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Vox Ardens: Ascension Mass
May
14

Vox Ardens: Ascension Mass

Adam joins Vox Ardens for an Ascension Mass at Saints Peter and Paul in Wilmington. Program includes Victoria’s Missa Ascendens Christus, Sweelinck’s Viri Galilaei, and Byrd’s Non vos relinquam orphanos. The service is free and open to the public.

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LA Master Chorale: Voices Within
May
29

LA Master Chorale: Voices Within

Through our Voices Within program, students find their creative voices and become more self-confident and hone their problem-solving and communication skills during an important time of self-discovery. At a culminating event, the students premiere the songs they have written, singing with eight singers from the Master Chorale to a school audience.

There will be two performances, one at 9:50am, and another at 11:00am, followed by a t-shirt signing, all of which are free and open to the public.

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LA Master Chorale: Sound Waves
May
31

LA Master Chorale: Sound Waves

Sound Waves: The Music of Esmail, Garrett, and Woo offers three powerful meditations on water including Malhaar: A Requiem for Water by Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail, alongside new works by composers Marques L. A. Garrett and Hyowon Woo. With Malhaar, Reena explores the universal theme of water through a cross-cultural lens, emphasizing that we are all citizens of the earth connected by a huge ecosystem in which water is a life force. Reena was inspired by William O’Daly’s book “Water Ways,” a poetic exploration of the disappearance of water. O'Daly is known for his English translations of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, and is also a Research Writer at the California Department of Water Resources and is the Lead Writer for the California Water Plan. Reena uses O’Daly’s text throughout the piece, intermingled with movements from the traditional requiem text. Overlaid on this texture are passages in Sanskrit and Hindi. The work moves through the various forms of Raag Malhaar (monsoon raags), to convey the importance and power of water, which holds a sacred place in Indian classical music. The work features Hindustani vocalist Saili Oak.

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LA Master Chorale: Voices Within
Jun
2

LA Master Chorale: Voices Within

Through our Voices Within program, students find their creative voices and become more self-confident and hone their problem-solving and communication skills during an important time of self-discovery. At a culminating event, the students premiere the songs they have written, singing with eight singers from the Master Chorale to a school audience.

There will be two performances, one at 9:50am, and another at 11:00am, followed by a t-shirt signing, all of which are free and open to the public.

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LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo
Jun
5

LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo

Gustavo Dudamel honors his Venezuelan and American identities, presiding over two poetry-inspired choral symphonic works in his final Walt Disney Concert Hall program as Music & Artistic Director. At times hushed and mysterious and at others pulsating and ecstatic, Harmonium was a breakthrough for John Adams’ compositional voice. In the second half, Dudamel guides Cantata Criolla, another breakthrough work that is not just definitive of composer Antonio Estévez’ voice but an emerging national Venezuelan style.

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LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo
Jun
6

LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo

Gustavo Dudamel honors his Venezuelan and American identities, presiding over two poetry-inspired choral symphonic works in his final Walt Disney Concert Hall program as Music & Artistic Director. At times hushed and mysterious and at others pulsating and ecstatic, Harmonium was a breakthrough for John Adams’ compositional voice. In the second half, Dudamel guides Cantata Criolla, another breakthrough work that is not just definitive of composer Antonio Estévez’ voice but an emerging national Venezuelan style.

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LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo
Jun
7

LA Philharmonic: Gracias Gustavo

Gustavo Dudamel honors his Venezuelan and American identities, presiding over two poetry-inspired choral symphonic works in his final Walt Disney Concert Hall program as Music & Artistic Director. At times hushed and mysterious and at others pulsating and ecstatic, Harmonium was a breakthrough for John Adams’ compositional voice. In the second half, Dudamel guides Cantata Criolla, another breakthrough work that is not just definitive of composer Antonio Estévez’ voice but an emerging national Venezuelan style.

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Festival Mozaic: The Sacred Veil
Jul
30

Festival Mozaic: The Sacred Veil

The Sacred Veil is a 12-movement work and the most recent collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri telling a story of life, love and loss. Scored for mixed chorus, piano, and cello, Whitacre will conduct a choir comprised of Los Angeles Master Chorale members singing alongside members of several San Luis Obispo County vocal ensembles.

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Musica Transalpina: Echoes of Venice
May
2

Musica Transalpina: Echoes of Venice

In 2026, Musica Transalpina commemorates four centuries since the death of Giovanni Priuli, who was Emperor Ferdinand II.’s cherished chapel master.  We are presenting impressive passages from the Graz chorbuch written for four choirs which have never been heard in modern times, and several enormous motets in up to twelve parts from Priuli’s nearly impossible to access Sacrorum Concentuum … pars altera, which was published in 1619: the same year that Emperor Ferdinand moved his court to Vienna––a process which lasted the Graz court musicians well into 1620.

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LA Master Chorale Chamber Singers: High School Choral Festival
May
1

LA Master Chorale Chamber Singers: High School Choral Festival

The Los Angeles Master Chorale will host its 37th annual High School Choir Festival on May 1, 2026. We will celebrate the 37th anniversary of this long-standing arts education program in Walt Disney Concert Hall, connecting the communities of greater Los Angeles in a joyous performance of a 1,000-voice choir led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director and Cindy Ellis, Danner Family Guest Artist. The event will be free to the public.

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LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night
Mar
22

LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night

A truly transcendent musical experience, This Shining Night will showcase works from some of today’s most visionary and groundbreaking choral composers including Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Shawn Kirchner and Morten Lauridsen, in addition to those by renowned renaissance composer William Byrd and other modern masters including Michael Abels and Jennifer Lucy Cook.

Join us and experience some of the most magnificent sacred spaces imaginable, both within our city...and within you.

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LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night
Mar
21

LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night

A truly transcendent musical experience, This Shining Night will showcase works from some of today’s most visionary and groundbreaking choral composers including Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Shawn Kirchner and Morten Lauridsen, in addition to those by renowned renaissance composer William Byrd and other modern masters including Michael Abels and Jennifer Lucy Cook.

Join us and experience some of the most magnificent sacred spaces imaginable, both within our city...and within you.

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LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night
Mar
15

LA Master Chorale Sings in Sacred Spaces: This Shining Night

A truly transcendent musical experience, This Shining Night will showcase works from some of today’s most visionary and groundbreaking choral composers including Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Shawn Kirchner and Morten Lauridsen, in addition to those by renowned renaissance composer William Byrd and other modern masters including Michael Abels and Jennifer Lucy Cook.

Join us and experience some of the most magnificent sacred spaces imaginable, both within our city...and within you.

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San Diego Symphony Chorus: Brahms Requiem (Copy)
Mar
1

San Diego Symphony Chorus: Brahms Requiem (Copy)

Brahms is not only one of the most famous and cherished composers in all of 19th century music, but an artist of rich and wonderful contradictions. A musical architect of incredible intellectual skill, he wrote music that tugs instinctively at every human heart. Anyone can listen to it and be deeply moved and captivated by it, but each of us will always find that there is more and more to discover in it.

Brahms, in a word, is a whole world of feelings and of melody.

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San Diego Symphony Chorus: Brahms Requiem
Feb
27

San Diego Symphony Chorus: Brahms Requiem

Brahms is not only one of the most famous and cherished composers in all of 19th century music, but an artist of rich and wonderful contradictions. A musical architect of incredible intellectual skill, he wrote music that tugs instinctively at every human heart. Anyone can listen to it and be deeply moved and captivated by it, but each of us will always find that there is more and more to discover in it.

Brahms, in a word, is a whole world of feelings and of melody.

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Vox Ardens: Candlemas
Feb
2

Vox Ardens: Candlemas

Adam joins Vox Ardens for a Candlemas service at Saints Peter and Paul in Wilmington. Program includes Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices and his Senex puerum portabat, as well as Holst’s Nunc Dimitis. The service is free and open to the public.

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LA Master Chorale: Common Ground
Feb
1

LA Master Chorale: Common Ground

The first of the Master Chorale's commissioned world premieres this season is by five-time Emmy®-winning composer Jeff Beal, known for his scores for TV shows like House of Cards, Monk, and Rome, as well as films such as Pollock and Blackfish. Part of Common Ground: The Music of Górecki and Jeff Beal, Beal’s new work, The Beatitudes, will be paired with Henryk Górecki’s Miserere, a deeply moving piece inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement of the 1980s. Composed in 1981 as a protest against Soviet-backed government intervention, Miserere was not premiered until 1987 due to martial law. With just five words in its text—“Domine Deus noster, Miserere nobis” (“Lord our God, have mercy on us”)—Górecki creates an oasis of peace and compassion. The Chorale first performed Miserere in 2002 during Grant Gershon’s inaugural season as Artistic Director and recorded Miserere in 2013 for Decca.

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LA MAster Chorale: Frank Gehry Celebration of Life
Jan
20

LA MAster Chorale: Frank Gehry Celebration of Life

The Los Angeles Master Chorale joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic in celebrating the life and achievements of visionary architect and dear collaborator Frank Gehry. Frank’s maverick imagination gave shape to the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Beckmen YOLA Center in Inglewood, as well as inventive onstage collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Among Frank’s many gifts were his understanding of the human spirit and his ability to create spaces that inspire and build community. We are forever grateful for his friendship and the opportunity to share in his creativity.

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LA Philharmonic: Busoni’s Masterpiece
Jan
18

LA Philharmonic: Busoni’s Masterpiece

Perhaps the most, or only, conventional element of Busoni’s Piano Concerto is its title. Nearly 75-minutes in length with five movements—the last featuring a men’s chorus—and one of the largest orchestras of the entire genre, it requires nothing less than a herculean effort by the soloist not to mention the more than 100 other musicians performing.

Pianist Igor Levit, a noted champion of Busoni who has called the concerto, “a piece to widen your curse words repertoire,” rises to its considerable challenges. Together with LA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen and men of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, he explores Busoni’s grand utopian vision. Reviewing Levit and Salonen’s 2023 performance of the concerto in San Francisco, the Los Angeles Times raved “...the communal exultation of Levit, Salonen, the orchestra and chorus captured something so large and impractically visionary, something that had so much to say about the society to which we aspire, that one could walk out of the concert hall convinced we can make a difference.”

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