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The LA Composers Project has taken a sabbatical year. Stay tuned for a very exciting announcement regarding the future of What's Next? and its commitment to modern music!

Los Angeles Composers Project 2014
June 21st, doors @ 7 pm, music @ 8 pm

What's Next? continues its unprecedented commitment to music written by composers living and working in great Los Angles. For the sixth year in a row, What's Next? presents the best of modern LA's music. Since the beginning of this series, the works of 60 LA composers have been performed. It's a track record like no other.  

Eight Oh EightIan Dicke
Shiftless DriftersDavid Rosenboom
Mobile IIsaac Schankler
Cave of Self-InductionNicole Mitchell
Music for Burying ThingsBryan Curt Kostors
White FlagJulia Adolphe
to grasp is to uncontrollably dropJoshua Carro
78Jefferson Friedman

Donate today!

You can make a tax deductible donation to the Los Angeles Composer's Project through our fiscal sponsor, the Pasadena Arts Council. Your donation of any amount will go a long way to ensuring the success of the 2014 festival.

Compendium of Composers

Over the five year history of the Los Angeles Composers Project, What's Next? has performed and championed the works of 50 Los Angeles based composers. It's a track record like no other. Those composers are:

Julia Adolphe
Juhi Bansal
Jason Barabba
Jonathan Bartz
John Bergamo
Christoper Brakel
Joshua Carro
Paul Chihara
Stephen Cohn
Robin Cox
Donald Crockett
Donald Davis
Robert Denham
Patricia Da Silva
Dante De Silva
Ian Dicke
Ralph D'Ignazio
John Eagle
Sean Friar
Jefferson Friedman
Sarah Gibson
Eric Guinivan
Stephen Hartke
Jason F. Heath
Sean Heim
Jeffrey Holmes
Vera Ivanova
Arthur Jarvinen
David Johnson
Francis Kayali
Bryan Curt Kostors
Veronika Krausas
William Kraft
Ian Krouse
Morten Lauridsen
Anne LeBaron
Liviu Marinescu
A.J. McCaffrey
Alexander Miller
Nicole Mitchell
Erica Muhl
Shaun Naidoo
Nick Norton
Kenji Oh
Jeffrey Parola
Ben Phelps
Michael Pisaro
David Plylar
David Rosenboom
Isaac Schankler
Lalo Schifrin
Alan Shockley
Frank Ticheli
Joseph Trapanese
Alexander Tovar
David Utzinger
Richard Valitutto
Corey Wallace
David Werfelmann

What's Next? Ensemble is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council's EMERGE Fiscal Sponsorship Program

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