Kaufman Music Center – Past Concerts
Ecstatic Music Series: Seth Parker Woods / Difficult Grace (on-demand until 6/1/2021)
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Fredrick Gifford – Difficult Grace
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)
Monty Adkins – Winter Tendrils (with film by Zoë McLean)
Nathalie Joachim – The Race: 1915 (with images of Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series)
Freida Abtan – My Heart Is A River
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – asinglewordisnotenough 3 [invariant] (with choreographer/dancer Roderick George)
$15
Kaufman Music Center: Fast Forward – ChamberFest
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Chamber ensembles from Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School High School perform movements from piano trios & string quartets; cellist Seth Parker Woods joins for Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1.
Free ($15 suggested donation)
Kaufman Music Center: Fast Forward – ComposerFest
Thursday, April 29, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
$15 suggested donation
Kaufman Music Center: Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center: Solar Flare – Luna Composition Lab
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by 2020-21 Fellows of the Luna Composition Lab, a national mentorship program for teen-age female, non-binary, & gender-nonconforming composers.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center: Broadway Close Up – Kay Swift
Monday, April 19, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Host Sean Hartley & a stellar cast of Broadway performers explore the life & music of composer Kay Swift, the first woman to score a successful Broadway musical.
$15
Kaufman Music Center: What Makes It Great? Stephen Sondheim
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Come explore Sondheim's magical art of ambivalence as Nikki Renée Daniels & Michael Winther sing music from A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, & more.
$15
Kaufman Music Center - Fast Forward: 2021 Henry Schneider Concert
Thursday, April 1, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin, BWV 1001 (IV. Presto)
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin (VI. Toccata)
François Schubert – L’Abielle ("The Bee"), Op. 13, No. 9
Philippe Gaubert – Madrigal
George Frideric Handel – Sonata in C major, Op. 1, No. 7 (IV. Tempo di Gavotta)
John Corigliano – Sonata for Violin and Piano (I. Allegro)
Frederic Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (I. Grave – Doppio movimento)
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin (VI. Toccata)
François Schubert – L’Abielle ("The Bee"), Op. 13, No. 9
Philippe Gaubert – Madrigal
George Frideric Handel – Sonata in C major, Op. 1, No. 7 (IV. Tempo di Gavotta)
John Corigliano – Sonata for Violin and Piano (I. Allegro)
Frederic Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (I. Grave – Doppio movimento)
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane
$15 suggested donation
Kaufman Music Center - Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Thursday, March 25, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center: Face the Music – Translationships with Seth Parker Woods
Monday, March 22, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Teen musicians of Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music youth new music program perform Anthony Braxton’s Composition No. 69b, Mauricio Kagel’s Con Voce, & a brand-new imagining of Seth Parker Woods’ Kazaguruma.
$15 suggested donation
Kaufman Music Center: Fast Forward – Performers from Special Music School’s 7th & 8th Grade
Thursday, March 4, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall in NYC, featuring 7th & 8th grade performers from KMC’s Special Music School.
Free ($15 suggested donation)
Kaufman Music Center: Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
Thursday, February 25, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao illustrates a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition, & improvisation as the program for his May KMC concert comes into focus.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center: What Makes It Great? A Cole Porter Evening
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
Broadway stars Sally Wilfert & Michael Winther join Rob Kapilow for a musical tour through Cole Porter’s life & career, taking a fresh look at his complex highbrow/lowbrow sensibility in some of his classic songs.
$15
Kaufman Music Center: Luna Lab Meets Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Thursday, February 11, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
LACO presents the world premieres of 8 works by teen composers in KMC’s Luna Composition Lab program.
Free (Free)
Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Adam Tendler
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
Robert Schumann – Carnaval, Op. 9
Christian Wolff – FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (world premiere)
Christian Wolff – FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (world premiere)
$15
Kaufman Music Center: Piano Dialogues – Orli Shaham at Merkin Hall
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)
Online event
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”
$15
Kaufman Music Center: What Makes It Great? Beethoven’s Archduke Trio
Monday, November 9, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Online event
The Horszowski Trio performs & discusses Ludwig van Beethoven's iconic "Archduke" Piano Trio, with live post-concert Q&A with host Rob Kapilow.
$15
Lisa Bielawa: Voters' Broadcast
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Broadly participatory musical performance for an unlimited number of voices & instruments, with music by Lisa Bielawa & text excerpted from Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say.
Free (Free (registration required))
Kaufman Music Center: What Makes It Great? Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata [BROADCAST]
Monday, October 5, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Jesse Mills (violin) & Rieko Aizawa (piano) dive into Ludwig van Beethoven's radically individual "Kreutzer" Sonata.
$15 ($40 3-concert subscription)
Kaufman Music Center: What Makes It Great? Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata (broadcast until 9/23/2020)
Monday, September 21, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
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Pianist Orli Shaham performs Ludwig van Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, and joins NPR's Rob Kapilow for a deep-dive into this iconic work.
$15 ($40 3-concert subscription)
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