Our 41st season opens with violinist Movses Pogossian, whose playing critic Paul Griffiths describes as "always beautiful across a great range of colors and gestures, and always seeming on the edge of speaking—or beyond.” The first concert features the music of two of the most beloved composers in the western canon – Felix Mendelssohn and […]
"A voice I could happily hear sing just about anything. She with real passion, sending the audience out buzzing." (San Francisco Civic Center Blogspot) Fresh off of triumphant appearances at Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Dutch Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, Raehann Bryce-Davis returns to St. Matthew's Music Guild for a selection of operatic […]
Conductor Ruben Valenzuela brings a complete performance of Handel’s immortal holiday classic featuring some of the best early-music instrumentalists and singers from around the country. The Music Guild is pleased to offer a special treat for this season’s holiday concert, welcoming the Bach Collegium San Diego to Los Angeles for a complete performance of Handel’s […]
The Gesualdo Six have been described as “weavers of rich and plangent aural tapestries style and substance with beguiling sure-footedness.” (BBC Music Magazine) The award-winning ensemble, featuring six of Britain's finest consort singers, presents "Queen of Hearts," a program of motets and chansons from the courts of Anne of Brittany, Margaret of Austria, Anne Boleyn […]
Bonus Concert – free to all 2025-2026 subscribersGeneral admission: $45 Organist Nathan Laube, recognized as one of the finest organists of his generation, joins us to celebrate the 41st Anniversary of the C.B. Fisk organ at St. Matthew’s Church (postponed from May 2025). In celebration of the 41st Anniversary of the dedication of The Parish […]
LA Phil principals Boris Allakhverdyan and Whitney Crockett join the Chamber Orchestra for one of Richard Strauss’s most beautiful and soulful late works, the “Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon.” Along with Strauss' "Duet-Concertino," the concert also includes “Zachor” (“Remembrance”) by Los Angeles-based composer David Lefkowitz (pictured above), a work which reveals an old Lithuanian Klezmer […]
David Garrett, a member of the LA Phil’s cello section since 2000, will be showcased in Haydn’s lyrical Cello Concerto in D major. Join us as we journey from the origins of musical classicism to the opening salvo of the Romantic era. Following CPE Bach’s energetic Symphony in B-flat Major, we showcase LA Phil cellist […]
Concertmaster YuEun Gemma Kim steps front and center for Antonin Dvořák’s lush Violin Concerto in A minor. Our season finale features music guaranteed to lift your spirits. The concert opens with Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Claude Debussy’s lighthearted “Danse” (“Tarantella Styrienne”) and continues with the world premiere of the Music Guild’s latest commissioned work – […]
