Composer

Music by Libby Larsen, Jonathan Bingham, Juhi Bansal, Piotr Szewczyk, Michael Laurello, and Béla Bartók.

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Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 2

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Experience all the feels as Principal Youth Conductor and Creative Partner Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads the NAC Orchestra in a program designed to showcase how a range of emotions can be expressed — and experienced — through music. Hear works by Beethoven, Nielsen, and other evocative composers! ​ Canadian visual artist Holly Carr will help bring the music to life, painting an 8-foot silk mural on stage in real time, vividly reflecting the themes of Mad, Sad, and Glad.

Mad.Sad.Glad: A Symphony of Emotions 

Southam Hall

In a partnership with the California Festival: a Celebration of New Music, this Chamber Music Tuesday features SFCM alumni ensemble L'Arc Trio in performance with students. The concert also features two new and exciting works by Bay Area composers Jonathan Bingham and Vivian Fung, as well as one of Ernest Bloch's greatest chamber music works. Fung’s piano trio Ominous Machine was written for the L’Arc Trio and the performance will be a world premiere. Emerging Black Composers Project winner Jonathan Bingham wrote his string quartet Pareidolia in 2022 for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.

Chamber Music Tuesday with SFCM alumni L'Arc Trio

Bowes Center

World Premiere for String Quartet
commissioned by the SFCO with NEA and Emerging Black Composers Project.

MainStage 3 - Quartets and Quintets

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

First United Methodist Church

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Experience one of the great American Symphonies by William Grant Still, plus a Chicago Premiere by Donna Milanovich Composer in Residence Jonathan Bingham!

William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony

Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Notes on Love explores a word that refuses a single definition. Winning Works alum Houston Thomas, alongside choreographers Liam Scarlett and Nicolas Blanc, consider the feeling through four distinct lenses: love as place, as longing, as memory, and as nostalgia—each revealing love in all its depth and beauty.

Composer

Jonathan Bingham

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 14 Feb, 2027

Notes on Love · Joffrey Ballet

Past events

Jul 18, 2025

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 2 · Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

Jan 26, 2025

Mad.Sad.Glad: A Symphony of Emotions  · National Arts Centre

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