Los Alamos Concert Association

08/05/2024

You might remember Gabriela Montero from our 2018/2019 season when she gave a dynamic solo performance that included live improvisation. Los Alamos Concert Association co-commisioned the "Canaima" quintet that she and Calidore String Quartet will perform at our first concert of the season on Saturday, October 19th at 7 pm. The "Canaima" quintet premiered on May 5, 2024 at the Gilmore Piano Festival in Kalamazoo, MI.

Pianist Gabriela Montero's visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Born in Venezuela, Montero started her piano studies at age four, making her concerto debut at age eight in her hometown of Caracas. This led to a scholarship from the government to study privately in the USA and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with the late Hamish Milne, where she is also a fellow. Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras while also being a frequent recitalist and chamber musician on the international stage.

07/15/2024

The first concert of our 2024/25 season will be Calidore String Quartet with pianist Gabriela Montero on Saturday, October 19, 2024. They will perform Montero's new "Canaima" piano quintet, Beethoven String Quartet No. 5, and Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2.

In the meantime, catch Calidore String Quartet at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival on July 18, 21, and 22, 2024!

View our entire 2024/25 season lineup on our website and take advantage of subscription and pre-season discounts by September 15: https://losalamosconcert.org/

04/23/2024

Canellakis-Brown Duo gave a thrilling performance, particularly of the Rachmaninoff Sonata for Cello and Piano. In the second half they played beautiful compositions of their own and finally had the audience delighted with a Bulgarian themed piece. A fitting finale to the 77th season.

Here they are featured with our new artistic director, Linda Deck.

04/21/2024

Everything is ready for our final concert of the season: the Canellakis-Brown Duo starting at 3 pm today!

04/20/2024

Join us TOMORROW at 3 PM at The Duane Smith Auditorium to hear The Canellakis-Brown Duo play Romance for Cello and Piano in F, Op. 36 composed by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Camille Saint-Saëns: Romance for Cello and Piano in F, Op. 36 The Canellakis-Brown DuoNicholas Canellakis, cello; Michael Stephen Brown, pianoRecorded, edite...

04/17/2024

Young artists at the forefront of the great performer/composer revival, cellist Nicholas Cannelakis and pianist Michael Brown mesmerize with masterpieces from the standard repertoire and their own compositions and arrangements.

“…sincere playing that is more often heard
in jazz…” New York Classical Review

“Canellakis and Brown gave a shimmering performance…”
The Boston Musical Intelligencer

04/16/2024

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown of the Canellakis-Brown Duo will perform at the last concert of the 2023-24 season of Los Alamos Concert Association at 3 pm, Sunday April 21, 2024 at the Duane Smith Auditorium.

The two artists been uniting their multidisciplinary talents and honing their unique musical voice for over fifteen years, "playing with their antennae tuned to each other," as it were (The Washington Post). Their latest album, released in 2023 by First Hand Records is titled (b)romance.

Their program in Los Alamos will feature compositions by well-known classical composers like Rachmaninoff and Debussy, modern composers Don Ellis and Lukas Foss, and the artists themselves.

Edvard Grieg: Sonata in A minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 36I. Allegro agitatoII. Andante molto tranquilloIII. AllegroRecorded live in the Rose Studio on Dece...

03/17/2024

Los Alamos Concert Association is thrilled to present Canellakis-Brown Duo on Sunday, April 21st at 3 PM at the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos. Learn more about this dynamic duo below!

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown, comprising the Canellakis-Brown Duo, have been uniting their multi-disciplinary talents and honing their unique musical voice for over fifteen years. They bring their affectionate, brutally honest, and infectious rapport to the stage while presenting programs celebrating the standard literature, little-known gems, and original works and arrangements.

Canellakis and Brown, who “play with their antennae tuned to each other” (The Washington Post), are both longtime artists with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They have performed together virtually all over the world, including the Baltics, the Greek Islands, Cuba, the Far East, and venues all over the US. Recent engagements include Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City, New Orleans Friends of Music, Rockport Music, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, ArtPower in San Diego, the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Wolf Trap in Virginia, and Music@Menlo in Silicon Valley, where they were featured as guest curators.canellakis_cellist

02/11/2024

Wonderful concert tonight by LAGQ and a great turnout in spite of the weather

02/10/2024

Today’s concert is proceeding! We are ready for you! Note that the parking lot is not plowed, but people are able to park.

02/10/2024

Today's concert is still on schedule! Hope you can join us!

02/08/2024

Join us this Saturday afternoon at 3 for some "unrivaled joy, technical élan, and questing spirit" with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet at Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School.

Here is LAGQ's inspired program:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Danse Négre from African Suite op. 35
Phillip Houghton – Opals
Ludwig van Beethoven – Adagio sostenuto from “Moonlight” Sonata #14
Aaron Copland – Two Mexican Pieces
J.S. Bach – Prèlude #1 in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier & Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
Douglas Lora – Maracasalsa
Imagens do Brasil Hermeto Pascoal – Da Sábado pra Dominguinhos
Heitor Villa-Lobos – A Lenda do Caboclo
Clarice Assad – Bluesilian
Paulo Bellinati – A Furiosa
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02/05/2024

We are so fortunate to be hosting the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet THIS SATURDAY, February 10th for an afternoon concert at 3 at Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School!

Winner of a 2005 Grammy Award, their “Guitar Heroes” CD released on Telarc is a brilliant follow-up to their Grammy nominated “LAGQ-Latin.” “Spin” (Telarc, 2006) continues their explorations of jazz and contemporary music. “LAGQ: BRAZIL” (Telarc, 2007), including collaborations with vocalist Luciana Souza, was released to rave reviews, and their newest recording of the Rodrigo “Concierto Andaluz” and Sergio Assad’s “Interchange”, written specifically for them, was released on Telarc in Spring 2010, and quickly climbed to top spot on the Billboard charts. The live DVD of “The Ingenious Gentleman: Don Quixote” was released on the Mel Bay label in spring 2012. In 2015, the LAGQ released their latest album titled “New Renaissance,” a unique blend of renaissance originals and renaissance-inspired compositions by Dusan Bogdanovic and Ian Krouse. 🎼 ❤️
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02/05/2024

Happy (Belated Birthday) Franz Schubert!

The Austrian composer Franz Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was one of the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, piano and chamber music. His most notable works included Erlkönig, written in 1815 and based on a poem by Goethe; Ave Maria!, written in 1825; and the Symphony No. 9 in C Major, begun in 1825.

More: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Schubert

02/04/2024

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02/04/2024

One more week to an exciting guitar concert featuring the Los Angeles Guitar Concert LAGQ. The program in Los Alamos, entitled "From Bach to Brazil," highlights their newest member, Brazilian guitarist Douglas Lora and the new formation of LAGQ. The program draws heavily upon some of LAGQ's most popular pieces from the Telarc release “LAGQ: Brasil”, including works by Pascoal, Villa-Lobos, Assad, and Bellinati, as well as Douglas’ composition Maracasalsa. It then lingers south of the border as it were with Two Mexican Pieces by Aaron Copland. The program also includes Opals by Australian composer Phillip Houghton, which is the feature track of their 2022 recording “Opalescent." Rounding out the performance are compositions by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Danse Négre), J.S.Bach (Prèlude #1 in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier and Little Fugue in G minor) and Beethoven (Adagio Sostenuto from the "Moonlight" Sonata).

Here is a different composition from their recording "Opalescent"

LAGQ's "Opalescent" Album Premieres On April 8, 2022Purchase or Stream: https://orcd.co/n7evyd5www.lagq.comOur friends in the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet are ...

01/28/2024

Saturday, February 10, 2024
Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos, NM

The Grammy Award Winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet with Ralph Towner's "Icarus", arranged by William Kanengiser. From their latest DVD, "LAGQ Live!"Availabl...

01/22/2024

The famed Grammy Award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) returns to Los Alamos Feb 10, 2024 at 3 pm for the fourth concert of the 2023-2024 season of the Los Alamos Concert Association. One of the most multifaceted groups in any genre, The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing a new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. They consistently play to sold-out houses world-wide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground. Programs including Latin, African, Far East, Irish, Folk and American Classics transport listeners around the world in a single concert experience.

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01/15/2024

What a concert Delirium Musicum put on for us - and that too with two encore numbers! There was energy (Summer from Max Richter's Four Seasons), gravitas (Shostakovich Kamersinfonie Op 110a), world music (Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout), modern twists on baroque music (Michi Wianko's Variations on the La Folia theme) and even a nod to pop culture (Misirlou from Pulp Fiction).

Afterwards the ensemble hung out in the lobby signing CDs and apparently soaked in the local vibe at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op on what might have been one of the coldest nights of the year.

01/12/2024

Delirium Musicum kicks off their 2024 tour with tonight's concert at 7 pm in Los Alamos, New Mexico! Kick off your weekend with this energetic ensemble - tickets are available at the door.

01/10/2024

Delirium Musicum, performing for Los Alamos Concert Association on Friday the 12th, will be playing this program for us:
Vivaldi (Recomposed by Max Richter) – The Four Seasons. Summer
Shostakovich: Kammersinfonie Op. 110a
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Michi Wiancko: Variations on the “La Folia” theme by Corelli and Geminiani
WOW!

01/07/2024

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. —Pablo Casals 🎼❤

01/07/2024

We couldn't think of a better way to ring in the new year than an evening with Etienne Gara and Delirium Musicum! Join us for a musical adventure on Friday, January 12 at 7 PM.

01/06/2024

Are you coming? Delirium Musicum Fri Jan 12, 7 PM, Duane Smith Auditorium

Delirium MusicumEtienne Gara, music & artistic directorDonations:https://www.deliriummusicum.com/donatehttp://www.deliriummusicum.comhttp://www.facebook.com/...

01/06/2024

Listen to Etienne Gara, lead violinist and artistic director of Delirium Musicum , talk about the group's performance of Max Richter's reimagined version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Delirium Musicum will perform at Duane Smith Auditorium on Friday Jan 12, 2024 at 7 pm. It's sure to be an exciting performance! Our board member, Jeff Favorite, referred to them as "The Hill Stompers" of the classical music world!! Don't miss it.

Etienne Gara, violinist, and Artistic Director of Delirium Musicum speaks about Vivaldi - The Four Seasons recomposed by Max Richter, recorded for Warner Cla...

01/04/2024

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