Concert Series 2024-2025
Fall 2024
Sunday, October 6, 7 p.m.
Hermann Hudde, classical guitar: Latin American Art Music
Hermann Hudde explores the rich reimagining of the Spanish guitar in the art music of Latin America.
Sunday, October 20, 7 p.m.
The Los Angeles Clarinet Choir: Classics for Clarinet Choir
The Los Angeles Clarinet Choir—fourteen clarinetists performing on soprano, sopranino, alto, bass and contrabass instruments—returns to HMC with a program of original music and transcriptions for clarinet ensembles from Europe, Japan, and the USA, including the iconic “Chorale and Danza” by Vaclav Nelhybel, “The Gifts of Kumamoto Folksong” by Kazuhiro Morita, “One Step at a Time” by Paul Richards, “Song Without Words” by Mendelssohn, and more.
Sunday, November 17, 7 p.m.
The Los Angeles Arab Orchestra
This community ensemble will perform traditional music of the Arab world on ‘ud, qanun, tabla, doff, ney, violin, and other instruments.
Sunday, November 24, 7 p.m.
The HMC American Gamelan
HMC’s ensemble of metallophones and gongs ring out in performances of works by Lou Harrison and Bill Alves.
Tuesday, December 3, 7 p.m.
Student Recital
Sunday, December 8, 7 p.m.
Student Electronic Music
Students of the Electronic Music Composition class present their final projects.
Spring 2025
Sunday, February 9, 7 p.m.
Shalini Vijayan, violin, and Aron Kallay, piano
Grammy nominees Shalini Vijayan and Aron Kallay tackle Brahms’ epic d-Minor Violin Sonata, along with works from the 20th and 21st centuries by Somei Satoh, Donald Womack, Emma Lou Diemer, and Elisenda Fabregas.
Sunday, February 23, 7 p.m.
Vicki Ray, piano
The award-winning pianist performs two new large-scale works: Thomas Meadowcroft's All Possible Combinationsreconciles immersive modes of listening outside of commodified time, and Nox by Taylor Brook integrates digital media to explore of the passage of time through a single night, drawing on unconscious states where logic becomes fuzzy and imagination goes to seemingly impossible places.
Sunday, March 2, 7 p.m.
Stephan Moss, Music for Virginal, with Rachel Huang, violin
Moss brings the virginal, a small but versatile sixteenth-century keyboard, often associated with intimate settings and a great variety of rarely heard music of the early Baroque.
Sunday, March 30, 7 p.m.
The Eclipse Quartet
The Eclipse Quartet returns to HMC with a concert that includes a California premiere from Boston-based composer Howard Frazin and the world premiere of Bill Alves' String Quartet in Two Movements.
Sunday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Han Na Park, piano: “Saudade”
Han Na Park performs ballades and nocturns by Chopin.
Sunday, April 13, 7 p.m.
Dorothy Robbins, piano: “Resonance and Reflection”
Robbins performs Modest Mussorgsky's epic Pictures at an Exhibition and Australian composer Carl Vine’s 1990 Piano Sonata, a review of the preeminent musical styles of the 20th century.
Sunday, April 20, 7 p.m.
HMC Early Music Ensemble
Come and enjoy the crumhorns, shawms, cornettos, and recorders of the HMC Early Music Ensemble performing music from the European Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Sunday, April 27, 7 p.m.
Jenny Soonjin Kim, piano: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
Direct from her Vienna performances of the complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Savaria Symphony, Kim performs a two-piano version of the masterful Fourth Concerto.
Thursday, May 8, 7 p.m.
Student Recital