Enhance your experience and delve deeper into the musical program before the concert with engaging and insightful commentary by our lecturer-in-residence, Brian Lauritzen.
A multi-award-winning arts journalist, Brian Lauritzen serves as weekday host on Classical KUSC, as well as producer and host of KUSC's weekly arts magazine Arts Alive and the choral music program Soul Music.
*indicates guest lecturer in place of Brian Lauritzen. Suraj Partha, longtime host at KUSC who is now freelance, will be doing the lecture for Fauré Piano Quartets and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Pre-concert lectures are free for ticketholders and begin one hour prior to each performance.
| DATE | CONCERT | TIME |
| Oct 7 | Renée Fleming, soprano | 7pm |
| Oct 11 | Fauré Piano Quartets* (lecture by Suraj Partha) | 7pm |
| Oct 21 | Philharmonia Orchestra* (lecture by Kristi Brown-Montesano) | 7pm |
| Nov 2 | Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano | 2pm |
| Jan 24 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra* (lecture by Suraj Partha) | 7pm |
| Jan 28 | Seong-Jin Cho, piano | 7pm |
| Jan 29 | Minería Symphony Orchestra of Mexico | 7pm |
| Feb 5 | Stefan Jackiw: Violin and Piano Recital | 7pm |
| Feb 27 | Joshua Bell with Academy of St Martin in the Fields | 7pm |
| Mar 11 | Sphinx Virtuosi with Randall Goosby, violin | 7pm |
| Apr 2 | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | 7pm |
| Apr 9 | Jeremy Denk, piano | 7pm |
| Apr 11 | Danish String Quartet with Danish National Girls' Choir | 7pm |
| Apr 22 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang | 7pm |
| May 10 | Larisa Martínez, soprano* | 2pm |
| May 14 | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | 7pm |