A record-breaking album by the West Coast-cool Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out broke records and conventions alike, becoming the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and its single "Take Five" was the first jazz single to sell one million copies. An album with all-original pieces, exploring a variety of musical styles and time signatures, the album was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame and was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out

Jacobs Music Center

In a preview of their February 1st concert in their long-running and critically acclaimed Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime series, SDSU's Faculty Quartet-in-Residence the Hausmann Quartet will perform a varied program including works by Boccherini, Beethoven, Morton Feldman and Caroline Shaw.

Hausmann Quartet: Form & Fragment

San Diego State University

Back by popular demand, the Modigliani Quartet is recognized as one of today’s most sought-after quartets, featuring regularly in prominent international series and on the world’s most prestigious stages.

Modigliani Quartet

Cuyamaca College

Quartetto di Cremona David Shifrin

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The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

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The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Greatness inspires greatness. Homage honors the profound exchange of influence between composers with an extraordinary collection of soul-stirring works that channel the spirit of past masters.

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Homage

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

“Strung Together” offers a compelling exploration of musical dialogue across time, style, and instrumentation. The program opens with a contemporary reimagining of the Baroque concerto grosso form, where individual voices emerge from and return to the ensemble in a dynamic interplay of textures and timbres. This modern take honors the genre’s roots while embracing a fresh, expressive language that reflects today’s diverse musical landscape.

Strung Together

Founded in 2001, Meta4 is one of Finland’s most celebrated string quartets. Their Polarkr(e)is Drifting North program explores works from the sound worlds of the Arctic Circle, from the Inuit themes of American composer Amy Beach’s String Quartet, to works of their fellow Finns Kaija Saarhiaho and Jean Sibelius, paired with Italo-Indian composer Krishna Nagaraja’s Stringar, a piece that combines old and new through Nordic folk dance tunes.

Meta4 | Polarkr(e)is Drifting North

University of California San Diego

With a career spanning over three decades, the Brentano Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism; and the Times (London) hails their “wonderful, selfless music-making.” They bring their “Evocations of Home” program to San Diego—which offers a set of perspectives on the idea of home, culturally, intellectually, emotionally, and geographically. The evening program prominently features a new work by UC San Diego Professor Lei Liang, alongside movements byDvorak, Schubert, Bartok and Monteverdi that evoke a sense of place, identity and heritage.

Brentano String Quartet

New York-based, GRAMMY-award winning Harlem Quartet has been praised for its “panache” by the New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students in 47 states as well as in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

Harlem Quartet | Echoes of Inspiration

Following a highly successful performance at the Birch Aquarium in May 2024, co-presented by Art of Elan and ArtPower, the internationally renowned JACK Quartet returns to San Diego with an exciting program that features the world premiere of a new work by UC San Diego (UCSD) faculty member and composer, Rand Steiger, as well as “Three Imaginary Chansons” by Juri Seo. This one-night-only special event will take place in the acoustically superb Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on campus at UCSD and will offer a chance to meet the composer and musicians immediately following the performance.

JACK Quartet + Art of Elan

Enjoy chamber music the way that it was intended to be experienced - up close and intimate with four annual events! Club Amadeus membership is 100% tax-deductible and goes to support Mainly Mozart and its many programs. See San Diego Symphony clarinet Max Opferkuch in a wind trio. 

Club Amadeus Chamber Music Donor Event

The Meridian

Long before Bridgerton broke the Netflix algorithm, Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) had helped establish classical crossover as a genuine force in contemporary music. Fresh off high-profile placements in Seasons 1 and 2 of the aforementioned streaming smash, VSQ has “reached a mainstream, global audience” (Variety) and “charmed the world with their classical covers” (Nylon). The New York Observer wrote, “VSQ’s atmospheric hits have made classical versions of pop music cool.” On their latest tour, VSQ have created fresh arrangements of the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift, performing spellbinding and innovative renditions of Swift’s music, alongside familiar hits from Billie Eilish, BTS, Bridgerton, The Weeknd to Daft Punk. VSQ is one of the most popular string ensembles in the world with over 2 billion streams and seven albums charting on both Billboard Classical and Classical Crossover charts.

Vitamin String Quartet The Music of Taylor Swift, Bridgerton, and Beyond

Welcome to SDSU’s World Music Concert Series. A specially curated series of concerts featuring world renowned musicians who represent music cultures from around the globe. This series has been designed in conjunction with Music 345: Music Cultures of the World, but is open to all guests. We encourage you to mute your devices, open your ears, and enjoy experiencing this special presentation.

Music of China: The Pacific Trio

Roomful of Teeth is a two-time GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works for eight amplified voices. Through collaboration, commissioning, and new technologies, they seek to reimagine the expressive potential of the human voice.

Roomful of Teeth

The San Diego Symphony is presenting a tribute to this genius, featuring essential Broadway singers admired by Sondheim, whose lives and careers have been transformed by performing his work. From the joyous and silly to the rapturous and heartfelt, this special performance, assembled and led by Broadway veteran Rob Fisher, will showcase Sondheim's phenomenal ability to musicalize the deepest human emotions.

Sondheim Tonight! A Celebration of Genius

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

Join us for an enchanting day of music at the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. This special day of the festival is dedicated to showcasing the brilliance of classical music, featuring a series of free events that promise to immerse attendees in the world of Bach, Bartók, and contemporary compositions.

The day begins at 12 PM with a Spotlight Concert titled "Bach to Hungary" at St. Paul’s Cathedral in downtown Burlington. This free afternoon recital offers a unique opportunity to experience the timeless beauty of Bach and Bartók in a magnificent setting. The concert will feature Ji Su Jung on marimba performing Bach's Lute Suite in E minor, BWV 996, followed by Robyn Bollinger and Soovin Kim on violins presenting selected Duos for Two Violins by Bartók. The musical journey continues with Bartók's String Quartet No. 4, performed by an ensemble comprising Robyn Bollinger and Soovin Kim on violins, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt on viola, and Edward Arron on cello.

At 4 PM, the festival invites you to the Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael’s College for the Young Composers Sounding Board I. This interactive session, hosted by Resident Composer David Serkin Ludwig, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process. Attendees will witness the 2024 Young Composers—Delfin Demiray, Jonah Cohen, and Yuri Lee—hear their compositions played for the first time by festival artists, providing a rare glimpse into the birth of new music.

The Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival is proud to present this day of free events, featuring an impressive lineup of artists including violinists Soovin Kim and Robyn Bollinger, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, cellist Edward Arron, percussionist Ji Su Jung, and our talented young composers. Don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the power of music and the creative spirit of composers both past and present.

Festival Tuesday

Saint Michael's College

Saint Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

Join us for an enchanting evening with the La Jolla Music Society as we present "Baroque Fantasia" on Friday, August 2, 2024, at 7:30 PM in the prestigious Baker-Baum Concert Hall. This unique concert is a celebration of the Baroque era, showcasing its most imaginative and whimsical works that have captivated audiences for centuries.

"Baroque Fantasia" features a carefully curated selection of compositions that embody the essence of storytelling through music. The program includes Telemann's "Don Quixote Suite" and Purcell's excerpts from "The Fairy Queen," both of which are masterpieces of the Baroque repertoire. Additionally, the concert will feature Vivaldi's haunting "Flute Concerto in G Minor, RV 439 La Notte" and Rebel's dynamic "Les Éléments," providing a diverse and immersive musical experience.

The evening will be brought to life by an ensemble of exceptionally talented musicians, including Tessa Lark, Njioma Grevious, and Alexi Kenney on violin, Nicole Divall and James Kang on violas, Jonathan Swensen and Brian Gadbow on cellos, and Anthony Manzo on bass. The harpsichord, an instrument synonymous with the Baroque era, will be masterfully played by Jonathan Cohen, adding an authentic touch to the performance.

"Baroque Fantasia" promises to be a memorable journey through the whimsy and imagination of the Baroque era, capturing the timeless beauty and complexity of its music. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of Baroque music performed by some of the most talented musicians of our time.

Baroque Fantasia

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

This “takeover” concert, curated by renowned composer Thomas Adès, showcases him as composer, teacher, pianist, and conductor, and includes the U.S. premiere of “Forgotten Dances” with international guitar sensation Sean Shibe.

Takeover @ The Baker-Baum

Amadeus comes alive as excerpts from Peter Shaffer’s iconic play are paired with Mozart’s sublime “Gran Partita,” blending dramatic readings with ethereal music for a captivating portrayal of Mozart’s genius.

Midweek Masterworks: Amadeus

Janáček’s “Kreutzer Sonata” Quartet, inspired by Tolstoy’s tale of jealousy and marital discord set against the backdrop of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, pairs with Composer-in-Residence Thomas Adès. Adès performs his evocative The Tempest suite alongside these deeply passionate works.

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