This year’s La Jolla Music Society SummerFest will combine the comfort of the familiar with the thrill of the new - and newly commissioned.

“I am deeply, deeply committed to commissioning new works,” said Christopher Beach, the society’s president and artistic director, who works closely with the festival’s music director, violinist Cho-Liang Lin. “We’ve got three composers (George Tsontakis, Paul Schoenfield, and Stewart Copeland) this year that we’ve asked to write world premieres. In the past, we’ve commissioned people who regularly write classical music.”

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