Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Appoints Dai Wei
2024-25 Sound Investment Composer
(Los Angeles, CA – August 5, 2024) Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) and Music Director Jaime Martín have announced the appointment of Dai Wei as the orchestra’s 2024-25 Sound Investment Composer. The Chinese-born composer known for filtering musical traditions through her experimental lens has been hailed as “an audience favorite” who brings “disparate (musical) strands together” (BachTrack). Sound Investment is a groundbreaking program LACO established in 2001 that engages audience members in developing new works to expand the chamber orchestra canon.
In this creative capacity, Wei will compose a new work specifically geared to LACO with Martín conducting its world premiere on the final orchestral program of the season, May 10, at Glendale’s Alex Theatre, and May 11, 2025, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Her work will be paired with Beethoven’s towering Violin Concerto in D major, featuring Franco-Serbian violin sensation Nemanja Radulović, and unsung composer Louise Farrenc’s symphonic triumph, Symphony No. 3 in G minor.
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