The Colburn School Announces October Events

The Colburn School continues its 2017-2018 season with diverse performances that bring together today's greatest artists with extraordinary faculty and Colburn students in programs on campus and throughout the community.

On Sunday, October 1, the Calidore String Quartet - celebrated Colburn alumni violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry, and cellist Estelle Choi - perform a program of Shostakovich, Bruckner, Janá?ek, and Brahms in Colburn School's intimate Zipper Hall as part of the Colburn Chamber Music Society series.

The Calidore String Quartet is one of the finest chamber music ensembles performing today. The group made international headlines as the winner of the $100,000 Grand-Prize of the inaugural M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition, the largest prize for chamber music in the world, in 2016. In March 2017, the Calidore was honored with the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and is currently a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.

Coming up on Saturday, October 21 at the Ambassador Auditorium, Edo de Waart, Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor Laureate of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, leads the Colburn Orchestra at the Ambassador Auditorium in a program of Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, John Adams's Harmonielehre, and Dvo?ák's Violin Concerto featuring Colburn Conservatory of Music violinist Aubree Oliverson. In 2016, Oliverson was awarded a Presidential Scholarship. She has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival as well as a national finalist in the 2016 YoungArts Competition. The Guardian refers to Adams' Harmonielehre as " ... one of the most significant and sophisticated commentaries on and embodiments of symphonic thinking of the late 20th century."

On Sunday, October 22, experience a spectacular afternoon of dance when New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Maria Kowroski and Jared Angle join Colburn Conservatory musicians in a performance of Christopher Wheeldon's Liturgy with music by Arvo Pärt. This special event includes a post-performance discussion between dancers and musicians led by Jenifer Ringer, Dean of Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute.

Please click here for the complete schedule of the Colburn Orchestra's 2017-2018 season.

Tickets for the Colburn School's 2017-2018 season are on sale now and available at colburnschool.com/tickets or by calling (213) 621-1050. Tickets are also available at the door, one hour prior to each performance, and are subject to availability.

Enjoy big savings and perks all year long when you subscribe to Colburn School concerts. Take 30% off single premium ticket prices for Colburn Orchestra or Colburn Chamber Music Society series concerts. Get all four concerts at Ambassador Auditorium for one low price of $26 with the Ambassador Pass.

The Colburn School comprises four academic units united by a single philosophy that all who have a desire to study the performing arts should have the opportunity and access to excellent training. The degree granting Conservatory of Music, the open enrollment Community School of Performing Arts, the Music Academy for pre-college musicians, and the pre-professional Dance Academy, a program of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute, provide training to over 2,000 students from the Los Angeles area and across the world. The renowned teachers, performers, and scholars that make up Colburn's dedicated faculty serve as invaluable mentors to guide students' artistic development. The Community School of Performing Arts acts as an entry point to performing arts education, offering beginning to pre-collegiate training in music, dance, and drama to students of all ages and skill levels. Young musicians from around the world study at the pre-college Music Academy, which features a rigorous curriculum of conservatory preparatory training to high school aged students. The pre-professional Dance Academy prepares a select class of young dancers for careers in ballet. Dance classes at the Community School and the Dance Academy are programs of the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. Finally, the Conservatory of Music is one of the preeminent training grounds for classical musicians, with undergraduate and advanced degrees in music performance. A robust community engagement initiative delivers performing arts education to low-income students in the surrounding areas through outreach and scholarship programs. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Colburn School's campus boasts state-of- the-art performance and rehearsal spaces. Each season, the school presents over 300 concerts and performances, many of which are free and open to the public, at its downtown home and throughout Southern California.

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