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LA Chamber Orchestra Announces 2020-21 Virtual Season and Names James Darrah Creative Director of Digital Content

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), led by Music Director Jaime Martn, announces its 2020-21 Season, entitled LACO Close Quarters, featuring a robust slate of 16 original digital programs with sweeping repertoire and compelling visual elements directed by groundbreaking director/designer/artist James Darrah, who has been named 2020-21 Creative Director of Digital Content. Martn, lauded for his "infectious music making" (Los Angeles Times), embarks on his second season with LACO, conducting half of the programs. Darrah noted for visually and emotionally striking (work) that injects real drama (New York Times) at the intersection of theater, music and film is establishing a first-of-its-kind LACO digital studio at Wilhardt & Naud, a film studio and multidisciplinary arts campus located in Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. The studio will serve as a creative hub for developing artistic media content with L.A.-based artists and filmmakers, who, inspired by the Orchestras musical programming, will create works in a variety of mediums that will factor into the broadcasts and endure long after the season concludes. This marks the Orchestras first creative partnership with Darrah. LACOs concerts, each between 30 and 40 minutes in length, are filmed at The Colburn Schools Olive Rehearsal Hall socially distanced with no audience and produced exclusively for streaming. Available to the public at no cost, the digital broadcasts air biweekly on Fridays, from November 6, 2020, through June 4, 2021, at 6:30 pm (PT), at LACO.org/laco-at-home, and on LACOs YouTube channel and Facebook live.

This new slate of virtual programming, developed under the Orchestras LACO AT HOME brand, builds upon the highly successful LACO SummerFest series, the Orchestras first foray into streaming that concluded in September and featured five digital chamber music concerts that have attracted more than 130,000 viewers to date.

LACO Close Quarters broadcast dates are Fridays, November 6 and 20, December 4 and 18, 2020, January 1, 15 and 29, February 12 and 26, March 12 and 26, April 9 and 23, May 7 and 21, and June 4, 2021, at 6:30 pm (PT).

REPERTOIRE HIGHLIGHTS FOR FIRST HALF OF SEASONThe programming for the first half of LACOs 2020-21 all-digital season includes a LACO-commissioned world premiere by composer and Artistic Advisor Derrick Spiva Jr. featuring actors from LAs own Robey Theatre Company, and the first-ever joint appearance of Martn on flute and LACO Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane on fortepiano, who are featured together with Assistant Concertmaster Tereza Stanislav on Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D-major. Other notable repertoire includes Coplands Appalachian Spring, conducted by Martn with Kahane on piano; Stravinskys LHistoire du Soldat, again featuring actors from the Robey Theatre Company; and Voodoo Dolls by Jessie Montgomery, whose music weaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, language and social justice.

Additionally, LACO presents Pueblos Magicos by LA-based, Mexican-born composer Juan Pablo Contreras, recognized for blending Western classical and Mexican folk music and considered one of the most prominent young composers in Latin America (Milenio); Ccantu by Peruvian composer Jimmy Lpez; Argentinian composer J.P. Jofres Tangdromo for violin and bandoneon; Concierto barroco by Jos Enrique Gonzalez Medina, who is deeply connected to his home state of Baja California in Mexico. Also featured are Brazilian-American Clarice Assads Obrigado for mandolin and strings, which explores the music, chants and rhythms of the Afro-Brazilian religion called Umbanda, music she was introduced to as a child, as well as works for harpsichord, theorbo and baroque guitar by a range of Baroque-era Hispanic and Latin American composers.

LACO recognizes the generous support of the Colburn Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Steinway is the official piano of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The Orchestra also receives public funding via grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. James Darrah at LACO is generously underwritten by Ruth Eliel and Bill Cooney. The premiere episode of LACO Close Quarters on November 6, 2020, is sponsored in part by Anne and Jeff Grausam. For episode #4 premiering on December 18, 2020, Jaime Martn and Jeffrey Kahane at LACO are generously sponsored by Ned and Dana Newman. Juan Pablo Contreras and episode #5 premiering on January 15, 2020, are generously sponsored by Anne-Marie and Alex Spataru.

The broadcasts will be available on demand at laco.org/laco-at-home, LACOs YouTube channel and Facebook live.

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