Daniel Harding has been appoint Music Director of the LA Philharmonic. The news was announced by Kim Noltemy, LA Phil President & Chief Executive Officer and David C. Bohnett CEO Chair, and Jason Subotky, LA Phil Board Chair. Harding’s tenure will begin in the 2027-28 season and in his new position, he will oversee the orchestral programming across the organization, including {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “Messiah” with Lucy Crowe, Carlo Vistoli, Lunga Eric Hallam, and Ashley Riches. Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2026 Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Le Concert d’Astrée Choir in the Christmas concert featuring Corelli and Vivaldi. Performance Date: Dec. 18-20, 2026 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Schoenberg, Webern, and Mahler {…}
Cate Blanchett has been announced for a concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Oscar-winning actress will join Gustavo Dudamel and the orchestra as narrator in Beethoven’s Egmont, with reimagined narration by Jeremy O. Harris. The program will also include music by Ricardo Lorenz and Schumann, and will include pianist Yunchan Lim and soprano Elena Villalón. Blanchett was recently seen {…}
The LA Philharmonic is set to present Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass.” The world premiere will be held on April 17 and 18, 2025 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. A setting of the traditional mass in a gospel style, the multimedia piece will be led by Gustavo Dudamel and will feature vocal soloists Zebulon Ellis, Samoht, and Kierra Sheard, the {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season. Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Master Chorale perform Ellen Reid and Strauss. Performance Dates: Sept. 25-28, 2025 Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Chen Reiss and Beth Taylor. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-12, 2025 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a program of music by Debussy, Gabriella Smith, and Scriabin with soloists Pekka {…}
Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic will make history as the first orchestra to perform at Coachella. The conductor took to social media and said, “First orchestra to perform at Coachella! See you in the desert, friends.” The conductor and orchestra will perform on April 12 and 19, on the same nights that Green Day will headline and Charli XCX {…}
(Photo by Danny Clinch) Gustavo Dudamel hopes to do a joint project between the L.A. Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. The conductor told the L.A. Times that as he ends his tenure with the LA Phil and begins his new one in New York, he has proposed “joint projects between the L.A. Phil and the New York Philharmonic, just {…}
Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have announced the 2024-25 Dudamel Fellowship Program participants. The four conductors that will participate this year are Holly Hyun Choe, Dayner Tafur-Diaz, Luis Castillo-Briceño and Molly Turner. Choe comes from South Korea and was raised in Los Angeles. She is the principal conductor of the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor, Artiste {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Gustavo Dudamel opens the season with Lang Lang and Gustavo Castillo performing the music of Ginastera and Rachmaninoff. Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2024 Gustavo Dudamel conducts the music of Gabriela Ortiz and Mendelssohn alongside Alisa Weilerstein and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Performance Dates: {…}
The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Zubin Mehta will conduct Schoenberg’s “Gurrelieder” with Christine Goerke, Brandon Jovanovich, Violeta Urmana, and Gerhard Siegel. Performance Date: Dec. 13 & 15, 2024 Gustavo Dudamel and Simon Keenlyside perform in an all-Mayler program that includes Blumine, Symphony No. 10: Adagio, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Performance Dates: Feb. 20-23, {…}
The LA Philharmonic has responded to the false X-Twitter page that falsely announced Zubin Meta’s death. The orchestra said on its X-Twitter page, “It’s come to our attention that there is an account that is spreading misinformation. The LA Phil is in no way associated with the account laphilnews, and no information it posts should be viewed as coming from {…}