Friday, May 10 @ 8 PM
Lounge at The Ebell of Los Angeles (map)

Saturday, May 11 @ 7:30 PM
Community Room at the South Pasadena Public Library* (map)
+ Livestream

Each year, Salastina selects up to 10 young composers worldwide to take part in its Sounds Promising Young Composers Program. The program is zero-cost for all participants, and has resulted in “life-changing” (their words, not ours!) professional development – and even high-profile commissions.

Last year, we pledged to commission one participant from each year’s cohort. This concert includes world premieres by 2021 Sounds Promising Young Composer Kian Ravaei and 2023 participant Celina Anna Kintscher.

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.

Wine and munchies reception to follow.

Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Ferrucio Busoni: Chaconne
Celina Anna Kintscher: Darkness, and an Angel (World Premiere)
Kian Ravaei: One Flesh (World Premiere)

Artists:
Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper White, Co-Artistic Directors and Violinists
Meredith Crawford, Resident Violist
Yoshika Masuda, Resident Cellist
HyeJin Kim, Resident Pianist
Benjamin Smolen, Resident Flutist
Brian Lauritzen, Resident Host

Salastina Members may watch the livestream for free in our Members-Only Lounge.

*This activity is not sponsored by the City of South Pasadena or the South Pasadena Public Library