Xian Zhang brings a special treat to LA Phil audiences, conducting Zemlinsky’s seldom performed symphonic fairytale inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. The ...
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Seong-Jin Cho, a pianist beloved by audiences worldwide, returns for a highly anticipated recital of music by Maurice Ravel, showcasing his tender yet assertive technique....
A highly praised performer on many of the world’s most prestigious stages, Argentinian organist Hector Olivera exercises his remarkable finger and footwork with the 6,134 ...
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Evgeny Kissin—piano sensation since the ’80s and a known expert of Romantic era classics—returns for his first Walt Disney Concert Hall recital in over a ...
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by Blair Ingenthron - October 07, 2023
This historic event, which marked the 20th anniversary of the iconic venue, featured Gustavo Dudamel and special guests, including the LA Phil’s Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock, dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs, GRAMMY Award-winning R&B singer H.E.R. and violin soloist Geneva Lewis. Ch...
Xian Zhang brings a special treat to LA Phil audiences, conducting Zemlinsky’s seldom performed symphonic fairytale inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. The ...
For four decades, the Japanese group KODO has shown off the extraordinary emotional and artistic range of the traditional taiko drum on stages around the ...
After becoming deeply drawn to “Liebestod” (Love-Death) from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Strauss composed his own musical exploration of what lies beyond life itself. Through ...
Michael Tilson Thomas has been part of the LA Phil family for more than five decades, and the orchestra celebrates MTT's 80th birthday with a ...
Eun Sun Kim, music director for the San Francisco Opera, leads the LA Phil through the spiraling passages of Rachmaninoff’s riveting Third Symphony and a ...
Mahler has been a specialty and obsession throughout Gustavo Dudamel’s career, and in the opening weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Dudamel curates and conducts ...
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto balances a flurry of piano trills and athletic runs with a majestic noble character that perfectly suits Yefim Bronfman’s potent but delicate ...
Nathalie Stutzmann brings her unparalleled technique and elegance to two passionate Romantic works, “shock[ing] us into hearing something quite new in music we think we ...
Sixteen years ago, Lisa Batiashvili recorded an outstanding rendition of Beethoven’s sole Violin Concerto. Critic James Leonard praised her performance: “Her tone is pure but ...
“If anyone deserves to be called the greatest showman, it’s organ virtuoso Paul Jacobs” (Broad Street Review). Jacobs returns for a program that highlights the ...
Gurrelieder’s lush Romantic atmosphere, hyper-emotional language, endless melody, and sprawling scale bring to mind names like Wagner or Mahler. Arnold Schoenberg composed the cantata as ...
Gurrelieder’s lush Romantic atmosphere, hyper-emotional language, endless melody, and sprawling scale bring to mind names like Wagner or Mahler. Arnold Schoenberg composed the cantata as ...
The New York Times champions Leonidas Kavakos as a wonder on the violin, writing, “The music flowed out of him like a river—big, glistening, and ...
Experience big performances on a more intimate scale when musicians from the LA Phil perform chamber music in small ensembles. Come early and enjoy a ...
Experience the entire Star Wars saga through specially edited film clips and the power of John Williams’ unforgettable music, hosted by the man inside C-3PO!...
The multitalented Joe Hisaishi has composed more than 100 film scores and is best known as the musical mind behind nearly all of famed Japanese ...
Lightscape is an innovative multimedia artwork created by the artist Doug Aitken in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. ...
This is a pianist with an abundance of ‘style and idea’: both virtuoso command and individuality of voice,” (Gramophone). The unrivaled Uzbek performer returns to ...
Many consider Richard Strauss to be one of classical music's greatest orchestrators (and were he alive today, he'd surely agree). Self-assured in his melodic expertise, ...
Gustavo Dudamel leads a festive exploration of Latin American music for Día de los Muertos with Villa-Lobos’ progressive tour de force and Gabriela Ortiz’s 2019 ...
From the late 1930s through the early 1960s, the film industries of Mexico and Hollywood flourished, each creating a beloved body of movies and cherished ...
Silent film specialist Clark Wilson returns for Walt Disney Concert Hall’s annual Halloween concert, performing a chilling, original organ score to the 1922 Nosferatu—one of ...
There's no singer who embodies the sound of fado more completely than Mariza. The Portuguese musician was born in the same neighborhood that, 150 years ...
Walt Disney Concert Hall transforms into Shakespeare’s magical forest when Gustavo Dudamel leads Mendelssohn’s whimsical incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Complete with video ...
Wynonna Judd is one of the most celebrated artists in country music history. Both as a solo musician and as one half of The Judds ...
Join an exciting edition of Bob Barth's One Night Stand featuring Ronnie Platt, the lead vocalist of Kansas, discussing the band's 50th Anniversary tour. The ...
Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti, whose playing “combines soaring lyrical sweetness with muscular confidence” (The Guardian), breathes new life into Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Alternating between ...
With a repertoire few can match, the formidable Yefim Bronfman showcases his seemingly infinite range on the piano....
Choreographer Benjamin Millepied returns to the stage as a dancer, accompanied by Alexandre Tharaud performing Bach, Beethoven, Rameau, and more....
Don’t miss a “violinist extraordinaire” (The Washington Post), MacArthur “genius” Fellow, and passionate new music champion....
Danill Trifonov, “without question the most astounding pianist of our age” (The Times of London), conjures his unique style and technique to perform the longest ...
Thomas Adès and pianist Kirill Gerstein’s longstanding collaboration has been called “an auspicious meeting of giants” (The Boston Globe), and the pair reunite for Adès’ ...
Nicknamed “the saucy maid” by its composer, Anton Bruckner’s First Symphony is bursting with exuberance and grand musical architecture inspired by Wagner and Beethoven. Dudamel ...
Former Dudamel Fellow Gemma New and the LA Phil capture the complexities and sophistications of *Mozart’s “Prague” symphony*, a triumphant work composed during the peak ...
European singers, dancers, and full orchestra. With timeless music, dazzling costumes, breathtaking dance, stunning floral designs, Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert returns to the ...
Be transported to the Viennese countryside as Zubin Mehta and the LA Phil instill vivid and picturesque life into Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. Having become a ...
Having quickly become a favorite of LA Phil and worldwide audiences, Korean star pianist Seong-Jin Cho puts his romantic side on full display with Schumann’s ...
Maurice Ravel’s “choreographic symphony” Daphnis and Chloé challenges conventional music status quos while highlighting his genius as an orchestrator. The epic dreamscape consists of the ...
The California Festival is a statewide music showcase spotlighting the most compelling and forward-looking voices in performances of works written in the past five years. ...
Gustavo Dudamel and Pan-American Music Initiative curator Gabriela Ortiz build on their longtime collaboration in a program that features two works that pay homage to ...
Weilerstein’s FRAGMENTS 2 weaves together Bach’s Cello Suites with newly commissioned compositions for an ambitious multisensory concert experience....
With moments of melancholy longing and shimmering brilliance, Sibelius’ concerto has become a beloved work for violin for offering its soloist a chance to show ...
One of Mahler’s most massive creations, his Third Symphony vies to express the whole world, as the composer expected all symphonies to do. Long-time Mahler ...
Composer and multi-instrumentalist lafur Arnalds has played in metal bands and toured in a dance-music duo, but the music he releases under his own name ...
Emmylou Harris is the winner of 14 Grammys, recipient of the Polar Music Prize, and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though ...
In a country at a crossroads, where the intersection of manifest destiny meets gentrification and history meets personal experience, Hearnes Place explores the complex and ...
In this special Power to the People! concert, Dudamel conducts the most recognized symphonyproudly based on the bluesby the Dean of African American Composers, William ...
Written when Beethoven was completely deaf, his epic Ninth Symphony has become the go-to composition for people to celebrate joy and our common humanity. The ...
Dudamel introduces us to Heitor Villa-Lobos Uirapurusubtitled O passarinho encantado (The Enchanted Little Bird)a ballet score inspired by the innumerable melodies produced by a legendary ...
Dudamel leads two of his dramatic specialties: Silvestre Revueltas eerie film score that features a wild, extended section in which countless percussion instruments suggest Mayan ...
Although many of the stories about the explosion that began 20th-century music may be apocryphal, The Rite of Spring most assuredly debuted under stressful circumstances. ...
Thomas Ads called his Inferno a grateful tribute to Franz Liszt, the composer of hell and demonic music. When Gustavo Dudamel conducted the premiere in ...
John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composers ego over the audience and performers. At the height ...
Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a deeply emotional, innovative new semi-staged production of Beethovens only opera, Fidelio, created for both Deaf and ...
A longtime champion of Anton Bruckner, the LA Phils Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta brings out the spiritual beauties of Bruckners poignant symphonic farewell, which Mehta ...
With the voices of the LA Master Chorale and an international cast of soloists, Zubin Mehta leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozarts stirring unfinished ...
With the voices of the LA Master Chorale and an international cast of soloists, Zubin Mehta leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozarts stirring unfinished ...
Take a journey with the LA Phil through the Americas in this program highlighting music and traditions from North, South, and Central America.This concert is ...
Big performances from small ensembles: LA Phil musicians play chamber music....
Much honored and much recorded conductor Semyon Bychkov, who has been obsessed with Mahler since his early years, shares his insights into the multi-faceted world ...
The brilliant American violinist Hilary Hahn performs Barbers lyric concertofeatured in an album Hahn made at only age 19 in a recording called by Gramophone ...
Ludovic Morlot leads one of Shostakovichs greatest symphonies, depicting the despair of the Stalin regime but ending in a musical triumph. Formidable pianist Sergio Tiempo ...
Composed in the wake of WWIs shocking horror, Edward Elgars Cello Concerto reflects a new seriousness and darkened profundity in his music. Our soloist, Camille ...
Our Creative Chair for Jazz is impossible to hem in, an artistic force whos spent decades in pursuit of the next interesting sound. No matter ...
Singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is one of the most revered, respected, and beloved musicians in Chile today. Her music brings the sonic traditions of ...
Bartks groundbreaking and eerie Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta launches a rich, full program that ends with Sibelius final symphony, the one-movement Seventh, led ...
The LA Phils Conductor Laureatenow Music Director of the San Francisco Symphonyexults in a program that includes his tribute to Frank Gehry, a major premiere ...
Sparks are the influential art pop duo of Ron and Russell Mael, whose career spans more than 50 years. The Los Angelesraised brothers are widely ...
Sergei Rachmaninoffs Third Piano Concerto is often considered the most difficult concerto in the standard repertory but also one of his most loved for its ...
Hailed for his staggering command of centuries of repertory (The New Yorker), Igor Levit performs Beethovens Third Piano Concertothe first of his concertos written in ...
In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americansone, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another, New World ...
In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americansone, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another, New World ...
Beloved virtuoso Emanuel Ax takes on Brahms epic First Piano Concerto with his full artistic arsenal. Axs fleet fingerwork and the integrity of his interpretation ...
Acclaimed LA-born-and-raised conductor Michael Tilson Thomas conducts his own song cycle on lyric poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Tilson Thomas said he was influenced by ...
The members of the Doo Wop Project honed their style in Broadway productions of Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical, dressing up 21st-century hits in ...
Walt Disney Concert Halls massive pipe organ, a choir, and a jazz combo lead a cheerful selection of seasonal favorites in this favorite Los Angeles ...
One of the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artists of all time returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for an inspiring holiday performance. CeCe Winans ...
The much-celebrated, Grammy-winning, 12-man ensemble makes its return for a classic holiday program of a cappella choral music, presented with stunning clarity, precision, and excellence....
A true holiday favorite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams' charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the Los Angeles ...
Returning after previous successes, conductor Xian Zhang leads with Nokuthula Ngwenyamas captivating and soaring Primal Message. The 2018 world premiere of Julia Adolphes LA Phil-commissioned ...
It was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti in a truly risk-taking performance that lived so much in the body and fused the sinews ...
It was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti in a truly risk-taking performance that lived so much in the body and fused the sinews ...
Big performances from small ensembles: LA Phil musicians play chamber music....
Emmy Award-winning composer and jazz pianist Kris Bowers has been celebrated for his score to films and shows like Green Book, King Richard, and Bridgerton. ...
Three Ravel works from different periods of his life showcase his extraordinary orchestral colors, from the tender and swirling tributes to his comrades-in-arms to the ...
Lauded for his ethereal vocals and emotionally poignant lyrics, the Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer has notched up a string of sold-out shows across Europe, the ...
Reichs riveting Runner uses a large ensemble and a constant pulse, drawing melodic threads from its shifting textures. Minimalist melody is also a theme of ...
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who has ferocious technique but is distinguished by her musical intelligence (The New York Times), plays the quintessential Russian piano concerto. ...
The title of Jessie Montgomerys Strum alludes to the guitar-like plucking of strings that starts in calm, fleeting nostalgia reminiscent of American folk music but ...
A smasher of cultural and classical music taboos (Los Angeles Times) and a young superstar who's flamboyant presentation goes hand in hand with unquestioned virtuosity ...
In a program exploring music inspired by Romantic poetry, Dudamel begins with Schoenbergs Romantic vision of a night transfigured by love. Profound themes continue in ...
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Michael McDonald Walt Disney Concert Hall Sunday May 03, 7:30 pm Artists Michael McDonald Program (TBD) About This Performance Five-time Grammy-winning singer/ songwriter Michael McDonald ...
Audra McDonald Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday December 02, 8:00 pm Artists Audra McDonald Program (TBD) About This Performance Winner of six Tony® Awards and ...
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