Hans Graf, Music Director of the Houston Symphony, is guest conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January 27, at 8 pm, and at 2 pm concert on Sunday, January 28, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Violinist Gil Shaham, internationally recognized as one of today's most virtuosic and engaging classical artists, is soloist in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky's Hamlet Overture and Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the orchestra in John Adams' masterpiece Naïve and Sentimental Music at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the Casual Friday Series on January 19, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. In addition, Beethoven's heroic Symphony No. 2 is performed on Saturday, January 20, 2007, at 8 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

John Adams celebrates his 60th birthday by conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group in his two of his own compositions, Gnarly Buttons and Grand Pianola Music at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 8:00 p.m.

Pianist Hélène Grimaud performs at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's Colburn Celebrity series on Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. The program features the Bach/Busoni Chaconne, Chopin's Barcarolle and Berceuse, Brahms' Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79, and Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2.