Hollywood Spheres – A Special Event – June 15: SOLD OUT!
A Private Home in Pasadena Address will be sent after registrationA special fundraising event featuring concert works by Hollywood film composers
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Stephen Drury: Charles Ives @ 150
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAWorld renowned guest artist Stephen Drury will celebrate the Ives sesquicentennial two days after Ives’ birthday with a special performance of Ives' complete sonatas for piano, including the monumental "Concord" sonata. 30 for 30 composer Paul Beaudoin composed a piece that “suggests some of the wilder, fantastical adventures into the half-childlike, half fairy-like phantasmal realm” of the Concord Sonata.
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Mark Robson: Spielfreude
Zipper Concert Hall and the Colburn Plaza 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles"Spielfreude", the joy of playing, describes the sheer physical and emotive pleasure of performing at the keyboard
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for Susan and Rick
Zipper Concert Hall and the Colburn Plaza 200 S Grand Ave., Los AngelesAll PS artists come together for this moving tribute to founding pianist Susan Svrcek composer Rick Lesemann
Andrés Jaramillo – A Journey of Immigrants
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAColombian American pianist Dr. Andrés Jaramillo is our 24/25 Leonard Stein Resident Artist
Brook and Meadowcroft
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAFeaturing two new large-scale works by important international composers Taylor Brook & Thomas Meadowcroft
Thomas Mellan: Collective Hysteria
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAEmerging Artist Thomas Mellan presents Collective Hysteria: featuring premieres of 3 new 30 for 30 piano pieces and a piece of his own entitled Rituel
Empathy, Compassion and Good Trouble – A Special Event!
A Private Home in Pasadena Address will be sent after registrationIf 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, […]
Celebrating Pierre Boulez 1925-2025, Fri May 30, 8PM CANCELLED
We regret to inform you that Celebrating Pierre Boulez has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control
A Concert for Sarah
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CAOn 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 […]
Charlemagne Palestine – in concert
The Brick 518 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA, United States"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 […]
Gloria Cheng & Ralph van Raat – in concert
Nimoy Theater 1262 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CAResonant 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 […]
Pierre-Laurent Aimard – an afternoon of music and conversation
2220 Arts + Archives 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CAOne 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 […]
Nic Gerpe – in concert
Thayer Hall at the Colburn School 200 S Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CARoad 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 […]
Piano Spheres presents Enno Poppe’s “Rundfunk”
Nimoy Theater 1262 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CAEnno 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 […]