Bryan is excited to join the Areté Vocal Ensemble for this timely and moving project as a featured soloist and ensemble member. The piece is incredibly moving and is a call to action for justice in our time.

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Areté, the innovative professional ensemble of vocal artists, returns to the stage for its 11th season to perform Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson.

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die days later in a lonely field under a blanket of stars. Two decades later, Johnson has responded with his first concert-length work. This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets to music a wide range of poetic and soulful texts as well as passages from Shepard’s personal journal and his parents’ interviews and writings. The Washington Post wrote, “Considering Matthew Shepard demonstrates music’s capacity to encompass, transform and transcend tragedy. Powerfully cathartic, it leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure.”

With uncompromising attention to musical detail and a passion for live performance, Areté provides a joyful, moving, educational and soul-nurturing experience. Wyant Morton conducts.

Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 if purchased online in advance. Tickets for students with ID are $10 and free for children under 12. For information and to purchase tickets, visit aretevocalensemble.

Praised and imitated by his contemporaries and revered throughout the centuries, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina crafted some of the greatest a capella music of all time. Jouyssance devotes an entire concert to this contrapuntal master, presenting not only his most beloved motets, but also the sumptuous Missa L'homme armé à 5.  Although he is long associated with the Catholic Church, Palestrina had a rarely seen secular side, which Jouyssance will explore with a selection of his madrigals.

Praised and imitated by his contemporaries and revered throughout the centuries, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina crafted some of the greatest a capella music of all time. Jouyssance devotes an entire concert to this contrapuntal master, presenting not only his most beloved motets, but also the sumptuous Missa L'homme armé à 5.  Although he is long associated with the Catholic Church, Palestrina had a rarely seen secular side, which Jouyssance will explore with a selection of his madrigals.

Chung Uk Lee-Conductor

Los Angeles Chamber Choir begins the 2017 season with J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion.  On April 2nd, Los Angeles Chamber Choir will perform The Passion According to St. John. 
Please join us for the beginning of what should be another great year for Los Angeles Chamber Choir.  The concert will begin promptly at 7:30 in the evening on Sunday, April 2nd at The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.  For ticket information, please contact us.

The innovative professional ensemble of vocal artists concludes its 8th season with concert featuring music of the great 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc.  The centerpiece of the concert will be a performance by the full ensemble of his Gloria.  This famous sacred work will be juxtaposed with art songs and jazz influenced Parisian cabaret songs by Poulenc and other prominent composers of the era.

With uncompromising attention to musical detail and a passion for live performance Areté provides a joyful, moving, educational and soul-nurturing experience.

Bryan Lane will be a featured soloist performing Poulenc's Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon.