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Sunday, February 22    3:30 pm to 5:00 pm  (Bel Air, Los Angeles)
Vicente Chamber Orchestra: Bach Violin Concerti with Ken Aiso + Respighi's Suite for Organ & Strings
The Vicente Chamber Orchestra presents an afternoon exploring the brilliance of the Baroque and its lasting influence on later composers.
Violinist Ken Aiso takes center stage for Bach's beloved Violin Concerti—works that remain touchstones of the repertoire for their perfect balance of virtuosity and emotional depth. The program also features Ottorino Respighi's Suite for Organ and Strings in G Major, with organist Nancy Ruczynski. Composed in 1905, this suite pays loving tribute to the Baroque masters while filtering their language through Respighi's own colorful sensibility.
Set within the resonant acoustics of Bel Air Church, this concert offers a rare opportunity to hear these works in the kind of intimate, reverberant space for which they were conceived.

Tickets: $28.52
Bel Air Church 16221 Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049
More info:
https://vicentechamberorchestra.com/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baroque-beyond-violin-and-organ-tickets-1975239537629?

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Sunday February 22   2:00 PM (Santa Monica)

Avi Avital & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

BroadStage Celebrity Series presents a spectacular collaboration of musical excellence as Avi Avital, considered by many to be the world’s greatest mandolinist, takes the stage with the renowned Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra! Hailed by The New York Times as “explosively charismatic” in live performance, Avital is the first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical GRAMMY® Award. He is known for reinvigorating the mandolin and shaping its history and future, while playing it in the most prestigious halls all over the world. 

Avital is joined by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, praised by The New York Times as “America’s leading historically informed ensemble.” Among the most recorded orchestras in the world, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performs on period-specific instruments, presenting repertoire ranging from early Baroque to late Romantic, along with new contemporary works and major operatic productions. 

With an orchestra of 16 musicians led by Avital, the program features beloved Baroque masterpieces, as well as modern works with folk influences.

Program

Antonio VIVALDI (1678–1741) Concerto for Strings in A major, RV 158
J.S. BACH (1685–1750) Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (transcr. Avital)
Antonio VIVALDI Concerto for Mandolin in C major, RV 425
Giovanni SOLLIMA (b. 1962)Concerto for Mandolin
Béla BARTÓK (1881–1945) Romanian Folk Dances (arr. Avital)

Tickets: $47-$89

Broad Stage 1310 11th St. Santa Monica, CA 90401

more info: https://broadstage.org/

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Feb 27, 2026, 7:30 PM (Irvine)

Feb 28, 2026, 7:30 PM  (Pasadena)

Eleteria: Telemann, Bach, and the Italian Baroque

Join us for our inaugural concert, featuring an exciting program of Telemann, Bach, Vivaldi, Castello, and more. Italian Baroque composers are personal favorites of ours for their unbridled virtuosity, complimenting perfectly with popular works of Bach and Teleman. Together, these traditions create a rich and vibrant musical dialogue.

Founded in 2025, ELETTARIA is re-examining and enlivening historical instruments with a scope of personal interpretation and cross-genre collaboration. The ensemble's focus on Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music interweaves with their daring exploration of living composers. A passion project at its core, Elettaria comprises of Hejun Yang, Robert Wang, and Andrew Levy, three instrumentalists who are both seasoned soloist and ensemble player.

Artists:

ANDREW LEVY has performed in the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany with groups including Voices of Music, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, the Royal Wind Music, American Bach Soloists, Marin Baroque, MUSA, and Ensemble Mirabile.

ROBERT WANG Robert earned his MM and BM in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, receiving the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Award, and studying historical plucked instruments with Jason Yoshida. Robert is versed in playing basso continuo and solo on theorbo, lute, and baroque guitar. He is primarily devoted to ensemble playing and has performed with ASU Music Theatre and Opera (L'Orfeo), Bach Collegium San Diego, Colburn Baroque Ensemble, Early Music Vancouver (Vespers of 1610), Ensemble Flame (O Mother What Shall I Do), The Golden Bridge, OperaNEO (Ariodante), Shunske Sato, Sibelius Academy Baroque Orchestra (King Arthur), Tesserae Baroque, USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, and the USC Thornton Opera (Actéon).

HEJUN YANG is a harpsichordist and historical organist dedicated to broadening historically informed performance to new audiences and communities. She is a prized participant of the 2025 American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco and has collaborated with Street Symphony, USC Thornton Chamber Opera, and Loyola Marymount University. Hejun performs as a member and frequent soloist with the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, exploring repertoire from early seventeenth-century Italy to late eighteenth-century Germany. Hejun is currently pursuing her DMA in Early Music (Historical Keyboard Performance) at USC Thornton School of Music under Ian Pritchard. She previously earned her GC in Early Music from USC Thornton under Lucinda Carver and her MM in Piano Performance from Temple University with Joyce Lindorff.

Tickets: $0-$25

Feb 27, 2026 St. John Henry Newman Catholic Church, 2532 Dupont Dr, Irvine, 92612

Feb 28, 2026, 7:30 PM Trinity Lutheran Church, 997 E Walnut St, Pasadena, 91106

more info: https://www.elettariala.org/events

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March 2026

Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 5:00PM-6:15PM (Claremont)
Sonia Lee (organ/piano) and Shahid Osuna (flute)  : Lenten Meditations

A Lenten concert as part of the Adventures in Music series presented by the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. 

Shahid Osuna is the principal flutist with both the Whittier Regional Symphony and the Angeles Symphony Orchestra, and the second flutist with the San Fernando Valley Symphony. He currently co-directs the Los Angeles Flute Choir.
Sonia Lee has been invited as soloist, collaborative artists, and guest director at festivals and venues in more than 150 cities on four continents. She has served as faculty and staff at Scripps College and California State University, San Bernardino and she is music director and principal organist at Christ Church Parish in Ontario and St. Mary in Palms Episcopal Church in L.A.
Program:
J. S. Bach, Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott ("Have mercy on me, O Lord God"), BWV 721
J. S. Bach, Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben ("Out of love my Saviour is willing to die") from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Johann Kuhnau, Biblical Sonata no. 4 ("Hezekiah's Sickness and Restoration") 

Johannes Brahms, Herzliebster Jesu ("Ah, Holy Jesus"), op. 122, no. 2

Healey Willan, Partita on "St. Flavian" (Lord, who throughout these forty days)

Healey Willan, Prelude on "St. Columba" (The King of love my shepherd is)

Jacques Ibert, Aria  

Amy Beach, Invocation, op. 55

Florence Price, Adoration
Edward Elgar, Sursum corda ("Lift up your hearts"), op. 11

Freewill offering. Ample parking in church lot.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 1700 N Towne Ave, Claremont, CA 91711

Concert series website: https://www.egoodshepherd.org/adventures-in-music
Venue's website: https://www.egoodshepherd.org/
Phone: (909) 626-2714

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