Join us for an immersive exploration of a time when Paris reigned as the undisputed heart of artistic innovation and operatic splendor. This lecture will delve deep into the lush cultural landscape of the Second Empire (1852-1870), exploring how the city’s fervor for the arts and the Universal Exposition provided fertile ground for opera.
Celebrated for his passionate playing and unique musical interpretations, award-winning French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie boasts an impressive career as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He takes the stage for a program of innovative chamber works by French contemporaries Saint-Saën, Fauré, Roussel, and Hahn. This performance will be livestreamed.
SAINT-SAËNS Caprice sur des airs danois et russes for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Piano FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 2 ROUSSEL Divertissement for Winds and Piano HAHN Piano Quintet
Students from the Conservatory of Music present dazzling chamber works in this intimate recital series. This performance will be livestreamed.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. The Range Ensemble will perform ABBA under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Dancing Queen SOS Money, Money, Money The Winner Takes It All Voulez – Vous Angeleyes Waterloo Fernando Knowing Me, Knowing You Chiquitita Lay All Your Love On Me Super Trouper Mamma Mia
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Los Angeles. Discover the music of Hans Zimmer at Zipper Concert Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight, performed by the Range Ensemble.
Discombobulate – from Sherlock Holmes Spirit – from Spirit This Land – from The Lion King The Last Samurai Theme – from The Last Samurai Chevaliers de Sangreal – from The Da Vinci Code Time – from Inception Dune Main Theme – from Dune Day One – from -Interstellar Maestro – from The Holiday Tennessee – from Pearl Harbor The Dark Knight – from Batman Man of Steel – from Man of Steel Now We Are Free – from Gladiator
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.
Music Academy students show off their talents in this intimate recital series featuring a delightful mix of repertoire. This performance will be livestreamed.
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.
World renowned guest artist Stephen Drury will celebrate the 150th birthday of America’s great original composer, Charles Ives, with a special performance of Ives’ complete sonatas for piano.
The dynamic alumni duo of violinist William Hagen and pianist Albert Cano Smit take the Colburn stage once again for a program of Dvořák, Schumann, Bartok, and Ravel.
SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 2 DVOŘÁK Sonatina BARTOK Rhapsody No. 1 RAVEL Tzigane
Experience great artistry as students from the Conservatory of Music perform solo and chamber works in this weekly recital series. Performance Forum is generously underwritten by Alice Steere Coulombe. This performance will be livestreamed.
Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for an all-Finnish program featuring some of Sibelius’s greatest hits. After an ethereal piece by Kaija Saariaho – a work dedicated to Salonen himself – the violin shines in Sibelius’s brooding Violin Concerto before the soaring melodies and triumphant timbre of Sibelius’s Second Symphony close out the concert.
SAARIAHO Lumière et Pesanteur SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D Minor SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Archive of Desire is a multidisciplinary production combining live music, poetry, and visual art, created for the 160th anniversary of the birth of Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. The performance is set to the images of a constellation of abstract works by Broad collection artist, Julie Mehretu.
Led by Eleanor Núñez, the Community School's orchestras present a rich program of varied work.
Camerata Pacifica artists are representative of the world’s finest, bringing to our stage their highly individual personalities for dynamic performances of music that span the huge, eclectic range of the chamber music repertoire.
FUKUSHIMA Mei for Solo Flute RACHMANINOFF Moments musicaux, Op. 16 STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet SCHOENBERG, arr WEBERN Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Performers: Sooyun Kim, Jose Franch-Ballester, Alena Hove, Ani Aznavoorian, Irina Zahharenkova
Directed by Ted Atkatz, the Colburn Contemporary Ensemble takes over Performance Forum with a program of original works from innovative 20th and 21st-century composers. Performance Forum is generously underwritten by Alice Steere Coulombe.
JOHN ADAMS Road Movies MESSIAEN Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds) AURÉL HOLLÓ José / beFORe JOHN5
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated programs with friends and students. This concert features a pair of Dvořák piano trios.
DVORAK Piano Trio in B-flat Major DVORAK Piano Trio in G Minor
Leading guest dance artists collaborate with Conservatory musicians in an evening that illuminates the creative process.
Baroque composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and more are spotlighted in this intimate performance of masterworks.
Cellist Paul Watkins’s remarkable artistic resume includes membership in the famed Emerson String Quartet, eight concerto appearances at the BBC Proms, and regular performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He curates a program sure to excite both wind and string lovers alike with its unique instrumental combinations.
CARLOS SIMON be still and know for Piano Trio COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet WAGNER Lohengrin Prelude for Cello Quartet MOZART Horn Quintet BRITTEN Sinfonietta for Wind and String Quintets
Students from the Conservatory of Music present dazzling chamber works in this intimate recital series.