LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES 2025/26 SEASON

LACO ESTABLISHES NEW HOME AT COLBURN SCHOOL’S ZIPPER HALL AS PART OF A PARTNERSHIP THAT WILL SEE LACO AT COLBURN SCHOOL’S TERRI AND JERRY KOHL HALL, SET TO OPEN IN FALL 2027

2025/26 Season Highlights

• Orchestral and chamber music concerts presented at Zipper Hall and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; Baroque series presented at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall and The Wallis; CURRENT Series concerts presented at Cicada Restaurant and Lounge.
• Jamie Martín leads LACO-commissioned world premieres: a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels (part of the Joan and Jeff Beal Fund for Living Composers), a new work by 2025/26 Sound Investment Composer Juhi Bansal, and Christopher Cerrone’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
• LACO Creative Partner Lara Downes performs in two CURRENT Series programs with Countertenor John Holiday in a program of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg and selections from the Great American Songbook; and with a special guest to be announced in Jazz interpretations of Bach’s Sinfonia and Inventions
• West Coast Premieres of Composer-in-Residence Huang Ruo’s The Tipping Point and Eric Whitacre’s The Pacific Has No Memory
• Renowned guest artists including Nicolas Altstaedt, Isabelle Faust, Amanda Forsythe, Richard Goode, Pierre Hantaï, John Holiday, Marc-André Hamelin, Coleman Itzkoff, Anthony Marwood, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Fazil Say
• Orchestral series showcases timeless classics and bold contemporary voices, featuring works by Michael Abels, Juhi Bansal, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Christopher Cerrone, Louise Farrenc, Gabriel Fauré, Joseph Haydn, Huang Ruo, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergie Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky and Eric Whitacre
• The Baroque era comes to life in two programs featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Biber, George Friderich Handel, Jean Marie Leclair, Jean Philippe Rameau, Georg Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi
• Chamber Music programs curated by concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer showcase landmark works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schumann
• LACO’s multi-year exploration of Johannes Brahms and the Schumann’s continues

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