Join us for our virtual event for conversation with and world premieres from this year’s Sounds Promising cohort. This year’s young composers were based in New Zealand, Prague, Indiana, London, and both US Coasts. Featuring premieres by Mathis Saunier, Sydney Wang, Shane Scott Cook, Luca Pasquini, and Jackson A. Waters.

Read more about our Sounds Promising cohort here.

Join us for our virtual event for conversation with and world premieres from this year’s Sounds Promising cohort. This year’s young composers were based in New Zealand, Prague, Indiana, London, and both US Coasts. Featuring premieres by Yuxuan Lin, Benjamin Beckman, Kirsten Strom, Chloe Liuyan Liu, and Austin Ali.

Read more about our Sounds Promising cohort here.

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.

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

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

Join us for our rescheduled Part 2 of our conversation with and world premieres from this year’s Sounds Promising cohort. The young composers featured in this Happy Hour: Mieke Doezama (Hawaii), William Jae (Rochester, NY), Zygmund de Somogyi (London, UK), Isaac Uria de Silva (Ecuador), and Aaron Israel Levin (New Haven, CT). Read more about our Sounds Promising cohort here.

Members Early-Access at 1:30 PM

Find the world premieres of our Sounds Promising composers below.

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. Drinks reception, replete with Indian munchies, to follow.

What to Know Before You Go at the Edye Second Space

Artists:
Saavani Thigale, Hindustani vocalist
Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper White, Co-Artistic Directors and Violinists
Meredith Crawford, Resident Violist
Yoshika Masuda, Resident Cellist
Derrick Skye, Composer

Leela Dance Collective
Rukhmani Mehta and Seibi Lee, Co-Artistic Directors and Dancers
Rachna Nivas, Dancer
Joanna Meinl, Dancer
Sonali Toppur, Dancer
Ahana Mukherjee, Dancer
Carrie Jennings, Dancer

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

Join us for our rescheduled event in our virtual room for conversation with and world premieres from this year’s Sounds Promising cohort. The young composers featured in this Happy Hour: Riccardo Perugini (Florence, Italy), Jazreel Low (Singapore), Jonah Cohen (New York City), Celina Kintscher (Los Angeles), and Nicholas Ma (Montreal).

Read more about our Sounds Promising cohort here, and see the playlist of their world premieres below.

Members Early-Access at 1:30 PM

Find our Sounds Promising composers world premieres below.

Join us for a stunning and colorful preview of our collaboration with Leela Dance Collective, a Hindustani Classical Dance troupe.

For this world premiere piece of choreography, Leela takes its inspiration from Derrick Skye's American Mirror, which weaves musical traditions from around the world into an multi-layered, opulent musical languages all its own.

The stunning venue, built in 1899, reflects this simpatico synergy of styles -- uniting Romantic Revival, Gothic, Chateauesqe, Moorish, and California Mission styles with light, color, and sheer luxury.

And as with all of our Happy Hours this season: enjoy music, mingling, mimosas, and Indian munchies. You won’t be sari you came!

Salastina Members may watch live for free in our Members-Only Lounge. Non-Members may purchase livestream tickets below. In-person tickets are currently SOLD OUT. Click below to join the waitlist.

Program:
Derrick Skye: American Mirror

Artists:
Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper White, Co-Artistic Directors and Violinists
Meredith Crawford, Resident Violist
Yoshika Masuda, Resident Cellist

Join us for a complete performance of Derrick Skye’s As I Heard When I Was Young before we record it in the studio. Derrick will be there to share his inspiration for the piece — and his warm and charismatic personality.

As with all of our Happy Hours this season: enjoy music, mingling, mimosas, and munchies.

Salastina Members may watch live for free in our Members-Only Lounge. Non-Members may purchase tickets below.

Violinist Luanne Homzy and guitarist Tommy Davy are an LA-based, genre-bending musical power couple.

Join us every Tuesday for Salastina’s Happy Hour: bringing you free, live musical performance, spirited conversation, and interaction with musicians and fellow music lovers.

Internationally acclaimed American/French-Canadian violinist Luanne Homzy is highly sought-after for her technical facility, sensitive musicality and expansive versatility. Based in Los Angeles, she works as a studio musician, an arranger/composer, and is the leader of the California String Quartet. Equally at home in many genres, whether it be classical, jazz, rock, gypsy or Eastern European folk music, Ms. Homzy performs world wide with crossover supergroup Trio Dinicu, hailed as “dazzling” by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Whether it’s French waltzes, poignant interpretations of gypsy folk music or the swinging standards of the Hot Club of France, guitarist Tommy demonstrates technical mastery, compositional creativity and sensitivity beyond his years. His vast repertoire also includes Romanian, Hungarian Yugoslavian and Russian traditional folk music. He is one of the rare few who can deftly navigate this language uncommon to the guitar.

Join us every Tuesday for Salastina’s Happy Hour: bringing you free, live musical performance, spirited conversation, and interaction with musicians and fellow music lovers.

At the end of last month, Venetian artist Livio de Marchi's latest work -- an enormous, sea-worthy violin -- set sail down the canals of Venice. De Marchi named it "Noah's Violin" after the biblical Arc; he sees it as delivering a message of artistic and cultural hope after a storm. The whimsy of it all certainly captured the world's imagination. We're delighted to interview Livio briefly via a special translator for this Happy Hour: Roberto Cani. Roberto is the Concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra and is a talented violin- and bow-maker in his own right.

Summer @ The Wallis showcases Salastina, an LA-based chamber music ensemble nationally recognized for its accessibility and “elegant virtuosity” (Huffington Post), performing a compelling selection of music from repertoire spanning three centuries on our pop-up outdoor stage.

Over the past decade, American Public Media’s prestigious Performance Today, the most listened to daily classical music radio program in the country, has featured more than two dozen Salastina performances on its airwaves, reaching millions of people nationwide.

Program:

Gade, arr. by Cavaterra: Jalousie
Rodriguez: La Cumparsita
Ginastera: Piano Sonata, Movement I
Boulanger: Trois pieces
Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango
Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Piazzolla: Romance del Diablo

Artists:

HyeJin Kim, pianist
Kevin Kumar and Maia Jasper White, violinists
Meredith Crawford, violist
Yoshika Masuda, cellist
Seth Asarnow, bandoneon player
Nathan Farrington, double bassist
Philip Graulty, electric guitarist