Join Classical California KUSC at the Walt Disney Concert Hall this Season!
For over a century, the LA Phil has been as vibrant as Los Angeles, one of the world's most open and dynamic cities. Under the leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, it presents nearly 300 events per year, harnessing the transformative power of live music to build community, foster intellectual and artistic growth, and nurture the creative spirit, while redefining what an orchestra can be.
Join Classical California KUSC and the LA Phil this season for NINE (9) great musical performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world!
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Strauss’ Heroic Journey - FRI / NOVEMBER 8, 2024 - 8:00PM
Daniel Harding leads Strauss’ symphonic self-portrait and Britten’s poetic nightscapes.
Join conductor Daniel Harding for Ein Heldenleben—one of Strauss’ most ambitious tone poems—and embark on his semi-autobiographical journey of love, conflict, and retirement.
Andrew Staples opens the concert, lending his tenor to the melodies of Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne set to poems by Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, and more.
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Brahms with Zubin Mehta - SAT / DECEMBER 7, 2024 - 8:00PM
Mehta teams up with Leonidas Kavakos whose “talent dazzles from the first notes.” (Bachtrack) Zubin Mehta explores Brahms’ masterful and Romantic voice with the Second Symphony, featuring one of the most affecting melodies the composer has written. The New York Times champions Leonidas Kavakos as a wonder on the violin, writing, “The music flowed out of him like a river—big, glistening, and unobstructed, but also tasteful in its frictionless subtleties.” He effortlessly captures Brahms’ desire for lyrical perfection in the composer’s Violin Concerto.
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Batiashvili Plays Beethoven - FRI / JANUARY 3, 2025 - 8:00PM
Stellar violinist Lisa Batiashvili captures Beethoven at his most lyrical. Sixteen years ago, Lisa Batiashvili recorded an outstanding rendition of Beethoven’s sole Violin Concerto. Batiashvili revisits the concerto under the baton of London-born conductor Robin Ticciati, leading the LA Phil in Dvořák’s own folk-inspired lyricism including his Prague Waltzes and the strikingly colorful “mood picture” that is his Eighth Symphony.
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Rachmaninoff & Muhly - FRI / JANUARY 24, 2025 - 8:00PM
Rachmaninoff favorites and a world premiere by contemporary classical icon Nico Muhly.
Eun Sun Kim, music director for the San Francisco Opera, leads the LA Phil through the spiraling passages of Rachmaninoff’s riveting Third Symphony and a brand-new concerto grosso that spotlights the orchestra by the forward-thinking composer Nico Muhly.
Alexandre Kantorow, winner of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, shows off his sensitive piano technique with Rachmaninoff’s ever-evolving Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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Mahler’s Journey- FRI / FEBRRUARY 21, 2025 - 8:00PM
Dudamel leads Mahler’s Blumine, Symphony No. 10: Adagio, and musical poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. In the opening weekend of the Mahler Grooves Festival, Dudamel curates and conducts a selection of the composer’s music in Mahler’s Journey. He opens with two excerpts from Mahler’s First and Tenth symphonies that frame the composer’s life. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) is based on a collection of German poetry of the same name that was influential to Mahler and other Romantics. Two dozen of the poems are set to music that with the help of baritone Simon Keenlyside explores stories of love, loss, and the supernatural.
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Haïm Leads Handel & Bach - FRI / MARCH 21, 2025 - 8:00PM
The sublime beauty of Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Bach’s Magnificat ring through Walt Disney Concert Hall. In the first season of her three-year role as Artist Collaborator, Haïm and her ensemble join the LA Phil for two magnificent choral tapestries by Bach and Handel.
With the help of a celebrated cast of soloists, Haïm sculpts the divine chorales and exalted architecture of Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Bach’s Magnificat.
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McGegan Conducts Vivaldi, Mozart & Haydn - THU / APRIL 10, 2025 - 8:00PM
Delight in sounds of the seasons—with a surprise—alongside 18th-century music expert Nicholas McGegan. Nichola McGegan embodies the liveliness and ebullient joy of 18th-century music, “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (London Independent). Having conducted Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons countless times, McGegan says it never fails to captivate listeners with its familiar scenes set to ear-catching melodies. The Chaconne from Mozart’s Idomeneo and Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony show these composers at the top of their games.
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Mozart & Nielsen - FRI / APRIL 25, 2025 - 8:00PM
Ryan Bancroft guides the tumult and triumph of Nielsen’s Fourth, and Yeol Eum Son brings out the sublime sophistication of Mozart. Los Angeles-native Ryan Bancroft leads the LA Phil in Carl Nielsen’s primal and spirited Fourth Symphony as well as Anders Hillborg’s Sound Atlas that channels otherworldly sounds like a glass harmonica to create snowy, crystalline landscapes.
South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins the LA Phil for Mozart’s dramatic and rollicking Concerto No. 24.
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Ravel & Adolphe - FRI / MAY 16, 2025 - 8:00PM
Ludovic Morlot leads Spanish dance-inspired symphonic poems, plus a world premiere cello concerto from Julia Adolphe. Renowned French conductor Ludovic Morlot leads music by Ravel and Granados that captures the spirit of Spanish dances. Seth Parker Woods, the cellist who is “quickly becoming a groundbreaking new-music star in both the avant-garde and pop worlds” (Los Angeles Times), joins the LA Phil for the world premiere of Julia Adolphe’s new concerto.
