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Jennifer Koh brings solo works to St. Anthony's Chapel via UCSB's 'Shared Madness' project / Santa Barbara Independent

Posted: April 26, 2018

Classical music performance has recently entered an unprecedented period of growth and creativity. At the center of this excitement, as well as at the top of the list of great contemporary violinists, stands Jennifer Koh, who will arrive in Santa Barbara this week for a performance of her solo project Shared Madness.

Thanks in large part to UCSB Arts & Lectures, Koh has become a familiar presence in our region over the past decade. Arts & Lectures audiences have thrilled to her Bach and Beyond series at the Music Academy's Hahn Hall three times, in 2011, 2013, and 2014. In addition to the recital, which takes place on Friday, April 27, in the intimate confines of St. Anthony's Chapel, Koh will speak at UCSB's College of Creative Studies (CCS) on Thursday, April 26, at 4 p.m. The talk, cosponsored by CCS and the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies, will be moderated by Professor Lisa Park and is titled Creative Inquiry, Intersection, and Intervention. In that conversation, Koh plans to focus on her recent project Limitless, a series of duo commissions designed to be played with the composers as performing partners. Koh has accepted an invitation to address the League of American Orchestras at its national conference later this spring on how its members might increase diversity in their programming and to address the underrepresentation of women in contemporary classical music, and this talk is part of her preparation for that important lecture. 

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