ROMANTICS: SCHUBERT’S TROUT at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra launches its 2024/25 season with ROMANTICS: SCHUBERT’S TROUT, the first of two intimate programs in the Orchestra’s Chamber Series curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer, on Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30 pm, at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and Sunday, September 29, 2024, 4 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino.

Renowned pianist Juho Pohjonen, lauded for his “impeccable technique” (The Washington Post) and “elegant musicianship” (The New York Times), joins LACO artists to perform two seminal keyboard works from the Romantic era, Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major and Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, “Trout.” The program opens with Schumann’s Three Romances, an enduring oeuvre dedicated to his wife Clara written just as he began to succumb to madness.

Pohjonen is in demand internationally as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber performer. An ardent exponent of Scandinavian music, his growing discography offers a showcase of music by Finnish compatriots such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, and Jean Sibelius. The “fast rising Finnish star” has garnered acclaim as a “delightfully unassuming but bewitching soloist” (The Guardian) in recent engagements with the German Radio Philharmonic, Taiwan, BBC, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras; the Symphonies of San Francisco, Atlanta, New Jersey, and Colorado; National Arts Centre Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and the Mostly Mozart Festival.

LACO’s Chamber Series showcases ensembles composed of the Orchestra’s musicians with guest artists on different facets of the chamber music repertoire from the 12th century and early Baroque through the 20th century. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is located at 9390 N Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108 For tickets ($47-$84) and information, please visit www.laco.org or call 213 221 3920.