"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, “Série Bleue” by Pierre Jodlowski, and world premieres by Alex Wand and Hunter Ochs/Severin Behnen.  * Described as “phenomenal and fearless” Vicki Ray is a […]

Fixed/Flexible Thomas Kotcheff presents an evening exploring the intersection of virtuosity, technology, and musical transformation through works that reimagine the piano as both a rhythmic engine and an evolving collaborator. The program features Kotcheff's original multi-tracked piano arrangements of Anna Meredith's Bumps Per Minute (18 Studies for Dodgems) and FIBS, transforming Meredith's propulsive electronic sound […]

POETICS Pianist and poet Alex Tchaykov presents an evening of music in conversation with poems, including Joan Tower’s piano suite “No Longer Very Clear” (inspired by John Ashberry), Jerome Kitzke’s “Sunflower Sutra” for speaking pianist (set to Allen Ginsburg’s poem of the same name), plus a song cycle set to the artist’s own poetry. Tide […]