Grand, Adventure-seeking Pianist Takes the Spotlight
Respect pianist Conor Hanick, veteran Music Academy of the West faculty member, takes center stage in Samuel Adams’ Piano Concerto, at the Granada Theatre.
Respect pianist Conor Hanick, veteran Music Academy of the West faculty member, takes center stage in Samuel Adams’ Piano Concerto, at the Granada Theatre.
The columnist returns to the historic Molde Jazz Festival, with ears wide open; Music Academy of the West gets operatic.
Dick Dunlap was not an open book kind of guy. He had an air of mystique and soft-spoken introspection about
“Rose of Nevada,” from genuine auteur Mark Jenkins, gives an alluring artistic sheen to the supernatural thriller genre.
Echoes of the now-defunct Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra filter into the Lobero Theatre with a special evening of “Dessert with Mozart,” featuring longtime SBCO maestro Heiichiro Ohyama.
Music Academy of the West keeps the beat; columnist heads to the North Sea Jazz Festival — @ 50 — on a jazz-seeking, brain-cleansing pilgrimage.
Noted composer Kevin Puts heads to town via the Music Academy of the West, featuring his one-act opera “Elizabeth Cree.”
As the Music Academy of the West season moves forward, the first in the “living Composer” component, the famed Missy Mazzoli, swings through town.
Jacqueline Woods’s “How Forever Works” exhibition at Architectural Foundation alters and imbues new meaning on archival “found” photographs, to artful ends.
Music Academy of the West’s annual orchestra concert series kicks off grandly at the Granada, with a well-timed American/German, Gershwin/Brahms program.