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February 2020
Viola Master Class: Nicholas Cords
For more than two decades, omnivorous violist Nicholas Cords has been on the front line of a growing constellation of projects as performer, educator, and cultural advocate. Nicholas currently serves as violist, Programming Chair, and Co-Artistic Director of the internationally renowned musical collective Silkroad, founded by Yo-Yo Ma. Another key aspect of Nicholas’ busy musical life is as founding member of Brooklyn Rider, an intrepid group which NPR credits with “recreating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a…
Find out more »Faculty Concert: 75th Anniversary Celebration
The Hoff-Barthelson Music School Faculty Concert Series continues on Friday, February 7, 2020, at 7:30 pm with a performance of works in celebration of the School’s 75th Anniversary. Works featured on the program are from the time of the School’s founding and include Amy Beach’s Piano Trio; Witold Lutosławski’s Dance Preludes and his arrangement of Variations on a Theme by Paganini for two pianos, four hands; Leonard Bernstein’s sublime Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.…
Find out more »First Monday Spring Semester
First Monday Spring Semester
Find out more »Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood: Life and Music in Exile
Great Composers Lecture Series with Michael Boriskin In the period before, during, and after World War II, Los Angeles was home to as large an assemblage of musical talent than existed in any other major city. Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Korngold, Kurt Weill, Bruno Walter, Hanns Eisler, Ernst Toch, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Waxman, Otto Klemperer, and countless other composers, instrumentalists, and vocalists all sought a haven as they fled the ravages of war, tyranny, persecution, and at least probable death. Some…
Find out more »February Recess
School closed for February Recess.
Find out more »March 2020
Violin Master Class: Colin Jacobsen
Colin Jacobsen is a musician who draws on a range of influences. He is active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s famed Silkroad Ensemble. For his work as a founding member of two game-changing, audience-expanding ensembles Brooklyn Rider and The Knights, Jacobsen was recently selected from among the nation’s top artists to receive a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship. Jacobsen’s work as a composer was inspired by encounters with leading exponents of non-Western…
Find out more »Spanning the Centuries Festival Student Recital
Student Performance: Spanning the Centuries Festival
Find out more »Spanning the Centuries Festival Student Recital
Student Performance: Spanning the Centuries Festival
Find out more »Spanning the Centuries Festival Student Recital
Student Performance: Spanning the Centuries Festival
Find out more »Spanning the Centuries Festival Student Recital
Student Performance: Spanning the Centuries Festival
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