Concerts Are A-comin’

Fret not that the Music Academy summer festival 2024 came to a close last weekend with the triumphant fellows-powered orchestra concert of Mahler’s “Symphony No. 6.” Classical music abounds in the upcoming 2024-25 season, everything from touring major orchestras to intimate recitals at venues all over town. Camerata Pacifica launches its series back at Hahn Hall on September 20 with Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia joined by principal violinist Paul Huang and pianist Gilles Vonsattel. UCSB Arts & Lectures augments its series of up-and-coming soloists at Hahn Hall with a first foray into touring orchestras, bringing the London Philharmonic to the Granada on October 12. That’s the same day the newish Santa Barbara Chamber Players starts its three-concert season with a performance at First United Methodist Church. The Santa Barbara Symphony gets going at the Granada with Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” on October 19 & 20, followed the next night by CAMA’s season opener at the same venue with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. CAMA Masterseries at the Lobero debuts November 22 with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers in a program that includes “New Chaconne,” a work by Philip Glass she premiered earlier this year.