Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s (LACO) 2023/24 Season launches with the first of two intimate programs in the Orchestra’s Chamber Series curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer. Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who “plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy” (The New York Times), joins LACO artists to trace the familiar 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.

Location:

Zipper Hall

200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Idylle for Flute and Pianoforte

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor

Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet