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Arlo Guthrie playing guitar

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Arlo Guthrie 20/20 Tour: Featuring “Alice’s Restaurant”

Feb 11, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, February 11, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center welcomes Arlo Guthrie 20/20 Tour: Featuring “Alice’s Restaurant” on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 8pm. Guthrie will be joined by

Soka students on location near lake in Brazil

Learning Cluster 2020: Students Investigate the Great Drought in Brazil

Feb 11, 2020

By Professor Ian Read A great chronicler of the Brazilian backland, João Guimarães Rosa, famously wrote “good quality water is like health or freedom: it only has value when it runs dry.” Over the

Hub New Music

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Hub New Music with Special Guest Kojiro Umezaki of Silkroad Ensemble

Feb 04, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, February 4, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents Hub New Music with Special Guest Kojiro Umezaki on Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 3 PM. Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers”

Beatrice Rana standing at piano

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Virtuoso Pianist Beatrice Rana

Jan 30, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, January 30, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents Silver medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Gramophone’s 2017 Young Artist of the Year, Italian

Elissa Lee Koljonen wearing a pink dress holding a violin

Pacific Symphony Plays Ticheli And Beethoven Conducted By Carl St.Clair With Elissa Lee Koljonen At Soka Performing Arts Center

Jan 14, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, January 14, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents Pacific Symphony Chamber Orchestra with violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 3pm. The program includes

Rocky Dawuni

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Rocky Dawuni

Jan 09, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, January 9, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents international music star and humanitarian Rocky Dawuni on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 8pm. Grammy Award-nominated Rocky Dawuni

Yefim Bronfman playing piano in concert

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Acclaimed Pianist Yefim Bronfman In An All-Beethoven Program

Jan 07, 2020

(Aliso Viejo, CA, January 7, 2020) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents internationally-acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman in a solo piano recital on Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 3pm. “Listening to

Lucas Caceres, Linda Mutesi, and Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal holding award

Impactathon Offers Social Entrepreneurial Lessons for Students and Alumni

Jan 05, 2020

Connecting immigrants with vital services. Spurring economic development in communities by recycling environmental waste. Empowering students with knowledge to spark civic engagement. Soka students

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra In An All-Russian Program

Dec 17, 2019

(Aliso Viejo, CA, December 17, 2019) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents internationally-acclaimed Siberian State Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 8pm. Under the baton of Vladimir

Jazzy Ash and band members playing instruments on a dock

Soka Performing Arts Center Presents Family Fun Favorite Band Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards

Dec 17, 2019

(Aliso Viejo, CA, December 17, 2019) – Soka Performing Arts Center presents the first and only New Orleans Jazz band just for kids and families Jazzy Ash & The Leaping Lizards on Sunday, March 8, 2020