Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Opens 2023/24 Chamber Series

With Acclaimed Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott in program that Traces Musical and Familial Lineages  

Chamber Series Is Curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer

Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:30 pm, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Sunday, October 1, 2023, 7:30 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown LA

(Los Angeles, CA – August xx, 2023) Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra opens its 2023/24 Season with Lineage: Coleridge-Taylor + Chausson, the first of two intimate programs in the Orchestra’s Chamber Series curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer, on Saturday, September 30, 7:30 pm, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and Sunday, October 1, 2023, 7:30 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown LA. Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who “plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy” (The New York Times), joins LACO artists to trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his only daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, a pianist/composer who followed in her father’s musical footsteps. The program opens with Avril’s Idylle for Flute and Pianoforte proceeded by her father’s Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor. Lineage is also reflected in the final work, Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet by Chausson, which integrates the rhapsodic and introspective style of the composer’s mentor, César Franck.

To read the full press release click here: LACO 23-24 Lineage Press Release