Sharmila G. Lash, voice

LAMC Heaven + Earth: The Music of Reena Esmail & Philip Glass
2023-10-15 19:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
“How do we live in unity with each other and with nature? Esmail’s This Love Between Us examines our shared humanity by juxtaposing texts of seven major religions of the Indian subcontinent, set with a unique combination of Hindustani and Western classical styles, bringing together chorus, Baroque orchestra, tabla, and sitar. Philip Glass’ propulsive Itaipú, based on the Creation myth of the Guarani peoples, paints an epic and unforgettable symphonic portrait of nature for chorus and orchestra.”

LAPhil Dudamel and the Music of Tango and Ballet
2023-11-16 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-19 02:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Gustavo Dudamel and Pan-American Music Initiative curator Gabriela Ortiz build on their longtime collaboration in a program that pay homage to activist women, which includes Ortiz’s new ballet score, Revolución diamantina. This piece shares its title with the 2019 “Glitter Revolution” based in Mexico City, where women took to the streets to draw attention to pervasive sexual violence. Sharmila will be among 8 singers performing this world premiere concert version with the LA Philharmonic.

LAMC LUX: The Music of Morten Lauridsen & Billy Childs
2023-11-18 14:00, 2023-11-19 19:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
In Lux Aeterna, (Eternal Light), the spellbindingly rapturous work premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1997, Lauridsen created a rich and intensely moving work that sparked a renaissance of choral music throughout the world. Paired with this masterpiece will be a world premiere by Billy Childs – one of the world’s most celebrated jazz pianists and composers – reuniting the Chorale and brilliant violin virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers with the Billy Childs Jazz/Chamber Ensemble and The Lyris Quartet.

LAPhil Esa-Pekka Salonen and Ravel
2023-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Maurice Ravel’s “choreographic symphony” Daphnis and Chloé challenges conventional music status quos while highlighting his genius as an orchestrator. The epic dreamscape consists of the most number of musicians for any of Ravel’s works, yet allows for soloists to shine brightest here. Born out of the Sound Poetry and synthetic language of Hugo Ball’s Dadaism, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s cyclical Karawane is a monumental study of the familiar and unfamiliar. Here, the words are the music and the music is the words, brought to haunting life by the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

LAMC Navidad Nuestra: December in the Americas
2023-12-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
¡Feliz Nochebuena! ¡Feliz Navidad! Come aboard Cristian Grases’ El Tren para Belén (The Train to Bethlehem), filled with Latin rhythms and spirit, to hear villancicos, Christmas carols sung in the music traditions of the composers’ homelands of Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba and more. Each work embodies the warmth and joy of the holiday season, filling the hall with celebration and merriment.

LAMC I Believe: The Music of Bach, Bonds & Robles
2024-04-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
If Bach says that we should “Sing to the Lord a new song” that’s exactly what the Chorale will do—sing a world premiere work by Zanaida Robles titled, The Song of Significance. Similarly, when Bach suggests “Have no fear, I am with you,” we are asked to have faith, to believe in something that we feel in our hearts, just as Margaret Bonds uses W.E.B. DuBois’ poem Credo to share her beliefs. We are excited to be featuring guest artist, pianist Lara Downes on Credo and also Spiritual Suite, which is Bonds’ magnum opus for piano with each movement based on a traditional Negro spiritual connecting hints of blues, jazz, and gospel with the classical styles of Romanticism and Impressionism. Collectively, the program is an evening filled with music with great strength of purpose in every phrase and note.

LAMC: Verdi Requiem
2024-06-08 14:00, 2024-06-09 19:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Dynamic rhythms, sublime melodies, and virtuosic solo passages express both the heights of salvation and depths of damnation in the composer’s epic and dramatic setting of the ancient Catholic funeral mass. Shifting between glorious lyricism and breathtaking power, from muted sorrow in the opening movement to the sheer terror of the work’s famous “Dies irae,” a performance of Verdi’s Requiem is always a soul-stirring event.

SFSC: Music from Studio Ghibli
2024-09-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-08 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, California, 94102, United States
Lights, Camera, Music!: Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony. Composer Joe Hisaishi conducts his music from Studio Ghibli films by Hayao Miyazaki live-to-picture, accompanied by favorite scenes. Rated PG-13

LAPhil: A Midsummer Night's Dream with Dudamel
2024-10-03 20:00, 2024-10-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Walt Disney Concert Hall transforms into Shakespeare’s magical forest when Gustavo Dudamel leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s whimsical incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with sopranos and altos of the LA Master Chorale.

LAMC: SING JOYFULLY | 60th Anniversary Celebration Concert
2024-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
The Los Angeles Master Chorale opens the 2024-2025 season with Sing Joyfully | 60th Anniversary Celebration Concert, which features a cappella pieces from the Renaissance to present day. The concert opens with William Byrd’s ebullient Sing Joyfully, and the Chorale will take Byrd at his word by joyfully singing choral showpieces by Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. The second half of the program celebrates the 30th anniversary of Morten Lauridsen’s classic O Magnum Mysterium (written for the Chorale), along with glorious music of Elinor Remick Warren, Moses Hogan and Leonard Bernstein among many others.

LAMC: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | LA Sings!
2024-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
The Master Chorale’s 60th Anniversary Season continues with the launch of L.A. SINGS! As the largest professional choir in the country, the Chorale is dedicated to transforming L.A. into a city of singers and nurturing our vibrant choral ecosystem. Led by Grant Gershon and MUSE/IQUE Artistic & Music Director Rachael Worby, All You Need Is Love is a mega sing-along at Walt Disney Concert Hall, celebrating our ability to come together and find harmony in our differences. This marks the first collaboration between the Chorale and the highly innovative MUSE/IQUE, featuring the songs Stand By Me, What A Wonderful World, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, and more, along with popular choral works. No singing experience required!

LAPhil: Doug Aitken's 'Lightscape'
2024-11-16 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Noon to Midnight Festival, Green Umbrella New Music Series – The world premiere of the concert iteration of Lightscape caps off the LA Phil’s daylong Noon to Midnight: Field Recordings festival, with Grant Gershon leading the LA Phil New Music Group and the Los Angeles Master Chorale in a hypnotic series of original soundscapes and minimalist compositions to accompany Doug Aitken’s vivid moving images.

Street Symphony: RE/Sound Festival - Messiah Project
2024-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Midnight Mission, 601 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, California, 90014, United States
RE/Sound Festival is a day-long festival of music and volunteer service at The Midnight Mission. JOIN US in serving meals, public health services, and more to our neighbors in Skid Row.

RE/Sound features Street Symphony’s 9th annual Messiah Project, which will take place in the gym from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Attendance is FREE for all volunteers!

LAMC: Festival of Carols
2024-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
The most spectacular choral arrangements of carols from around the world — sung by the incomparable voices of the LA Master Chorale, in the world-class acoustics of Walt Disney Concert Hall. This is the concert that’s guaranteed to put you and your family into the spirit of the season! Children all ages are welcome to attend.

LAMC: Festival of Carols
2024-12-17 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Musco Center For the Arts, 415 N Glassell St, Orange, California, 92866, United States

LAMC: LIFT EVERY VOICE | Jason Max Ferdinand Conducts!
2025-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Extraordinary rising conductor, composer, and educator Jason Max Ferdinand joins the Los Angeles Master Chorale for Lift Every Voice | Jason Max Ferdinand Conducts! This powerful program, presented on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, features music curated by Ferdinand to tell our stories, bring hope in challenging times, and share joy. This concert includes a world premiere by Jason Max Ferdinand, a 25 in 5 commission.

LAMC: David Lang, before and after nature
2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St, Standford, California, 94305, United States
Commissioned by Stanford Live specifically to bring David Lang and the Bang on a Can (BOAC) All-Stars back to campus, before and after nature is a meditation on the natural world, both before human existence and after humans are gone. Words and music by David Lang, video and projections by Tal Rosner, this world premiere will be performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and singers from the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

LAMC: CARMINA BURANA
2025-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong leads Carl Orff’s epic and propulsive Carmina Burana, along with the world premiere of a vibrant new work by Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Reena Esmail. Carmina Burana’s evocative lyrics, drawn from medieval poetry, speak of love, lust, and the inexorable wheel of fate. Esmail’s new work will be based on a variety of folk songs representing different languages and traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

Songs & Stories:Mary Ellen Callahan
2025-04-13 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Piedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
California-born soprano Mary Ellen Callahan sings a collection of songs that includes her favorites, as well as a few she learned to love. She’ll talk about her international career as a recitalist and soloist, sorting the differences between performing a program curated by herself and being hired to sing pieces chosen by someone else. Followed by audience Q & A. Hosted by vocalist Sharmila G. Lash.

LAMC: Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem
2025-05-04 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
“The Chorale presents the highly anticipated U.S. premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem with Jane Fonda as the narrator. Dream Requiem merges two long standing creative visions — Wainwright’s fascination with Byron’s poem Darkness, depicting global upheaval after the 1815 Mount Tambora eruption, and his lifelong admiration for the great Requiems of Verdi, Berlioz and Britten. This powerful and evocative modern-day requiem, with sublime harmonies and emotive storytelling, is an opulent composition that seamlessly weaves together Wainwright’s distinctive musical voice with the timeless liturgy of the Latin Requiem Mass.”
