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= Pacific Serenades = Pacific Serenades is an award-winning Los Angeles-based chamber music organization, promoting new chamber music especially by musicians from Southern California, through commissions, performances, recordings, and publication. From 1982-2016, Pacific Serenades presented performances of commissioned new works alongside standard chamber repertoire, presented in intimate, concert settings. Recent activities have focused on new commissions, publication, and distribution of commissioned works.

History
Composer and flutist Mark Carlson founded Pacific Serenades in 1982, and has served as its Artistic Director since its inception. Since then, Pacific Serenades has commissioned 113 new chamber works, mostly from prominent Southern California fixtures such as Mark Carlson, Roger Bourland, Paul Chihara, Gernot Wolfgang, and Adrienne Albert, as well as from such nationally active composers as Ned Rorem, Gabriela Lena Frank, Peter Schickele, Jake Heggie, and Miguel del Águila. Most of these commissioned pieces have been performed multiple times after their Pacific Serenades premieres, some even over 100 times. Many of these works have been recorded, including on three albums self-released by Pacific Serenades.

Through 27 four-program seasons (1987-2013) over 36 years, Pacific Serenades is one of the longest-standing chamber music organizations on the West Coast. Aside from their regular salon-inspired subscription concerts, Pacific Serenades has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall, 1994), and Old First Concerts in San Francisco (in 1998). For their 2002-03 and 2004-05 seasons, Pacific Serenades was awarded the prestigious Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, and in 2013, received New Music USA’s Letter of Distinction for their "significant contribution to contemporary American music."

Since 2013, Pacific Serenades has been on hiatus from presenting full-fledged concert seasons, instead focusing on publication, distribution, promotion of their commissioned works, as well as new commissions through alliances with other organizations. In 2016, Pacific Serenades formed a partnership with Subito Music Corporation, who acts as the distributor for approximately half of its commissioned works that Pacific Serenades currently publishes. In the same year, Pacific Serenades partnered with the Los Angeles-based Hear Now Festival to commission a new string quartet by Yalil Guerra, performed on that festival by the Lyris Quartet.

Discography

 * The Hall of Mirrors: a quartet of chamber works by Mark Carlson (2001)


 * Border Crossings (2008)


 * War Scrap: that we may have peace (2012)