Renowned violist Tatjana Masurenko presents a special recital as part of the 2024 Primrose International Viola Competition. She is joined by Yanfeng Tony Bai for a program of vibrant works for viola and piano. Considered one of today's leading performers and educators, Tatjana is known for her expressive playing and engaging stage presence. This performance will be livestreamed
RUBINSTEIN Melodie in F, Op. 3 No. 1 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, “Spring Sonata” ROSLAVETS Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano DIMITRI TERZAKIS Songs Without Words for Viola Solo (arr. Tatjana Masurenko) PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet (arr. Vadim Borisovsky)
Experience the joy of learning at Colburn School’s summer group classes. Discover the perfect opportunity to explore our acclaimed music, performing arts, and dance programs, suitable for ages 7 months to adults. Dive into a variety of group classes, from piano to ballet, and see firsthand why Colburn is renowned for excellence in arts education. With our summer sessions, you can sample different disciplines and find the perfect fit before committing to our year-long classes in the fall. Unleash your potential this summer at Colburn School.
Sing, move, and play through a specially designed curriculum which supports cognitive, creative, and social development.
Ages 7 months–6 years
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Build confidence and be inspired to take creative risks in a program featuring improvisation, body movement, theatre games, monologues, scene work, script analysis, and character development.
Ages 5–16
Beginners can learn the fundamentals of technique and develop musical literacy in a supportive group setting.
Ages 5–12 and 18+
Engage and grow with diverse learning and performance options, including ensemble participation, private lessons, and music fundamentals for supporting children’s education.
Ages 18+
Join other experienced jazz musicians to explore various styles of jazz repertoire, theory, and approaches to improvisation. All instruments, including strings and vocalists, are welcome!
A four-week singing-based intensive designed to enhance and support instrumental and vocal study through active engagement and kinesthetic exploration.
All ages
Existing students can join us for four Saturdays beginning June 29 to keep up their training over the summer, and new students are welcome to register for this four-week program to try out classes before registering for the fall semester. Classes include:
Creative Dance I and II
Pre-Ballet
Ballet Prep I and II
Beginning Ballet
Modern I and II
Tap I, II, and Beginning Teen Tap
(Monday, April 29, 2024, Los Angeles) – The Colburn School announced today that violist Jonathan William Brown will join the Conservatory of Music faculty as Professor of Chamber Music, beginning July 1, 2024. In this role, Brown will oversee a comprehensive strings and piano chamber music program, provide the vision and structure for sequential chamber music training at all levels, and oversee all chamber music performances. He also joins the chamber music and viola faculty in the Music Academy, Colburn’s highly selective training program for gifted young pre-collegiate musicians.
“I’m honored to join the Colburn School and contribute to its vibrant community,” said Brown. “It’s a privilege to further develop the rich legacy of chamber music education here, guiding students toward artistic growth and professional excellence. I look forward to collaborating with colleagues to cultivate a supportive environment where every student can thrive and fulfill their potential.”
Brown joins Colburn School’s esteemed Conservatory and Music Academy faculty following an international search. Since 2002, he has been the violist of the Cuarteto Casals, with whom he has performed in all of the major concert halls in Europe, North America, and Asia as well as making numerous recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label including repertoire ranging from Bach through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to Bartók, Ligeti and Shostakovich. As a guest violist, he has performed with the Tokyo, Jerusalem, Kuss, Marmen, Miro, Zemlinsky, Quiroga and Armida quartets and has been on the jury of international quartet competitions in London, Salzburg, Prague and Katowice. Brown has also been an artistic director of the Da Camara chamber orchestra, the contemporary ensemble FUNKTION, and Musethica Spain.
“Jonathan William Brown’s impressive background as a member of an acclaimed string quartet, an entrepreneurial artist, and gifted teacher and mentor makes him positioned to guide our students as they prepare for professional careers,” said Lee Cioppa, Dean of the Conservatory of Music. “With Jonathan as Professor of Chamber Music, we look forward to further nurturing our collaborative chamber music culture and having his unique voice contribute to the exceptional training provided at the Colburn School.”
Since 2003, Brown has been professor of viola and chamber music at ESMUC in Barcelona and since 2011 assistant professor of viola at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid. Outside of these positions, he has given masterclasses in Köln, London, Aix-en-Provence, Den Haag, Weikersheim, Fiesole, Linz, Lübeck, Essen, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and Cleveland, among others. Originally from Chicago, Brown’s principal viola teachers were Martha Strongin Katz, Karen Tuttle, Heidi Castleman, Thomas Riebl and Veronika Hagen and he was deeply influenced by Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág.
The Colburn Conservatory of Music has earned a reputation for producing premier talent in chamber music. In the 20 years since the Conservatory was founded, it has produced the critically acclaimed Calidore Quartet, recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory; the Calder Quartet, winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, widely known for the commissioning and recording of some of today’s best emerging composers; and the Viano Quartet, currently in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program from 2024 to 2027 and First Prize winner at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
About the Colburn School
A performing arts institution located in the heart of Los Angeles, the Colburn School trains students from beginners to those about to embark on professional careers. The academic units of the School provide a complete spectrum of music and dance education united by a single philosophy: that all who desire to study music or dance should have access to top-level instruction.
Each year, more than 2,000 students from around the world come to Colburn to benefit from the renowned faculty, exceptional facilities, and focus on excellence that unites the community.
The Colburn School recently broke ground on the Frank Gehry-designed Colburn Center, a multi-faceted campus expansion of the Colburn School. Located across the street from the School’s existing campus at the intersection of Olive and Second Streets, the Colburn Center will enable the School to expand its mission of presenting programs for the public. Gehry’s design includes a 1,000-seat in-the-round concert hall named Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall, five professional-sized dance studios including a 100-seat studio theater, and gardens that bring fresh air and green spaces to the downtown landscape.
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Camerata Pacifica close their season with a collection of stunning music by composers all of whom are still alive.
PRESTINI Listen, Quiet BUTLER Remember This Fire PSATHAS One Study ASSAD New Work for Accordion, Clarinet, Cello & Percussion (World Premiere)
Julien Labro, Jose Franch-Ballester, Nicholas Daniel, Ani Aznavoorian, Ji Hye Jung
On a Saturday in February, Ismerai Calcaneo Lopez, a junior at Roosevelt High School and saxophone student at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts (CSPA), joined a group of friends to clean out a garage as an odd job. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the afternoon, until she received a text message saying, “Congrats! You’re going to the Oscars.”
Calcaneo Lopez was one of several Colburn students featured in The Last Repair Shop, which won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary—Short Film. Community School students Dominic An, Genesis Garay, Esteban Lindo, and Amanda Nova were also featured in the film.
“I’m still amazed,” she says. “I remember being a fifth grader in the rooms of Colburn and Dr. John Hallberg teaching me ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,’ and then here I was at the Academy Awards. It was crazy.”
The Last Repair Shop was directed and produced by Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, and co-distributed by LA Times Studios and Searchlight. It tells the story of four employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) musical instrument repair program. For 65 years, LAUSD artisan technicians have repaired thousands of horns, violins, cellos, woodwinds, percussion instruments, pianos, and more, all at no cost to students. Bowers, a CSPA alum and Grammy-nominated composer and pianist, was one of those students.
“I spent every moment I could with the school’s piano. There, I found a safe place, and I found my voice. Those were the foundational moments that propelled me into the school band. To Juilliard. To the Oscars,” he penned in a letter to The Los Angeles Times last November. “The one person I never got to meet was the man who tuned that school piano.”
That changed when he and Proudfoot met the shop’s supervisor, Steve Bagmanyan, to discuss their project. It turns out, Bagmanyan was that piano tuner years ago.
“When I stepped inside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s central instrument shop four years ago, I was surrounded by incredible cinematic imagery: cascading ribbons of sawdust, blazing torches soldering brass, the grand choreography of the thousands of tiny pieces that magically coalesce inside a piano. I expected that. But what I didn’t expect was that every one of the technicians’ life stories would break my heart and put it back together again,” Bowers wrote.
Indeed, the filmmakers discovered music has impacted each technician’s life in profound and personal ways. And now, they find satisfaction by enabling new generations of artists to experience the myriad benefits of playing an instrument. The Last Repair Shop delivers on that note, too.
“I‘ve always been a kid who gets distracted easily,” says Calcaneo Lopez, who has been attending Colburn for seven years. “When I got the opportunity to play the alto sax, I had something to focus on. I learned time management. I learned more discipline. When playing music, you have to be on time, be presentable, and do the best you can.”
“Music is a big part of my life. I listen to it every day and it helps me get through my life. It also makes me feel like I’m part of a community,” adds Dominic An, a Community School violin student who was also featured in the documentary.
The Colburn students in the documentary were recommended by Susan Cook, Dean of the Community School. They auditioned for Bowers and Proudfoot via Zoom during the pandemic. Months later some of them received an invitation to be interviewed and filmed in Colburn’s Zipper Hall. Months after that, they were asked to perform with the LAUSD Alumni band to record a song written by Bowers for the film’s score.
“That was a wonderful experience, to interact with the composer and be a part of history,” says An.
Of course, one of the pinnacle moments for Calcaneo Lopez was attending the 96th Academy Awards ceremony on March 10th. While most stars arrive at the event via limousines, she and the other cast members drove up to the red carpet in a traditional yellow school bus.
“We were representing who we are. We were representing our community and what the film meant to us,” says Calcaneo Lopez.
And for this saxophonist, being a part of The Last Repair Shop has meant gaining a greater respect for the people music has brought into her life.
“The whole experience helped me see Colburn School from another point of view,” she explains. “I’m grateful Colburn is not just a music school, but a family you create.”
The Last Repair Shop is available for viewing on Disney+ and at latimes.com .
Under the direction of Eric Roth, the New World Players chamber ensemble performs brand-new, exclusive, and official arrangements from throughout the Final Fantasy series in the thrillingly personal style of this outstanding musical production.
Salonen Conducting Fellow Elias Peter Brown conducts and curates a program centered around climate grief and solastalgia, the sense of loss felt in the face of changing ecological conditions.
GYORGY LIGETI Melodien (1971) WILLIAM MARSEY Why Do You Grieve (2022) US Premiere CLAUDE DEBUSSY La Mer (version for chamber orchestra by J. Gale)
The concert will run for approximately 1 hour; the first two works will be performed without pause.
Pianist Jerome Rose leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Jerome Rose, hailed as "the Last Romantic of our own age" and one of America's most distinguished pianists, has been heard in major concert halls across five continents.