• Festival Orchestra with Livia Sohn 2015

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

    Featured wines at this performanceThe Festival will open with the delightful Second Jazz Suite of Shostakovich, showing the light side of this composer. Award-winning violinist Livia Sohn will perform the thrilling Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto on her Guadagnini violin. Ending the program is the lyrical Symphony No. 7 of Prokofiev, warm and wonderful with melodies he ...

    $12 – $49
  • Calder Quartet 2015

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

    Featured wines at this performance The Calder Quartet, called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, performs a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel and fulfill the composer’s vision. Already the choice of many leading composers to perform their works – including Christopher Rouse, Terry Riley and Thomas ...

    $12 – $39
  • Piano Series: Paul Hersh, Stefan Hersh 2015

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

    Paul Hersh returns with his violinist son Stefan. They’ll play Op. 30, No. 3, an effervescent piece from Beethoven’s middle years.  Paul Hersh will also perform the delicate sonata Op. 109, one of Beethoven’s final compositions.  Come hear Beethoven chamber music as it was meant to be played, in a small, intimate setting with friends ...

    $12 – $29
  • Cantus 2015

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

    Featured wines at this performance The "intellectually, emotionally and musically rich" (Star Tribune) nine-member men's vocal ensemble, Cantus is known internationally for its trademark warmth and engaging performances of music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Hailing from Minneapolis-St. Paul and acclaimed as "the premier men's vocal ensemble in the United States" (Fanfare), ...

    $12 – $39
  • Piano Series: Ching-Yun Hu 2015

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

    Acclaimed worldwide for her “dazzling technique and deeply probing musicality,” Ching-Yun Hu has won many international competitions and has performed on tour with the Israel Philharmonic. This is a great opportunity to hear a rising new star at the beginning of her career. Scriabin Sonata No. 2 in g-sharp minor, Op. 19, "Sonata-Fantasie" (12') Schubert ...

    $12 – $29
  • Opera: Barber of Seville 2015

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

    Featured wines at this performance This promises to be a magical production of one of the funniest operas of all times. Rossini at his rollicking best! The opera will be fully staged with costumes and supertitles. It is a story of love and deception in the intricacies of human interaction, all resolving happily in the ...

    $12 – $49
  • Mozart with Punch and Dreck 2015

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

    Two multi-media lectures, a Punch tasting, and music, both ribald and ravishing.

    $12 – $29
  • Mozart at Home 2015

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

    Some of Mozart's most charming and self-revelatory works were written for intimate gatherings with friends and family. Learn about the four fascinating musical families who inspired him: the Mozarts, the Cannabiches, the Webers, and the Jacquins. This concert features the poetic and luminous "Kegelstatt" Trio (K. 498), written for clarinet, viola, and piano, while Mozart ...

    $12 – $29
  • Mozart at Court and Outdoors 2015

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

    Featuring the Festival Chamber Players Many of Mozart’s chamber works were composed for aristocratic salons or outdoor entertainment. The Festival Chamber Players will perform two of Mozart's most serious and introspective masterpieces for these settings. Wind octets usually were light outdoor music for royal parties, but in K. 388 Mozart used the instrumental combination to ...

    $12 – $29
  • Piano Series: Spencer Myer 2015

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

    Spencer Myer’s devoted fans will hear a radiant, diverse concert of Mozart Sonata K. 283, the Schumann Fantasie, the Ravel Sonatine, Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61, and three Bolcom Rags. Come enjoy this afternoon salon, which will be a rare chance to interact with and learn from this engaging and articulate artist. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $29
  • Festival Orchestra featuring Frederica von Stade 2015

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

    Featured wines this performance This concert, the fourth in the Mozart in Mendocino series, contains some of the greatest music ever written, including the Overture from Abduction from the Seraglio K. 384, and Mozart’s last symphony, the Jupiter K. 551. Frederica von Stade will sing her favorite arias from Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and ...

    $12 – $49
  • Emerging Artists Concert 2015

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

    This is a recital by the outrageously excellent young players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists program. This program is limited to serious musicians between the ages of 18 and 26. It includes coaching in an intensive 2½ weeks of chamber music as well as participation in the Festival Orchestra in the company of professional musicians from ...

    $12 – $29
  • Piano Trios: Miles Graber 2015

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

    Audience favorite pianist Miles Graber will bring two of his friends, violinist Jeremy Preston and cellist Robert Howard, to join him for a sublime concert of delicious chamber music. The Beethoven Archduke Trio is warm and wonderful; the Shostakovich trio is both ethereal and boisterous fun. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $29
  • Closing Night 2015

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

    Featured wines at this performance Spencer Myer, piano Two monumental works of the classical repertoire will be featured at the final concert of the season. Pianist Spencer Myer will play the lovely Piano Concerto No. 21 of Mozart, featuring the “Elvira Madigan” theme used in that movie. One of the most important American artists of ...

    $12 – $49
  • How to Listen to Beethoven: An Exploration of Musical Form 2016

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Classical

    Increase your musical pleasure by learning to listen to musical form! If you know what the form is going to be, you will have a good chance of following it as the piece unfolds. Susan Waterfall and Allan Pollack will help you to understand the features of sonata, rondo, and variation form with diagrams, audio examples and definitions of terms like tonality, modulation, and counterpoint.

    In July, 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.

  • Bach Violin Sonatas, featuring Stephen Prutsman, Geoff Nuttall 2016

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

    The rapturous music of J. S. Bach opens the 2016 Festival with all six of the rarely heard sonatas for violin and piano. Described as the “Jon Stewart of chamber ...

    $12 – $39
  • Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Stephen Prutsman 2016

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

    Tonight we celebrate instrumental masters: Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. There will be energy and passion in the tent, opening with the final movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony—an Allegro with great Brio. ...

    $12 – $49
  • Piano Series: Gloria Cheng 2016

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

    Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano The six film composers represented on this program have among them amassed 73 Oscar nominations and eight wins. “But,” ponders the introductory essay ...

    $12 – $29
  • Calder Quartet 2016

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

    Returning for a fourth year of insightful and moving playing, the internationally acclaimed Calder Quartet will perform the Debussy String Quartet; Anders Hillborg Kongsgaard Variations; and Beethoven Op. 59 No. ...

    $12 – $39
  • Piano Series: Robert Henry 2016

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

    Enjoy the fascinating programming and gorgeous pianism of this charming young pianist from Georgia. In addition to Haydn and Brahms, you will hear a rarely heard work by Lili Boulanger, ...

    $12 – $29
  • Opera: Abduction from the Seraglio 2016

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

    Mozart's first operatic masterpiece, comic but passionate, written in the fervor of love for his soon-to-be wife, Konstanze.  Full of spectacular arias and charming "Turkish" orchestral effects. Our scene opens ...

    $12 – $49
  • Piano Series: Christopher Atzinger 2016

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

    Praised for his interpretive vision and power, Atzinger's program includes his signature performance of the monumental Barber Sonata.  Mozart Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat Major, K. 570; Brahms ...

    $12 – $29
  • All About Beethoven 2016

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

    A witty and penetrating multi media lecture by Susan Waterfall, providing an overview of Beethoven’s life, music, family, friends, patrons, fellow musicians, Napoleon, the Viennese cultural milieu, and the ongoing controversy about the immortal beloved.

    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.

    $12 – $29
  • Young Beethoven (1792-1802)

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

    Arriving in Vienna from Bonn, the socially awkward Beethoven strives to attain the stature of Haydn and Mozart, mastering all genres before his hearing loss becomes pronounced.

    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 Eric Kritz, Burke Schuchmann, David McCarroll, Miles Graber, and the Festival Chamber Players.

    $12 – $29
  • 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
  • Festival Orchestra 2, featuring David McCarroll 2016

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

    Violin virtuoso David McCarroll returns to dazzle Festival audiences with his rapturous, yet tender, interpretation of Beethoven’s great Violin Concerto. The Festival Orchestra also performs Beethoven’s majestic Eroica Symphony, full of drama and pathos. Two defining symphonic masterpieces from Beethoven’s Heroic Period, and a soloist of international repute.

    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.

    $12 – $49
  • Late Beethoven (1813-1827)

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

    After the renunciation of his “immortal beloved,” in social withdrawal and complete deafness, Beethoven forged a final style.

    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 she is joined by Brian Thorsett, Miles Graber, Tammie Dyar, Tingting Gu, Alexander Volonts, and Burke Schuchmann.

    $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
  • Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2016

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

    The season closes with Bach’s moving and magnificent Mass in B minor, a sublime choral experience with orchestra, chorus. The Mass in B minor shows Bach at the height of ...

    $12 – $49
  • 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. ...

    $12 – $40
  • Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017

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

    Soloist Jeremy Cohen Featured wines at this performance Event Sponsor The season opens with the exotic rhythms and sinuous melodies of Gershwin’s Cuban Overture; Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; ...

    $12 – $50
  • 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
  • Piano Series: John Novacek 2017

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

    “A commanding presence at the keyboard” and an accomplished composer, John Novacek will perform the Beethoven Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2; Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9; Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, No. 1 in C Major & No. 15 in D-flat Major; Ginastera Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2; and Novacek 3 Concert ...

    $12 – $30
  • Opera: Don Pasquale 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performanceGuest conductor Jason Sherbundy Stage director Ann Woodhead Donizetti’s effervescent opera is generally regarded as one of the greatest comic operas and a melodic masterpiece. A young couple in love schemes to thwart the plans of an old buffoon who wants to marry the girl himself. , Sara LeMesh, Norina Sergio ...

    $12 – $50
  • ZOFO Duet 2017

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

    When you sit two acclaimed soloists at one piano, “you get something energetic and electrifying… out of this world.”  Eva-Maria Zimmerman and Keisuke Nakagoshi have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands, blazing a bold new path for four-hands groups by focusing on 20th and ...

    $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
  • Festival Orchestra 2 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Our inquiry into Schubert concludes with one of his most deeply felt orchestral works, the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Richard Strauss’ Burleske in D minor for piano and orchestra features dazzling keyboard work; and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 closes the concert with ...

    $12 – $50
  • 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
  • Piano Series: Molly Morkoski 2017

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

    With a “refined kind of virtuosity,” Molly Morkoski will perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight); John Adams’ Phrygian Gates; and Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52. "...a refined kind of virtuosity.” Allan Kozinn for the NY Times "Outstanding!" Richard Dyer for the Boston Globe ...

    $12 – $30
  • Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance The season closes with Verdi’s dramatic Requiem, a “mass written by an agnostic opera composer in memory of a dear friend and public hero.” Four soloists and the Festival Chorus will sing the monumental work. Julie Kierstine, soprano Donna Olson, mezzo soprano Alex Boyer, tenor Phil Meyer, bass Ticket includes ...

    $12 – $50
  • Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall 2018

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Classical

    Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall Join in a discussion of the interpretation of classical music. What does interpretation mean? What kind of effect does it have on the listener, if any? What are some of the issues musicians explore as they study, prepare and perform a piece of music? Does ...

    Free
  • 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 ...

    $15 – $40
  • Festival Orchestra 1: Shawnette Sulker, soprano; Livia Sohn, violin 2018

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

    Festival Orchestra with violinist Livia Sohn and soprano Shawnette Sulker The season opens with Bernstein’s energetic and rhythmic Candide Overture; Copland’s inspiring and melodic Appalachian Spring; Barber’s Violin Concerto; Bernstein ...

    $15 – $50
  • 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, ...

    $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 ...

    $15 – $30
  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2018

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

    Enhance your experience of this evening's opera performance with a pre-concert lecture by director Erin Neff. Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff’s dynamic performance abilities and radiant sound have earned her the veneration ...

  • Opera: Cimarosa, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Luçik Aprahämian, Guest Conductor

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

    Guest conductor Luçik Aprahämian Stage director Erin Neff The original setting is Bologna in the 1700s. Geronimo is a cranky older man with two daughters, Carolina and Elisetta. He also ...

    $15 – $50