Current Season
2025-2026
“This was music of veiled mystery, tones surrounded by dissonance and consonance at the same time, like layers of rock or colored sand, and played with the clarity of a desert night sky.”
— Marcus Overton for the San Diego Union-Tribune
Past Performance Archive
| May-July, 2025 | Klimahaus, Bremerhaven, Germany | Polar Portal installation With compositions from the Polar Sounds Project including Sirens of the Pack Ice for khaen and electronics |
| August 11, 2025 | Athenaeum Music & Arts Library 1008 Wall St. La Jolla Free noontime concert | Sädesärla performs folk music and music by Christopher Adler. Sädesärla is Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin, viola, voice), and Christopher Adler (khaen) |
| September 18, 2025 | University of Tennessee Knoxville | Aeneas in the Underworld, performed by Colin McAllister and ensemble |
| October 1, 2025 | University of San Diego KIPJ Theatre | Aeneas in the Underworld, performed by Colin McAllister and ensemble |
| October 19, 2025 | University of San Diego Camino 153 7:00 pm | Jie Ma (pipa, percussion, electronics) and Christopher Adler (piano) duo performance |
| November 9, 2025 | Manzanita Concerts Mission Trails Church 4880 Zion Ave, San Diego | Sädesärla performs folk music and music by Christopher Adler. Sädesärla is Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin, viola, voice), and Christopher Adler (khaen) |
| November 14, 2025 | Counterpoint Concerts Georgetown Powerhouse Washington, D.C. | Natalya Kazaryan and Jeff Stern perform The Toy Robot’s Mechanical Heart |
| January 8-10, 2026 | Athenaeum Music & Arts Library La Jolla, CA | soundON Festival, presented by San Diego New Music |
