The Los Angeles Philharmonic opened its 2015/16 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, on Tuesday, September 29th with an exclusive black tie affair. The evening presented one conductor, Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and two orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela during its opening night gala: The Brilliance of Beethoven.

Attendees and supporters included Bryce Dallas Howard, Hilary Swank, Julie Andrews, Christoph Waltz, William Shatner, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kate Burton, Matthew Lillard, Mia Maestro, Chris O’Donnell, Alex Meneses, Neil Lane, LA Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, LA Philharmonic Board Chair Diane B. Paul, LA Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda, LA Philharmonic Creative Chair John Adams and Deborah O’Grady, LA Philharmonic Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock and Gigi Hancock, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Frank Gehry, Michael and Jane Eisner, Eli and Edye Broad, Ginny Mancini, and many more.