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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, Joffrey Ballet, Bela Fleck, and Lila Downs, plus many inspiring new faces like Artist-In-Residence 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 fi nest 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,

Welcome back to La Jolla Music Society’s 53rd season. We have seen some incredible performances in the fi rst half of our Winter Season, and can’t wait to bring you more. We are so grateful that you have joined us.

Some of the most famous and beloved performing artists in the world join us in March and April. Renowned violinist Joshua Bell returns leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the world’s fi nest—and mostrecorded—chamber orchestras, in a program of Bach and Barber violin concertos and Beethoven’s stunning Eroica symphony. Then it’s quickly on to one of today’s undeniable classical music superstars, Lang Lang, who will grace our annual Winterfest Gala and treat us all with his interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. Chris Botti, whose fame only has grown since his days of being Sting’s go-to touring trumpet player, will entertain us with selections from his eclectic repertoire of jazz, pop, and standards.

With stars still in our eyes, we’ll turn to exciting young artists you will not see anywhere else in San Diego. Italian piano sensation Beatrice Rana, who will play recitals at Carnegie Hall this season as part of their Virtuoso series, fi rst brings us Debussy’s fi endishly diffi cult Études and Stravinsky’s groundbreaking Petrushka. And I am particularly excited to hear German baritone Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s foremost Lieder singers, joined by internationally sought-after pianist and Discovery Series alum Seong-Jin Cho, perform songs by Wolf, Pfi tner, Strauss, and Wagner.

With the return of the fantastically popular and entertaining Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and the remarkable Silkroad Ensemble, as well as our artist-in-residence Avi Avital, the Nat Geo Speaker Series taking us under sea with nature photographer Brian Skerry, and the San Diego debut of the Arod Quartet, these weeks are truly packed.

I can’t wait to join you as we sit back and enjoy some of the most unique and exciting performances you I can’t wait to join you as we sit back and enjoy some of the most unique and exciting performances you will see all year.

Todd R. Schultz Todd R. Schultz President & CEO President & CEO La Jolla Music Society

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.