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Event Series Festival Chorale: All Around The Blooming Heather

Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather

Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The arrival of Spring will be lauded in song with some traditional folk songs, including "The Water Is Wide," and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, and more. With special guest Marcia Sloane, cello. Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Marcia Sloane, cello; Claire Armstrong, four-hand piano on "The Promise of ...

$25
Event Series Festival Chorale: All Around The Blooming Heather

Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather

Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The arrival of Spring will be lauded in song with some traditional folk songs, including "The Water Is Wide," and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, and more. With special guest Marcia Sloane, cello. Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Marcia Sloane, cello; Claire Armstrong, four-hand piano on "The Promise of ...

$25

Opera Preview Party 2025

Brian James and Shariq Yosufzai Residence Mendocino, CA, United States

Hosted by Shariq Yosufzai and Brian James in their stunning ocean view Mendocino home, this gathering will offer insights from Artistic Director Allan Pollack and 2025 opera conductor Ryan Murray. There will be a few arias to delight and astonish us. Savory and sweet courses will be circulated throughout the evening. Wine and nonalcoholic beverages ...

$200

Festival Orchestra 1, with soloist James D’León

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In the opening classical concert, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Igor Stravinsky’s 1922 Pulcinella Suite, one of the ballets commissioned by Diaghilev. We’ll catch our breaths when the orchestra and pianist James D'León transport us to Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Manuel de Falla’s set of nocturnes for piano and orchestra. The ...

$15 – $65

Piano Series: Keisuke Nakagoshi

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi will celebrate Ravel’s 150th birthday with “Moons and Insects,” a selection of short pieces by classical and contemporary composers that celebrate the moon and some of the many bugs in the world. His selections will include Grieg’s butterfly, Ravel’s moth, Scriabin’s mosquito, and Prokofiev’s grasshopper, interspersed with some moon music, and capped ...

$15 – $40

Side Note

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Side Note is an eight-person contemporary a cappella group based in San Francisco that sings top hits of all genres and eras, from classic 60s hits to mashups of the latest R&B, jazz, and musical theater chart toppers. Each singer has a different musical background, but they draw on their diversity to create a new ...

$15 – $40

Piano Series: Sergey Belyavsky

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

A carnival mood will be created by pianist Sergey Belyavsky as he plays Schumann’s lively Carnival Scenes from Vienna Op. 26 and his Carnaval Op. 9. The spirit will only grow with Liszt’s “Carnival in Pest” (aka Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9), Rosenthal’s Carnaval de Vienne, and selections from Saint-Saens’ humorous The Carnival of the Animals. ...

$15 – $65

Festival Orchestra 2: Don Pasquale

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In this concert version of Donizetti’s comic opera, conducted by Ryan Murray, the audience will be treated to all of the beautiful music in this bel canto masterpiece, and most of the shenanigans. Don Pasquale is generally regarded as the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and five accomplished singers will lead ...

$15 – $65

Piano Series: Rachel Breen

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK) and having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses around the world. In the first half of this concert Breen will perform a set of ten etudes ...

$15 – $40

Stravinsky: Chamber Music for the Concert Hall

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

L’histoire du soldat shows off Stravinsky’s familiarity with a wide range of musical styles: pasodoble, tango, waltz, ragtime, klezmer, and even Luther’s Ein Feste Burg. Concerto in E-flat (“Dumbarton Oaks”) is one of Stravinsky’s two chamber concertos. Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass. Completed in 1923, ...

$15 – $66
Event Series Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on “Cradle Songs for a Cat.” Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will ...

$15 – $40
Event Series Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on “Cradle Songs for a Cat.” Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will ...

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 3

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Festival Orchestra with guest conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong and soloist Julian Rhee. “Igor on My Mind,” Allan Pollack’s fun-loving, energetic and rhythmic piece, impishly steals motifs straight out of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral music. Then the real Stravinsky will be heard in the Violin Concerto in D, a neoclassical piece in four movements, written in the summer ...

$15 – $65

Calder Quartet

Cotton Auditorium 500 N Harold Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United States

Hailed as “imaginative, skillful creators” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet captivates audiences with its explorations of a broad repertoire, always striving to fulfill the composer’s vision in their performances. The group’s distinctive artistry is exemplified by the musical curiosity they bring to everything they perform. One of America’s most satisfying—and most enterprising—quartets" ...

$15 – $65

Emerging Artists Recital

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The annual concert by the wonderfully talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished musicians interpret chamber music classics. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 4

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The final concert will open with Ad Matrem, Henryk Gorecki’s sacred work for soprano, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Based on the text of the 13th century hymn, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, this piece is almost a symphonic poem. Lux Aeterna, by Morten Lauridsen, is a choral work fashioned on texts from several different Latin sources, including ...

$15 – $65

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