MUSIC

2023 Grammy Nominee for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Joyce DiDonato, executive producer and mezzo-soprano
Early Music Ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro
Zefira Valova, conductor
Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, stage director
John Torres, lighting designer

Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Running time: Approx. 90 minutes with Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, op. 60 (arr. Shai Wosner)
Adagio – Allegro vivace
Adagio
Allegro vivace
Allegro ma non troppo

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 97 (“Archduke”)
Allegro moderato
Scherzo (Allegro)
Andante cantabile, ma però con moto
Allegro moderato

Matthias Pintscher, Music Director/Conductor

Co-presented with the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara
The world’s greatest contemporary ensemble performs a new score to a 1924 silent movie that predicted the horrors of antisemitism.

The Santa Barbara Chamber Players announces its formation with its first concert to be held in January 28, 2023

The Santa Barbara Chamber Players is a group of local musicians who perform high caliber, accessible and affordable concerts for the local community, under the baton of Emmanuel Fratianni. Our inaugural orchestral concert will be on January 28, 2023 at 7:30 at First United Methodist Church and will feature Dvorak's Symphony No. 7, Copland's Appalachian Spring and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. To learn more and buy tickets, go to sbchamberplayers.org

Christian Sands, piano and music director
Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals
Kurt Elling, vocals
Lakecia Benjamin, alto saxophone
Yasushi Nakamura, bass
Clarence Penn, drums

“A rollicking around-the-world musical adventure.” – Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader/pianist

Obstacle Illusion is a multimedia performance incorporating ACVilla's digital films in tandem with Thollem's solo electric performance. The result engages our personal and collective consciousness through visual and sonic allegories, riddles and recontextualizations. "Together the duo weave an aural and visual tapestry to dazzle the senses." (The Paper, Albuquerque)

“Superlatives don’t really exist to convey the primal power and bravura beauty of Kodo.” Chicago Tribune

Free Public Performance! Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar has been delighting audiences throughout Mexico and the U.S. for the past 26 years. Featured on Camila Cabello’s new song, “La Buena Vida!”, the ensemble Mariachi Garibaldi regularly shares the stage with some of Mexico’s most beloved performers.

This program is part of ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!, which brings people together to share the rich cultural heritage of Latin America, serving more than 15,000 students and community members each year throughout Santa Barbara County.

Don’t miss world-renowned pianist Lang Lang’s first Santa Barbara appearance in eight years as he performs Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations, an interpretation that’s been two decades in the making.

The UCSB Jazz Ensemble presents a concert celebrating female jazz composers, arrangers, and performers on the first day of Women's History Month. Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30pm, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall (UCSB).