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Sounds Local: Annual Composers of Los Angeles (Pasadena)

  • Barrett Hall, Pasadena Conservatory 100 North Hill Avenue Pasadena, CA, 91106 United States (map)

We proudly continue our tradition of presenting what’s most beautiful to us among LA’s vast selection of new musical offerings.

Program:
Derrick Spiva, Jr: Grace Unbound (world premiere)
Peter Knell: Intimate Voices
Gabrielle Owens: Shadows and Songs (world premiere)
Juan Pablo Contreras: Voladores de Papantla
Sounds Promising Composers:
Emily Webster-Zuber: Pastorale, Op 1 (world premiere)
Kaitlin Webster-Zuber: Rhapsody, Op 1 (world premiere)
Sakari Dixon Vanderveer: Obsidian, rippled in moonlight, gleams (world premiere)

Artists:
Ben Smolen, resident flute
Kevin Kumar co-director/violin
Heather Powell, guest violin
Meredith Crawford, resident viola
Yoshika Masuda, resident cello
HyeJin Kim, resident piano
Brian Lauritzen, resident host/artist partner
Sounds Promising musicians:
Emily Webster-Zuber, piano
Kaitlin Webster-Zuber, piano