Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra,
Led by Music Director Jaime Martín, Traverses the American Musical Landscape from George Gershwin to Florence Price
on Program Featuring Pianist/LACO Creative Director Lara Downes

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 7:30 pm at Glendale’s Alex Theatre

Sunday, April 20, 2025, 4 pm
at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills

(Los Angeles, CA – April 2, 2025) Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jaime Martín, traverses the musical landscape of America from African American spirituals to the distinctive melodies of Gershwin on Saturday, April 19, 7:30 pm, at Glendale’s Alex Theatre, and Sunday, April 20, 2025, 4 pm, at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

LACO’s inaugural Creative Director Lara Downes, “a trailblazing pianist” (The Piano Magazine) and beloved NPR host, makes her LACO orchestral debut, showcasing the ravishing harmonies and breathtaking melodies of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement. Prices’ “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” opens the program, which also includes Gershwin’s tender Lullaby, and closes with Schumann’s definitive Symphony No. 2 in C major.

Downes brings her visionary work in bridging cultural gaps and finding musical connections to her performances. Her work with LACO, in a unique role that harnesses her energies across a broad landscape of performance, curation, community engagement, education, and advocacy, aims to illustrate common ground and shared experience through the connective power of music.

To read the full press release, read it here.