ALISA WEILERSTEIN

FRAGMENTS 2
Thursday, November 16, 2023 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
Co-produced by the San Diego Symphony
Part of California Festival of New Music

Renowned cellist Alisa Weilerstein returns for the second installment of her groundbreaking, multi-year project FRAGMENTS. This remarkable concert weaves together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 newly commissioned works. The resulting collection is divided into six Fragments, each an hour long and blending five to six composers, to be released independently over several seasons—the first of these graced our stage in the 2022–23 season.

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KRONOS QUARTET & SAM GREEN

A THOUSAND THOUGHTS
Friday, March 8, 2024 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

A Thousand Thoughts
A Live Documentary with the Kronos Quartet, Written & Directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini

Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground), in collaboration with Emmy Award®-winning writer and editor Joe Bini (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Grizzly Man), takes the stage with the legendary classical music group Kronos Quartet to create a “live documentary” that chronologically unfolds the quartet’s groundbreaking, continent-spanning, multi-decade career. Wildly creative and experimental in form, A Thousand Thoughts is a meditation on music itself—the act of listening closely to music, the experience of feeling music deeply, and the power that music has to change the world.

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ABEL SELAOCOE & MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE

SIROCCO
Sunday, April 14, 2024 · 7 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

Sirocco is a celebration of folk traditions from around the world, led by the inimitable Abel Selaocoe, a musician described as “a star in the making,” (The Arts Desk) and UK-based Manchester Collective for a program that weaves between original settings of African music, Danish folk songs, and classical music like you’ve never heard it before. When this program toured across the UK and Europe, critics described it as a “deeply moving” and a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

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HIROMI

THE PIANO QUINTET FT. PUBLIQUARTET
Sunday, April 21, 2024 · 3 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

A new project pairing Hiromi’s incomparable piano mastery with string quartet featuring PUBLIQuartet.

In the two decades since Hiromi released her stunning debut album Another Mind, the Japanese pianist/composer has blazed an incandescent trail across the jazz scene. Her fertile imagination and boundless creativity seem to ripple out of her as effortlessly as her virtuosic pianism. Equally impressive in acoustic or electric settings, she delves into a different kind of fusion on her latest project that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication.

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