Colombian American pianist Dr. Andrés Jaramillo is our 24/25 Leonard Stein Resident Artist

Featuring two new large-scale works by important international composers Taylor Brook & Thomas Meadowcroft

Emerging Artist Thomas Mellan presents Collective Hysteria: featuring premieres of 3 new 30 for 30 piano pieces and a piece of his own entitled Rituel

If you don't see a place to RSVP below, it means we have sold out.  If you would like to be put on a waiting list in case someone cancels, please send an email to RSVP@pianospheres.org and we will get back to you.   What: A Piano Spheres Fundraising Event Who: Pianists Althea Waites, Andres Jaramillo, […]

We regret to inform you that Celebrating Pierre Boulez has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control

On July 14, 2024 the Piano Spheres family lost one of our own. Sarah Gibson was a brilliant pianist, a fierce composer, and an inspirational educator. She was half of the piano duo HOCKET who joined Piano Spheres as Core Artists in 2019, but she has been part of the Piano Spheres family for over […]

"GRADUALLY MY ARPEGGIOS BEGAN TO BECOME STRUMMMMMSSSSS AND STRUMMMMINGGGGSSSS"   Charlemagne Palestine returns to Los Angeles for a rare performance of his monumental Strumming Music, which he has been developing since the early 1970s and describes as an approach and technique that is always different. “It is not a ‘composition’ as such” he says, “it […]

Resonant Encounters: Boulez, Feldman, Cage, and Beyond Pianists Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat pay homage to the legacy of Pierre Boulez, the unparalleled French composer, conductor, and cultural visionary who transformed postwar contemporary music and left an indelible mark on the sound of the 20th century. Cheng and van Raat take brief solo turns […]

One of the major figures of music in our time, Aimard shares his insights about Arnold Schoenberg and his legacy in contemporary music. Join us for this rare opportunity to hear this exciting artist in a lively conversation with LA Times music critic Mark Swed, illustrated at the piano. * Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in […]

Road Trip Few experiences are as exciting, liberating, relaxing, anxiety-inducing, meditative, lonely, and free as the feel of the open road. All of our journeys have a different purpose and destination –  to seek solitude, to get to nature, to seek new paths, to find ourselves, or for the pure thrill and joy of the […]

Enno Poppe, among the most important composers in Germany today, created “Rundfunk” (“Broadcast”) for nine synthesizers as a loving tribute to the music studios of the public broadcasting services which led to some magical moments of a medium that aimed to interrogate its own possibilities and requirements: “I don’t use historic instruments, but historic sounds […]

SÉRIE BLEUE Inspired by iconic books by Maggie Nelson and William Gass, pianist Vicki Ray presents a musical evening exploring the color blue. Works include “Blue Diamonds” by Paul Dresher, […]