2024

With Refik Anadol & Peter Sellars
lecture
Inspirations in My Music

Lecture about the inspirations in my music

Mostly Modern Festival - Saratoga Springs
lecture
Adès & Ravel

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2023

Martin Chalifour on an installation by Shoplifter
lecture
Dudamel, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Khachaturian, Adès & Janáček

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
panelist
History of New Music in California

A Brief History of New Music in California and discussion of the California Festival (Nov. 2023)

ACSO Annual Conference (Riverside, CA)
More Event Information:
https://www.acso.org/conference

Past Lectures
& Interviews

With Violist Richard O'Neill and Professor Donald McInnes
With Violist Richard O'Neill, Professor Donald McInnes

2022

lecture
Francisco COLL, SHOSTAKOVICH & SAINT-SAËNS

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
GABRIELA ORTIZ & MAHLER

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Corigliano & Norman: Gen X Festival

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Voices of a Generation: Gen X Festival

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Thorvaldsdóttir

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic (starts 6:45pm)

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Elgar, Tchaikovsky & Farías

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2021

lecture
Saariaho, Scriabin & Tchaikovsky

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2020

2019

lecture
Dudamel conducts Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Salonen conducts Salonen, Tchaikovsy & Bartók

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
panelist
Past, Present & Future of Women in Classical Music

Join Vroman’s Bookstore and Alta for a panel discussion on women’s emerging roles in classical music, the issues and challenges female musicians face, and the future of inclusivity in music. Moderated by writer Catherine Womack, this event will offer an honest and hopeful look at women’s work within classical music by our panel of accomplished female musicians, including composer and pianist Sarah Gibson, composer Carolyn Chen, and composer Veronika Krausas. FREE Event - starts 7pm

Vroman's Bookstore (695 E Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91101)
lecture
John Adams' Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes with pianist Yuja Wang

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Messiaen's Turangalîla & Saariaho's Trans for Harp & Orchestra

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2018

interview
Sibelius' The Tempest with conductor Susanna Mälkki & director Barry Edelstein

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Phillip Glass & His Music

The Opera League of Los Angeles

Thayer Concert Hall at The Colburn School
lecture
Phillip Glass & Minimalism

LA Opera for Educators

Dorothy Chandler Pavillion
interview
director Peter Sellars & media artist Refik Anadol for Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Ted Hearne for Law of Mosaics

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Nico Muhly & organist James McVinnie for Register for Organ & Orchestra

upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Berstein Mass

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2017

interview
conductor David Newman for West Side Story

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor Susanna Mälkki, violinist Leila Josefowicz, composer Luca Francesconi

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
New Music from Mexico - interviews with young Mexican composers

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Richard O'Neill performs Schubert & Rachmaninoff

Preconcert Lecture

Broad Stage - Santa Monica
interview
violinist Martin Chalifour for Sibelius concert

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
George Haas Concerto Grosso No. 1 for 4 alphorns & Orchestra

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
music critic Alex Ross

Composition Forum

USC - Thornton School of Music
More Event Information:
http://www.therestisnoise.com
lecture
Adès Totentanz

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
All-Reich Concert with Steve Reich

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2016

lecture
Philip Glass Akhnaten

for the LA Opera League

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
More Event Information:
https://www.laopera.org/Akhnaten
interview
Krausas interviewed by Nikhil Korula & Eddie Pence

WakeUp Hollywood

LA Talk Radio
lecture
Stewart Copeland, Johann & Richard Strauss

New West Symphony

Oxnard, Santa Monica, Thousand Oaks
panelist
Alberto Bernal's performance & presentation of piece based on Derrida's Tympan
VKC, Univeristy of Southern California
interview
composers Clara Iannotta & Annie Gosfield

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Contemporary Poland

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2015

lecture
Weinberg, Vieuxtemps, Tchaikovsky

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
Krausas interviewed by Nikhil Korula & Eddie Pence

Wakeup Hollywood

LA Talk Radio
interview
composers Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe & Steve Mackey

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers Caroline Shaw, Andrew Norman, Tritan Perich, Bryce Dessner

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers Steve Reich & Steve Mackey, video artist Beryl Korot

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, Bryce Dessner

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Sean Friar, Dylan Mattingly

Upbeat Live - Next on Grand - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Italian Modernists - Green Umbrella

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Theatre of the Outrageous - Gruber's Frankenstein, Zorn For Your Eyes Only, Olga Neuwirth Hommage à Klaus Nomi

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
director James Darrah for Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2014

interview
conductor & composer Matthias Pintscher for European Avant-Garde

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
The English Cat

pre-opera lecture for donors

Thornton School of Music - USC
interview
composers David Lang & Michael Gordon for Percussion Marvels

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Mozart Così Fan Tutte

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
pianist Ralph Van Raat & condutor Jeffrey Milarsky

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Philip Glass The CIVIL warS

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer & film-maker Michael Van Der Aa, cellist Johannes Moser, conductor Brad Lubman

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2013

interview
trumpeter Alison Balsom, conductor Bramwell Tovey

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor Lionel Bringuier

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers John Adams & Unsuk Chin

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor Carl St. Clair

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
director David Gately of Peter Eötvös' Angels in America

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2012

interview
interview violinist Alina Pogostkina for Peteris Vasks' Distant Light Concerto

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composers/percussionists Joseph Pereira & Andy Akiho

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
moderator
Film Music Panel with composers Christoper Young, Thom Sharp and Sharon Farber

Film as Collaborative Art - Film Music Panel

Cal State Fullerton
interview
pianist Gloria Cheng & composer Oscar Bettison

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
violinist Leila Josefowicz for John Adams Violin Concerto

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor James Gaffigan

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Shostakovich & Dvořák

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars for The Gospel According to the Other Mary

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer James Matheson, violinist Martin Chalifour, conductor Pablo Hera-Casado

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Steve Reich for an all Reich Program

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2011

lecture
Elgar's Violin Concerto & Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
video artist Tal Rosner for Thomas Adès' Polaris & Messiaen's Éclairs sure l'Au-Delà

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic - Aspects of Adès Festival

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Gerald Barry for The Importance of Being Earnest

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic - Aspects of Adès Festival

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
video artist Tal Rosner for Thomas Adès' In Seven Days Piano Concerto & Stravinsky's Les Noces
interview
conductor Leonard Slatkin for concert of Marsalis, Gershwin & Shostakovich

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2010

interview
Bang on Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolf

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
Ondes martenot player Cynthia Millar for Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
violinist Leila Josefowicz for John Adams' Violin Concerto

Pacific Symphony

Segerstrom Center, Costa Mesa CA
interview
composer Andrew Norman for America and Americans

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
Venezuelan film director Alberto Arvelo & producer Eloisa Maturen for Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer John Adams for his City Noir & Mahler's Symphony No. 1

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Osvaldo Golijov, conductor Maria Guinand & LA Phil VP Artistic Planning Chad Smith

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 36 & Stravinsky's Danses concertantes, Violin Concerto in D major

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Andriessen's La Commedia

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Thomas Adès' These Premises Are Alarmed, Dances from Powder Her Face, Violin Concerto (Concentric Paths) & Respighi's Feste Romane

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Berlioz Le Corsaire, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, Shostakovich Symphony No. 6

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Chen's The Five Elements, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, Strauss' Ein Heldenleben

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Baltakas' (co)ro(na) & Eötvös' Snatches of a Conversation, Korrespondenz, Sonata per sei

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor Stefan Asbury & LA Phil's creative chair John Adams for Green Umbrella concert Globokar's ?Corporel for Solo Percussion, Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2009

interview
composer John Adams for City Noir

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
composer Unsuk Chin's Šu (Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra) and Mahler's Symphony No. 1

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
violinist Joshua Bell & conductor Lionel Bringuier for Lalo's Smphonie espagnole

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin for Ravel's La valse & Piano Concerto in G and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
violinist Gil Shaham & conductor Stephane Deneve for Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks, Khachaturian Violin Concerto in D minor, Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2008

lecture
pianist Piotr Anderszewski performing Bach Partitas

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Stravinsky's Fireworks & The Firebird, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
interview
film artist Tal Rosner for Adès' In Seven Days piano concerto

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
composer & organist Terry Riley performing A Persian Surgery Dervish in the Nursery, Salome Dances for Peace, Song from the Old Country, Universal Bridge

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
composer Thomas Adès' Three Studies from Couperin, Sonata da Caccia, Les baricades mystérieuses, L'apothéose de Lully

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Ravel Ma mère l'oye, Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Britten's War Requiem

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2007

lecture
Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet Suite, Salonen's Helix, Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Beethoven's Leonore Overture, Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2006

lecture / performance
Uncertainty

USC - Science, Serendipity and the Search for Truth - Categorically NOT! series

USC
interview
composer/conductor Brett Dean's Pastoral Symphony

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall
lecture
Ligeti's Chamber Concerto, Stravinsky's Two Poems of Constantin Balmont, Ravel's Three poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Boulez' Le Marteau sans maître

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall

2005

lecture
Strauss' Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Kurtág's ...quasi una fantasia..., Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14

Upbeat Live - LA Philharmonic

Walt Disney Concert Hall