The LA Composers Project

with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet

See the programs

What’s Next? is pleased to announce the return of The Los Angeles Composers Project! Featuring to music of many of the Los Angeles area's finest young and established composers, the LA Composers project is the most comprehensive celebration of LA's vibrant and burgeoning composition scene.

This year's Los Angeles Composers Project will feature a special guest residency and performance by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, the most exciting young new music group formed in Los Angeles in the past year. Lead by director Nick Terry, the Quartet will perform a program of all Los Angeles-based composers on Thursday night.

Over the course of two weeks, some of Los Angeles's (and the country's) finest student and young profesional musicians will come together to produce and perform three concerts of new and almost new music on the University of Southern California campus. Aiming to showcase and celebrate LA's talented and eclectic compositional voices, the project takes a wide ranging and inclusive approach to programming, from Pulitzer Prize finalist to aspiring student, avant-garde to tango. Don't miss this exciting gathering and musical event.

The Programs

All concerts are in Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC   map

Wednesday, May 26th, 8 pm

that's a new dog	Francis Kayali
This is Just to Say	Robert Denham
candlepin-bowling-deadwood	Alan Shockley
Little Deaths	Arthur Jarvinen
Guitar Quartet	A.J. McCaffrey
The Triumph of Sisyphus	David Plylar

The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
Thursday, May 27th, 8 pm

with Vicki Ray, piano solo, TJ Troy, percussion, Jane Grothe and Jillian Risigari-Gai, harp

Ritual Dances	Eric Guinivan
Bad Times Coming	Shaun Naidoo
Rays of Twilight	Jeffrey Holmes
Occasus (world premiere)	Jeffrey Holmes

Friday, May 28th, 8 pm

featuring special guests the Angeles Saxophone Quartet

Back Burner	Frank Ticheli
Nocturne	Patricio Da Silva
Still Images of the Restless Mind	Vera Ivanova
Moto Perpetuo	Marinescu Liviu
Mobile ii ("Dear Mr. Edison")	Isaac Schankler
Triangular Antiphonies	Christopher Brakel

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This event is made possible in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composer's Forum.