Lara Downes Content / Lara Downes Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Musician Lara Downes Debuts NPR Series Saturday /arts/blog/musician-lara-downes-debuts-NPR-series-saturday <p>Lara Downes, who has long been a performing artist at the&nbsp;ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Mondavi Center, launches a national show this Saturday, Oct. 17, on <a href="https://www.npr.org/music/">NPR Music</a>.</p> <p><em>Amplify with Lara Downes</em>, promises to offer intimate and revealing conversations in a video format with leading Black, Indigenous and people of color, or BIPOC, musicians.</p> October 16, 2020 - 4:17pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/musician-lara-downes-debuts-NPR-series-saturday Weekender: Bernstein Caberet at Mondavi, and More /arts/blog/weekender-Bernstein-Cabaret-Mondavi <h2 class="heading--underline"><strong>Music of Bernstein, Duke Ellington and others at Mondavi Friday</strong></h2> <p>Pianist Lara Downes, who also directs the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition (April 26-28), and vocalist Theo Bleckmann, will present a duo cabaret showcasing the music of Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and Kurt Weill on Friday at the Mondavi Center.</p> March 27, 2019 - 1:28pm Karen Michele Nikos /arts/blog/weekender-Bernstein-Cabaret-Mondavi Pianist, Wheat Geneticist Recipients of 2017 Innovator of the Year Awards /news/pianist-wheat-geneticist-recipients-2017-innovator-year-awards <p>Lara Downes, artist in residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and Jorge Dubcovsky, distinguished professor of plant sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, were named the 2017 Innovators of the Year by University of California, Davis, Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter at a ceremony on campus tonight. &nbsp;</p> June 08, 2017 - 11:41am Andy Fell /news/pianist-wheat-geneticist-recipients-2017-innovator-year-awards Music, Spoken-Word Video Advocates for the Arts /news/music-spoken-word-video-advocates-arts <p>What a trio! What a message! <a href="http://www.laradownes.com/">Lara Downes</a>, pianist, artist in residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, who needs no further introduction. Aaron Dworkin, musician, spoken-word artist, MacArthur Fellow.</p> May 22, 2017 - 7:02am Dave Jones /news/music-spoken-word-video-advocates-arts