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Commission your own aria! Help us breathe new life into the timeless beauty of Mozart. Click below to learn how you can be a part of this groundbreaking premiere -- and the many cool perks that come with your support.... https://www.salastina.org/arias

OC fan tutte's Briella will be sung by Broadway star Ali Ewoldt! Tickets on sale now through https://linktr.ee/salastinala or at www.salastina.org Prepare to get your feathers delightfully ruffled! OC fan tutte librettist Vid Guerrerio brings much-needed levity to today's Culture Wars by ingeniously replacing Cosi's 18th-century misogyny with issues of gender equality and marriage rights. Born outside Chicago and raised 45 minutes north of New York City in the small ...town of Pleasantville, Ali has loved performing for as long as she can remember. She made her Broadway debut as Cosette in the 1st Broadway Revival of Les Miserables and starred as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway for over two years. Ali has starred as Maria in the 1st National Tour of West Side Story directed by Arthur Laurents and David Saint and played Luisa in the The Fantasticks Off-Broadway, the world’s longest running musical. She has been featured on The Michael J. Fox Show, the short film Yield and DRAMA: The Webseries and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Town Hall, and across the country and world! Ali also has a BA in Psychology from Yale University, which has proved surprisingly relevant to her career.

Hope to see you tonight!

To be revealed soon! These are a few still images from Salastina's recent recording of Derrick Skye's "Grace Unbound." If you were at last night's Happy Hour you got to see a sneak peek! Everyone else will need to wait for the official release in the Fall.

A short teaser from Sophie Kuba’s beautiful piece Aurora Humanis that Salastina musicians premiered two weeks ago during the Sounds Promising World Premieres Part One. Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ufOTeObEOpY Tonight, Salastina musicians are premiering Part Deux of our talented Young Composers works. Join us @ salastina.org and watch live!

Two weeks ago Salastina musicians premiered Sounds Promising Young Composer Prateek Rajagopal’s @protek04 Rub’ al Khali at our Happy Hour. Join us tomorrow at 6pm(PT) for PART DEUX of our Sounds Promising World Premieres! RSVP @ salastina.org and link in bio. We will be premiering works from Kian Ravaei, Britni Louise, and Anna Kouchnerov. @kianravaei @__itsbrit__ @kouchnerov

Sounds Promising Young Composer Sophie Kuba premiered "Aurora Humanis" last week during our Happy Hour. Sophie's textural piece is written for violin, piano, cello, and flute. Our Sounds Promising young composers worked under the mentorship of Derrick Skye and were all awarded full scholarships for their participation in the program through the generosity of our Members and our friends at Long Beach Block By Block. Aurora Humanis... Sophie Kuba, composer Salastina Los Angeles, world premiere Maia Jasper White, violin HyeJin Kim, piano Yoshika Masuda, cello Benjamin Smolen, flute See more

Get ready for tomorrow's Salastina Happy Hour Halloween Party with Resident Violist Meredith Crawford! Magnificent Chef Becky Reams has shared her world-famous Harry Potter-inspired Butter Beer recipe with us. Grab the ingredients today and join us tomorrow at 6pm(Pacific Time) for live spooky music and hilarious conversation. RSVP for your Zoom link! https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-30-salastina-hall

To celebrate Halloween and our 30th consecutive Happy Hour, we are keeping things light and spontaneous. We’re thrilled to shine the spotlight onMeredith Crawford, our lovely Resident Violist, for this occasion. Chef Becky Reams, (@chefbeckyreams) with whom we've enjoyed a years-long collaboration, joins alongside Meredith’s compatriots from Long Beach Block x Block(@lbbxbsocial . https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-30-salastina-hall Costumes optional!... Join us for: * Live performances of fun, festive, and spooky music * the inside scoop on what it’s like to record the music for movies like Star Wars * Chef Becky’s recipe for Butter Beer * the chance to get to know the coolest violist in the land

We thought it was good timing to share the video of this beautiful piece Resident Violist Meredith Crawford wrote, with "True Colors" as its main theme. We found it consoling and relevant to remote-record during this emotionally-charged, socially-distant, politically-fraught time. Join Salastina next Tuesday for a very special Happy Hour spotlighting Meredith Crawford. Drop by for some fun conversation, spooky music, and festive company. RSVP https://www.salastina.org//hap...py-hour-no-30-salastina-hall Maia Jasper White and Kevin Kumar, violins Meredith Crawford, viola Yoshika Masuda, cello

Keeping things light and spontaneous this week. Join us for some fun, spooky music, and festive company. We’re thrilled to shine the spotlight on Meredith Crawford, our lovely Resident Violist, for the occasion. Come in costume if you wish! As always, RSVP through the link and we will send your Zoom invite shortly before the Happy Hour. https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-30-salastina-hall

For any interested friends out there, sign up to play at http://www.PlayForTheVote.com

Get excited for tonight's Salastina Happy Hour with special guest, composer Tarik O'Regan. Starting at 6pm(Pacific Time) and completely FREE. RSVP to receive your Zoom invite! https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-29-tarik-oregan-c This is Tarik O'Regan's Triptych, from 2005, performed by Conspirare, and accompanied by the Company of Strings.

Salastina Co-Director Maia Jasper White gives Seth Rogen a violin lesson. A dedicated teacher, Maia is the Director of Chamber Music at Caltech. The robust program serves nearly 10% of the student body. She served on the chamber music faculty of the Colburn School of Performing Arts for 10 years. Additionally, Maia has taught both violin and chamber music at Chapman University and the Luzerne Music Center. She also served as a guest artist-teacher in period performance practice at CalArts. Here's some exciting trivia, Maia was recently called "the coolest violin teacher in the land" by a very famous violinist. Bet you can't guess which one!

YourClassical put together a podcast exploring American classical music featuring Derrick Spiva’s American Mirror in Hour 1. To hear Derrick’s thoughts on this piece, along with the complete Salastina performance of it, check out our podcast: https://www.salastina.org/podcast And stay tuned later this month as we hope to have another announcement featuring this piece in an upcoming performance!

This week's office. Fox studios, recording Suicide Squad 2. Playing epic music for this character is making me question my life choices.

Here is an iPhone video of Tarik O'Regan's "Blessed Are They" performed by Robert Istad conducting the Pacific Chorale and Salastina Music Society during Yarlung's recording in May, 2019. Join Salastina next Tuesday, October 20 at 6pm(Pacific Time) as we are joined by composer Tarik O'Regan for an hour of music and conversation. RSVP to reserve your Zoom invitation. https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-29-tarik-oregan-c

Next week! Join Salastina on Tuesday, October 20th at 6pm(Pacific Time) with our special guest, composer Tarik O'Regan for our 29th FREE virtual Happy Hour. Tarik will be taking time to join Salastina musicians and our Happy Hour audience for an hour of music and conversation. RSVP to reserve your spot. https://www.salastina.org//happy-hour-no-29-tarik-oregan-c British-born Tarik has written music for a wide variety of ensembles and organizations; these include the Dutch Na...tional Ballet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Sydney Dance Company, Chamber Choir Ireland, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and the Royal Opera House, London. He is currently working on a saxophone concerto, which has been commissioned for soloist Amy Dickson by the Presteigne Festival to be premiered during his tenure as Composer-in-Residence in 2020.

Interesting article about a young violist’s experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. No one expects an entire field to disappear...

We think the time is right for some thoroughly modern Mozart! Salastina seeks $50,000 in support of our 2021/2022 season production of OC fan tutte, a modern, English adaptation of Mozart’s comic opera Così. https://www.salastina.org/commission-your-own-aria In recent years, we've all watched and participated in friction between the political right and left. The heat will only intensify in the months to come, both leading up to and following the U.S. presidential electio...n. OC fan tutte explores this friction with both humor and compassion. In its gentle satire, it points out that we all fall victim to our own self-righteousness. Our society is consumed with issues of equity: for women, for the LGBTQ community, for BIPOC, for marriage rights, and beyond. We're well into a post-#metoo era. We are still reeling from the fall-out and attempting to make sense of it all. OC fan tutte serves this meaning-making process. The time is right for this piece to get this makeover. The time is right for Salastina, too. We're a small, locally-grown chamber music series with big ambitions. Producing this piece alone is a big win for us. Doing it right will put us on the map as an organization nationwide. COVID curtailed the June 5 - 7, 2020 performance dates we’d set early in 2019. As luck would have it, this piece takes place primarily in an outdoor mall. Should the pandemic make indoor performance inadvisable during the 2021/2022 season, we intend to produce it outdoors. Supporting this premiere is also a way to express and fulfill your hope for the return of live performance in the not-too-distant future.

TONIGHT at 6pm(Pacific Time) Join Salastina musicians with our guest, Wu Man, for an hour of music and conversation. RSVP for your Zoom invitation. https://www.salastina.org//10/13/happy-hour-no-28-wu-man-p