet repertoire amongst audiences on all six continents, meriting the highest critical praise for her soulful, lyrical sound and collaborative approach to music-making. Tine’s ever-expanding repertoire ranges from the classical period to contemporary works and new commissions.
A program and ensemble of fizzing, daring, baroque brilliance, curated by Music Director and traverso virtuoso Emi Ferguson.
Violinist Augustin Hadelich leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations, and ravishing tone, he tours extensively around the world.
Come enjoy an intimate evening of anime classics as Young Steinway Artist George Ko plays a completely improvised setlist in Thayer Hall.
The LA community is invited to explore, be curious, pop in, and choose their own adventures at more than 10 participating cultural institutions. Stop by Colburn’s Plaza for fun family activities, then visit our friends on Grand Avenue.
Root Progressions, named for the seminal method of jazz improvisation, explores the vibrant nexus of classical new music and experimental jazz.
One of today’s leading trumpet soloists, Ting Thing Helseth’s technical mastery and soulful playing make her a must-see performer. Her unique approach to programming is on full display in this concert of boisterous chamber works for brass, woodwinds, strings, and piano. This performance will be livestreamed.
Students from the Conservatory of Music present dazzling chamber works in this intimate recital series. This performance will be livestreamed.
Violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto is renowned for his artistic freedom and fresh approach to repertoire. He will lead an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes.
Violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli will perform a one-hour selection of concert 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. The musical works and composers will be introduced from the stage with a guided musicological/historical “tour” by Mr. Millstein. All of the composers ended up working in Hollywood with the exception of Mieczysław Weinberg, who wrote prolifically for film in the Soviet Union. This event is nearing capacity. However, there are always no-shows for free events, and we have never had to turn away a patron. Individuals without tickets can wait in the standby line and will be allowed into the hall 10 minutes before the performance, if space is available.This performance will be livestreamed.
Colburn presents The Joffrey Ballet in collaboration with Conservatory musicians and Colburn faculty, for an evening which will illuminate the creative process. Ashley Wheater MBE, Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, and Leslie Carothers, former Joffrey principal dancer and current Colburn faculty, will discuss Yuri Possokhov’s blockbuster ballet Anna Karenina, which is based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy, and premiered at the Joffrey in 2019. They will be joined by Joffrey Ballet guest artists Jeraldine Mendoza and Dylan Gutierrez, who will perform excerpts from the ballet, accompanied by musicians from the Colburn Conservatory.This performance will be livestreamed.
Talented ensembles from the Conservatory of Music present programs of beloved chamber works.
Pianist Stephen Kovacevich leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes.
With an international career spanning more than six decades, Stephen Kovacevich has become well-known for his innovative technical and musical interpretations, both on stage and in the recording studio.
With Mykael and Yulia Ayrapetyan, piano. The concert program will reveal the legacy of one of the greatest Armenian composers – Aram Khachaturian.
In this evening of manic melodies, the frenzied energy felt in Shostakovich’s first cello concerto is paired with the dark and turbulent power of Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. The program also features a contemporary piece by Elizabeth Ogonek as part of the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, a two-week state-wide music initiative showcasing the most compelling and forward-looking voices in performances of works written in the past five years.