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C3lA 2020-2021 Season

Inner Space
Saturday, December 12 @5pm Pacific
YouTube Live

Inner Space is the newest realization of C3LA's inventive approach to virtual choral performance and unique artist collaborations. This concert will look inward, exploring themes of mental health, loneliness, grief, and prayer, and will be interpreted via live-streamed dance, painting, and puppetry.

Featuring new choral works from C3LA composers with collaborating visual artists:   
  • Jaco Wong - Niko Alburn, Painter/Movement Artist
  • Vera Lugo - Jasmine Sugar, Dancer/Choreographer
  • Diana Woolner - Miranda Kahn, Experimental Paper Artist
  • Fahad Siadat - André Megerdichian, Choreographer & Catalina Jackson-Urueña, Dancer

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Past Events


Patterns

Two performances of stunning minimalist and post-minimalist choral music from renowned composers Ted Hearne, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Jonathan Dove, and featuring mesmerizing new works from C3LA composers Vera Lugo, David Avshalomov, and David García Saldaña.

​SUNDAY, FEB 16, 7pm

Altadena Community Church
943 E Altadena Dr, Altadena, CA 91001

SATURDAY, FEB 22, 8pm
St. Augustine-by-the-Sea
1227 4th St, Santa Monica 90401
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Breath + Body

Choral + Dance Collaboration with Iris Company  

Saturday November 2 & Sunday November 3

C3LA premieres five new pieces created as a collaboration between C3LA composers and choreographers from Iris Company, an LA-based dance company known for creating thought-provoking and moving experiences. ​
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​N.E.O. Voice Festival Presents: A Cutting Edge Vocal Ensemble Concert

August 7th, 2019 @ 8 PM

C3LA is being featured as part of the N.E.O. Voice Festival Concert Series. The concert will feature cutting-edge vocal ensembles from Los Angeles, including C3LA: The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, HEX, and Laude.
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About N.E.O. Voice Festival: 
Join a vibrant, diverse community of artists in Los Angeles: The Creative Capital of the World, for a week of creativity, performance, and exploration. The week will include daily, interactive workshops; expert mentoring, evening rehearsals, and concerts featuring the best of LA’s new music vocal scene. Enjoy sharing your talents while participating in multiple public performances that will culminate in the premiere performance of a new "Exploratorio" masterwork, written and produced by attending composers and performers.
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Tasting Notes

Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 8pm
​Saturday, May 25th, 2018 @ 4pm

The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles (C3LA) presents their final concert series of the 2018-2019 season, TASTING NOTES, a one-of-a-kind concert collaboration with local LA chefs Pete Agraan and Joey Firoben that will feature amuse-bouches (small bites) paired with original compositions by C3LA composers, as well as songs about nourishment, scarcity, and where our food is sourced.

This concert will feature pieces by C3LA composers Molly Pease
, Diana Woolner, Fahad Siadat, Amy Gordon and David Avshalomov, as well as pieces by Karen Siegel, Carolyn Chen and Towsend Losey.

Friday, May 24th, 2019 // 8 PM
LP Studios, 1728 Standard Ave, Glendale, CA 91201


Saturday, May 25th, 2019 // 4 PM
Non de Gen, 244 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90012


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On the Threshold

Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 8pm 
Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 1pm 

C3LA presents its latest selection of new and adventurous choral works about the uncanny and the unknown, featuring works by member-composers Adam Goins, Alice Dryden, David Rentz, and TJ Sclafani, as well as contemporary composers Jody Talbot, Michael Gordon, Nico Muhly, Jasper Sussman and Peter Walters.

Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 8pm 
St. John's Cathedral
514 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007


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Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 1pm 
​ArtShareLA
801 4th E. Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 7pm
Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 8pm

Join C3LA for their first program of the 2018-2019 season: a live-scoring of the 1928 silent film The Fall of the House of Usher, directed by Jean Epstein. Featuring a composite film score composed by 13 C3LA composers using only a cappella voices. This will be a one-of-a-kind event that you will definitely not want to miss!


Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 7pm
​LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028


Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 8pm
The Downtown Independent
251 S. Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012


CONVERSATIONS WITH STRANGERS
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Friday, May 18th, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 8pm

C3LA presents a concert of new and adventurous choral music, featuring works by member-composers Drew Corey, David Harris, David Rentz, and Jaco Wong, as well as contemporary composers Carolyn Chen, Natalie Dietterich, Alexander Dmitriev, and David Lang.

​Friday, may 18th, 2018 @ 8pm
​First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
540 South Commonwealth Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90020


Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 8pm
St. Bede's Episcopal Church
3590 Grand View Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066


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Words Like Blades

​Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 8pm
Saturday, February 24th, 2018 @ 4pm

C3LA presents a concert of new and adventurous music for choir, piano and solo voice. Featuring works by member-composers TJ Sclafani, Fahad Siadat, Amy Gordon, Allen Menton and Amy Golden, as well as contemporary composers Francis Kayali, Patrick Behnke, and Joshua Harris. ​

Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 8pm
​St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1020 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA

Saturday, February 24th, 2018 @ 4pm
Lineage Performing Arts Center
89 S Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA


American Breakfast

​Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 12:15pm
Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 4:00pm

C3LA presents a program of new & adventurous choral music / ruminations on a contemporary America. Featuring works by member-composers Saunder Choi, Matthew Brown, and Diana Woolner, as well as contemporary composers Brent Michael Davids, Michael Dellaira, and Missy Mazzoli. ​
Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 12:15pm
​Scripps College, Balch Auditorium
1030 N Columbia Ave, Claremont, CA

Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 4:00pm
​Angels Gate Cultural Center, Main Gallery I 

3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA
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from sea to shining sea

Saturday, September 9th, 2017 @ 6pm 

Site-specific performance of Diana Woolner's Lip Service, in collaboration with multi-disciplinary artist Jimena Sarno on From Sea to Shining Sea (FSTSS)

White Point Nature Preserve
San Pedro, CA

​FACEBOOK EVENT


Meditations

Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 20th, 2017 @ 4pm

C3LA presents a collection of contemporary choral works exploring the supernatural, the spiritual, and the otherworldly. 
​Monday, May 15th, 2017 @ 8pm
Monk Space

4414 W. 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA

​Saturday, May 20th, 2017 @ 4pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church

1020 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA
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Glossolalia

Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 2pm

This concert of new and adventurous choral works explores how language, phonemes, and words function in music. The pieces feature a number of languages including Japanese, Kalinga, and Persian, as well as utilizing nonsense syllables to create stunning textural and sonic effects. Featuring works by member-composers Fahad Siadat, David Harris, Nilo Alcala and Amy Golden, as well as contemporary composers Abbie Betinis, Austin Wintory, Andrew Hamilton and Jamie Klenetsky.
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Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 8PM
DNJ Gallery at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA


Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 2PM
Church of the Angels
​1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena, CA


Trio Kobayashi & C3LA @ Monk Space

Tuesday, December 20th, 2016

In case you missed our November concert, or want to hear the music for a second time, C3LA will be performing our second concert of the season on Tuesday, December 20th at Monk Space, which will feature music from C3LA's own member-composers! 

For this concert, we will share the evening with Trio Kobayashi, a brass trio exploring the emerging field of just intonation pieces for brass. 

Concert begins at 8:00 PM!




Passing Flight

Sunday November 20th, 2016

​The first concert in C3LA's premiere season!

Featuring innovative choral music from the last 25 years including works by Toby Twining, Jonathan David, Trevor Shaw, and John Cantrell and pieces by C3LA members Matthew Brown, Drew Corey, and Fahad Siadat.



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Friday May 20th, 2016

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Contemporary Choral Collective of L.A. Presents Its Inaugural Concert

​The concert’s nine works will include seven world or regional premieres, with composers from Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and, of course, Los Angeles. Highlights include: the West Coast premiere of the spellbinding Alleluia of Jonathan David; the world premiere of Demon, Matthew Brown’s terrifying exploration of the voice’s powerful extended techniques; the world premiere of the mixed choir version of Karen Siegel’s Maskil of David, a stunningly beautiful meditation on Psalm 55; film composer Jon Olmstead’s rip-roaring Bohemian Highway; and the premiere of the dramatic and haunting Annü by Bobby Halvorson.

Latvian Community Center
1955 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles

8:00 PM


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This organization is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.