Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Baroque Program Features Vocal and Trumpet Works by Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi, Others

GRAMMY-nominated Countertenor Reginald Mobley, who sang at the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023, interprets Vivaldi’s rendition of the 13^th century poem Stabat Mater, a meditation on sorrow, forgiveness, and the divine, on the first of two programs on Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s engaging Baroque Series on Saturday, January 11, 7:30 pm, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and Sunday, January 12, 2025, 4 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino.

Led by LACO Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer, the repertoire also includes songs by Purcell and Dowland as well as Handel’s Eternal Source of Light Divine, written for Queen Anne’s birthday in 1713. Paul Merkelo, who has served as solo trumpeter with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal since 1995, and LACO Principal Trumpet David Washburn display their considerable skills on a selection of regal Baroque trumpet gems by Handel and Tartini as well as the world premiere of Jeff Beal’s LACO-commissioned End of Empire, a concerto for two trumpets.

They join LACO violinists Misha Vayman, Jacqueline Brand, Josefina Vergara, Jason Issokson, and Tamara Hatway; violists Jonathan Moerschel and Colleen Sugata; cellists Andrew Shulman and Trevor Handy; bassist David Grossman; oboists Claire Brazeau and Adrienne Malley; bassoonist Jonathan Stehney; keyboardist Patricia Mabee; and lutist Kevin Cooper.

CELESTIALS: MOBLEY VIVALDI is made possible, in part, with the generous support from Gregory J. Soukup Mary Jo Carr.

LACO recognizes the generous support of the Colburn Foundation. The Orchestra also receives public funding via grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; State of California; California Arts Council; the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Perenchio Foundation; and Walter J. Holly O. Thomson Foundation. LACO gratefully acknowledges Hogan Lovells US LLP for generous pro bono support. Steinway is the official piano of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.  

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is located at 9390 N Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

For tickets ($47-$84) and information, please visit www.laco.org or call 213 221 3920.