SummerFest 2026: SummerFest at 40!
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LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY
SUMMERFEST 2026 PRESENTS:
SummerFest at 40!
Past, present, and future share the stage in one jubilant night.
Music Director Inon Barnatan joins festival favorite Jeremy Denk in a virtuosic opener, former Music Director Cho-Liang Lin returns for legendary composer John Williams’s Quartet La Jolla—written for SummerFest—and a world premiere commission looks ahead, before the piece that closed the very first SummerFest concert brings the celebration home.
Date: Friday, August 21
Time: 7 PM
Where: The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037
ARTISTS:
Steven Banks, saxophone
Inon Barnatan, piano
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Jay Campbell, cello
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Denk, piano
Jeremy Kurtz-Harris, bass
Teng Li, viola
Cho-liang Lin, violin
Nina Lee, cello
Yura Lee, violin
Rose Lombardo, flute
Paul Neubauer, viola
Julie Smith Phillips, harp
Simone Porter, violin
Jonathan Swensen, cello
John Bruce Yeh, clarinet
SUMMERFEST 2026 PRESENTS:
SummerFest at 40!
Past, present, and future share the stage in one jubilant night.
Music Director Inon Barnatan joins festival favorite Jeremy Denk in a virtuosic opener, former Music Director Cho-Liang Lin returns for legendary composer John Williams’s Quartet La Jolla—written for SummerFest—and a world premiere commission looks ahead, before the piece that closed the very first SummerFest concert brings the celebration home.
Date: Friday, August 21
Time: 7 PM
Where: The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037
ARTISTS:
Steven Banks, saxophone
Inon Barnatan, piano
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Jay Campbell, cello
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Denk, piano
Jeremy Kurtz-Harris, bass
Teng Li, viola
Cho-liang Lin, violin
Nina Lee, cello
Yura Lee, violin
Rose Lombardo, flute
Paul Neubauer, viola
Julie Smith Phillips, harp
Simone Porter, violin
Jonathan Swensen, cello
John Bruce Yeh, clarinet
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7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United States, California 92037
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Host or PublisherLa Jolla Music Society
