Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Music Director Jaime Martín.
In Tuesday’s (3/4) San Francisco Classical Voice, Tom Jacobs writes, “Starting next season, 2025–2026, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will be moving its concerts at the Alex Theatre in Glendale to the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles. The group’s performances at Colburn will initially take place in the 430-seat Zipper Hall but will then transfer to the Frank Gehry-designed Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall, which is expected to open in 2027…. LACO has been performing at the Alex Theatre for more than three decades. Its final concert there [is] scheduled for May 10 of this year … The ensemble’s Westside concerts will remain at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills … The orchestra’s Baroque series will still take place at The Wallis and The Huntington in San Marino…. Next season will see two jazz-oriented programs … led by pianist and LACO Creative Partner Lara Downes…. The orchestral programming for 2025–2026 will include world premieres by Juhi Bansal, Christopher Cerrone, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels. Two West Coast premieres will also be heard: Huang Ruo’s Tipping Point and Eric Whitacre’s The Pacific Has No Memory. The season will get underway on Sept. 13 at Zipper Hall and Sept. 14 at The Wallis with Music Director Jaime Martín conducting symphonies by Beethoven and Haydn … and Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto.”
