A BROAD ARRAY

AN ECLECTIC MIX of music and musicians is on tap at the BroadStage. March 11, acclaimed chamber orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields returns with “explosively charismatic” (The New York Times) mandolinist Avi Avital; program highlights include Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1, arranged for solo mandolin by Avital. March 3, composer, NEA Jazz Master and seventime Grammy Award winner Maria Schneider leads her eponymous 18-piece orchestra in arrangements from her 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist album Data Lord, in which she explores the polar extremes of the digital and organic world. Trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg, one of the “most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation” (The Wall Street Journal), makes her BroadStage debut on March 10. Skonberg presents inventive arrangements of traditional jazz repertory, reinterpretations of contemporary classics and original compositions. 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, 310.434.3200, broadstage.org