International Series
a ROYAL
ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the historic CAMA/LA Phil musical legacy and a ROYAL offering of British music-making at its best.
The highlight of CAMA’s 101st Concert Season will be the Gala 100th Anniversary Concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro
Gustavo Dudamel on March 6, 2020—100 years to the day from the orchestra’s very first Santa Barbara concert on March 6, 1920.
The ROYAL thread for the International Series at The Granada Theatre includes the return of the popular Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman), which in 1966 was officially conferred the title “Royal” by Queen Elizabeth—plus the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra featuring young British cello sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason as soloist, whose command performance at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, viewed by a global TV audience of one billion people, made him an instant international “rising star.” Additionally, CAMA welcomes the West Coast debut of London’s groundbreaking Chineke! Orchestra, founded in 2015 to provide a forum for young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians from the United Kingdom and Europe to perform at the highest level of the British music scene. Chineke! Orchestra was appointed in 2018 as an Associate Orchestra of Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Completing the International Series will be the return of virtuoso mandolinist Avi Avital with Québec’s superb Les Violons du Roy (“The Violins of the King”), and the venerable Rotterdam Philharmonic with conductor-pianist Lahav Shani.
With this 101st Concert Season roster, CAMA’s second century is shaping up to be as extraordinary as its first!
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN
Monday, January 27, 2020, 8:00PM
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
CAMA’s International Series rings in 2020 with the welcome return of London’s everpopular Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Formed in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, it has been at the forefront of music-making in Britain for over seven decades, recognized worldwide as one of the United Kingdom’s most prodigious orchestras. In 1966, Queen Elizabeth conferred the title of “Royal” unconditionally on the orchestra. In its self-appointed role as Britain’s national orchestra, the RPO has toured in more than thirty countries across the globe, as well as performing annual concert series at both London’s Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall. In a career spanning five decades, Pinchas Zukerman (Principal Guest Conductor of the RPO) is universally respected as a virtuoso violinist, violist, conductor and chamber musician with over 100 recordings released to date earning 21 Grammy® nominations.
Program:
MOZART: Violin Concerto No.5 in A Major, K.219, “Turkish”
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5 in E Minor, Op.64
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
Friday, March 6, 2020, 7:00PM (early start time)
Los Angeles Philharmonic
HISTORIC 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
100 years to the day from the LA Phil’s first concert in Santa Barbara on March 6, 1920!
Pre-concert celebratory RED CARPET RECEPTION open to all ticket holders at 6:00PM — Concert at 7:00PM
The crown jewel of CAMA’s 101st Concert Season will be the Gala 100th Anniversary Concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel on March 6, 2020—exactly 100 years to the day from the orchestra’s very first Santa Barbara concert a century ago on March 6, 1920.
The musical legacy that has evolved between the LA Phil and CAMA over the past century has seen the orchestra perform 290 prior concerts in Santa Barbara with many of the greatest conductors of the past century such as Otto Klemperer, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, Karl Böhm, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, André Previn, Simon Rattle, Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel, to name just a few. As CAMA and the LA Phil both celebrate their Centennials, CAMA is honored to have collaborated with this great American orchestra and looks forward to continuing this ongoing collaboration for the next 100 years!
Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime historic musical event!
Program:
IVES: Symphony No.2
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No.9 in E Minor, “From the New World,” Op.95
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LAHAV SHANI
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2020, 8:00PM
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
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CHI-CHI NWANOKU
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020, 8:00PM
Chineke! Orchestra
Stewart Goodyear piano
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TUESDAY, April 28, 2020, 8:00PM
Les Violons Du Roy
Avi Avital mandolin
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SHEKU KANNEH-MASON
MONDAY, May 18, 2020, 8:00PM
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
The acclaimed Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra returns to close out CAMA’s 101st Season with a symphonic evening led by LACO’s new Music Director, Spanish conductor Jaime Martín, who also serves as the Principal Conductor of the RTE National Radio Orchestra in Dublin. The concert will feature the 20-year old British cello sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician of The Year award and then in 2018 enthralled the world with his televised command performance at the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, viewed by a global TV audience of one billion people. The program includes the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and opens with the World Premiere of a new work by Los Angeles composer Derrick Spiva, Jr. commissioned by LACO.
Program:
SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No.1 in A Minor, Op.33
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, “Eroica,” Op.55
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