Salastina's multi-year cycle of the complete works of Dmitri Shostakovich – otherwise known as the BFF of Mieczysław Weinberg – continues with his first and ninth string quartets and his Sonata for Viola and Piano. Wine and munchies reception to follow.

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The Edye at the Broad Stage

1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Pasadena Conservatory

100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106

Salastina’s contribution to the statewide California Festival of contemporary classical music is in partnership with Leela Dance Collective, a Hindustani Kathak dance company. Encounters With Beauty is a world-premiere piece of choreography set to music by our dear friends and LA-based composers Derrick Skye and Reena Esmail.

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All the glory of Handel’s timeless Messiah, but make it chamber music. This chestnut gets the one-on-a-part treatment – and the nimbleness and luminosity that affords. Salastina loyalists will enjoy the return of last season’s most popular Happy Hour guest, the effervescent Belgian soprano Laurence Servaes.

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Doheny Mansion

10 Chester Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

As the holiday season approaches, immerse yourself in a late-19th-century Christmas explosion with a 5-course gourmet holiday brunch prepared by Master Chef alum Becky Brown. The concert features Harry Gregson-Williams’ theme from HBO's The Gilded Age, classical music from the time period, and The Yuletide Carolers, a festive a capella group dressed in the fashion of the time.

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Doheny Mansion

10 Chester Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

A contemplative Happy Hour exploring the porous boundary between mortality and the beyond. Musical selections include the slow movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 132 and the world-premiere instrumental-only chamber arrangement of Eric Whitacre’s profoundly moving choral work, The Sacred Veil.

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Mountain View Mausoleum

2400 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, CA, USA

What happens when a symphonist writes for 5 instruments? In this case, a masterpiece for the ages. Brian Lauritzen dissects what makes Brahms’ Piano Quintet such a perfect piece of music before a full performance of the work.

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Pasadena Conservatory

100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106

Sounds Mysterious is a game in which Brian assigns us a piece of music that none of us recognize. He even redacts the composer’s name. We rehearse it, perform it, and attempt to guess the composer along with you. The delight of surprise and interactive “whodunnit” guessing game make for an engaging spin on the live concert experience.

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Pasadena Conservatory

100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106

This concert includes world premieres by 2021 Sounds Promising Young Composer Kian Ravaei and a 2023 participant to be determined. Each composer will pen a piece for our entire ensemble – piano, string quartet, and flute – taking inspiration from Bach’s Chaconne. Resident Pianist HyeJin Kim opens the program with Busoni’s arrangement of the same work.

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The Edye at the Broad Stage

1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA, USA

If you love dead, white, male German composers as much as we do – and are not (yet!) familiar with the greatness of Johann Nepomuk Hummel – this concert exploring the arbitrariness of fame is for you.

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The Edye at the Broad Stage

1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Pasadena Conservatory

100 N Hill Ave #105, Pasadena, CA 91106

To Be Determined

Los Angeles, CA, USA