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LA Phil Roundtable: Women’s Voices in Classical Music

Ellen Reid and Gabriela Ortíz share their thoughts with the LA Phil’s Meghan Martineau.

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Pentatonic Etude

Minor “Mick” Wetzel performs “six pages of fiendishly difficult beauty that have been unleashed upon the world” and chats with the man who unleashed it

New music from the LA Phil’s Composer Fellowship Program

High school-aged composers team up with LA Phil musicians

José Martínez’ Bilingualism

Percussionist Wesley Sumpter explores the many sounds and musical languages of the snare drum.

Vivian Fung’s Keeping Time

Joanne Pearce Martin performs a groove-driven piano etude

Steve Reich’s Nagoya Marimbas

LA Phil Principal Percussionist Matthew Howard teams up with Eduardo Meneses for Reich’s minimalistic duet.

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Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I

Catherine Ransom Karoly performs this incredibly difficult modernist flute solo

Nina Shekhar’s Cajón

The LA Phil’s Barry Gold shows off the percussive side of his cello

Katherine Balch’s Iaspis

Sydney Adedamola performs a “sparkling quartz” of a piece

Sofia Gubaidulina’s Eight Studies for Double Bass

Michael Fuller shows off the expressive range of the bass in three etudes.

Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Sonoran Storm

Violist Jarrett Threadgill performs a propulsive piece depicting a downpour in the desert

New music from the LA Phil’s 2020 National Composers Intensive

Emerging composers have their virtual world premieres with LA Phil musicians

NCI 2020: Bethany Younge's At Midnight I Walked into the Middle of the Desert

The LA Phil’s Resident Fellow in percussion, Wesley Sumpter, releases the tempestuous energy of *At Midnight I Walked into the Middle of the Desert* by...

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.

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.

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

NCI 2020: inti figgis-vizueta's INBHIR (many waters)

LA Phil cellist Jason Lippman explores the spaces and intricacies of *INBHIR (many waters)* by inti figgis-vizueta.

NCI 2020: Marcus Norris' - Good to You

LA Phil first violinist Miika Gregg reveals a musician’s lyrical inner monologue in *Good to You* by Marcus Norris.

NCI 2020: Noah Jenkins' Phantom Trails

The LA Phil’s Associate Concertmaster, Bing Wang, premieres the shimmering *Phantom Trails* by Noah Jenkins, using materials from his own string quartet.

NCI 2020: Nathaniel Haering's for social media

LA Phil bassist Ted Botsford performs with prerecorded and live electronics in the explosive and carefully crafted freneticism of *for social media* by Nathaniel Haering.

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