Laurence Vittes

Calidore Quartet and Quartet Integra converge on Mendelssohn and Korngold in Los Angeles

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United StatesUnited States Various: Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan [violins], Jeremy Berry [viola], Estelle Choi [cello]) and Quartet Integra (Kyoka Misawa, Rintaro Kikuno [violins], Itsuki Yamamoto [viola], Ye Un Park, [cello]). Thayer Hall, The Colburn School, Los Angeles. 15.11.2024. (LV)

Sketches of the Calidore Quartet and the Quartet Integra © Larisa Pilinsky.

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Ortiz’s ecological vision and Dudamel’s Shakespearean dream at Disney Hall

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United StatesUnited States Ortiz, Mendelssohn: Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Jana McIntyre (soprano), Deepa Johnny (mezzo-soprano), María Valverde (narrator), Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Disney Hall, Los Angeles, 3.10.2024. (LV)

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, composer Gabriela Ortiz and cellist Alisa Weilerstein after the premiere of Dzonot © Timothy Norris/LA Phil

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Notes of unity, times of division: Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl in the shadow of the debate

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United StatesUnited States Bernstein, Beethoven: Key’mon Murrah (countertenor), Hera Hyesang Park (soprano), Rihab Chaieb (mezzo-soprano), Anthony León (tenor), Dashon Burton (bass), Los Angeles Master Chorale (artistic director: Grant Gershon), Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 12.9.2024. (LV)

[l-r] Dashon Burton, Rihab Chaieb, Gustavo Dudamel, Anthony León, Hera Hyesang Park, Grant Gershon, Key’mon Murrah © Timothy Norris/LA Phil

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Young talents shine at Verão Clássico: a decade of musical excellence in Lisbon

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival & Academy 2024 [4] – TalentFest Concerts I-IV: 54 players (violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, flute, accordion, piano). Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisbon, 24, 25, 26 & 30.7.2024. (LV)

Violinist Filipe Fernandes playing at the Verão Clássico © Andreia Carvalho

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Mozart, Richard Strauss and Schwencke – MasterFest Concert III at Verão Clássico in Lisbon

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PortugalPortugal Verão Clássico Festival 2024 [3] – MasterFest Concert III: Anna Samuil (soprano), Tedi Papavrami, Alissa Margulis (violins), Jennifer Stumm (viola), Giovanni Gnocchi (cello), Silvia Careddu (flute), Pascal Moraguès (clarinet), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Matthias Samuil (piano). Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisbon, 31.7.2024. (LV)

Anna Samuil taking a bow at the Verão Clássico Festival © Andreia Carvalho

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