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Our Concerts 2026/27
2026/27 Season of Concerts
2026
October
Rachmaninoff – Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22
Schubert – Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, D. 898
Grace Park, Santiago Cañón-Valencia, Irina Zahharenkova
Sunday the 11th, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
Tuesday the 13th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
Wednesday the 14th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Thursday the 15th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
2026
November
Daugherty – Firecracker
Gibson – I prefer living in color
Mazzoli – Vespers for Violin
Nourbakhsh – New Work for Mixed Octet, World Premiere
Commissioned by his family in loving memory of George Stephens
Mozart – Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452
Catherine Gregory, Jose Franch-Ballester, Nicholas Daniel, Eleni Katz, Ben Goldscheider, Alena Hove, Ani Aznavoorian, Ji Hye Jung, Irina Zahharenkova
Sunday the 8th, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
Tuesday the 10th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
Thursday the 12th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 13th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
2026
December
PIANO RECITAL WITH GILLES VONSATTEL
Beethoven
Sonata in G Major, Op. 31, No. 1
Anonymous Sponsor
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “The Tempest”
Sponsored by Gillian Air
Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 “The Hunt”
Sponsored by Joan Davidson
Monday the 7th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
Wednesday the 9th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
2027
January
Bach – Flute Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
de Falla – Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello
Frazin – New Work for Mixed Sextet, World Premiere
Arnold – Divertimento, Op. 37
Strauss/Schoenberg – Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437
Sébastian Jacot, Nicholas Daniel, Jose Franch-Ballester, Grace Park, Jason Uyeyama, Che-Yen Chen, Ani Aznavoorian, Irina Zahharenkova
Sunday the 10th, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
Tuesday the 12th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
Thursday the 14th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 15th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
2027
February
Beethoven – Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2
Sponsored by NancyBell Coe & William Burke
Harbison – String Trio
Beethoven – Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 22
Sponsored by Cheryl Shields in memory of Ronald O. Nichols
Jolente De Maeyer, Che-Yen Chen, Ani Aznavoorian, Gilles Vonsattel
Thursday the 18th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 19th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
Sunday the 21st, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
Tuesday the 23rd, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
2027
March
PIANO RECITAL WITH GILLES VONSATTEL
Beethoven
Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1
Sponsored by Wallin Studios
Sonata in G Major, Op. 14, No. 2
Sponsored by Betsy Blanchard Chess
Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a “Les Adieux”
Sponsored by Sandra Tillisch Svoboda
Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Sponsored by Bob Boghosian & Beth Gates-Warren
Thursday the 25th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 26th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
2027
April
Farr – Kembang Suling
Bruce – The Eye of Night
Takemitsu – Bryce
Smetana, arr. Trneček – Die Moldau
Couperin – Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les Maillotins
Rameau – Le rappel des oiseaux
Glinka, arr. Balakirev – The Lark
Walter-Kühne – Fantasia on Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Fauré – Fantaisie, Op. 79
Sébastian Jacot, Che-Yen Chen, Emmanuel Ceysson, Cristina Montes Mateo, Ji Hye Jung, W. Lee Vinson
Tuesday the 13th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
Thursday the 15th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 16th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
Sunday the 18th, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
2027
May
Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3
Sponsored by Christine & Michael Holland
Barber – String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11
Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
Jolente De Maeyer, Jason Uyeyama, Che-Yen Chen, Ani Aznavoorian, Gilles Vonsattel
Sunday the 9th, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
Tuesday the 11th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino
Thursday the 13th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles
Friday the 14th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara
Programs, artists and dates are subject to change.