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September 20th – Member Appreciation Concert and Party – Altadena
October 4th – Family Concert – The LA Arboretum
Novermber 1st – Halloween Concert – The Pasadena Mausoleum
December 18th – 5th Annual Holiday Concert – Westminster Presbyterian Church
“Fire in Four Fractures” – Savannah Jo Lack
“Blueprint” – Caroline Shaw
Divertimenti for string quartet – Benjamin Britten
String Quartet Op.95 “Serioso” – Ludwig van Beethoven
The Lyris Quartet has performed for Melodia Mariposa before in February 2025 in our first concert after the Eaton Fire. Violinist Alyssa Park has recently been appointed the new Concertmaster of LA Opera – we offer her our congratulations on her new role!

Saturday May 23rd
7:00pm
301 N Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena CA 91103
Free tickets are available from May 10th
This vibrant program from four era spanning composers including Altadena’s own Savannah Jo Lack alongside Pulitzer prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, with works by Britten and Beethoven. Blending fresh contemporary voices with timeless masterworks, the evening offers a journey of moods—somber, playful, and ultimately profound—drawing the listener from reflection to intensity.
Article by Suzanne York about this week’s concert
Composer – Savannah Jo Lack
Savannah Jo Lack is a composer and violinist who thrives in collaboration, whether scoring for film, recording in the studio, or performing live with a violin, pedalboard, and the instinct of an improviser.
Savannah’s scores include Waking, Death and Ramen, Last Remembrances and the score for Bauer by award-winning playwright, Lauren Gunderson. She has worked as an additional composer and assistant to Emmy award winning composer, Duncan Thum on Chef’s Table, had her original music placed in worldwide ad campaigns for Sony (Earth Rising) and multiple tv shows in the US and Germany, collaborated with award-winning composer and producer, Robot Koch on two albums, recorded with the German Chamber Orchestra, and had her music released on the Neue Meister label.
Trained as an orchestral violinist in Australia, Savannah left that post to play in bands, tour the country and make her own music, earning a Golden Fiddle Award and a Churchill Fellowship before moving to the U.S. She completed a Master’s in Film Composition at USC in 2022 and became a Sundance Composers Lab Fellow that same year.
Biographies of the Musicians
Alyssa Park, Violin
Alyssa Park established an enviable international reputation at age sixteen for being the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition. Ms. Park has made numerous recital and orchestral appearances since her professional debut at age eleven with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Her New York City debut recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall was critically acclaimed by The New York Times for “an unusually strong technique and a youthful sense of music making.” Other notable credits include the Ravinia Festival Series, Kennedy Center Recital Series, Oregon Bach Festival, and Rockefeller University in New York City.
As a soloist, Ms. Park has concertized extensively throughout Europe. She has performed with Sir Colin Davis and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as appearances with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic. Her performance with the Austrian Radio Symphony at Vienna’s Musikverein was featured in a live radio and television broadcast throughout Europe. Ms.Park has toured Germany with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Barcelona Orchestra, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Hamburg Philharmonic, and to Spain, Switzerland, and Austria with the Cincinnati Symphony. She also appeared as a soloist with the orchestras of Sydney, Adelaide, and Tasmania, Australia.
Ms. Park’s recent seasons included performances in Asia with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, and the Singapore Symphony. She was also featured with the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Lisbon Symphony, Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, and Munich Philharmonic. She also made her debut at Italy’s Ravello Festival and Holland’s Royal Concertgebouw.
An avid chamber musician as well, Ms. Park has been a frequent guest at major festivals including Ludwisburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Weilburg, Passau, Frankfurt, Montpellier, France, Brahms festival in Madrid, Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Prague Summer Festival, and Oregon Festival of American Music. She has been on tours with Martha Argerich, Boris Pergamenchikov, Billy Childs, Louis Lortie, and Soovin Kim just to name a few.
Ms. Park is also a founding member of the Lyris Quartet which is based in Los Angeles. Lyris curates the “Hear Now” new music festival which is dedicated to performing the works of living Southern California composers. The quartet is also the resident quartet for the highly acclaimed Jacaranda music series in Santa Monica.
Lyris has collaborated closely with composers Krystof Penderecki, Andrew Norman, Oliver Knussen, Steven Mackey, John Adams, Bruce Broughton, Peter Knell, Kurt Rohde, Paquito D’Rivera, Wadada Leo Smith, Gerard Schurmann, and James Newton. They’ve performed as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, been featured at the Hollywood Bowl, and will make their debut with the Los Angeles Master Chorale this season.
Ms. Park’s recordings can be found on Albany Records, Toccata Classics, ARS, and Naxos.
Shalini Vijayan, Violin
Violinist Shalini Vijayan is a member of the Lyris Quartet, the founding resident ensemble of the Hear Now Music Festival in Los Angeles. Shalini was a founding member and Principal Second Violin of Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble, having recorded several albums with them including 2001 Grammy nominee, Absolution. As a part of Absolute, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe, most notably in London’s Barbican Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
A member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida from 1998-2001, Shalini served as concertmaster for Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams, Reinbert de Leeuw and Oliver Knussen. She was also concertmaster for the world premiere performances and recording of Steven Mackey’s Tuck and Roll for RCA records in 2000. In Los Angeles, Shalini is featured regularly with Grammy Award winning Southwest Chamber Music and can be heard on their Grammy nominated Complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chávez, Vol. 3. Most recently, she has been a featured soloist with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Chinary Ung’s Spiral XII and Tan Dun’s Water Passion. Shalini is on the performance faculty of the Nirmita Composers Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Luke Maurer, Viola
Violist Luke Maurer, a native of Santa Barbara, California, has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a chamber and orchestral musician. Maurer was a member of the Pacific Symphony for over a decade and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also served as guest principal violist with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan.
Maurer is the violist of the Lyris Quartet, resident ensemble of the critically acclaimed series Jacaranda: Music at the Edge. Lyris is also the founding resident ensemble of the Hear Now Music Festival, which focuses on the music of living Los Angeles composers. The quartet has recorded for Toccata Classics, ARS and Naxos.
Timothy Loo, Cello
Timothy Loo, moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to study cello performance at California State University at Northridge and the University of Southern California. Timothy is a member of the Lyris Quartet, founded in 2008. This quartet is the resident ensemble at both Jacaranda and Hear Now Festivals and has been featured numerous times on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella and Noon 2 Midnight series at The Walt Disney Concert Hall.
In January 2018, Mr. Loo made his concerto debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at The Walt Disney Concert Hall performing the fiendishly difficult Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Bernt Zimmermann, under the direction of conductor Susanna Mälkki.
Timothy has also performed on over 1000 motion pictures, TV shows, albums, commercials, award shows, including yearly at the Academy Award
Timothy is also one of the foremost music contractors in Los Angeles. Most recently he assembled the orchestra for composer John Williams for the scoring of Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Destiny, ESPN College Football Playoffs, The Fablemans and Obi Wan Kenobi. Mr. Loo is also the music contractor for James Newton Howard, Mike Post, Jeff Russo, Branford Marsalis, Disney’s Launchpad streaming series, The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, just to name a few.
In 2019, Timothy and his husband Tommy Johnson purchased Sabron Payroll Services and act as CFO and CEO respectively. Sabron is a leading payroll company in the entertainment industry that has built strong relationships with major production companies such as Disney, Netflix, MGM, Paramount, LucasFilm, and Apple.
Sabron has a 30-year legacy as a boutique payroll company that helps production companies or composers to navigate the complex music contracts of the American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, and IATSE.
