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.
Pre-concert lectures are free for ticketholders and begin one hour prior to each performance.
| DATE | CONCERT | TIME |
| Oct 13 | Thibaudet, Batiashvili, Capuçon Trio* (lecture by Kristi Brown-Montesano) | 7pm |
| Nov 10 | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano | 7pm |
| Nov 13 | San Diego Symphony with Daniil Trifonov, piano | 7pm |
| Dec 6 | George Li, piano | 2pm |
| Jan 21 | Itzhak Perlman and Rohan De Silva in Recital | 7pm |
| Jan 22 | National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine | 7pm |
| Feb 5 | Laguna Beach Music Festival: Opening Night | 6:30pm |
| Feb 17 | Midori, violin & Festival Strings Lucerne | 7pm |
| Mar 5 | Vienna Philharmonic with Yuja Wang | 7pm |
| Mar 7 | Vienna Philharmonic with Pacific Chorale | 2pm |
| Mar 12 | Conrad Tao, piano & Academy of St Martin in the Fields | 7pm |
| Mar 30 | Yeol Eum Son, piano | 7pm |
| Apr 11 | Louis Lortie, piano | 2pm |
| Apr 16 | San Francisco Symphony with Francesco Piemontesi, piano | 7pm |
| May 9 | Simon Trpčeski, piano | 2pm |
| May 29 | Los Angeles Philharmonic | 7pm |