Featured
La Jolla student Christopher Kim orchestrated a win in the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra’s recent Solo Competition.
Other confirmed artists include Wynton Marsalis, Yuja Wang, Lila Downs and Arturo Sandoval.
-
To help others compose the performance of their lives, local concert pianist Jeeyoon Kim made a switch from piano keys to computer keys to write her first book, “Whenever You’re Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams.”
-
When organizers say the upcoming 10th-anniversary Bodhi Tree concert will have something for everyone, they aren’t kidding.
-
Multiple tests were administered to musicians and staff members after cellist Alisa Weilerstein tested positive Aug. 16, a day after her most recent SummerFest performance.
-
Weilerstein last performed with the La Jolla Music Society on Aug. 15. The society says it’s testing all staff, crew and musicians.
-
The San Diego resident hopes listeners will ‘feel sunshine.’
Latest
This new series by the Light highlights local women who have worked for decades to further the evolution of La Jolla and areas beyond.
-
The July 30 opening concert, ‘Ode to Joy,’ was a sold-out affair at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall. The series continues through Aug. 20.
-
The San Diego Opera presented its 2021 summer gala, “Musical Mosaics,” on June 26 in the gardens of the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa.
-
Drawing on a variety of musical influences, local hip-hop artist The Toven has released a new single called “La Jolla,” inspired by the community’s many neighborhoods and features.
-
The chamber music festival will return July 30 to Aug. 20 with live performances at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall and the adjacent JAI.
-
Martin Nass, 94, and fellow seniors Jack Clausen, Cathy Comstock and Willis Frisch have been gathering for years at Nass’ La Jolla condominium to play chamber music.
-
Live music is allowed to return to The Village’s indoor venues with relaxed coronavirus restrictions in San Diego County, but it might also be returning to the streets.
-
Camarada’s previously announced audience-free April 24 livestreamed Stevie Wonder tribute concert has been moved to 7 p.m. April 16 with a limited number of in-person ticket holders.
-
Though California plans to allow indoor live events and performances to resume with capacity limitations starting Thursday, April 15, some of La Jolla’s performance venues are not ready to fling their doors open just yet.
-
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UC San Diego music professor Anthony Davis will be inducted May 19 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of the nation’s most exclusive and prestigious cultural awards for sustained artistic excellence and innovation.
-
In one of the broadest acts of local philanthropy in years, the Conrad Prebys Foundation is giving a total of nearly $78 million in grants to 121 projects across San Diego County to bolster the arts, health care, medical research and other causes.
