California’s “La Jolla Music Society today announced the opening weekend concerts for its new home, The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center (The Conrad),” writes Taylor Grant in Thursday’s (2/7) MusicalAmerica.com (subscription required). “On April 5, 6, and 7, 019, the $82 million, 49,000-square-foot complex … will host three concerts: Opening night features violinist Hillary Hahn and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet; ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro; jookin specialist Lil Buck; the Miró Quartet; and creative technologist Osman Koç. Past and current SummerFest music directors, from Wu Han and David Finckel to Cho-Lian Lin, will also be feted. The Conrad includes … The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, with 513 seats, and The JAI, a 2,000-square-foot- multi-purpose space…. Designed by Epstein Joslin, whose other work includes Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood and the Strathmore Music Center in Baltimore, the two spaces cluster around a garden courtyard that invites patrons attending different events to mingle. Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics is responsible for the halls’ acoustics. Board Chair Katherine Chapin hailed The Conrad’s opening as … ‘a fitting accomplishment on the 50th anniversary of the La Jolla Music Society.”
Posted February 8, 2019
