Walt Disney Concert Hall

FeaturedÓlafur Arnalds

Jun 14

Composer and multi-instrumentalist lafur Arnalds has played in metal bands and toured in a dance-music duo, but the music he releases under his own name...

FeaturedEmmylou Harris

Jun 11

Emmylou Harris is the winner of 14 Grammys, recipient of the Polar Music Prize, and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Though...

Featured(Rescheduled) Mon Laferte

Jun 8

Singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is one of the most revered, respected, and beloved musicians in Chile today. Her music brings together the sonic traditions...

FeaturedPlace

Jun 7

In a country at a crossroads, where the intersection of manifest destiny meets gentrification and history meets personal experience, Hearnes Place explores the complex and...

FeaturedDr. Angela Davis Power to the Imagination: The Role of Art and Creativity in Social Change

Jun 5

Join acclaimed scholar and activist Dr. Angela Davis in conversation about the role art has played in social justice movements and its potential to effect...

FeaturedStill and Negrón with Dudamel

Jun 2 – Jun 5, 2022

In this special Power to the People! concert, Dudamel conducts the most recognized symphonyproudly based on the bluesby the Dean of African American Composers, William...

FeaturedCanto en resistencia

Jun 4

Sounds of protest take center stage when Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in music by Anglica Negrn and a world premiere by Victor Agudelo....

FeaturedDudamel Conducts Beethoven’s 9th

May 26 – May 29, 2022

Written when Beethoven was completely deaf, his epic Ninth Symphony has become the go-to composition for people to celebrate joy and our common humanity. The...

FeaturedHold On, We Shall Overcome! with Nathaniel Gumbs

May 29

Nathaniel Gumbs honed his musical craft learning to play by ear in his Baptist church in the Bronx, sneaking in on Saturday nights to teach...

FeaturedOrtiz, Villa-Lobos, and The Firebird with Dudamel

May 14 – May 15, 2022

Dudamel introduces us to Heitor Villa-Lobos Uirapurusubtitled O passarinho encantado (The Enchanted Little Bird)a ballet score inspired by the innumerable melodies produced by a legendary...

FeaturedDudamel Conducts Revueltas and Petrushka

May 12 – May 13, 2022

Dudamel leads two of his dramatic specialties: Silvestre Revueltas eerie film score that features a wild, extended section in which countless percussion instruments suggest Mayan...

FeaturedLiz Phair: Don't Holdyrbreath

May 10

From Zoomers to Boomers, everyone knows the significance of Liz Phair on the Gen X soundtrack of our lives. For this very special show, Liz...

FeaturedDudamel Conducts The Rite of Spring

May 5 – May 8, 2022

Although many of the stories about the explosion that began 20th-century music may be apocryphal, The Rite of Spring most assuredly debuted under stressful circumstances....

FeaturedDudamel Leads Adès’ Dante Gen X Festival

Apr 28 – Apr 30, 2022

Thomas Ads called his Inferno a grateful tribute to Franz Liszt, the composer of hell and demonic music. When Gustavo Dudamel conducted the premiere in...

FeaturedJeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

Apr 29

Jeff Goldblum has always been more than actor, and hes got the chops to prove it. He and his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra have lit up...

FeaturedChamber Music: Adès & Britten Gen X Festival

Apr 26

Featured(Rescheduled) Itzhak Perlman and Rohan De Silva

Apr 24

FeaturedCorigliano and Norman Gen X Festival

Apr 23 – Apr 24, 2022

John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composers ego over the audience and performers. At the height...

FeaturedVoices of a Generation Gen X Festival

Apr 22

Thomas Ads exemplifies a generation of composers who drew upon the long history of symphonic music but rethought those traditional forms with a post-modern eye...

FeaturedColburn Orchestra Sounds about Town

Apr 21

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason

Apr 20

Siblings from a prodigiously gifted family, Sheku and Isata join forces for a duo recital....

Featured(Rescheduled) Pekka Kuusisto + Ellen Reid

Apr 19

The adventurous Pekka Kuusisto, who successfully premiered Danel Bjarnasons Violin Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl 2019, returns as the protagonist for the recent piece dedicated...

FeaturedBeethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre

Apr 14 – Apr 16, 2022

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a deeply emotional, innovative new semi-staged production of Beethovens only opera, Fidelio, created for both Deaf and...

FeaturedMehta Conducts Bruckner and Berg

Apr 7 – Apr 10, 2022

A longtime champion of Anton Bruckner, the LA Phils Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta brings out the spiritual beauties of Bruckners poignant symphonic farewell, which Mehta...

FeaturedFocus on Andriessen

Apr 9

Life (2009) was the first piece Louis Andriessen composed specifically for his friends in the Bang in a Can All-Stars. According to the composer, [Artist...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Yuja Wang

Apr 6

"[Her] virtuosity goes well beyond uncanny facility...She wondrously brought out intricate details, inner voices and harmonic colorings. (The New York Times)...

FeaturedChamber Music: On Motherhood

Apr 5

Get even closer to expert music making with small LA Phil chamber ensembles....

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Lang Lang

Apr 3

Iconic pianist Lang Lang tackles Bachs iconic masterwork, a tour de force on which several renowned pianists have made their reputation. Brilliantly constructed and ingeniously...

FeaturedMozart’s Great Mass with Mehta

Apr 1 – Apr 3, 2022

With the voices of the LA Master Chorale and an international cast of soloists, Zubin Mehta leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozarts stirring unfinished...

FeaturedMozart’s Great Mass with Mehta

Mar 31 – Apr 3, 2022

With the voices of the LA Master Chorale and an international cast of soloists, Zubin Mehta leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozarts stirring unfinished...

FeaturedPan-American Music Initiative Toyota Symphonies For Youth

Mar 26 – Apr 2, 2022

Take a journey with the LA Phil through the Americas in this program highlighting music and traditions from North, South, and Central America.This concert is...

FeaturedChamber Music – March

Mar 22 – Mar 29, 2022

Big performances from small ensembles: LA Phil musicians play chamber music....

FeaturedMahler’s Seventh with Bychkov

Mar 24 – Mar 27, 2022

Much honored and much recorded conductor Semyon Bychkov, who has been obsessed with Mahler since his early years, shares his insights into the multi-faceted world...

FeaturedMaria Schneider Orchestra Regina Carter

Mar 25

Maria Schneider is a multiple Grammy winner and the 2019 recipient of the prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. Under her baton, the Maria Schneider Orchestra...

FeaturedHilary Hahn Plays Barber

Mar 18 – Mar 20, 2022

The brilliant American violinist Hilary Hahn performs Barbers lyric concertofeatured in an album Hahn made at only age 19 in a recording called by Gramophone...

FeaturedMusic 101: Music and Places With KUSC's Alan Chapman

Mar 17

Tickets are just $5!Travel far and wide as Alan takes you around the world to the places that have inspired great works of music. Vibrant...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Midori

Mar 16

In her universally respected career of more than 35 years, Midoris has been recognized with numerous awards, from the Kennedy Center Honors and Brahms Society...

FeaturedJosé González With support from Jess Williamson

Mar 15

Fresh off the release of his new album Local Valley, singer-songwriter Jos Gonzlez comes to Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of a fully solo...

FeaturedMonica Czausz Berney Fanciful and Divine

Mar 13

American virtuoso Monica Czausz Berney has been recognized as one of the top 20 organists under 30, for her superior accomplishments, leadership, creativity, and innovative...

FeaturedShostakovich and Prokofiev with Ludovic Morlot

Mar 12 – Mar 13, 2022

Ludovic Morlot leads one of Shostakovichs greatest symphonies, depicting the despair of the Stalin regime but ending in a musical triumph. Formidable pianist Sergio Tiempo...

FeaturedAndy Shauf Haley Heynderickx

Mar 11

Andy Shauf is one of the sharpest songwriters of his generation. He possesses a novelists eye for detail and a painters sense of setting, giving...

FeaturedWayne Shorter Celebration • Ambrose Akinmusire — Origami Harvest

Mar 9

Members of the Wayne Shorter quartet and special guests pay homage to the unique musical vision of this living legend, whose 2018 album Emanon was...

FeaturedJay Campbell + inti figgis-vizueta

Mar 8

Think performance art as you approach this play-oriented re-encountering of the space where live music is made, concocted by the team of boundary-less composer inti-figgis-vizueta...

FeaturedAmerican Youth Symphony Sounds About Town

Mar 6

The outstanding American Youth Symphony returns with a program titled INTERSECTIONS that primarily focuses upon living composersfrom Unsuk Chin to Jimmy Lopezhighlighted by Jennifer Higdons...

FeaturedElgar and Tchaikovsky

Mar 4 – Mar 6, 2022

Composed in the wake of WWIs shocking horror, Edward Elgars Cello Concerto reflects a new seriousness and darkened profundity in his music. Our soloist, Camille...

FeaturedHerbie HanC*CK

Feb 27

Our Creative Chair for Jazz is impossible to hem in, an artistic force whos spent decades in pursuit of the next interesting sound. No matter...

FeaturedMon Laferte

Feb 26

Singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is one of the most revered, respected, and beloved musicians in Chile today. Her music brings the sonic traditions of...

FeaturedSalonen Leads Bartók, Bjarnason, and Sibelius

Feb 18 – Feb 20, 2022

Bartks groundbreaking and eerie Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta launches a rich, full program that ends with Sibelius final symphony, the one-movement Seventh, led...

FeaturedPekka Kuusisto + Ellen Reid

Feb 15

The adventurous Pekka Kuusisto, who successfully premiered Danel Bjarnasons Violin Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl 2019, returns as the protagonist for the recent piece by...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Garrick Ohlsson

Feb 13

The only American to win first prize at the International Frdric Chopin Competition and a recognized expert on the composer shares the accumulated wealth of...

FeaturedStrauss, Smith, and Salonen

Feb 11 – Feb 12, 2022

The LA Phils Conductor Laureatenow Music Director of the San Francisco Symphonyexults in a program that includes his tribute to Frank Gehry, a major premiere...

FeaturedSparks

Feb 8

Sparks are the influential art pop duo of Ron and Russell Mael, whose career spans more than 50 years. The Los Angelesraised brothers are widely...

FeaturedBronfman Plays Rachmaninoff’s Third

Feb 3 – Feb 6, 2022

Sergei Rachmaninoffs Third Piano Concerto is often considered the most difficult concerto in the standard repertory but also one of his most loved for its...

FeaturedA Chalifour Celebration

Feb 1

Enjoy world-class artistry on a smaller scale with LA Phil musicians in chamber ensembles....

FeaturedBeethoven and Mendelssohn

Jan 27 – Jan 30, 2022

Hailed for his staggering command of centuries of repertory (The New Yorker), Igor Levit performs Beethovens Third Piano Concertothe first of his concertos written in...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Itzhak Perlman and Rohan De Silva

Jan 26

FeaturedChelsea Chen: Visions of Joy

Jan 23

The Los Angeles Times extolled the organist-composer for her rare musicality and lovely lyrical grandeur and charming and irresistible compositional style. As a soloist, Chen...

FeaturedSymphonic Ellington: Sacred Concerts

Jan 22 – Jan 23, 2022

In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americansone, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another, New World...

FeaturedSymphonic Ellington: New World A-Comin' with Gerald Clayton

Jan 20 – Jan 21, 2022

In 1943, Duke Ellington premiered two works about the experience of Black Americansone, Black, Brown, and Beige, traced their collective history and another, New World...

FeaturedChamber Music - January

Jan 18

Big performances from small ensembles: LA Phil musicians play chamber music....

FeaturedAx Plays Brahms

Jan 13 – Jan 16, 2022

Beloved virtuoso Emanuel Ax takes on Brahms epic First Piano Concerto with his full artistic arsenal. Axs fleet fingerwork and the integrity of his interpretation...

FeaturedRobert Glasper Reimagines Ellington

Jan 15

Like Duke Ellington before him, Robert Glasper sees through the boundaries that are often laid down between genres and styles of music. An accomplished pianist...

FeaturedProkofiev and MTT

Jan 7 – Jan 9, 2022

Acclaimed LA-born-and-raised conductor Michael Tilson Thomas conducts his own song cycle on lyric poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Tilson Thomas said he was influenced by...

FeaturedGreat Clarinet Trios

Jan 4

Get even closer to expert music making with small LA Phil chamber ensembles....

FeaturedNew Year’s Eve with Pink Martini

Dec 31

Pink Martini, led by pianist Thomas Lauderdale, return for another quintessentially eclectic New Years program that mixes Brazilian samba, party sounds of 30s Cuban dance...

FeaturedThe Doo Wop Project

Dec 22

The members of the Doo Wop Project honed their style in Broadway productions of Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical, dressing up 21st-century hits in...

FeaturedArturo Sandoval Big Band Swinging Holiday

Dec 21

Jazz up your holidays! The 10-time Grammy-winning Arturo Sandoval and his Big Band make it a jumping, jiving, jingling night at Walt Disney Concert Hall,...

FeaturedHoliday Sing-Along

Dec 18 – Dec 19, 2021

Walt Disney Concert Halls massive pipe organ, a choir, and a jazz combo lead a cheerful selection of seasonal favorites in this favorite Los Angeles...

FeaturedCeCe Winans

Dec 17

One of the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artists of all time returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for an inspiring holiday performance. CeCe Winans...

FeaturedA Chanticleer Christmas

Dec 14

The much-celebrated, Grammy-winning, 12-man ensemble makes its return for a classic holiday program of a cappella choral music, presented with stunning clarity, precision, and excellence....

FeaturedHome Alone in Concert

Dec 11 – Dec 12, 2021

A true holiday favorite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams' charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the Los Angeles...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Mahan Esfahani

Dec 8

Flipping stereotypes is one way of characterizing the remarkable career of Mahan Esfahani, (The Seattle Times). Esfahani has recorded the traditional repertoire but also worked...

FeaturedBeethoven and Julia Adolphe

Dec 3 – Dec 5, 2021

Returning after previous successes, conductor Xian Zhang leads with Nokuthula Ngwenyamas captivating and soaring Primal Message. The 2018 world premiere of Julia Adolphes LA Phil-commissioned...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Dec 1

Jean-Yves Thibaudet has said in interviews he sees many sides of Claude Debussy from the Impressionist to the Neoclassicist to a composer who was inventing...

FeaturedBrahms and Korngold

Nov 28

It was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti in a truly risk-taking performance that lived so much in the body and fused the sinews...

FeaturedFlamenco! Fiesta de la Bulería Jerez

Nov 27

Under the artistic direction of flamenco artist and dancer Maria Bermudez, Fiesta de la Bulera presents an exciting and unprecedented flamenco performance in Los Angeles,...

FeaturedBrahms and Korngold

Nov 26

It was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti in a truly risk-taking performance that lived so much in the body and fused the sinews...

FeaturedChamber Music – November

Nov 23

Big performances from small ensembles: LA Phil musicians play chamber music....

FeaturedReel Change: Nicholas Britell

Nov 21

Composer Nicholas Britell is a two-time Academy Award nominee and an Emmy winner who has been lauded for his collaborations with Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If...

FeaturedReel Change: Kris Bowers

Nov 20

Emmy Award-winning composer and jazz pianist Kris Bowers has been celebrated for his score to films and shows like Green Book, King Richard, and Bridgerton....

FeaturedReel Change: Hildur Guðnadóttir

Nov 19

Hildur Gunadttir won an Emmy and Grammy in 2019 for her score to Chernobyl and followed it up in 2020 with an Oscar win for...

FeaturedMozart and Ravel

Nov 12 – Nov 14, 2021

Three Ravel works from different periods of his life showcase his extraordinary orchestral colors, from the tender and swirling tributes to his comrades-in-arms to the...

FeaturedColburn Celebrity Recital: Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang

Nov 11

Both Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos are must-see soloists, recognized for their rare technical prowess and musical interpretations. As a team Wang and Kavakos have...

FeaturedRY X with the LA Phil

Nov 10

Lauded for his ethereal vocals and emotionally poignant lyrics, the Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer has notched up a string of sold-out shows across Europe, the...

FeaturedReich, Adams, and Rachmaninoff

Nov 6 – Nov 7, 2021

Reichs riveting Runner uses a large ensemble and a constant pulse, drawing melodic threads from its shifting textures. Minimalist melody is also a theme of...

FeaturedHalloween Organ, Film & Music: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Oct 31

Film critic Leonard Maltin described Clark Wilson as a master of silent film and showman of the first order for his organ accompaniments of silent...

FeaturedTchaikovsky and Saariaho with Mälkki

Oct 29 – Oct 31, 2021

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who has ferocious technique but is distinguished by her musical intelligence (The New York Times), plays the quintessential Russian piano concerto....

FeaturedDudamel Conducts Mahler

Oct 21 – Oct 24, 2021

The title of Jessie Montgomerys Strum alludes to the guitar-like plucking of strings that starts in calm, fleeting nostalgia reminiscent of American folk music but...

FeaturedCameron Carpenter

Oct 17

A smasher of cultural and classical music taboos (Los Angeles Times) and a young superstar who's flamboyant presentation goes hand in hand with unquestioned virtuosity...

FeaturedDudamel Conducts Strauss

Oct 14 – Oct 17, 2021

In a program exploring music inspired by Romantic poetry, Dudamel begins with Schoenbergs Romantic vision of a night transfigured by love. Profound themes continue in...