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The mission of Pacific Serenades is to generate new chamber music by commissioning works and presenting them alongside standard repertoire in intimate concert settings, emphasizing the talents of Southern California musicians.
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Working with composer Laura Karpman in her oceanside home and studio might look much more like being on a tropical holiday than going to work. But looks would be deceiving, as this second-generation Angeleno is one of the busiest composers around. I've spent the last few years helping Laura juggle a busy composing schedule for films, television shows, documentaries, theater, video games, and compositions for the concert hall. Added to that are her UCLA teaching duties at both the Herb Alpert School of Music and the School of Theater, Film, and Television.During this time, I've also tried to facilitate a more leisurely family life for Laura and her spouse, composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, and their 13-month-old son, Benjamin. » read more
I'm so fortunate to have studied at UCLA these past four years with the great violinist Movses Pogossian. Throughout this time, he has never failed to deliver his passion and love for music through the violin. In the beginning, however, violin was not his instrument of choice. In Yerevan, Armenia, where he grew up, the most popular instrument by far was the piano, but to be permitted to study piano, you had to have all A's in your academic courses. Luckily for us, the young Movses had one B and was forced to enroll in violin study instead. » read more
We're so lucky to live in Southern California, where art is created from the unique materials of our own world, our own time, our own lives. No need to bow to the East—we're different, and we're happy about that! Here, we unabashedly embrace overt beauty. Here, we know that melody is the newest and most exhilarating thing going around the music scene, and that the best music moves us and uplifts our spirit.
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Subscribe to our Neighborhood Church Series or our UCLA Faculty Center Series by January 15, 2012, and you will have the opportunity to bring a friend who is new to... » read more
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