Can’t get enough of Salastina? We can’t get enough of you!

Enjoy our full seasons’ livestream offerings: 5 Main Series programs and 3 conversational Happy Hours for $80 / Members Free. Our Livestreams are available to watch for 3 days after the event, and indefinitely for Members.

At every one of our events, you can expect:

  • World-class musical performance

  • For 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

Livestream Happy Hour No. 131: Gloria Cheng

Sunday, August 24, 2025 @ 3 PM (PT)

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. On the program: a movement from John Williams' Conversations and selections from Gloria's album Root Progressions. 

Livestream Main Series No. 1: Ben and HyeJin Recital

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 3 PM (PT)

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.

Livestream Main Series No. 2: Beauty in Tension

Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 8 PM (PT)

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.

Livestream Happy Hour No. 132: Special Guest TBA

December TBD

Livestream Main Series No. 3: Les Délices Impressionistes

Saturday, January 31, 2026 @ 3 PM (PT)

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.

Livestream Main Series No. 4: Beethoven and Schubert

Sunday, March 1, 2026 @ 3 PM (PT)

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.

Livestream Main Series No. 5: Familiar | Forgotten | Fresh

Sunday, Apr 26, 2026 @ 3 PM (PT)

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.

Livestream Happy Hour No. 133: Sounds Mysterious with Brian Lauritzen

Saturday, May 23, 2026 @ 3 PM (PT)

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.)