For 41 years, the COSB has been a beacon of classical music in the South Bay. A fully professional orchestra, it is the resident classical orchestra of Palos Verdes Performing Arts at the Norris Theatre and the only orchestra in the South Bay offering a full season with nationally and internationally-recognized soloists.
The COSB has a proud tradition of attracting award-winning guest artists. Soloists have included pianists such as Yuja Wang, Rufus Choi, Stephen Lin and Orion Weiss. Strings have included cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas, harpist Marcia Dickstein and a number of well-known violinists. The latter have included Susanne Hou, Mayuko Kamio, and Itamar Zorman. The COSB has a longstanding relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; past and present principal artists who have performed with the COSB include violinists Martin Chalifour and Glenn Dicterow, flutist Denis Bouriakov, oboist Arianna Ghez, clarinetist Michele Zukovsky, hornists Andrew Bain and William Lane, and cellists Peter Stumpf and Ronald Leonard.
A high regard of the COSB is not limited to its subscribers. Critiques of COSB performances emphasizing its high musical standards have been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Breeze and the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, and it is the winner of four awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Grant support has been obtained from such noteworthy funders as the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles Arts Commission, and the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
Website: https://www.mycosb.org/
