ABOUT LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY

Winter Season

From classical, jazz, and dance, to global, National Geographic speakers, and family concerts, each Winter Season Artistic Director Leah Rosenthal brings the best artists in the world to the San Diego community. This season, our most dynamic to date, will feature more than 50 artists, including favorites like Wynton Marsalis, Lang Lang, Joshua Bell, Emanuel Ax, Yuja Wang, The Joffrey Ballet, Bela Fleck, and Lila Downs, plus many inspiring new faces like Artist-InResidence Avi Avital, rising-star pianists Isata Kanneh-Mason and Beatrice Rana, The Queen’s Cartoonists, Sweden’s Queen of Swing Gunhild Carling, and Ukrainian Ethno-Chaos band DakhaBrakha.

SummerFest

La Jolla Music Society’s acclaimed chamber music festival, SummerFest, curated by award-winning pianist and festival Music Director Inon Barnatan, engages more than 80 of the world’s finest musicians to perform at The Conrad throughout the month of August. In addition to remarkable mainstage performances, SummerFest offers over 50 free and open-to-the-public educational activities. To learn more, visit LJMS.org/SummerFest

The Conrad

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center opened in 2019 and serves as a gathering place for cultural, arts education, and community activity. As the permanent home of La Jolla Music Society, The Conrad hosts world-class performances presented by LJMS and other local arts organizations in its four outstanding performance and activity spaces, The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, The JAI, The Atkinson Room, and the picturesque Wu Tsai QRT.yrd.

Dear Friends,

What a joy it has been to witness all the incredible performances so far this season. As we near the end of our scheduled lineup, we are simultaneously gearing up for what will be another extraordinary SummerFest (July 29–August 26, 2022). Our now expanded, four-week chamber music festival will take listeners on a beautiful musical exploration featuring the works of Beethoven, Mozart, J.S. Bach, and more performed by the most illustrious musicians in the world, including critically acclaimed countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, violin sensation Augustin Hadelich, and of course our beloved and world-renowned Music Director, pianist Inon Barnatan.

But before we set our sights on what’s coming up this summer, I hope to see you at all our remaining concerts, concluding with a not-to-be-missed jazz performance at The Baker-Baum featuring trumpet legend and ten-time GRAMMY® Award winner Arturo Sandoval on June 3.

From April to June, an eclectic lineup of events offers our audiences a wide range of opportunities to experience the glorious acoustics and intimacy of The Baker-Baum Concert Hall and the informal club-like nature of The JAI. On April 23, join us for the LJMS debut of two brilliant rising stars of the classical music world, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason, both of whom were recently awarded the Association of British Orchestras Award as part of one of the most prolific musical families, as well as the muchanticipated return of pianist Roberto Fonseca, one of the brightest lights in the Afro-Cuban jazz scene, for two concerts in The JAI on May 19.

For those of you craving something a little more musically adventurous, I implore you to take a chance on Spektral Quartet’s participatory “Letters from Home” project on May 26. The final concert in our ProtoStar Innovative Series is a visually stunning and era-hopping aural thrill ride that asks the audience to engage on a new level by jotting down notes and inspirations of their own on postcards provided by the quartet throughout the performance.

I look forward to seeing each and every one of you in the coming weeks.

Leah Rosenthal Artistic Director La Jolla Music Society

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Our Mission: The mission of La Jolla Music Society (LJMS) is to enhance cultural life and engagement by presenting and producing a wide range of programming of the highest artistic quality, and to make The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center a vibrant and inclusive hub.