Celebrating our 16th Season

5 Main Series programs in West LA and Pasadena; a return to the OC and a venture to Montecito; 4 conversational Happy Hours; a Sounds Delicious Christmas Concert + Tea; and virtual seats at nearly all of our concerts.

At every one of our events, you can expect:

• World-class musical performance

• Ample opportunities to interact personally with the musicians performing

• Complimentary wine to grease your conversational wheels 

• The music to be expertly set in context for you, priming you to absorb its meaning and beauty to the fullest

• A friendly, unpretentious good time among fellow music nerds – newbies and the cognoscenti alike

🎟️ Our affordability pledge

• 🍸 Happy Hour Concerts: “The best deal in town for classical music lovers”

  • Just $5 general admission

  • Free for Salastina Members and students with valid ID

• 🎶 Main Series Concerts

  • $45 standard ticket

  • 20% off for Salastina Members (Friend level and above)

  • $10 student tickets

• 💻 Livestreams

  • Free + on-demand for Salastina Members

  • $10 for non-members

  • includes 3-day viewing window

• 👨‍👩‍👧 Family-Friendly

  • All events welcome families

  • Most appropriate for ages 12 and up

Main Series: how Salastina does tradition, hosted by Brian Lauritzen

Join us for our celebration of our Resident Artists and beloved classics at 5 Main Series concerts. These include a flute and piano recital of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff; a Dissonance-themed quartet program taking Mozart's quartet of the same name as point of departure; a French program featuring the harp; Schumann’s Piano Quintet; and Beethoven and Schubert performed on period instruments.

Tickets to Main Series are $45
Students $10
Livestream $10 (free for Salastina Members) Salastina Members receive 20% off tickets

Happy Hours: our take on the salon tradition

Happy Hour concerts feature intimate discussion of a musical subject, and earlier concerts to boot. Our 4 Happy Hours this season will feature the perennial audience favorite, Brian Lauritzen’s Sounds Mysterious musical guessing game, guest artists, and a return to our new Family Happy Hour. Our regular Happy Hours are appropriate for children 12 years of age and older.

Tickets to Happy Hour are $5
Students are free
Livestream $10 (free for Salastina Members) Tickets for Salastina Members are free

Sounds Delicious: gourmet feast + live music + whimsical themes in an intimate setting

In December, we’ll be revisiting the glorious Doheny Mansion for an update on our annual holiday tradition: A Gilded Christmas Tea.

September & October

November

Main Series No. 2: Beauty in Tension

Friday, November 7, 2025 @ 8 PM - Palos Verdes
Private residence in Palos Verdes

Saturday, November 8, 2025 @ 3 PM - West LA
Moroccan Room at Village Studios

Sunday, November 9, 2025 @ 3 PM - OC
Location to be announced

Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 8 PM - Pasadena + Livestream
Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Sometimes, music soars. Sometimes, it aches. And sometimes, it refuses to resolve — until it finally does. This program explores the fragile, cathartic space between dissonance and harmony, intimacy and instability. From Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet and Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Prokofiev’s lyrical modernism, Caroline Shaw’s crystalline sound world, and Gesualdo’s haunting Renaissance chromaticism, this is music that finds beauty in unrest, and invites us to do the same.

Vital Sounds Fundraiser: Mozart Masquerade

Thursday, November 20, 2025 @ 6 PM - Pasadena
Maxwell House

Step into the elegance of the 18th century for an evening of music, mystique, and merriment. Join Salastina’s resident pianist HyeJin Kim as she brings Mozart to life on the fortepiano, the instrument of his time. Guests are invited to don their finest masquerade attire and enjoy a night where period style meets artistry, period. All proceeds support Salastina’s live concerts, Vital Sounds virtual bedside concerts at Huntington Health, and Sounds Promising Young Composers program.

December

Sounds Delicious: A Gilded Christmas Tea

December TBD - Doheny Mansion, DTLA

Step into a Victorian winter wonderland at Salastina’s signature Christmas Tea. Set in the opulent Pompeian Room of the historic Doheny Mansion, this festive gathering features traditional carolers, a string quartet performing music of the era, and a lavish holiday tea service. With its Dickensian charm and unforgettable setting, replete with a twenty-foot Christmas tree (under an ombre glass dome made of 2,836 pieces of original Tiffany gold-favrile glass), this event sells out quickly each year. Two seatings available; reserve early!

Happy Hour No. 132: Special Guest TBA

December TBD - Doheny Mansion, DTLA

January

Main Series No. 3: Les Délices Impressionistes

Friday, January 23, 2026 @ 8 PM - Lake Forest
Chamber Music I OC

Saturday, January 24, 2026 @ 3 PM - Palos Verdes
Private residence in Palos Verdes

Sunday, January 25, 2026 @ 3 PM - West LA
Moroccan Room at Village Studios

Saturday, January 31, 2026 @ 3 PM - Pasadena + Livestream
Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music

This program celebrates the evocative power of French music for strings, flute, and harp. At its heart is the rarely heard Jean Cras, a naval officer-composer whose music lends modern color to Romanticism. Alongside him: Saint-Saëns’ elegance, Ravel’s refined sensuality, and Debussy — who bristled at the label Impressionist — offering sound worlds more exacting, expressive, and immersive than any Monet fridge magnet.

February & March

Main Series No. 4: Beethoven and Schubert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 @ 3 PM - OC
Location to be announced

Sunday, February 22, 2026 @ 3 PM - West LA
Moroccan Room at Village Studios

Friday, February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 PM - Montecito
Lehmann Hall at Music Academy of the West

Sunday, March 1, 2026 @ 3 PM - Pasadena + Livestream
Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Before the concert hall, there was the salon. Before the grand piano, the fortepiano. This program invites you into the sound world of Beethoven and Schubert as they themselves might have heard it: with warm gut strings, responsive transitional bows, and a fortepiano’s round touch. On the program: Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major and Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Major, “Spring” as well as Schubert’s Piano Trio in B Flat Major.

April

Main Series No. 5: Familiar | Forgotten | Fresh

Sunday, April 19, 2026 @ 3 PM - OC
Location to be announced

Saturday, Apr 25, 2026 @ 3 PM - West LA
Moroccan Room at Village Studios

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 @ 3 PM - Pasadena + Livestream
Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Three piano quintets bridge time and taste through music that’s beloved, overlooked, and brand-spanking new. On the program: Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Julius Rontgen’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in a minor, and a world premiere commission from one of our Sounds Promising Young Composer alumni.

May

Happy Hour No. 133: Sounds Mysterious with Brian Lauritzen

Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 3 PM - West LA + Livestream
Wende Museum

Brian Lauritzen leads our audience in our patented game of Guess The Composer. Though we’ve practiced every note, we still don’t know who wrote the music. In this audience-favorite musical guessing game, even the performers are in the dark about the composers’ identities. The audience joins us in sleuthing out the clues. Is that a hint of Haydn? A whiff of of Walton? A shade of Shostakovich? Or is it a total red herring? We’ll guess together, laugh together, and delight in the fact that classical music is more about curiosity and connection than the comfort of the familiar. (And yes: you’ve guessed the composers’ identities correctly more than we have.)