The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Based in Los Angeles, Bodytraffic uses the creative spirit of the city it calls home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, … Continue reading BODYTRAFFIC at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
The Wu Tsai QRT.yrd Concert Series continues with Besos Jazz Trio as part of the First Friday La Jolla Art Walk. Enjoy live swinging jazz and music from around the world with Besos Jazz Trio, featuring tap artist and percussionist Claudia Gomez, guitarist Beston Barnett, and bassist Evona Wascinski Gates open at 4 PM.
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Based in Los Angeles, Bodytraffic uses the creative spirit of the city it calls home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, … Continue reading BODYTRAFFIC at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Described by The Seattle Times as “a voice like a beacon of hope,” Jimmie Herrod has been brining audiences to their feet with his miraculous, transporting voice (and dazzling smile) since he started touring with Pink Martini. Hear Jimmie Herrod, Golden Buzzer winner during the 2021 season of America’s Got Talent, in an intimate and mesmerizing evening of … Continue reading Jimmie Herrod at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Scott Silven’s WONDERS, a New York Times Critics Pick, was an extremely popular event in New York City. With sold-out runs and extended performance dates, seating was priced as high as $1,000 each due to the intense demand. We’re excited to share this awe-inspiring event is coming to The Conrad! Join us for an unforgettable … Continue reading Scott Silven – WONDERS at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Scott Silven’s WONDERS, a New York Times Critics Pick, was an extremely popular event in New York City. With sold-out runs and extended performance dates, seating was priced as high as $1,000 each due to the intense demand. We’re excited to share this awe-inspiring event is coming to The Conrad! Join us for an unforgettable … Continue reading Scott Silven – WONDERS at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Scott Silven’s WONDERS, a New York Times Critics Pick, was an extremely popular event in New York City. With sold-out runs and extended performance dates, seating was priced as high as $1,000 each due to the intense demand. We’re excited to share this awe-inspiring event is coming to The Conrad! Join us for an unforgettable … Continue reading Scott Silven – WONDERS at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
On June 11, 2023, TEDxSanDiego hosts its 13th annual event, “Seeds of Change”, a half day gathering of, for the first time ever, ALL San Diego-based visionary speakers, innovative dance, musical and interactive visual artists who will present powerful, short talks and performances designed to uplift, inspire and spread impactful ideas that can change our … Continue reading TEDxSanDiego – Seeds of Change at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
The final Wu Tsai QRT.yrd Concert Series event of the season is offered in collaboration with Monarch Cottage and the Salk Institute. Arrive early for a lecture on “Engaging the Aging Brain through Music.” Registration is required to attend the lecture, but the QRT.yrd Concert, featuring Aviara Trio, will be free and open to all. … Continue reading Aviara Trio at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
This festival we delight in the unknown, the surprising and the unexpected. In that spirit, music director Inon Barnatan has created a concert program for opening night that will not be disclosed in advance and which, like an Omakase meal at a sushi restaurant, invites you to trust the chef to create an unforgettable experience. … Continue reading Opening Night: Expect The Unexpected at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Rebecca Albers, Timothy Cobb, Sasha Cooke, Steven Copes, Oliver Herbert, Erin Keefe, Rose Lombardo, Maiya Papach, Blake Pouliot, Roman Rabinovich, Anton Rist, Masumi Per Rostad, Julie Smith Phillips In this innovative concert we take a musical journey depicting the passing of a day, each short piece representing its progress—from sunrise all the way to … Continue reading Journey in Light at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Inon Barnatan, Sasha Cooke, Stefan Dohr, Alan Gilbert, Paul Groves, SummerFest Chamber Orchestra Brahms and Mahler face hope and loss in two very different ways—Brahms with his ravishing and intimate horn trio (featuring the principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr) and Mahler with a grand and epic work, essentially a symphony for two … Continue reading A Song to Remember at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Thomas Adès, Efe Baltacigil, Diana Cohen, Stefan Dohr, Eleni Katz, Erin Keefe, Alexi Kenney, Anthony Marwood, Blake Pouliot, Roman Rabinovich, Masumi Per Rostad, Mark Simpson Fantasy and legend abound in the first of our intermission-free Wednesday concerts highlighting and illuminating the cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire. Schumann’s immensely popular and fanciful piano quintet and … Continue reading Fantastic Tales at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
A night of jazz standards and vintage-inspired vocal performances from two of today’s most exciting jazz singers. Together Armenian American vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan and composer and bandleader Vanisha Gould present a collection of songbook standards, their own arrangements, and originals that give the audience an opportunity to witness an intimate, late-night conversation between two women … Continue reading Lucy Yeghiazaryan & Vanisha Gould at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Efe Baltacigil, Zoltán Fejérvári, Coleman Itkzoff, Alexi Kenney, Tessa Lark, Blake Pouliot, Mark Simpson Two major composers come to grips with their heritages in two heart-stopping pieces of virtuosity and expressivity: Mendelssohn, reconciling his Jewish heritage with his adopted Christianity in his stormy piano trio; and Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, whose music blends Argentinean music, … Continue reading Dreams and Prayers at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Thomas Adès, Rebecca Albers, Efe Baltacigil, Timothy Cobb, Coleman Itzkoff, Alexi Kenney, Tessa Lark, Anthony Marwood, Maiya Papach, Mark Simpson This concert explores the seemingly magical alchemical processes regularly used by Elizabethan composers to turn simple musical material into gold. Composers in Shakespeare’s London transformed their own music or the music of others, in turn … Continue reading Magic and Alchemy at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Inon Barnatan, Zoltán Fejérvári, Tessa Lark, Blake Pouliot Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, a musical depiction of a pagan ritual, is considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential pieces in the history of music. It has inspired countless composers, induced a near-riot at its premiere, and even inspired Walt Disney to accompany the story of … Continue reading Myths and Rites at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
A rare opportunity to spend an hour with composer Thomas Adès as he takes over our intimate JAI and curates and plays a program of his work and the music and musicians that inspire him. Grab a cocktail from the bar inside and experience one of the most renowned musical minds of our time, featuring … Continue reading Takeover at The JAI with Thomas Adès
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Inon Barnatan, Richard O’Neill, Takács Quartet, Paul Wiancko Our second Wednesday concert features the world-famous Takács String Quartet in their first SummerFest appearance. Dvořák’s beloved “American” string quartet, written when he was living in the U.S. and influenced by American idioms, is paired here with a romantic piano quintet written at the turn of last … Continue reading The Great Americans at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Noah Bendix-Balgley, Inon Barnatan, Richard O’Neill, Takács Quartet, Alisa Weilerstein, Paul Wiancko Composers step out of their comfort zone and defy their surroundings in this powerful program. Gideon Klein’s ebullient and lighthearted String Trio was composed whilst the composer was imprisoned in the Terezín prison camp just days before his deportation to Auschwitz. Beethoven charted … Continue reading New Ground at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Noah Bendix-Balgley, Inon Barnatan, Geneva Lewis, Teng Li, Takács Quartet, Alisa Weilerstein, Paul Wiancko, Joyce Yang Schubert’s epitaph reads “Here the art of music has entombed a rich treasure, but even fairer promise.” It is hard, however, to imagine surpassing the last year of Schubert’s life—which produced the most enduring masterpieces in music, including the … Continue reading Promises, Promises at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Inon Barnatan, Tessa Lark, Geneva Lewis, Teng Li, Gabriel Martins, Joyce Yang A collection of pieces channeling the extraordinary spirit, virtuosity, and soul of Bohemia with its gypsy fiddlers, its sweet folk melodies, and its inspiration for one of the most exciting movements in chamber music, the fiery gypsy-inspired last movement of Brahms’s masterpiece, his … Continue reading Slavonic Dances
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
GRAMMY-nominated Louis Cato, an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter, takes the stage in The JAI for an evening of eclectic jazz-inspired performance with his talented band. You will recognize him from playing in the house band for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since the show’s 2015 inception; he was recently named bandleader for … Continue reading Louis Cato Band at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
First public performance of a new work co-commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest’s Synergy Initiative Carnival of the Animals is a new evening-length piece by spoken word artist and poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, legendary dancer Wendy Whelan (Associate Artistic Director, New York City Ballet), and acclaimed choreographer Francesca Harper (Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey … Continue reading Carnival of the Animals at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
The Synergy Initiative is co-produced by Inon Barnatan and Clara Wu Tsai. A musical explosion of joy with four creative powerhouses meeting at the intersection of blues, classical music, jazz, and songwriting. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert bandleader Louis Cato joins GRAMMY nominees Tessa Lark and clarinetist Mark Dover, along with Broadway-bound composer/bassist Michael … Continue reading American Classic: Cato/Dover/Lark/Thurber at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Julie Albers, Inon Barnatan, Sterling Elliott, Clive Greensmith, Augustin Hadelich, Stefan Jackiw, Matthew Lipman, Anthony McGill, Conrad Tao, Jonathan Vinocour, Andrew Wan Memories of places and people we have loved, centered around one of the greatest pieces of the repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence,” an audience favorite that joyfully evokes the composer’s love of the … Continue reading Souvenirs at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Julie Albers, Sterling Elliott, Clive Greensmith, Augustin Hadelich, Stefan Jackiw, Matthew Lipman, Anthony McGill, Conrad Tao, Jonathan Vinocour, Andrew Wan Whether silenced by political oppression, the horrors of war, or societal and ideological imperatives, the composers on this program managed to create lyrical and hopeful works often in the most challenging or horrific of circumstances. … Continue reading Unsilenced Voices at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA, United States
Julie Albers, Sterling Elliott, Clive Greensmith, Samuel Hager, Stefan Jackiw, Matthew Lipman, Anthony McGill, Jonathan Vinocour, Andrew Wan SummerFest comes to a close with a celebratory concert that will send you out into the night on a positive and wonderful note. In addition to Tchaikovsky’s lush and beautiful Serenade for Strings and Bruch’s Double Concerto … Continue reading Finale: Serenades at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
