Classical Music

May 25, 2025 at 6:53 a.m.

The 2-year-old company presents opera, ballet and vocal concert programs

The Rosin Box Project dancer Sona Jaeger and Art of Elan violinist an artistic director Kate Hatmaker will perform in “United Harmonies.” (Carly Topazio)

The Rosin Box Project, Art of Elan team up for ‘Unified Harmonies’

By Marcia Luttrell

May 26, 2025 at 7:06 p.m.

The multidisciplinary shows in La Jolla this week will feature a blend of ballet and...

Project BLANK co-founder and executive director Brendan Nguyen plays a toy piano during the company’s free performance of “Park Opera” in Balboa Park on May 10.(Robbie Bui)

San Diego arts organizations reeling after NEA grants canceled

May 18, 2025 at 8:42 a.m.

Local nonprofit directors fear the loss of federal, and possibly city, will devastate the...

The Arcades, an indoor and outdoor music festival featuring 200 students will be held at UC San Diego on May 18th. Here, the steering committee and musicians are seen at the Conrad Prebys Music Center on Monday, May 5, 2025. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

UC San Diego to host free, all-day Arcades music fest on Sunday

May 16, 2025 at 5:29 p.m.

Nearly 40 performances by 300 students and faculty will be presented from noon to 7:30...

Robert Watson and Ginger Costa-Jackson in San Diego Opera’s 2018 production of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.” The opera will return as the company’s season-closer, March 27-29, 2026. (J. Kat Photo)

San Diego Opera embracing the classics for 2025-26 season

May 2, 2025 at 3:30 a.m.

The next season will feature three of the world's most popular works, "Pagliacci," "The Barber...

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will be ed by cellist Pablo Ferrández and pianist Yefim Bronfman on May 3 at La Jolla Music Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. (Julia Wesley)

Violin superstar Anne-Sophie Mutter shines as a musician and humanitarian

April 27, 2025 at 6:03 a.m.

Her first San Diego concert in 34 years will team Mutter with famed pianist Yefim...

Andriana Chuchman as Violetta and Zach Borichevsky as Alfredo in San Diego Opera’s “La traviata.” (J. Katarzyna Woronowicz)

Review: San Diego Opera closes season with richly sung ‘La traviata’

April 26, 2025 at 3:31 p.m.

Soprano Andriana Chuchman and bass baritone Hunter Enoch are standouts in a strong vocal cast

Soprano Andriana Chuchman will star as Violetta in San Diego Opera’s “La traviata,” playing April 25-27 at the San Diego Civic Theatre. (San Diego Opera)

Canadian soprano playing ‘dream role’ in San Diego Opera’s ‘La traviata’

April 20, 2025 at 8:03 a.m.

Andriana Chuchman leads the cast in the three performances at the Civic Theatre next weekend

“Firebird” by the Netherlands performance group Touki Delphine will be presented at La Jolla Playhouse’s 2025 Without Walls (WOW) Festival. (Chris Doyle)

The ultimate guide to La Jolla Playhouse’s 2025 Without Walls Festival

May 10, 2025 at 3:20 p.m.

With 25 mostly free shows on the campus of UC San Diego April 24-27, there's...

Rosin Box Project will present the dance concert "Empower" this week at Liberty Station. (Carly Topazio)

San Diego arts roundup: Rosin Box ready to empower female choreographers

March 27, 2025 at 5:03 a.m.

Also this week: SACRA/PROFANA in concert, Playwrights Project onstage, Write Out Loud at an historic...

A scene from San Diego Opera’s production of “Salome.” (Karli Cadel)

Review: San Diego Opera’s ‘Salome’ shines musically, but its staging disappoints

March 25, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

The production featured two sopranos alternating in the title role over three performances last weekend

Opera singer Renée Fleming will make her SummerFest debut in La Jolla on Aug. 5. (La Jolla Music Society)

La Jolla SummerFest cooks up something new with onstage pairings of chamber music greats and prominent chefs

March 24, 2025 at 1:00 a.m.

Bestselling author and New York Times food columnist J. Kenji López-Alt will cook onstage while...

The cast and creative team of Circle Circle dot dot’s immersive walking play “San Diego, I Love You: City Heights,” running March 21-30. (CCDD)

San Diego Arts roundup: Theater, music and spring events

March 20, 2025 at 5:33 a.m.

Also this week: 'Songs for a New World, Punkrock Rodeo, Rolando Street Fair and Piano...

Peter Ko is the principal cellist for the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and teaches cello. He has performed all over the world as a soloist, and is a specialist in contemporary music. He’s now working on his doctorate in contemporary music performance at UC San Diego.(Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Spring Arts Preview 2025: Cellist Peter Ko is thriving at UCSD and beyond

March 17, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

Now a candidate for a doctorate in music, the former computer-engineering major performs a San...

Soprano Andriana Chuchman will star as Violetta in San Diego Opera’s “La traviata.” (San Diego Opera)

Spring Arts Preview 2025: The top 10 theater and opera events to see this season

March 20, 2025 at 9:46 a.m.

A classic opera and play, several new musicals, regional premieres and two annual festivals make...

San Diego Early Music Society will present a concert by Jordi Savall and his music ensemble Hespèrion XXI on April 15 in La Jolla. (Toni Peñarroya)

Spring Arts Preview 2025: Our top classical music picks for the season

March 16, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

The spring classical music scene will feature violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and countertenor...

Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot will perform with pianist Henry Kramer at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla on March 14. (Blake Pouliot)

Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot, a rising star, is returning to San Diego

March 9, 2025 at 6:02 a.m.

The tattooed musician will team up with pianist Henry Kramer for a concert that mixes...

Salome performs the dance of the seven veils in a previous San Diego Opera production of “Salome,” which will return to the San Diego Civic Theatre stage March 21-23, 2025. (San Diego Opera)

Three operatic Salomes dish on the punishing role, veil dancing and severed heads

March 9, 2025 at 8:16 a.m.

Sopranos Kirsten Chambers, Marcy Stonikas and Nina Warren are co-starring in San Diego Opera's ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim performing at a solo concert for La Jolla Music Society on Feb. 28 at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. (Ken Jacques)

Review: Pianist Yunchan Lim takes Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a fresh direction

By Luke Schulze

March 3, 2025 at 2:42 p.m.

The 20-year-old musician performed a solo concert Friday as artist in residence for La Jolla...

Musician and surfer Jack Johnson in a scene from the documentary “The Cigarette Surfboard,” screening Feb. 18 at the Oceanside International Film Festival. (OIFF)

San Diego arts roundup: Oceanside film festival returns

February 14, 2025 at 12:33 p.m.

Also this week, the Harlem Quartet in La Jolla, David Gray in Valley Center and...

Music Director Michael Francis conducts the 2024 Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival. (J. Kat Photography)

Mainly Mozart s prestigious organization as prelude to 2025 All-Star Orchestra Festival

February 9, 2025 at 6:01 a.m.

Highlights will include very special “new” Mozart piece, acclaimed pianist Joyce Yang, and soloists from...

Italian American violinist sca Dego, left, and her husband Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni will make their San Diego Symphony debuts together on Friday. (Davide Cerati)

Italian love story: Making music is a family affair for sca Dego and Daniele Rustioni

January 21, 2025 at 10:18 a.m.

Their concerts this weekend with the San Diego Symphony mark a homecoming for Dego, who...

The aerial dance group BANDALOOP performs at La Jolla Playhouse’s 2024 Without Walls Festival at UC San Diego. On Tuesday, the Playhouse received a $20,000 NEA grant to the 2025 WOW Festival, which returns to the UCSD campus April 24-27. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

NEA announces $36.8 million in funding nationwide. 16 San Diego County arts organizations are on the list.

January 15, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

The $305,000 in combined gifts would fund art exhibits, a children's opera, free dance classes,...

The NOISE ensemble, which will perform at San Diego New Music’s three-day soundOn festival Jan. 9-11. (Sam Zauscher)

NOISE will be celebrated at the 25th annual cutting-edge soundOn festival

January 5, 2025 at 8:15 a.m.

The three-day festival is being co-presented by La Jolla Athenaeum and San Diego New Music,...

An artist’s rendering of the 280-seat Joseph W. Clayes III Theatre inside the Joan, the performing arts center opening in late summer 2025 at Liberty Station. (NTC Foundation and Cygnet Theatre)

2025 preview: The San Diego theater events we’re most excited about this year

December 31, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

Cygnet opens the Joan, new plays and musicals, two theater festivals, an operatic return are...

Conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas will makes his long-overdue San Diego Symphony Orchestra debut in mid-Feb.. (Kristen Loken)

2025 preview: San Diego classical music events that we’re excited about

December 29, 2024 at 5:04 a.m.

Alisa Weilerstein, Reginald Mobley, Michael Tilson Thomas, Mutter Bronfman Ferrández Trio, Tasha Koontz, Steven Schick...

The newly renovated San Diego Symphony Jacobs Music Center during ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.The music center just completed a $125 million-plus, four-year renovation. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker for The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Year in review: In classical music, innovation, renovation and collaboration were key

December 22, 2024 at 5:02 a.m.

It was standout year for San Diego Symphony, La Jolla Music Society, Mainly Mozart, Project...

Composer and longtime UC San Diego music faculty member Rand Steiger. (UC San Diego)

Trump’s re-election fueled cutting-edge composer Rand Steiger’s ‘Rage/Resolve’

December 8, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The UC San Diego professor’s new piece for New York’s JACK Quartet to debut in...

Taylor Renee Henderson, left, and Dianne Yvette rehearse a scene for Oceanside Theatre Company’s world premiere play with music “Manny and the Wise Queens,” opening Friday. (Oceanside Theatre Company)

Arts roundup: ‘Manny and the Wise Queens’ opens Friday in Oceanside

December 5, 2024 at 5:31 a.m.

Also this week: Penn and Teller, Sarah Brightman, San Diego Opera's choral concert and more

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou and soprano Barbara Hannigan will perform Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla. (La Jolla Music Society)

Famed soprano Barbara Hannigan set for San Diego concert debut

December 1, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

The Grammy Award-winning singer and French pianist Bertrand Chamayou will perform Messiaen, Scriabin and an...

Singer-songwriter Judy Collins. (Shervin Lainez)

Arts roundup: Judy Collins’ holiday music leads off holiday weekend happenings

November 28, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

Also this week, Judy Collins, La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Works Series, comedian Patton Oswalt...

The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus presents its annual “Jingle” holiday concert Dec. 14 and 15 at the Balboa Theatre. (San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus)

16 classical and choral concerts to enjoy this season

November 22, 2024 at 12:47 p.m.

From Renaissance carols to sing-along Messiahs, this wide selection of choral, instrumental and classical concerts...

Violinist Leila Josefowicz will perform Nov. 16-17 at Jacobs Music Center in San Diego. (Chris Lee)

Violin star Leila Josefowicz a dazzling champion of new music

November 10, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

For her first San Diego Symphony concert since early 2020, she will solo on Thomas...

Bill Walton before a Pac-12 conference tournament game in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The best things to do this weekend in San Diego: Nov. 8-10

By San Diego Union-Tribune

November 8, 2024 at 6:30 a.m.

Our list of top things to do this weekend includes concerts, theatre, a festival and...

The Cafe Momus scene from San Diego Opera’s season-opening production of Puccini’s “La bohème.” Featured, from left, are Latonia Moore, Harold Wilson, Soren Pedersen, Leroy Davis, Sarah Tucker and César Delgado. (Karli Cadel)

Review: San Diego Opera’s ghostly ‘La boheme’ brings out its sadness, beauty

November 4, 2024 at 11:13 a.m.

Season-opening production re-created the concept first staged at the company's drive-in production in 2020

The Colorado-based Takács Quartet will perform Saturday in La Jolla. (Amanda Tipton)

Takács Quartet’s 50th anniversary tour includes San Diego concert

October 20, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Founded in Hungary and based at the University of Colorado Boulder, the acclaimed group excels...

San Diego Opera is opening its 60th season in Nov.. The leadership of the company pose for photo at the San Diego Civic Theatre where they present all of their productions. Back Row: Ed Hofmeister, Director of Marketing and Communications, Joan T. Foster, Director of Production & Artistic istration, Bernardo Bermudez, Director of Learning and Engagement and Melody Moore, Artistic . Front Row: David Bennett, General Director, Llewellyn Crain, Director of Philanthropy, Bruce Stasyna, Resident Conductor & Chorus Master and Tim Wallace, Technical Director in Downtown on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego Opera kicks off 60th anniversary season with ambitious five-year growth plan

October 20, 2024 at 10:10 a.m.

After pandemic-related setbacks in attendance and income, the company has set goals for new commissions,...

Scenes from the San Diego International Film Festival at MOPA@SDMA in Balboa Park. (Daniel Wesley Walsh)

Arts & Culture Newsletter: San Diego International Film Fest returns

October 11, 2024 at 1:52 p.m.

Also this week, a Latino storytelling festival, Soulkiss Theater's '2 Rappers, 2 Plays,' Art of...

Mezzo-soprano Anna Larsson, center stage in blue, performs with the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Symphony Festival Chorus in the Jacobs Music Center on Oct. 5. (Paul Cressey)

Review: A memorable Mahler Second Symphony celebrates rebirth of Jacobs Music Center

October 7, 2024 at 11:01 a.m.

Music Director Rafael Payare triumphs with San Diego Symphony and the new Festival Chorus in...

The San Diego Symphony onstage in the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center in downtown San Diego for its opening-night concert on Saturday, Sept. 28.(Todd Rosenberg)

Music review: A new era for San Diego Symphony begins with its return to renovated hall

September 30, 2024 at 8:18 a.m.

Celebrities and a brand-new fanfare by local composer Texu Kim welcome Rafael Payare and symphony...

Swedish mezzo-soprano Anna Larsson will perform with the San Diego Symphony Oct. 4-6 at Jacobs Music Center. (San Diego Symphony)

San Diego Symphony’s ‘Resurrection’ concerts will celebrate Mahler and new concert hall

September 29, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Imagine hearing a voice so remarkable that you it 14 years later. San Diego...

Paul Scarbrough, an acoustician, goes above the San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Music Center in search of a sound that is likely coming from a chandelier that he wants removed before a performance on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

This acoustician is transforming the San Diego Symphony’s sound. Here’s how.

By The San Diego Union Tribune

October 9, 2024 at 12:25 p.m.

Paul Scarbrough and the design and restoration company HGA worked together closely to reinvent the...

The artists featured in the 2024 Fall Arts Preview: (clockwise from top left) Elizabeth Delozier, Ivan Trujillo, Carlos Castro Arias, Larisa Hall, Kevin “Blax” Burroughs and Fiona Chatwin. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Here are the 60 best concerts, theater, other arts events this season in San Diego

September 12, 2024 at 3:01 p.m.

From music and dance to books, visual art and stage, here are the best things...

Dr. Fiona Chatwin is the Executive and Artistic Director of Villa Musica. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Fall Arts Preview 2024: San Diego’s Villa Musica founder Fiona Chatwin champions artistic access

September 8, 2024 at 8:04 a.m.

Almost 20 years old, the growing nonprofit encourages anyone and everyone to pursue music

Vox Luminis, a Belgian vocal ensemble, will perform Nov. 9 in La Jolla as art of San Diego Early Music Society’s season. (Leslie Artamonow)

Fall Arts Preview 2024: Our top classical music picks for the season

September 8, 2024 at 5:41 a.m.

The season’s many highlights include Takács Quartet, Vox Luminis, Aoife O'Donovan, Nicholas Phan and the...

Playwright Eboni Booth, left, and director Knud Adams present the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Primary Trust” at La Jolla Playhouse Sept. 24-Oct. 20. (La Jolla Playhouse)

Fall Arts Preview 2024: Our top theater and opera picks for the season

September 9, 2024 at 12:58 p.m.

From opera to Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim musicals to "Jersey Boys," and a new Pulitzer...

The Casbah nightclub at Kettner Boulevard and Laurel Street in San Diego marked its 35th anniversary this year. (Ted Drake)

Arts & Culture Newsletter: Casbah music club at 35 is happy to stay put

August 29, 2024 at 5:30 a.m.

Also this week: San Diego Symphony's Tchaikovsky Spectacular, Chicago, Shakespeare and more

San Diego Symphony’s newly renovated Jacobs Music Center will reopen on Sept. 28, after a $125 million-plus redesign that has transformed the 95-year-old concert venue. (Photo by Richard Barnes)

Exclusive: San Diego Symphony set for new era, after $125 million-plus concert hall redesign

August 26, 2024 at 12:23 p.m.

The orchestra returns next month to downtown's Jacobs Music Center, a 95-year-old venue that still...

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein will perform Fragments III, the third work in her cello series, on April 8 as part of San Diego Symphony’s 2024-25 season at Jacobs Music Center. (Marco Borggreve)

San Diego Symphony’s season is most extensive in orchestra’s history

August 26, 2024 at 6:23 a.m.

The orchestra's season at Jacobs Music Center includes Alisa Weilerstein, Emanuel Ax and Michael Tilson...

San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare (left) and CEO Martha Gilmer are shown inside Jacobs Music Center in July 2023 The 95-year-old concert venue will re-open Sept. 28 after extensive renovations that began in 2020. (Sam Zauchser / Courtesy San Diego Symphony)

Inside the San Diego Symphony’s eye-popping $125 million-plus concert hall redesign

August 27, 2024 at 1:17 p.m.

A by-the-numbers inside look at what has gone into reimagining the soon-to-open Jacobs Music Center...

Pianist Conrad Tao and tap dancer Caleb Teicher collaborate in “Synergy: Counterpoint II” at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest on Friday, Aug. 16. (Ken Jacques)

Review: SummerFest delivers extraordinary concert merging chamber music and tap dance

August 21, 2024 at 6:42 a.m.

Pianist Conrad Tao and dancer Caleb Teicher dazzle audience at La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest

Violinist Simone Porter will perform at two concerts this week at La Jolla Music Society’s 2024 SummerFest concert series. (Elisha Knight)

Rising violinist Simone Porter comes into her own to La Jolla SummerFest

August 18, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Violinist Simone Porter, 27, eager to return to La Jolla SummerFest

John Legend, photographed May 1 in Los Angeles, will perform Aug. 15 at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in San Diego. (Richard Shotwell / AP)

John Legend chats on his new children’s album, ‘My Favorite Dream,’ and new single, ‘L-O-V-E’

By Apress

August 13, 2024 at 7:15 a.m.

The R&B/pop singer performs Thursday at the Rady Shell in downtown San Diego

The London-based choir VOCES8 will perform in concerts on Aug. 7, 9 and 11 as part of La Jolla Music Society’s 2024 SummerFest series. (Andy Staples)

La Jolla SummerFest to showcase acclaimed English vocal ensemble VOCES8

August 4, 2024 at 10:45 a.m.

This week’s concerts will also feature cellist Alisa Weilerstein, violinist Stefan Jackiw, organist Ruben Valenzuela...

Michael Francis, music director for the Mainly Mozart concert organization, photographed conducting a concert at the Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego in June 2023. Mainly Mozart is among 38 local arts organizations that received a combined $5.7 million in arts grants Aug. 1, 2024, from the Conrad Prebys Foundation. (Courtesy of J. Kat Photography)

Prebys foundation announces $5.7 million in grants for local arts organizations

August 1, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.

Thirty-eight groups, from the Borrego Art Institute to the Old Globe, received grants ranging in...

Thomas Ades, center, is conducting, playing piano and serving as artist in residence at La Jolla Music Society’s 2024 SummerFest series this month. (La Jolla Music Society)

La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2024 will offer new aural adventures

July 23, 2024 at 8:57 a.m.

The lineup includes England’s acclaimed Thomas Adès, Tony-Award winning actor Danny Burstein, The Paper Cinema,...

Oceanside musician Lea Love will perform Sunday at the Holo Holo Music Festival at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. (Jerelyn Rox)

S.D. Arts and Culture Newsletter: Oceanside singer Lea Love s Holo Holo fest

July 11, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Also this week: The Beat Farmers tribute, T. Jefferson Parker's new book, violinist Geneva Lewis,...

Russian pianist Olga Kern performs with the San Diego Symphony at its season-opening concert on June 28 at the Rady Shell in downtown San Diego. (Gary Payne)

Concert Review: San Diego Symphony summer opener a crowd-pleaser with conductor Gemma New

July 1, 2024 at 3:23 p.m.

Russian pianist Olga Kern an impressive soloist in Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 3

The cast of Opera Neo’s “Cosi fan tutte,” front row from left, Charles Calotta, Darya Narymanava and Julia Behbudov. Back row, Lisa Behulos, Chancelor Barbaree and Christopher Farley. (Sydney Roslin)

Video games and ancient Greece fuse at Opera Nero’s summer festival

June 30, 2024 at 6:02 a.m.

The San Diego company will conclude its 13th season with performances in Balboa Park and...

The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra performs on June 22 at the Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego. (Ken Jacques)

Review: Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival shines in two La Jolla venues

June 27, 2024 at 2:20 p.m.

Music Director Michael Francis leads thrilling performances at an outdoor amphitheater and indoor concert hall

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis is teaming with Bodhi Tree concerts for a new bilingual chamber-opera, “Pancho Rabbit,” that will premiere in San Diego and Tijuana. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Davis and Bodhi Tree announce 2026 world premiere of bilingual ‘Pancho Rabbit’ opera

June 24, 2024 at 7:07 p.m.

The production, which will premiere in both San Diego and Tijuana, will be sung in...

ArtPower’s 21st season at UC San Diego will feature Fran Leibovitz, Aofie O’Donovan, Ocean Vuong and more

June 24, 2024 at 5:24 p.m.

UC San Diego’s ArtPower will offer an outdoor bonus before kicking off its 21st season...

San Diego’s Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival at the Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego. (Courtesy of J. Kat Photography)

Check out these classical, world music and art exhibits in the coming week

June 21, 2024 at 6:01 a.m.

Mainly Mozart and Jewish Arts festivals are under way, and Music en la Calle returns...

San Diego’s Mainly Mozart concert organization will open its 2024 All-Star Orchestra Festival on June 23 at its new artistic home, the Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego. This photo was taken at a Mainly Mozart concert at the new amphitheater in 2023.

Putting down roots: Mainly Mozart to open All-Star festival at its new artistic home in La Jolla

June 19, 2024 at 9:48 a.m.

After four years of pivots in Del Mar, this year's edition will be held entirely...

Encinitas filmmaker Roman Koenig on the set of his short feature “Red Blooded,” which has won multiple awards at film fests nationwide.

Arts and Culture Newsletter: Local filmmaker brings award-winning film home