Music by Pamela Z, Liza Lim, Liliya Ugay, Peter S. Shin, John Adams, and W. A. Mozart.

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Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 3

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Peter and the Wolf

Paramount Theatre

For the ninth year of PIVOT, guest curator Gabriel Kahane and friends dig deep into music that asks enduring and enlightening questions about our ever-changing world and seeks the uplift of answers rooted in shared experience. Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller whose work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, and “his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony…he is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day” (The New Yorker). Grammy-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth can seemingly make anything cool, “From death metal to throat singing to alpine yodeling, the experimental group is changing what it means to harmonize” (The New Yorker).

Gabriel Kahane | Roomful of Teeth

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

American Kaleidoscope

University of California, Berkeley

The world premiere of <em>Hyo</em>, from 2021 Sound Investment composer <strong>Peter S. Shin</strong>, performed at the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studio Lots.

In this star-studded episode, guest conductor Grant Gershon leads a LACO-commissioned world premiere by Sound Investment Composer Peter S. Shin, Lumee’s Dream from Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m, and Britten’s Les illuminations. Shin’s premiere incorporates animation and drawn portraiture by visual artist Jian Lee. The pioneering nature of this collaboration lies in the fact that Shin and Lee are actively working together to conjure up visuals as the piece is written in real time throughout the multi-month artistic process. Britten’s Les illuminations and Ellen Reid’s Lumee’s Dream spotlights internationally renowned soprano and native Californian Nicole Cabell in her LACO debut.  The Britten and Reid selections are cinematic in nature, and will be woven together by a new opera dance-theater film by director George Miller and choreographer Rebecca Steinberg—exploring the deeply complex array of relationships present throughout this wisely-curated pair of repertoire.

Peter S. Shin

Events

Past events

Jul 19, 2025

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 3 · Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

Apr 7, 2024

Peter and the Wolf · Oakland Symphony

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