Music

SEPTEMBER

19: Gloria Cheng, piano, opening Piano Spheres series, Neighborhood Church, Pasadena.

20: Roberto Fabbriciani, flute; Nicola Sani, composer, LACMA.

20: Opening, Chamber Music Wednesdays: “Mel Powell and Beyond,” CalArts.

22: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, John Mauceri, A Night at the Movies, Hollywood Bowl.

22: New West Symphony, Boris Brott conductor; Cecilia Tsan, cello, Thousand Oaks.

23: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane conductor; Joshua Bell, violin, Royce Hall, UCLA.

23: California Philharmonic Orchestra: Classical Jukebox, Arboretum, Arcadia.

23: Southwest Chamber Music opening season, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena.

24: Narimichi Kawabata, violin, Japan America Theatre.

24: Vadim Tchijik, violin, Beverly Hills Library.

24: Trio West, Pepperdine University.

24: Robert Haag, piano, El Camino Center.

25: Nicolai Lugansky, piano, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

27: L.A. Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor, Thousand Oaks.

28: Evgeny Kissin, piano. Orange County Performing Arts Center.

OCTOBER

1: Evgeny Kissin, piano. Royce Hall, UCLA.

4: Alan Bergman and Karen Morrow, Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, Cal State Long Beach.

4: Takacs Quartet and Andreas Haefliger, piano, La Jolla.

5: L.A. Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Isaac Stern, violin, Opening Night Gala, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

6: L.A. Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

6: Long Beach Opera “Euridice” (Peri), Getty Museum.

6: St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Neenan, conductor; Delores Stevens, piano, Pacific Palisades.

6: Oscar Lopez, guitar, Cal State Northridge.

6: San Diego Symphony, Jung-Ho Pak, conductor; Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, Copley Hall, San Diego.

7: Bulgarian Women’s Choir Angelite, El Camino Center.

7: Mozart Classical Orchestra, with Joel Wizansky, piano, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

7: Santa Barbara Symphony, Gis le Ben-Dor, conductor; Rinat Shaham, soprano, Santa Barbara.

8: Les Tambours du Bronx, percussionists, Pepperdine, Malibu.

9: Paul Galbraith, guitar, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

11: Mark Kaplan violin, Bach sonatas and partitas, UCLA. Also, Oct. 18.

12: L.A. Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Catherine Ransom, flute, Pavilion.

12: Deborah Voigt, soprano, Alex Theatre.

13: Glendale Symphony, Sidney Weiss, conductor, Alex Theatre.

13: Pacific Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Carl St.Clair, conductor; Philip Glass: Symphony of Peace, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

13: New West Symphony, Boris Brott, conductor; Leon Bates, piano, Oxnard. Also, Oct. 14, Thousand Oaks.

14: Andrea Dieci, guitar, Cal State Northridge.

14: Trio Veronezh, California Center, Escondido.

15: Guarneri String Quartet, Beckman Auditorium, Caltech.

15: Iceland Symphony, Rico Saccani, conductor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

16: Film by Bruno Monsaingeon: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: “Autumn Journey,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

16: Monday Evening Concerts opening: Music from the Copland House, LACMA.

16: Talich String Quartet, Cal State Northridge. Also, Oct. 17, Cal State Long Beach; Oct. 18, Wilshire-Ebell Theatre.

17: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Charles Sherman, harpsichord, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

18-Nov. 4: Los Angeles Opera, “Peter Grimes” (Britten), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

18: California EAR Unit, LACMA.

19: L.A. Philharmonic, Antonio Pappano, conductor, Britten: War Requiem, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

19: Keyboard Eclectic: Ursula Oppens, Aki Takahashi, pianos. Richard Teitelbaum, composer, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

20: NDR Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Midori, violin. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

20: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Joseph Swensen, conductor; Max Levinson, piano, UCLA.

20: Vassilis Varvaresos, piano, Neurosciences Institute, San Diego.

21: UCLA: Audra McDonald, vocalist, Royce Hall, UCLA.

21: Pasadena Symphony, Jorge Mester, conductor; Mayuko Kamio, violin. Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

21: Long Beach Symphony, Alasdair Neale, conductor; Cristina Ortiz, piano, Terrace Theater.

21: NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

22: Borislav Strulev, cello, Sundays at Two, Beverly Hills Public Library.

22: Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet with Jon Nakamatsu, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

22: American Youth Symphony opening, Alexander Treger, conductor; Ryu Goto, violin; Royce Hall, UCLA.

22: Pacific Chorale opening, John Alexander, conductor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

22: Audra McDonald, California Center, Escondido.

24: Southwest Chamber Music, Zipper Hall, Colburn School. Also, Oct. 28 at Norton Simon Theater, Pasadena.

24: Julie Fischer, violin; Milana Chernyavska, piano; Irvine Barclay Theatre.

25: Kremerata Baltica, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

25: Martin Mastik, guitar, LACMA.

25: Katia and Marielle Lab que, duo pianos, Cerritos.

26: Ian Bostridge, tenor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

27: L.A. Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Florence Quivar, mezzo; Martin Chalifour, violin; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

27: Leipzig String Quartet, opening Chamber Music in Historic Sites season, Doheny Mansion.

27: Trio Navah Perlman, piano; Kurt Nikkanen, violin; Zuill Bailey, cello; El Camino Center.

27: Hilary Hahn, violin; Natalie Zhu, piano; Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla.

29: Sequentia, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

29: William Hall Master Chorale: Bach’s B-minor Mass, St. Andrew’s, Newport Beach.

30: Les Percussions de Strasbourg, LACMA.

31: UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, Jon Robertson, conductor; Walter Ponce, piano; Ostin Hall, UCLA.

NOVEMBER

1: Robert Kapilow: What Makes It Great? Judith Gordon, piano. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

1: Arcadi Volodos, piano, Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla.

2: L.A. Philharmonic, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

2: Accentus, French vocal ensemble, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

3: Arcadi Volodos, piano, Pavilion.

3: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Pico House (Olvera Street).

3-5: Young Uck Kim and Menahem Pressler, complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

3-4: Canadian Brass, Cerritos.

3: Daniel Heifetz, violin, with the Classical Band, El Camino Center.

3-4: Anonymous 4 and the Chilingirian String Quartet, St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church, Irvine.

4: Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg & Assad Duo, Royce Hall, UCLA.

4-5: Santa Barbara Symphony, Gis le Ben-Dor, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin; Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara.

5: Kirill Gliadkovsky & Friends, Pepperdine University.

5: Mozart Classical Orchestra, Ami Porat, conductor; Timothy Landauer, cello; St. Andrews, Newport Beach.

5: Peninsula Symphony, Joseph Valentki, conductor; Carol Neblett, soprano; Rolling Hills.

5: Los Angeles Master Chorale opening, Paul Salamunovich, conductor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

7-12: Opera Pacific, “The Magic Flute” (Mozart). Carl St.Clair, conductor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

9: Borromeo Quartet with Christopher O’Riley, piano, Orange County Performing Arts Center Founders Hall.

10: L.A. Philharmonic, Marc Minkowski, conductor; Vladimir Feltsman, piano; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

10-11: Opera, “Failing Kansas,” Mikel Rouse, composer, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

10: San Diego Symphony, Leslie Dunner, conductor; Kevin Deas, baritone; Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego. Also, Nov. 11.

11: Pasadena Symphony, Jorge Mester, conductor; premiere of Peter Schickele Cello Concerto, Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

11: Frederic Chiu, piano, El Camino Center.

12: Quartet Sine Nomine, MacGowan House.

12: Borromeo String Quartet with Christopher O’Riley, piano, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

12: Christopher Parkening, guitar, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

13: Films by Bruno Monsaingeon: “The Retreat” and “Glenn Gould,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

13: L.A. Mozart Orchestra Chamber Players, Zipper Hall, Colburn School. Bach program.

13: Monday Evening Concert: RedFishBlueFish & Janos Negyesy, violin, LACMA.

13: Andras Schiff, piano: Bach: Goldberg Variations, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

14: International Guitar Night, Cal State Northridge.

14: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor; Colin Carr, cello, Lobero Theatre. Santa Barbara.

15: Evan Wilson, viola, and Walter Ponce, piano, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

15: Pacific Symphony Copland observance, Orange County Performing Arts Center. Also, Nov. 16 and 18.

16: L.A. Philharmonic, Andras Schiff, conductor and piano, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

16-19: Camerata Pacifica, Santa Barbara.

17: Academy of Ancient Music and Andrew Manze, violin, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

17: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, conductor; Royce Hall, UCLA. Also Nov. 18, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

18: Long Beach Symphony, David Loebel, conductor; Howard Zhang, violin; Terrace Theater, Long Beach.

18: Lorenzo Micheli, guitar, Cal State Northridge.

19: Elana Neches and Nancy Nanako Iida, pianists, Beverly Hills Public Library.

19: Academy of Ancient Music and Andrew Manze, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

19: Brazilian Guitar Quartet, Beckman Auditorium, Caltech.

19: American Youth Symphony, Alexander Treger, conductor; Mark Zeltser, piano, Royce Hall, UCLA.

20: Films by Bruno Monsaingeon: “The Alchemist” and “Sixth Partita of Bach,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

20: Ysa*e Quartet, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

21: Vicki Ray, piano, Neighborhood Church, Pasadena.

21: Bale Folclorico da Bahia: Carnaval 2000, Pepperdine University.

24: L.A. Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Heidi Grant Murphy, Mary Phillips; L.A. Master Chorale, Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

26: Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

27: Monday Evening Concert: Emigres on the Roof, LACMA.

28: Mari Kodama, Beethoven piano sonata cycle, Zipper Hall, Colburn School. Also Dec. 12.

29: Los Angeles Opera “La Boh me” (Puccini), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, nine times through Dec. 21.

30: L.A. Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Audra McDonald; Hudson Shad Quartet, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

30: Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra opening, Lucinda Carver, conductor; Aimee Kreston, violin, Zipper Hall, Colburn School.

30: Rossetti String Quartet, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

30: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor, Festive Holiday Concert, Irvine Barclay Theatre.

DECEMBER

1: Auryn Quartet, Doheny Mansion.

1: Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, with the Pasadena Symphony, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

1: L.A. Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, conductor, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

1: Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, California Center, Escondido.

1: San Diego Symphony, Jung-Ho Pak, conductor; Dickran Atamian, piano; Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego.

2: Mari Kodama, piano, Beethoven sonata Cycle, Norton Simon Theater, Pasadena. Also Dec. 16.

2: Glendale Symphony. Sidney Weiss, conductor, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

3: Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, Royce Hall, UCLA.

3: Duo Calabrese, Ostin Hall, UCLA.

4: Alexander String Quartet, Cal State Northridge. Also, Dec. 5 at Cal State Long Beach, Dec. 6 at Wilshire-Ebell Theatre.

5: UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra, Jon Robertson, conductor; Peter Yates, guitar; Ostin Hall, UCLA.

6: Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

6: Musical Pacifica, LACMA.

7: L.A. Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Peter Serkin, piano; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

8: L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane; L.A. Master Chorale; soloists: Bach’s Mass in B minor, Royce Hall, UCLA. Also, Dec. 9, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

8: Anonymous 4, Legends of St. Nicholas, El Camino Center.

10: Angelorum Bach Artists, First Congregational Church, Long Beach.

10: American Youth Symphony, Alexander Treger, conductor, Royce Hall, UCLA.

11: Monday Evening Concert: San Francisco Tape Center Revisited, LACMA.

12: Film by Bruno Monsaingeon: “Art of the Violin,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

12: Fiesta Navidad, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

14: L.A. Philharmonic, Franz Welser-Mst, conductor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

14: Musica Angelica, Founders Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center.

15: Placido Domingo and Operalia 2000 Winners, Royce Hall, UCLA.

15-17: Gay Men’s Chorus of L.A., Your Home for the Holidays, Alex Theatre, Glendale.

15: Christopher O’Riley, piano, Sherwood Auditorium, La Jolla.

16: Boys Choir of Harlem, Royce Hall, UCLA.

17: L.A. Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich, conductor, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

17: Tallis Scholars, Royce Hall, UCLA.

17: Pacific Chorale, “‘Tis the Season,” Orange County Performing Arts Center.