Each year since its founding in 1919, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been hailed as Southern California’s leading performing arts institution. Today, under the dynamic leadership of 35-year-old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, who in 2009 became the orchestra’s eleventh music director, the Philharmonic is still recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras. When he inaugurated his Philharmonic tenure at the Hollywood Bowl, a crowd of eighteen thousand people greeted him with a hollering and stamping pop-star ovation.

  Dec 31:      
                    Bernard HERRMANN: Suite from Vertigo
                    Joseph PEREIRA: Naru (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
                    Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
 
  Jan 7:       
                    Sunghyun LEE: Clockworks and Fireworks (world premiere LA Phil commission)
                    Kay Kyurim RHIE: H’on (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
                    Texu KIM: Viola Concerto “Ko-Oh” (world premiere of revised work, LA Phil commission)
                    Johannes BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1