The Chicago Sinfonietta is pleased to welcome Kalena Bovell and Roger Kalia as its 2015-16 Conducting Fellows. They enter the program with conducting credits at the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, and Prelude Youth Orchestras of Arlington, VA (Bovell), and the Indianapolis Symphony...
Pacific Symphony announced Monday that it has hired Roger Kalia as assistant conductor, replacing Alejandro Gutierrez, who will return home to Costa Rica to teach at the University of Costa Rica and guest conduct for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Kalia, 30, comes from...
Kalia, currently the assistant conductor of the Pacific Symphony and music director of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Lake George Music Festival, is a very fine young conductor with a solid technique, some really good musical ideas, and the strength as a conductor...
For Kalia, who traveled to China with his local orchestra as a high school student, the tour serves as a nostalgic reminder of just how powerful music can be. “Performing in different concert halls and seeing the sights and sounds of each city in China inspired...
Electronic production duo MAKO is known for releasing cinematic and emotive dance music with an emphasis on insightful songwriting. Their newest single "Into The Sunset" (Ultra Music) has returned acoustically and live showcasing the mulit-dimension of their songwriting craft. With a dynamic rhythm of beautifully...
Everything seems to get thrown into the musical mix at some point. But electronic dance music, or EDM, (think hip young folks in nightclubs, sipping cocktails and grooving under cool lighting) combined with classical orchestra is still a novelty. Yet that's just what is in store...
“What does Beethoven really have to do with electronic music?” Lake George Music Festival Music Director and Conductor Roger Kalia posed this question to the crowd of several hundred that gathered last night in Shepard Park for the Festival’s “Sounds of our Time” concert. The...
In upstate New York, the premier musical arts festival in the region, Lake George Music Festival is having a unique and innovative new concert series called Sounds of Our Time for first time ever collaboration with DJ and producer, Mako. The concert series will be held on Wednesday, August 24...
Do you remember the ’60s? If so, you weren’t there. But last Saturday night’s season-ending Long Beach Symphony POPS! concert brought memories of that wondrous era back, or at least its music, in the form of a show called “Divas of the ’60s”. As a reporter, I...
Pacific Symphony has extended the contract of its assistant conductor, Roger Kalia, for two additional years, providing for him to continue in his current role through June 2019. It’s been two years since the Symphony first announced Kalia as its second in command (under Music...