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Adams, Cheung & Lanao

Green Umbrella New Music Series

Tue / Feb 3, 2026 - 8:00PM

The LA Phil Etudes project continues with new music for trombone, bass, and harp.

Program

    • Heartwood
      LA Phil Etudes: Book 3, Part 1
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
    • Partita I for solo trombone
      LA Phil Etudes: Book 3, Part 1
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
    • Desert Bloom
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative
    • Intermission
    • Unison Spans
      LA Phil Etudes: Book 3, Part 2
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
    • Respire: Piano Concerto No. 2
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission with principal support from Eve Steele Gelles & Peter Gelles, and Bernard Friedman, with generous additional support from Valerie Dillon & Daniel R. Lewis

About this Performance

John Adams, the John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair, curates the third installment of the LA Phil Etudes, a project highlighting each of the orchestra’s principal musicians in solo pieces by today’s leading composers. In Book 3, Francisco Coll writes a Baroque social media-inspired work for the trombone, Samuel Adams brings new ideas to the bass, and Nico Muhly showcases the agility of the harp. 

Elim Chan leads the LA Phil New Music Group in a new work by up-and-coming Spanish composer Sílvia Lanao, and “one of the heroes of the new-music world” (San Francisco Chronicle), Gloria Cheng, returns for a world premiere piece by Anthony Cheung—a composer known for his gritty, inventive approach and affinity for the pitches inside the cracks of the piano keyboard. 

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