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  • Beethoven: The Heroic Period (1802-1812)

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

    Accepting his deafness and physical infirmities, Beethoven vows to “seize Fate by the throat” and pursue his artistic goals.

    Join Susan Waterfall and an array of exceptional Festival musicians for five days of lectures and narrated concerts exploring the life and music of Beethoven, the most influential and consistently popular composer in Western music. For this concert Waterfall is joined by Keisuke Nakagoshi, Alex Boyer, Angela Moser, and Carolyn Steinbuck.

    $12 – $29

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2016

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

    This is the annual, much anticipated recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $29

  • Calder Quartet 2017

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

    Back for a fifth year of insightful and moving playing, the Calder will perform the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.13; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable listening. They reveal hidden dimensions, ...

    $12 – $40

  • In Bocca al Lupo 2017

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

    A concert of medieval and Renaissance music. Featuring Shira Kammen, Allison Zelles Lloyd, Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey. Shira has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, Kitka ...

    $12 – $30

  • Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison 2017

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

    In celebration of maverick composer Lou Harrison’s 2017 centennial, violinist Kate Stenberg, pianist Sarah Cahill, and percussionist William Winant will perform a concert of Harrison’s music spanning half a century – exuberant dance music from his early years, dissonant complexity from the 1940s, and substantial works from the 1980s. Their program will include Harrison's Varied ...

    $12 – $30

  • Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

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

    In Susan Waterfall’s multi-media exploration of Franz Schubert’s life, you will learn how the Vienna of Mozart and Beethoven changed with an increasingly large, restricted and regimented urban middle class. Schubert’s potent settings of Romantic lyric poetry thrived in bourgeois settings where there was a growing need for personal emotional outlet. The inwardness and subjectivity ...

    $12 – $30

  • Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017

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

    Susan Waterfall will play Moments Musicaux and discuss the significance of Schubert’s “character pieces,” which, like lieder, suited the Romantic goals of intimacy and fantasy. Schubert’s exceptional ability to portray women in lieder will be demonstrated by soprano Julie Kierstine and pianist Daniel Lockert. The Octet, modeled on Beethoven’s popular Septet, is unusually outgoing, but ...

    $12 – $30

  • Schubert Chamber Music 2 2017

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

    The most domestic of all genres, the four-hand piano piece, attained its pinnacle with Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor, written in the last year of Schubert’s life.  It will be performed by Julian Waterfall Pollack and Susan Waterfall.  The String Quintet in C Major for quartet and an additional cello is a work of supreme ...

    $12 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2017

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

    The annual and much anticipated recital by the enormously talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is one of the season’s highlights. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $30

  • Soloists Together: Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, Stephen Prutsman 2018

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

    Before their solo turns later in the week, this afternoon Geoff Nuttall, violin, and Livia Sohn, violin, join Stephen Prutsman, piano, to play Telemann’s Gulliver Suite, Cesar Franck’s Sonata in A Major, instrumental versions of familiar arias by Bizet, Verdi, and Gluck, and Hubay’s Carmen Fantasie. the Jon Stewart of chamber music" Sohn simply makes ...

    $15 – $40

  • Calder Quartet 2018

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

    Welcomed for a sixth year of sensitive and eloquent playing, the Calder will perform the Beethoven String Quartet No. 10, Op. 74, The Harp; Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable ...

    $15 – $40

  • New Esterhazy Quartet 2018

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

    London, 1845: Gratitude to Josef Haydn will showcase this quartet’s core repertoire by playing four of Haydn’s string quartets: D minor, C Major, D Major, and B-flat Major. Founded in 2006, the quartet takes its name from the Hungarian estate where Joseph Haydn lived and worked for nearly three decades. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Chamber Players 2018

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

    Bach’s Trio Sonata in E-flat Major; Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor; and Mozart’s Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings. Tammie Dyer, violin; Susan Freier, violin; Jay Zhong, violin, Eric Kritz, clarinet; Tom Nugent, oboe; Stephen Harrison, cello; Carolyn Steinbuck, piano. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Chopin 2: Susan Waterfall, Miles Graber, David Kadarauch

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

    Susan Waterfall will discuss and perform a selection of Chopin’s  Mazurkas,  the dance genre where he refined his mastery of the folk idiom and launched his most daring compositional experiments. Susan will also play Chopin’s Barcarolle, Opus 60, and touch on its special place both in Chopin’s output. and as a source for the future ...

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2018

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

    The annual recital by the enormously talented young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love chamber music. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2019

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

    Robert Schwartz is an active performer and a teacher in the Bay Area. His wide-ranging program will include Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat Major; Chopin’s Impromptus in G-flat Major and A-flat Major; Chopin’s Barcarolle Op. 60; and Brahms’ 8 Klavierstücke Op. 76. His playing was crystal clear and his poetic insights remarkable.” BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Calder Quartet 2019

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

    Back for a seventh year of sensitive and eloquent playing, the Calder will perform Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major; Daniel Bjarnason’s Still Shot; and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major Op. 130 (with Finale). Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable listening. They reveal hidden ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Robin Sutherland 2019

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

    By Tonality Joined Most known for his playing of Bach, Robin Sutherland will contrast some Bach works with pieces by other composers in the same key. This concert will pair Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major (BWV 848) with “partners,” the menuet movement of Ravel’s Sonatine, among others. After intermission, he will take us ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Spencer Myer and Mario Diaz-Moresco 2019

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

    Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone; Spencer Myer, piano An afternoon of songs, old and new: Brahms, Schubert, and Barber will make up the first half; gems by Respighi, John Musto and Amy Beach will round out the program. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Brahms: Bearded 2019

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

    Susan Waterfall and Eric Kritz will play the Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 120; Christopher Nomura and Daniel Lockert will sing Vier Ernste Gesänge; and Jay Zhong, Tammie Dyer, Susan Freier, Stephen Harrison, and Danny Sheu will play the String Quintet No. 2 in G Major Op. 111, “Prater.” BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2019

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

    The annual recital by the enormously talented young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love chamber music. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • A Jubilant Song

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

    Join the Festival Chamber Chorale in a concert featuring the music of some of America’s greatest composers. Included in the concert are the haunting melodies of Samuel Barber, the edgy harmonies of Norman Dello Joio, choral super-star Eric Whitacre, as well as glimpses into the Mendocino Music Festival’s final concert with foot-stomping selections by Aaron Copland. The featured work will be Randall Thompson's great choral cycle Frostiana. Spend the afternoon basking in our rich American musical heritage.

    $20

  • Alexander String Quartet 2021

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

    Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the San Francisco-based Alexander String Quartet is widely admired for its interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, and Shostakovich. The group will play the innovative Haydn String Quartet in C Major, Ravel’s lyrical and virtuosic String Quartet in F, and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor. The seventh of ...

    $15 – $35

  • Breakfast with Chou-Chou

    Breakfast with Chou-Chou
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Join Debussy at the breakfast table with his wife and beloved daughter, Chou-Chou, as his imagination is stirred by the toys in the nursery, the paintings on the wall, and fantasies of sunlit ancient Greece. Susan Waterfall will play the “Children’s Corner” suite, Eric Kritz will join her on the Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, and Daniel Lockert will team up with her on Six Épigraphes Antiques. Two sonatas will round out the petit-déjeuner: the darkly humorous Sonata for Cello and Piano, and the magical Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola.

    $15 – $30

  • Breakfast with Chou-Chou

    Breakfast with Chou-Chou
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Join Debussy at the breakfast table with his wife and beloved daughter, Chou-Chou, as his imagination is stirred by the toys in the nursery, the paintings on the wall, and fantasies of sunlit ancient Greece. Susan Waterfall will play the “Children’s Corner” suite, Eric Kritz will join her on the Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, and Daniel Lockert will team up with her on Six Épigraphes Antiques. Two sonatas will round out the petit-déjeuner: the darkly humorous Sonata for Cello and Piano, and the magical Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola.

    $15 – $30

  • Calder Quartet 2022

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

    Back for a tenth year of sensitive and eloquent playing, the Calder Quartet will perform the Beethoven Quartet Op.18, No. 3, and the Debussy G-minor Quartet for Strings. In addition ...

    $15 – $35

  • Sounds and Perfumes of Evening

    Sounds and Perfumes of Evening
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Debussy was interested in writing music that evoked feelings in listeners and in himself, and these pieces showcase his ability to conjure the mysterious atmosphere of night, moonlight, and erotic ...

    $15 – $30

  • Sounds and Perfumes of Evening

    Sounds and Perfumes of Evening
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Debussy was interested in writing music that evoked feelings in listeners and in himself, and these pieces showcase his ability to conjure the mysterious atmosphere of night, moonlight, and erotic ...

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert

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

    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 ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Jeffrey LaDeur, with Kindra Scharich

    Piano Series: Jeffrey LaDeur, featuring Kindra Scharich
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Jeffrey LaDeur is known for his rare blend of insight, spontaneity, and approachable, communicative stage presence. He is the founder and artistic director of the San Francisco International Piano Festival and president of the American Liszt Society, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for her ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Ralph Van Raat and Heather Pinkham, duo pianos

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

    The artists will play John Adams’ Hallelujah Junction for two pianos, named after a small truck stop on US 395 near the California–Nevada border. Pinkham’s Mechanical Transcendence for two pianos tells the story of an android that wishes to become human. Joep Franssens’ Old Songs, New Songs for two pianos will be followed by another ...

    $15 – $30

  • Calder Quartet 2023

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

    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. This concert will feature Ravel’s String Quartet ...

    $14 – $45

  • Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall

    Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Susan Waterfall will play Sonatine. Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Daniel Lockert on piano for Deux melodies hébraïques. Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta will be joined by a small group of string and woodwind players to perform the chamber piece, Introduction et Allegro. On Chansons Madécasses, Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Mindy ...

    $15 – $30

  • Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall

    Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Susan Waterfall will play Sonatine. Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Daniel Lockert on piano for Deux melodies hébraïques. Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta will be joined by a small group of string and woodwind players to perform the chamber piece, Introduction et Allegro. On Chansons Madécasses, Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Mindy ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

    Piano Series: Rachel Breen
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Currently based in Germany, American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK), having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses world-wide. Breen will put her own stamp on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Nicolai Medtner’s Sonata Op. ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

    Piano Series: Rachel Breen
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Currently based in Germany, American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK), having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses world-wide. Breen will put her own stamp on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Nicolai Medtner’s Sonata Op. ...

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    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 – $30

  • Fauré: The Early Salon Years

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

    Susan Waterfall will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in a selection of songs. She will be joined by Julian Waterfall Pollack for “The Dolly Suite.” Susan will play two of Fauré's most famous works for piano: the Barcarolle No 12 in E-flat Major and the Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major. The Sonata for Violin and ...

    $15 – $40

  • Calder Quartet 2024

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

    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

  • Fauré: Indian Summer

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

    Faure wrote some of his most astonishing music in his late seventies, when he was becoming increasingly deaf. Susan Waterfall will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le jardin clos, Stephen Harrison, cello, and Daniel Lockert, piano, will play the Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor. The program will conclude with the Ives Quartet playing ...

    $15 – $40

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    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

  • Stravinsky: Chamber Music for the Concert Hall

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

    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”) ...

    $15 – $66

  • Calder Quartet

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

    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 ...

    $15 – $65

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    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 ...

    $15 – $40

  • Kurt Weill: His Life, His Songs

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Celebrate Kurt Weill with a screening of Susan Waterfall's 2021 film, The Life and Music of Kurt Weill, followed by a live performance by mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen with pianist Sarah Cahill. We'll ...

    $30