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UPCOMING EVENTS
Mr. Loucks's 2024/2025 concert season features performances from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, and a chamber music collaboration with the award-winning Thalea String Quartet at the Moreau Center for the Arts. Loucks will be a featured artist at the Music Teachers’ Association of California’s 2024 Convention – Imagination, Inspiration, Innovation – leading various panels, master classes, and performances. In February 2025, Mr. Loucks will host Chamber Music America’s National Conference in partnership with the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
DA CAMERA SOCIETY
Mount Saint Mary's
MUSIC TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE CONVENTION
Los Angeles, California
THALEA STRING QUARTET
Moreau Center for the Arts
"Sparkling...
FLAWLESS
...a first-rate performance."
NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW
BIO
Representing a new generation of performing arts executives, Kevin Kwan Loucks has cultivated a distinguished leadership profile founded on artistic excellence, entrepreneurship, and innovative strategic design. As a concert artist, Mr. Loucks has earned ovations from Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, to Prösels Castle in Italy, the Kennedy Center, Kumho Art Hall and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Prague’s Lichtenstein Palace.
TRIO CELESTE
Hailed as “a first-class ensemble” (Orange County Register), “unfailingly stylish” (The Strad), “technically dazzling” (Long Beach Gazette), “flawless” (New York Concert Review) and “the epitome of what chamber musicians should be” (Palm Beach Daily News), Trio Céleste has firmly established itself as one of the most dynamic chamber music ensembles on the classical music scene today. Mr. Loucks serves as the ensemble's pianist alongside Ross Gasworth, cello, and his wife Iryna Krechkovsky, violin.
Recent highlights include recitals at the Chicago Cultural Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Seoul Art Center in South Korea, and the world premiere of Paul Dooley’s Concerto Grosso for Piano Trio and Strings co-commissioned by Trio Céleste and Chamber Music | OC.
ARTS ADMINISTRATOR& CONSULTANT
A Juilliard-trained concert pianist, educator, and arts entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the performing arts industry, Mr. Loucks employs a diverse skill set that has inspired the cultivation and development of creative projects across various platforms.
"Pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks is a
BIG TALENT
...he exhibited a stunning technical virtuosity."
LONG BEACH GAZETTE
CHAMBER MUSIC | OC
HEADQUARTERS
Hailed by the LA Times for "keeping classical music going" during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chamber Music | OC was born out of a desire to share the joys of chamber music with the entire Orange County community. The organization is proud to announce its newest and most exciting acquisition to date: a 4,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art commercial facility that houses all of CMOC's administrative, artistic, and educational operations. Thoughtfully designed by KK Design Concepts, and Pro Audio L.A., CMOC HQ boasts an elegant performance space, recording studio, sound-proof studios, administrative offices, a large common area, and kitchenette.
