The LA Composer Series from Wild Up

Tribute to Sarah Gibson, curated by Mona Tian

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Program

  • Kay Rhie In The Dreams of Another

  • Kay Rhie Apertures

  • Nina Young Meditation

  • Ellen Reid West Coast Sky

  • M.A. Tiesenga rotoglyph

  • Nina Shekar Warm In My Veins

  • Nina Shekar Cajón

  • Sarah Gibson You Are Still Here

About

A new series from Wild Up spotlights works by living composers based in Los Angeles and showcases Wild Up's unique blend of new music, theater, performance art, and pop. This month, curated by Wild Up’s Mona Tian. This concert, featuring a selection of chamber works and solo pieces by Los Angeles-based female composers of different generations is curated by violinist Mona Tian, joined by cellist Mia Barcia-Colombo and violist Carson Rick. The program pays tribute to Sarah Gibson, a dear friend and important collaborator, who passed away this year. Although she is no longer with us, her spirit lives on through her thoughtful and electrifying music. The other pieces on the program are chosen to represent our city's richly diverse sound and multi-cultural landscape.

About Endless Season

Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.

Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.

More about Endless Season

Endless Season 2024-2025

Endless Season continues internationally and across Los Angeles, as we embark on a year of festivals, residencies, and deep explorations of sound and those close-to-the-heart feelings that draw us toward one another. We begin by bringing the music of Julius Eastman to Germany at Ruhrtriennale. Then, we look toward the future of society with a weekend of democratic music-making with Democracy Sessions at MOCA Warehouse. In 2025, we untether Darkness Sounding, a festival that explores how listening, sound, and music shape our understanding of the world, from LA to congregate in New York around tuning and droves of medieval harmonies at 92NY. And we explore what it means to live life To The Fullest, celebrating selves brimming with unique righteousness, around the music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell in a three-month-long festival with the LA Philharmonic and REDCAT and other partners yet to be announced.