We've got two FREE performances for this week! The Pacific Serenades will be showcasing the works of three gay composers that you might be familiar with: Mark Carlson, Miguel del Aguila and Laura Karpman. more ›

Lots of fun vocal works are on schedule for this week! First up, the Industry, which bills itself as "a new home for opera in Los Angeles", recently premiered a new hyperopera (meta-collaborative, contemporary), "Crescent City". more ›

Alan Gilbert and the New York Phil are in town this week, and Camerata Pacifica's 2012 season is drawing to a close. more ›

Dudamel is off with the Berlin Philharmonic, as part of a celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic. In the meantime, one of music's biggest names is coming to the Disney Hall this week. more ›

Carl St. Clair will conduct the Puccini classic La Bohème one more time this Tuesday at 8 pm. The next LACMA's Sundays Live brings Juilliard's Jerome Lowenthal to perform with Nadia Schpachenko. Saturday night brings an end to Pasadena Symphony's season. more ›

Not only were you TIME's Person of the Year, you're now an LAist Classical Pick (it'll look great on your resume). Artist Luke Jerram with the help of LACO, finally brings "Play Me, I'm Yours" (#PMIYLA), to Los Angeles, with 30 pianos in tow. more ›

LACO concludes their Westside Connection series this week at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Leila Josefowicz and John Adams join the LA Phil this weekend for Adams' Violin Concerto. more ›

If you haven't heard, the first ever Piatigorsky International Cello Festival is going on right now, up until the 18th. If you're looking for something different to do on St. Patrick's Day, Vox Femina Los Angeles will present Shakespeare to Shamrocks on Saturday the 17th at Zipper Hall. more ›

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Westside Connections series adds some culinary flair with a few special guests to discuss and examine the relationships between music and food. more ›

Magnificat, or Song of Mary is a vocal work by Bach for orchestra, a five-part choir and soloists. The work is based on an ancient hymn with texts from the Gospel of Luke, and is one of LACO music director's Jeffrey Kahanes inspirations for getting into conducting. more ›

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is making a rare detour into Southern California this Friday the 17th at the OC Performing Arts Center. more ›

The Philharmonic Society, the OC's oldest music organization, is kicking off the 10th annual Laguna Beach Music Festival this week. Placido Domingo returns to the stage in a production of Simon Boccanegra in the titular role. more ›

Want to see the highly acclaimed Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (where Dudamel got his start) perform for free? more ›

This week's classical picks include performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich, Nigel Armstrong and Andrew Shulman. more ›

The Coachella Valley Symphony is putting on a program similar to the wildly popular NY Phil "Mostly Mozart" festivals, with an all-Mozart program Monday night at 7 pm. If Coachella is a bit of a trek for you, the LA Phil kicks off their Mahler Project this Friday the 13th. more ›

Things are pretty quiet in LA this week and next, but you can check out the last Sundays Live of the year at the LACMA, tonight at 6 PM. more ›

There are a lot of Christmas-themed concerts scheduled for this week! If you're looking for something tonight, we encourage you to go check out Kirshbaum performing tonight with LACO at Royce Hall. We've split it up into three categories: Messiah, Nutcracker, and Other. more ›

The Da Camera Society is putting on a festival of Strads! To celebrate the 300th anniversary, the Da Camera Society is bringing Martin Chalifour (concertmaster of the LA Phil) to Cicada Restaurant in Downtown. more ›

There's something about 9th Symphonies that resonate with listeners (Beethoven, Dvorak, Bruckner, Schubert), and if you have yet to experience it for yourself, go to the OC Performing Arts Center this weekend for some Mahler. more ›

We have a line-up of classical picks for the opera buffs (and fans of the Greeks and Shakespeare). more ›

Everyone likes to dress up and go to the theatre from time to time, and we encourage you to go all out and go to the Disney Hall tonight for their annual Halloween Silent Film. Costumes are not uncommon at the Disney Hall for this event, and add to a lively atmosphere. more ›

All this talk about Siri reminds us of good our friend Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey. You know what else does? Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, which the Pacific Symphony is performing this Thursday Friday and Saturday at 8 PM. more ›

Would you like some comedy with your classical music? Check out the classical music comic duo violinist Aleksy Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo. The Los Angeles Master Chorale has its season opener tonight. more ›

It's the last week of Classical music at the Bowl! The season is going to end with a bang with Mozart's Requiem on Tuesday and Handel and Fireworks on Thursday. more ›

To experience LA's most cutting-edge percussion chamber music, join the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet this Saturday at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School. The LAPQ is known for their performances of Californian avant-garde composers, and for their commissions of award-winning compositions. This weekend the LAPQ puts on a world premiere Rupa-Khanda, from award winning composer Sean Heim. more ›

iCadenza, a Classical music organization commited to helping young musicians, is putting on their first festival this week featuring concerts, masterclasses, and presentations. The festival will take place this Wednesday through Saturday at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School. more ›

It's your last week to head up to Santa Barbara to listen to some talented young musicians at the 2011 Music Academy of the West festival. The final performance is next Saturday at 8 PM at the Granada Theatre conducted by Leonard Slatkin. more ›

Missed out on the Tchaikovsky last week? No worries, we've got another major piano concerto and a Tchaikovsky piece this week to the Bowl. Yuja Wang returns to the Bowl this Tuesday for a performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto. more ›

Gavrylyuk returns this Tuesday to the Hollywood Bowl in Tchaikovsky's masterful Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor. The Bowl is a perfect venue for a piece like this, don't miss out if you've never seen it live. more ›

There are some pretty big names at the Bowl this week, with Pinchas Zukerman at the Bowl on Tuesday night performing Mozart's Violin Cto. no. 5 and Gil Shaham on Thursday night performing Bruch's Violin Cto. no 1. more ›