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Laura Karpman’s All American

Listen to the world premiere performance of a new anthem that honors forgotten women composers

Colin Matthews’ Bassoonova

The LA Phil’s Evan Kuhlmann performs this quirky and fun bassoon showpiece

Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Miles Per Hour with Jim Wilt

Listen to Baiocchi’s tribute to Miles Davis, featuring a musical conversation written for trumpet.

Jörg Widmann’s “Fantasie” with Andrew Lowy

Widmann’s clarinet showpiece offers wild antics and a Harlequin spirit.

LA Phil Musicians Perform “Romanze” by Fanny Mendelssohn

For the first time since the pandemic closed it last March, musicians performed on the stage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Bing Wang Plays Saariaho’s Nocturne

The LA Phil’s Associate Concertmaster has a “dialog with the spirits”

Thomas Adès’ Darknesse Visible

Pianist Joanne Pearce Martin explores Adès radical reimagining of a 400-year-old British song.

Unsuk Chin’s “Advice from a Caterpillar” with David Howard

The LA Phil’s bass clarinetist takes on the role of the Caterpillar from *Alice In Wonderland*

Joseph Pereira’s Magnificent Desolation

LA Phil Principal Timpanist composed and performs this work inspired by Buzz Aldrin’s impressions of walking on the moon.

Steven Stucky’s Dialoghi

LA Phil cellist Gloria Lum plays Steven Stucky’s musical gift to a friend

SOUND/STAGE: Jessie Montgomery's Banner

Composer Jessie Montgomery re-imagines the “Star-Spangled Banner” for a 21st-century America

SOUND/STAGE: “Rhapsody in Blue” with Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Gershwin’s famed jazz-inspired piano showpiece with the original big band orchestration

SOUND/STAGE: J’Nai Bridges Performs Lieberson

One of Peter Lieberson’s moving songs written for his wife, based on the work of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda

LA Phil Home Recital: Burt Hara

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Associate Principal Clarinet performs Béla Kovács spirited *Hommage a R. Strauss*.

John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? Mvt. I

Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang, and the LA Phil perform the first movement of John Adams’ new piano concerto.

Jessie Montgomery's Strum

LA Phil musicians perform a string quartet by New York composer Jessie Montgomery.

SOUND/STAGE: Kamasi Washington’s Becoming

Kamasi Washington performs an excerpt from his original score to *BECOMING: An intimate portrait of Michelle Obama* – a new documentary based on the former...

SOUND/STAGE: The Fairy Garden from Ravel’s Mother Goose

Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in the closing movement of Maurice Ravel’s *Mother Goose* Suite.

Violin Master Class with Bing Wang

As part of YOLA National at Home, take a rare chance to sit on a master class.

LA Phil Home Recital: Rebecca Reale

The LA Phil violinist performs a pair of colorful Romantic works by Clara Schumann and Claude Debussy.

LA Phil Home Recital: Gabriela Peña-Kim

The LA Phil Resident Fellow performs Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Obsession”

A Day In the Life with YOLA's Jackie Rodriguez

YOLA at Expo alumna and cellist Jackie Rodriguez shows how she is staying inspired and connected during Covid-19.

Dudamel leads "The Liberty Bell"

As a concert encore from the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel conducts John Philip Sousa's march "The Liberty Bell," which has featured everywhere from presidential inaugurations...

Johannes Moser performs Bach

The star cellist, live from his living room.

J’Nai Bridges with Dudamel, the LA Phil, and YOLA

Performing “Heaven” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”

LA Phil Home Recital: Mark Kashper

A little Bach in the living room.

YOLA alumnae Karen Hernandez and Madison Centeno perform Sammartini’s Sonata for Two Oboes

Oboists Karen Hernandez and Madison Centeno are both alumnae of YOLA who are now pursuing musical studies at California State University–Long Beach. Together, they present...

"Pomp and Circumstance"

Congratulations, Class of 2020!

LA Phil at Home: Denis Bouriakov

Two beautiful pieces from our Principal Flute.

LA Phil at Home: Chris Hanulik and Maria Casale

The LA Phil’s Principal Bass presents a trio of harp duets.

The Rite of Spring with Dudamel and the LA Phil

See excerpts from this dramatic November 2019 performance.

LA Phil Home Recitals: Ted Botsford and Jory Herman

The two basses perform Edgar Meyer’s Canon.

Centennial Birthday Gala on Great Performances

Watch the concert, plus LA Phil musicians and staff share stories about the orchestra’s centennial season and culminating performance.

LA Phil at Home: Bing Wang

Our Associate Concertmaster and her son come together for “Méditation.”

LA Phil at Home: The Percussionists

Jazzy songs from the early 20th century for five xylophones and drums.

LA Phil at Home: Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto

Performing two Etudes-Caprices by Wieniawski.

“Largo” from Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the second movement of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 – one of Dudamel’s favorite orchestral selections.

LA Phil at Home: Ben Ullery & Dana Lawson

The two violists partner up.

Exploring “Jupiter” from “The Planets”

“It all starts with a trick.” LA Phil violinist Mitchell Newman takes us inside the “Jupiter” movement of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.”

“Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals with Katia and Marielle Labèque

Conductor Juanjo Mena leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the "Aquarium" movement of Camille Saint-Saëns *Carnival of the Animals*, featuring pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque.

LA Phil at Home: James Wilt

Our Associate Principal Trumpet unwinds with Philip Collins.

LA Phil at Home: Nathan Cole

Take in Bach with our First Associate Concertmaster.

Inside Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique

LA Phil musicians share their favorite moments in Berlioz' score and treat us to a private performance.

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Movement I) with Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the first movement of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl on August 21, 2018.

Go Behind the Score of “Petrushka”

Joanne Pearce Martin and Thomas Hooten talk Stravinsky.

Pink Martini - "Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler)"

Thomas Lauderdale’s big band captivates the Bowl.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (Movement IV)

Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil at the Bowl in the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.

LA Phil at Home: Martin Chalifour

Our Principal Concertmaster invites you into his living room.

LA Phil at Home: Chris Hanulik & Maria Casale

Watch as the harpist and the LA Phil’s principal bass perform a gorgeous adagio.

LA Phil at Home: Catherine Ransom Karoly & Jonathan Karoly

Our Associate Principal Flute and her cellist husband perform music by Villa-Lobos in their living room.

LA Phil at Home: Joanne Pearce Martin & Gavin Martin

The LA Phil’s keyboardist and her husband treat us to a little Mozart.

100 Years of Music: Trudy and the LA Phil

A WWII refugee builds a musical life in L.A.

The LA Phil's Neighborhood Concerts

Peter Sellars and LA Phil staff and musicians reflect on the importance of performing outside the concert hall.

Breaking Ground on the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood

The Frank Gehry-designed Center will expand YOLA's impact while providing much-needed resources to its surrounding community.

YOLA Sets Up Camp in the Woods

How spending time in Idyllwild sets students up for success.

Gustavo Dudamel on Dvořák & Ives

The LA Phil performs symphonies by the two composers from February 20 to March 3.

Pink Martini - "Let's Never Stop Falling In Love" at the Hollywood Bowl

Watch the group open their 2017 concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

On the LA Phil’s Centennial, Intel Drones Light Up the Sky

That’s one way to celebrate your 100th birthday.

Gustavo Dudamel on the Importance of Music Education

Watch as Gustavo Dudamel shares his vision for a world in which young people are enriched by music education.

Los Angeles and Mexico City Celebrate 50 Years as Sister Cities

Mayor Eric Garcetti and Gustavo Dudamel reflect on what CDMX means to them.

LA Phil Principal Violist Teng Li Plays Beethoven's Viola

"Seriously, I was shaking a little bit."

A Look Back at YOLA's Visit to Mexico City

Watch as 96 YOLA musicians joined the LA Phil on tour in Mexico City.

Great Big Story: How to Conduct an Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel talks about what, exactly, he’s doing on stage.

My First Concert with Gustavo

YOLA’s Lili Morales remembers her first time on stage at the Hollywood Bowl.

Six Decades of Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta's long, influential path.

A Decade of Dudamel in Los Angeles

Look back at the first 10 years of Gustavo Dudamel's tenure as Music & Artistic Director in this video retrospective.

Swan Lake with Misty Copeland, Gustavo Dudamel & the LA Phil

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in selections from Tchaikovsky's *Swan Lake.*

Beethoven's 9th (Excerpt): Gustavo Dudamel & the LA Phil

Selection from the final movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

Mars from Holst's The Planets with Dudamel & the LA Phil

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in "Mars" from Gustav Holst's *The Planets.*

WDCH Dreams: Relive the Epic Performance

The Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with media artist Refik Anadol to celebrate our history and explore our future.

YOLA on Tour in Edinburgh

Last August, 22 YOLA and YOLA National musicians (students from diverse regions across the U.S.) joined the LA Phil in Edinburgh, Scotland, participating in a...

Play With Ray: The Winner Takes the Stage

Three young finalists took to the Hollywood Bowl stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ray Chen.

Tuning Into Change

In 2018, ten YOLA musicians joined their UK and Scottish peers for “Tuning into Change,” a youth symposium focused on the role of artists in...

Sigur Rós Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Icelandic art-rock band teams up with the LA Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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