(Rescheduled) Pekka Kuusisto + Ellen Reid

Tue / Apr 19, 2022 - 8:00PM

Iconoclastic violinist Pekka Kuusisto and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid team up for a remarkable evening.

Tue / Apr 19, 2022 - 8:00PM

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Program

- Ellen REID
- Desiderium for solo violin (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting)
- Ellen REID
- Fear l Release
- Hannah KENDALL
- Verdala
- Ellen REID/Roxie PERKINS
- Lumee’s Dream (world premiere arr., LA Phil commission)
- KiMani BRIDGES
- The Flower
- Missy MAZZOLI
- Vespers
- Intermission
- William KRAFT
- Encounters I: Soliloquy
  (In Memoriam, performed by Joseph Pereira, percussion)
- Meredith MONK (ARR. DAVID LANG)
- Double Fiesta
- Nico MUHLY
- Shrink

Artists

About this Performance

The adventurous Pekka Kuusisto, who successfully premiered Daníel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl 2019, returns as the protagonist for the recent piece dedicated to him by the prolific Nico Muhly. Kuusisto also collaborates on this program with composer and sound artist Ellen Reid (p r i s m), who will share some of her own extraordinary music.

This performance is supported by Raulee Marcus and the Marcus Fund for New Music.

UPDATE: Due to the serious ill health of an immediate family member, Pekka Kuusisto has postponed this performance originally scheduled for February 15, 2022 to Tuesday April 19, 2022, at 8pm.
Your tickets for the original February 15, 2022 date will be valid for the new April 19, 2022 date. For other ticket options, including exchange, account credit, donation or refund, please contact Audience Services at information@laphil.org or 323 850 2000.

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