Sharmila G. Lash, voice

LAPhil: Dvořák 9 & Ives 4
2020-02-28 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
The culmination of Dudamel’s unique look at Ives and Dvořák shows the individualistic American expanding his harmonic and rhythmic language even further in the stunningly complex Fourth Symphony. Dvořák’s final symphony was composed from Native-American and African-American source materials, from which he drew unforgettable melodies and dramatic harmonies that gelled into his most popular creation.

LAPhil: Salonen Conducts
2020-02-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-02-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-02-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-02-13 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Vibrant musical theater from the Weimar Republic. Widely acclaimed English actor/writer/director Simon McBurney and his equally accomplished brother, composer/writer/scholar Gerard McBurney, collaborate with Salonen to present darkly satirical musical-theater works from the heyday of German Expressionism. The music is inflected with 1920s jazz and popular song, along with an edge of cynicism. LA Master Chorale sings on Hindemith’s “Murderer, the Hope of Women.”

LAPhil: Mehta's Mahler
2020-01-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-01-04 20:00 - 22:00, 2020-01-03 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Mehta reveals his deep affinity for Mahler in one of the composer’s most overwhelmingly transcendent works. The climax of the ecstatic finale is deeply stirring and unforgettable.

LAMC: Festival of Carols
2019-12-14 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Herald the arrival of the holidays with our annual selection of treasured carols and songs, conducted by Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Eric Whitacre. The program includes traditional favorites, newer arrangements, and some seasonal surprises.

LAPhil: Mehta’s Mahler
2019-10-25 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
LA Philharmonic extends their Centennial celebration throughout the weekend, with each Music Director leading a specialty of his. Mehta’s affinity for Mahler will shine through this performance of the composer’s overwhelming “Resurrection.”

LAMC: Bruckner's Great Mass
2019-10-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Our season opens with works new to the Los Angeles Master Chorale, both imbued with mysticism. Bruckner’s Mass in F Minor reflects his devout spiritualism and Romantic-era passion, intensity, and color. Golijov’s Oceana, which gets its Los Angeles premiere, marries music with poetry by Pablo Neruda to depict, in the composer’s words, “water and longing, light and hope, the immensity of South America’s nature and pain.”

Jónsi & Alex Somers: Riceboy Sleeps Tour
2019-10-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Golden Gate Theater, 1 Taylor St, San Francisco, California, 94102, United States
Jónsi (Sigur Rós) & Alex Somers perform the Riceboy Sleeps album live on stage on a 10th anniversary tour in intimate theaters across North America for the first time with the Wordless Music Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Robert Ames from the London Contemporary Orchestra, with arrangements by David Handler of Ensemble LPR.

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Sharmila G. Lash and Friends
2019-09-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Denver) | Piedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Sharmila G. Lash revisits her “Music for, by, and about Women” project with more friends and more music, including chamber pieces with vocal ensemble EQV, followed by a jazz set with pianist Anne Sajdera. They will present music by Melissa Dunphy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Moira Smiley, and others, including originals by Anne and Sharmila. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

LAMC: Big Sing 2019
2019-08-31 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Music Center Plaza, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Big Sing returns this summer as part of the Music Center’s Plaza for All Celebration, commemorating its newly renovated plaza. Our rousing sing-along will include members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and over 2,000 people from throughout Los Angeles, led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director. Guest conductors will be Eric Whitacre, Swan Family Artist-in-Residence; Associate Conductor, Jenny Wong; Sue Fink, Angel City Chorale Artistic Director; Adrien Redford, PRISM Co-Artistic Director; and Kristen Toedtman, Director of Baltimore’s Community Chorus of Peabody. Participation is free, and reservations are not required.A commemorative song booklet will be available for free on the day of the event.

LAPhil: Britain at the Bowl
2019-08-13 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90068, United States
Los Angeles Master Chorale joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Bramwell Tovey. Beginning with soaring coronation music by Handel and Britten’s ingenious introduction to orchestral instruments, British musical treats in abundance await you on this special night, including – of course – the crackling wit of Gilbert & Sullivan and Noel Coward, and concluding with the ceremonial pomp of Elgar’s most famous march.

LAPhil: Dudamel Conducts Mahler’s 2nd
2019-07-23 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90068, United States
Los Angeles Master Chorale joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel. Beginning with an intense scene of a hero’s funeral, Mahler’s huge Second Symphony transports us on a remarkable journey, delving deep into life and death from every possible perspective, from terrifying to transcendent. As Beethoven did in his Ninth, Mahler adds voices near the end, barely audible at first, but then ringing out along with massive orchestral forces in a towering climax, as the soul is raised into immortality.

Volti: Festival Napa Valley closing concert
2019-07-20 17:30 - 20:00 UTC | Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville, California, 94599, United States
Volti sings music of Gordon Getty and Holst with Festival Orchestra Napa, led by Joel Revzen. The Festival’s closing concert reaches for the stars 50 years to the day after Apollo 11 landed on the moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong took “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

LAPhil: Dudamel Conducts Mahler’s Eighth
2019-06-02 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-05-31 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-05-30 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Feel the energy when Gustavo Dudamel ignites the monumental and explosive “Symphony of a Thousand”. Dudamel is renowned for his Mahler interpretations, but neither he nor anyone else has performed the monumental “Symphony of a Thousand” inside Walt Disney Concert Hall. Just imagine the huge orchestra, pipe organ and massed choirs in the explosive opening movement, “Come, Creator Spirit.”

LAPhil: Masses by Haydn & Beethoven
2019-05-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2019-05-25 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Tranquil beauty and high drama light up Walt Disney Concert Hall, as LA Master Chorale sings with LA Philharmonic, led by the always joyful Gustavo Dudamel. For listeners used to the brawny drama of Beethoven’s Fifth and the epic vision of his Missa solemnis, the composer’s Mass in C may surprise with its tranquility and beauty. In contrast, Haydn’s most performed Mass is highly dramatic, with a soaring soprano solo and masterfully interwoven choral lines.

LAMC: Great Opera & Film Choruses
2019-05-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
As an ensemble that grew up in the land of Hollywood, the Los Angeles Master Chorale has been featured on numerous film soundtracks, most recently John Williams’ Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Its singers are also familiar faces — and voices — in the opera house as both cast members and choristers. In this thrilling concert, Grant Gershon and the full Master Chorale draw back the curtain to revel in the most theatrical blockbusters of stage and screen.

LAMC: The Duruflé Requiem
2019-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Associate Conductor Jenny Wong leads a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s beloved Requiem, the composer’s evocation of the essence of Gregorian style. This piece was a particular favorite of previous Master Chorale Music Directors, Roger Wagner and Paul Salamunovich, both contemporaries of the composer. Dale Trumbore’s “secular requiem” How to Go On won the 2017 ASCAP Young Composers Award. A setting of poems by American writers Barbara Crooker, Amy Fleury, and Laura Foley, the piece finds beauty and release in the embrace of everyday life, ultimately offering up solace.

LAMC: Eric Whitacre's The Sacred Veil
2019-02-17 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-02-16 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
Composer Eric Whitacre and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, longtime collaborators and close friends, come together for their most personal and expansive work to date. Whitacre, the Master Chorale’s Swan Family Artist-in-Residence, has created a powerful score for Silvestri’s heartfelt poetry exploring the fragile line between love and loss. The Sacred Veil includes “I Fall,” memorably performed by the Master Chorale in June 2017, and now expanded into a full concert work.

Sharmila G. Lash & Friends
2019-02-10 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Piedmont Piano Company, 1728 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
For Piedmont Piano Company’s 40th anniversary celebration, Sharmila G. Lash presents a few a cappella ensemble pieces with fellow singers Yuhi Aizawa Combatti, Shauna Fallihee, and Colby Smith, followed by solo jazz tunes accompanied by pianist Art Lande. There will be music by Duruflé, Barber, Ellington, Jobim, and others, including a couple of Sharmila’s originals.
