Music


Guitarist Dennis Agajanian to Perform at Walter Hoving Home Backyard BBQ

Dennis Agajanian will perform at the 7th Annual Barbeque for the Walter Hoving Home on Thursday, May 23rd. Even his peers regard him as one of the greatest acoustic guitar players of our generation. He’s been awarded Musician of the Year seven times. He’s appeared in numerous stage and television events with some of the ...

Final Mansions & Music Features Strings of Every Kind

It has been suggested that the vibrations of a string set the universe in motion. While the Pasadena Conservatory of Music is not qualified to weigh in on the ongoing scientific debate, they are intrigued by the notion that the very fabric of the universe is governed by vibrating strings and posit their own string ...

Tanlines, Yacht, Robert Delong, We Are Scientists and Special Guest TBA Headline the 6th Annual Make Music Pasadena Presented by 89.9 KCRW

Crowds of 35,000 music fans are expected to attend Make Music Pasadena, West Coast’s largest free music festival Saturday, June 1 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. This year’s festival lineup features performances by Tanlines, Yacht, Robert DeLong, Hunter Hunted, We are Scientists, Las Cafeteras, Superhumanoids, Soko and many more including a very special guest ...

The Angeles Chorale: “A Feast for the Ears and Balm for the Soul”

In recent times, England’s royal family has without question functioned as a kind of ongoing economic stimulus package for British tourism and the tabloid media. But long before the era of Charles and Diana sparked the frenzy of media coverage that led to the young Princess’s death in 1997, the Royals inspired a ‘frenzy’ of ...

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Holds Auditions June 6-9, 2013

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC), one of the nation’s leading children’s choirs, is holding auditions for boys and girls ages eight (by September 1, 2013) to 12 on June 6 -9, 2013, in Pasadena. Previous singing experience is not necessary, but audition appointments are required. LACC’s program focuses on training children who may not necessarily ...

Crowell Public Library Presents a Special Concert by Violinist Paul Stein

Come to the library for a free hour of blissful, classical music and more! Paul Stein, a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the last 30 years, will bring an all-new program to the Crowell Public Library on Monday, June 10, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Playing music by Bach, John Williams, Liszt and ...

4th Annual Drummer’s Reality Camp Returns June 27-30

LAMA College for Music Professionals (LAMA) today announced the star-studded lineup of top drummers for its fourth annual Drummer’s Reality Camp. The one-of-a-kind camp spans four days, June 27-30, at LAMA College for Music Professionals and includes clinics, concerts, lectures, performance ensembles, private lessons, as well as a factory tour of DW Drums and a ...

Pacific Serenades Presents “Currents”

Pacific Serenades, winner of the 2013 Letter of Distinction from New Music USA, completes its 27th season with a world premiere by award winning composer Stephen Cohn. The program, scheduled for June 1, 2 and 4, 2013, will be an inspired mix of music, including Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb major, K ...

Legally Blind Concert Pianist Kevin Kern Performs at the Steinway Gallery Recital Hall on June 26

Pasadena will be one of the concert stops for legally blind pianist and composer Kevin Kern’s “Pictures from the Piano” Tour in June, it was announced today. Kern is scheduled to perform June 26 at the Steinway Gallery Recital Hall at 7 p.m. His tour kicks off June 12 at the Recital Hall at Classic ...

Pasadena Conservatory of Music at the Fischoff Competition

Two of Pasadena Conservatory of Music’s highly accomplished chamber music groups have been selected to participate in the Fischoff Competition, the largest chamber music competition in the world. Tomorrow, the Cantando Quartet and the Judadii Trio will perform among other top emerging chamber groups from around the country at the competition at the University of ...

Andrew Gouche Joins LAMA Bass Department as Artist-in-Residence

LAMA College for Music Professionals (LAMA) and Bass Department Chair Jerry Watts Jr. today announced Andrew Gouche will join Juan Alderete, Abe Laboriel Sr. and Lee Sklar as Artists-in-Residence at LAMA, effective immediately. Gouche, considered to be a premiere gospel bassist (who also plays across many other genres), has more than 30 years of experience. ...

Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena POPS Announce Summer Artists and Programs

The stars are coming out to play this summer as five-time Grammy nominee and multiplatinum-selling recording artist Michael Feinstein debuts as Pasadena’s new Principal Pops Conductor. Guest artists for Feinstein’s inaugural season are Cheyenne Jackson (television’s Glee and 30 Rock, and Broadway’s All Shook Up and Xanadu), country music star Lari White (“Now I Know” ...

Los Angeles Children’s Orchestras Take Manhattan By Storm

The Los Angeles Children’s Orchestra (LACO) and Los Angles Children’s Chamber Orchestra (LACCO), under the direction of Susan Pascale, received the highest ‘gold’ award, and standing ovations from judges and audience at the prestigious, invitation-only New York International Music Festival, at Carnegie Hall on April 9. The 61-member LACO is conducted by Pascale, founder of ...

Discover the History of Human Harmony with Kimberlea Daggy

Human Harmony: A Choral Music Sampler, is a four-week course at Pasadena Conservatory of Music (100 North Hill Avenue, Pasadena), with instructor Kimberlea Daggy on Wednesdays, May 1-22; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Choral music is a genre steeped in tradition that distills the many voices of a community into one. It has deep liturgical ...