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The opening concert for La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2022 brings together compositions written in collaboration with multiple composers or played by multiple performers on the same instruments all performed by some of the most brilliant chamber musicians of our era. A series of Romantic-era variations culminates in two stunning quartets, Bacewicz’ Quartet for Four Violins and Czerny’s Quartet for Four Pianos, with four of the finest pianists in the world—Garrick Ohlsson, Inon Barnatan, Joyce Yang, and Wynona Yinuo Wang—on stage at once.With prelude interview with Inon Barnatan hosted by Leah Rosenthal at 6:30 p.m. at the The JAI.Date | Friday, July 29 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $53 to $113. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/opening-night-side-by-side or call LJMS at (858) 459-3728.

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has spent more than 10,000 hours underwater, often in extreme conditions beneath Arctic ice and in predator-infested waters. Journey with him from the North Atlantic, where harp seals face the threat of declining sea ice, to the temperate waters of New Zealand, home of the fastest shark in the world—the mako. The stunning images he captures while on assignment offer a mesmerizing glimpse of the “soul of the sea.”National Geographic Live is presented by Office Depot.Date | Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m.Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Get tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $36 to $70.For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/brian-skerry or call (858) 459-3728.

In 2005, Kim Osorio sued The Source for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environment, retaliation, defamation. Responses to the case reinforced hip-hop's culture of silence.

A 27-year-old Queens rapper took a defining hip-hop practice and reinvigorated a subgenre, in New York City and beyond.

This special event transforms The Conrad for the spellbinding, once-in-a-generation vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, a multi-GRAMMY-winner and MacArthur Fellow. Salvant has a captivating passion for storytelling and weaves together jazz, blues, Baroque, and folk traditions from the world over. This evening’s concert will feature works from her new album, "Ghost Song," her “most revealing and rewarding album yet” (The New York Times). You’ll leave the concert entranced, but don’t float away too soon. Stick around after the show for the best of San Diego’s culinary scene, craft cocktails, and more live music.This show is part of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2022, with a prelude interview with Cécile McLorin Salvant hosted at 6 p.m.Date | Wednesday, August 17 at 7 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Get tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/cecile-mclorin-salvant or call (858) 459-3728.

The former lawyer's testimony in his own murder trial marks the latest dramatic shift in a case involving a wealthy, prominent South Carolina family.

The Baroque period contains riches that inspired composers above any other. We begin with J.S Bach’s immortal concerto for two violins, and continue to explore some of the most captivating pieces of his era and beyond, with C.P.E. Bach’s (his son) Cello Concerto, Biber’s brilliant and irreverent Battalia, a commentary on the Thirty Year War that engulfed Europe at the time, and Grosso Mogul, Vivaldi’s fiery and dazzling concerto.Date | Sunday, July 31 at 3 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/beyond-bach or call (858) 459-3728.

Interdependent yet independent, these selections explore the musical concept of counterpoint—the relationship between two or more musical lines or voices, used by composers spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century. The evening includes the world première of a multimedia version of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, the Synergy Initiative, and Lincoln Center, which will feature clarinetists from all of the Lincoln Center performing ensembles.Date | Saturday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/point-counterpoint or call (858) 459-3728.

Please join the Climate Hub in our first quarterly meeting of 2022. We will be hosting a virtual Q and A with local youth activists in San Diego on March 30th from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Moderator: Lucero Sanchez, San Diego Coastkeeper Panelists: Denisse Lopez, Mid-City CAN Olivia Humphrey, SDSU Green Love Natalia Armenta, Youth4Climate Tatiana Butte, Outdoor Outreach Topic: The Next Generation of Change Makers Time: Mar 30, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88276683242?pwd=Y2xlMDVrQnYvT2NxVldLZkRvNnphUT09 Meeting ID: 882 7668 3242 Passcode: gq5AwZ

Audiences will be captivated by a newly conceived, semi-staged celebration of Kurt Weill’s extraordinary body of work. Directed by Zack Winokur, one of the most innovative and exciting talents working today, the program features two of the world’s most in-demand vocalists: Anthony Roth Costanzo, who became an international sensation and won a GRAMMY for his portrayal of the pharaoh in Philip Glass’s opera Akhnaten, and GRAMMY Award-winner Cecile McLorin Salvant, alongside an ensemble of SummerFest musicians for an incomparable evening you will not want to miss.Date | Thursday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $53 to $113. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/kurt-weill or call (858) 459-3728.