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  • Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song

    Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song
    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Celebrate the richness and resonance of American song in this uplifting spring concert featuring the 24-voice Mendocino Music Festival Chorale. In two performances, May 2 and 3, An Afternoon of American Song weaves together beloved folk melodies, spirituals, protest anthems, and lyrical art songs—from the timeless beauty of "Shenandoah" and "America the Beautiful" to the ...

    $25

  • Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song

    Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song
    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Celebrate the richness and resonance of American song in this uplifting spring concert featuring the 24-voice Mendocino Music Festival Chorale. In two performances, May 2 and 3, An Afternoon of American Song weaves together beloved folk melodies, spirituals, protest anthems, and lyrical art songs—from the timeless beauty of "Shenandoah" and "America the Beautiful" to the ...

    $25

  • Opera Preview Party 2026

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

    Imagine yourself... ...in a stunning seaside setting, with a small gathering of fellow opera lovers, grazing on delicacies both savory and sweet, sipping fine wines and other libations, enhanced by the 'golden hour' ambience of a mid-June North Coast evening... ...hearing Artistic Director Allan Pollack and Guest Conductor Francisco Lecce-Chong share a few opera insights... ...with ...

    $200

  • Susan Waterfall presents: Beethoven

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

    Susan Waterfall’s biographical film on Ludwig van Beethoven provides the perfect prologue to this summer's programming. The riveting story of western classical music's greatest composer, and the turbulent period of history he inhabited, includes excerpts from 25 of his works, along with compelling contemporaneous art and images.

    $20

  • Festival Orchestra 1, with Stephen Prutsman, Piano

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

    To kick off the Festival's 40th season's orchestral offerings, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Leonard Bernstein’s sprightly Candide overture. The energy will continue to flow when soloist Stephen Prutsman returns to Mendocino to perform Prokofiev’s demanding Piano Concerto No. 3. After we catch our breaths at intermission, we’ll enjoy the energetic 7th Symphony ...

    $15 – $75

  • Beethoven Chamber 1

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

    Beethoven's charming, enigmatic, and deeply felt Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Opus 10 No. 3 will be played by Susan Waterfall. The brooding and complex String Trio in C minor No. 3, Op. 9 will feature Terrie Baune (violin), Susan Freier, (viola) and Stephen Harrison (cello). In the late-period Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. ...

    $15 – $45

  • Piano Series: Anthony Ratinov

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

    Pianist Anthony Ratinov’s impressive talents will be on display when he performs selections from Debussy’s Douze Études, both Book I and Book II. The compositions address aspects of pianistic technique in the first book and explore new sonorities in the second. In between the Debussy, he will draw upon his virtuosity to carry us through ...

    $15 – $45
  • Painting entitled Luigi-Morgari-Scenery-for-the-scene-with-Mimi-and-Rodolfo-in-the-opera-La-Boheme-by-Giacomo-Puccini depicting characters from the opera in a dramatic scene.

    Festival Orchestra 2: La bohème, with Ryan Murray, Conductor

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

    Puccini’s famous opera is the story of love, friendship, poverty, and tragic death. Set in Bohemian Paris of the 1830s, it tells of four friends, all struggling artists of one sort or another. Mimi and Rodolfo meet and fall in love on Christmas Eve. Musetta and Marcello also love one another and, like Mimi and ...

    $15 – $75

  • Fire & Grace

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    This dynamic collaboration between guitarist William Coulter and violinist Edwin Huizinga explores the world’s musical landscape. Their performances blend iconic favorites with classic ballads, mixing North American folk and Celtic melodies with Argentinian tango and Bach sonatas. Described as “a monument to musical diversity and crossover brilliance,” this duo explores classical, folk, and contemporary traditions ...

    $15 – $45

  • Calder Quartet

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

    “Few string quartets can command the stage like the Calder Quartet,” according to The Washington Post. The extraordinary ensemble is just as renowned for its expert, empathetic readings of core repertoire as it is for its thrilling commitment to new and unexpected programming. Returning to the Festival for the 12th year, the Los Angeles-based musicians ...

    $15 – $75

  • Piano Series: Cahill/Myers Duo

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

    The energetic duo of Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers will excite you with their interpretations of a wide range of contemporary two-piano music. The two San Francisco-based pianists have collaborated on many occasions, most recently for a duo performance at the 2025 Flower Piano in Golden Gate Park. This concert will feature both venerable and ...

    $15 – $45

  • Beethoven Chamber 2

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

    In what has become something of a Festival tradition, Julian Pollack will join Susan Waterfall on one piano for the Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in D Major, Op. 6, a two-movement exercise in pianistic flair. Beethoven wrote beautifully balanced works for strings and piano, and this concert will celebrate that mastery. Sam Weiser will ...

    $15 – $45

  • Festival Orchestra 3, with Francesco Lecce-Chong, Conductor; Mio Imai, violin

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

    Shuying Li’s Purple Mountains overture will begin an evening of graceful lyricism and energetic rhythms. Amazing young violinist Mio Imai will perform Samuel Barber’s esteemed Violin Concerto. In her hands, elegant solo melodies will soar and mesh with lush orchestral textures. Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, the "Pastoral Symphony," is one of his few pieces with explicitly ...

    $15 – $75

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

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

    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. If you enjoyed her performance last year, you will certainly appreciate this one. ...took into ...

    $15 – $75

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    The annual concert by the wonderfully talented string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished young musicians interpret chamber music classics and present exciting contemporary works. Each year twleve participants are chosen from the many who apply to come to Mendocino, receive chamber music coaching from principals ...

    $15 – $45

  • Festival Orchestra 4

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

    The season will conclude with “Songs of Love and Loss” by Allan Pollack, a work for soprano, chorus, orchestra. The piece deals with emotions of grief and longing, blending contemporary texts and musical materials with Biblical passages. The mood will shift with Beethoven’s beloved Symphony No. 9 in D minor, a fitting finale for the ...

    $15 – $75