Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Opens Season with Violinist Benjamin Beilman

Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra launches its 2013-14 season with "Beethoven, Mozart,
Lutosławski & Kodály," a dynamic program brimming with youth conducted
by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane and featuring 24-year-old violinist Benjamin
Beilman, lauded by The New York Times
for his “handsome technique,” on Sunday, September 22, 7 pm, at UCLA’s Royce
Hall.  Beilman, making his LACO debut,
performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, “Turkish,” written
when the composer was just 19 years old. 
Kahane also conducts Beethoven’s Twelve Contredanses for Orchestra, Wo0
14, composed after Beethoven studied the art of dance music with Haydn and
which contains fragments that appear in some of the composer’s later great
masterworks.  The program concludes with
two works rooted firmly in the 20th Century – Kodály’s masterful and deeply
personal Dances of Galánta, rich in folk melodies that reflect the composer’s
idyllic childhood in the Hungarian countryside in Galánta, and Lutosławski’s Chain 2, the title of which is based on
a musical form invented by the preeminent Polish composer and consists of two
structurally independent strands linked together like chains.  Beilman is also the featured soloist on Chain 2.

Concert Preludes, pre-concert talks held one hour
before curtain and free for ticket holders, provide insights into the music and
artists.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is considered one of the
world’s premier chamber orchestras as well as a leader in presenting
wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissions.  Its 2013-14 season, the Orchestra's 45th,
features a compelling mix of beloved masterpieces and genre-defying premieres
from firmly established and notable up-and-coming composers programmed by
Jeffrey Kahane, one of the world’s foremost conductors and pianists, who marks
his 17th season as LACO’s music director. 

Tickets,
starting at $25, are on sale now and may be purchased online at laco.org, by calling LACO at 213
622 7001, or at the venue box office on the night of the concert,
if tickets remain.  Discounted tickets
are also available by phone for seniors 65 years of age and older and groups of
12 or more.  College students may purchase
student rush tickets ($10), based on availability, at the box office the day of
the concert.  Also available for college students is the $25 “Campus to Concert
Hall All Access Pass” – good for all seven of LACO’s Orchestral Series concerts
at either Ambassador Auditorium, Alex Theatre or UCLA’s Royce Hall, LACO’s
Discover Beethoven’s Eroica at Ambassador Auditorium, and all three Westside Connections concerts
at the Moss Theater.