Arts & Lectures’ Classical Connection

With its 2025-26 season UCSB Arts & Lectures is now offering more classical music events than any other programming organization from fall to spring, with a full 14 concerts on the slate for their 66th season. Recitals dominate the schedule, with performances from pianists Daniil Trifonov, Víkingur Ólafsson, Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Aristo Sham and Bruce Liu spread between September and February, plus violinist Nicola Benedetti and tenor Juan Diego Flórez. Concerts also come from the Isidore String Quartet with guest cellist Sterling Elliott, Yuja Wang (with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra), Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass, the annual appearance by the Danish String Quartet (this time with the Danish National Girls’ Choir), and superstars Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joyce DiDonato (with Time for Three). 

Individual tickets for UCSB A&L’s entire season go on sale August 19. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.