Choose 4 concerts from our Main Series and Happy Hour 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

August

Happy Hour No. 131: Gloria Cheng

Sunday, August 24, 2025 @ 3 PM - West LA + Livestream
A Frame Theater at The Wende Museum

Pianist Gloria Cheng is a muse to composers from John Williams to Esa-Pekka Salonen. In this afternoon of music and conversation, Gloria shares stories, insights, and spellbinding performances in equal measure. With half the program devoted to dialogue and the other to a mini recital, it’s a rare chance to engage with a living legend — up close and unscripted. This Happy Hour is free to attend.

September & October

Main Series No. 1: Ben and HyeJin Recital

Saturday, September 27, 2025 @ 3 PM - OC
Charlie and Ling Zhang Orchestra Hall at Concordia University Irvine

Sunday, September 28, 2025 @ 3 PM - West LA
Moroccan Room at The Village Studios

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 7:30 PM - Santa Barbara
Lehmann Hall at Music Academy of the West

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 3 PM Pasadena + Livestream
Location to be announced

Two masters of their instruments take on a trio of Russian-born visionaries—one who stayed (Prokofiev), one who left (Rachmaninoff), and one who redefined music abroad (Stravinsky). Salastina’s Resident Flutist Ben Smolen and Resident Pianist HyeJin Kim play Prokofiev's Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94 and premiere Ben’s original arrangement of Stravinksy’s Suite Italienne. The program also includes several of Rachmaninoff’s preludes for solo piano.

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 The 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.

December

Happy Hour No. 132: Special Guest TBA

December TBD - DTLA
Doheny Mansion at Mount Saint Mary’s University

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 The 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 The Village Studios

Friday, February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 PM - Santa Barbara
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 The 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
A Frame Theater at The 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.)