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  • Festival Orchestra – Opening Night 2013

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

    The Festival opens with fiery and lyric themes from Verdi, the jubilant music of Prokofiev, and the romantic favorite, Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto.

  • Piano Series: James D’Leon 2013

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    James D’Leon, who is featured in the Festival Orchestra performance of Rachmaninoff, returns to the Piano Series with his “Exciting pianism filled with powerful emotion”

  • Festival Chamber Players 2013

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

    Monday July 15, 8:00 PM Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Works from Takemitsu, Barber and Schubert expertly performed in an intimate setting by ensembles drawn from the world-class Festival Orchestra's principal players. Pre-concert Lecture at 7:00, Music for a Summer Evening, with composer Rich Festinger. Takemitsu, and then I knew ‘twas wind, for ...

  • Village Chamber Concert 2013

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

    Carolyn Steinbuck, piano Mindy Rosenfeld, flute Marcia Sloane, cello Bach: Orchestral Suite #2 in B minor Hindemith: Sonata for flute and piano Harrison: Suite for cello and piano Haydn: Trio in G Major, Hoboken XV:15 for piano, flute and cello Kodaly: Epigram #7 Hans-Andre Stamm: Suite for flute, cello and piano iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click for Ticketing

  • Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2013

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Hailed by Hugh Wolff of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as “one of the finest pianists of his generation,” Schwartz has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad in recent seasons.

  • Opera: Il Senor Bruschino 2013

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

    Expect a Master Class for Opera Lovers with the maestro, soloists and orchestra, followed by a delightful performance of Rossini’s one-act farce, directed by Allan Pollack

  • Gloria Cheng 2013

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng, described by the New York Times as “an invaluable new-music advocate,”

  • Calder Quartet with Gloria Cheng 2013

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

    Tuesday July 23 8:00 PM Tent Concert Hall Gloria Cheng, piano Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello Called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet defies boundaries through performing a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel the true intention ...

  • Festival Orchestra: East and West 2013

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

    Wednesday July 24, 8:00 PM Tent Concert Hall Shin-Ichi Fukuda, guitar Sheng: Fanfare from China Dreams Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Debussy: La Mer Japanese guitar virtuoso Shin-Ichi Fukuda learned the concerto To the Edge of Dream directly from the composer. He will perform this and Rodrigo’s rhythmic and spirited ...

  • Piano Series: Jacqueline Schwab 2013

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Thursday July 25 3:00 PM Preston Hall Schwab plays "gorgeously spare piano" (The Boston Globe) yet "sounds as if she has an orchestra at her fingertips" (Sing Out). She was chosen by Ken Burns to play for numerous public television documentaries, including the Grammy award-winning Civil War and the Emmy award-winning Baseball. iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click ...

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2013

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

    Friday, July 26, 4:00pm
    Preston Hall

    Recital by participants in the Emerging Artists Scholarship Program.

    $20

  • Festival Orchestra and Chorus 2013

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

    The Festival Orchestra, Chorus, and soloists join forces for a powerfully inspirational program of music based on traditional biblical themes.

  • Bachfest: Berkeley Preview

    Berkeley City Club Members Lounge 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA
    Chamber Music

    An elegant preview of the Mendocino Music Festival's July Bachfest will be presented at the historic Berkeley City Club, an architectural masterpiece by Julia Morgan. Susan Waterfall, Jeremy Cohen, Mindy Rosenfeld, and Burke Schuchmann will perform highlights including the Musical Offering, D Minor Violin Chaconne, the Italian Concerto, and selections from suites and sonatas. No ...

    $20

  • Festival Orchestra with Stephen Prutsman 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performanceAudience favorite Stephen Prutsman will play the Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor in the opening Festival concert. “Conga” by Marquez will have you dancing in your seats. Conductor/composer Allan Pollack will present his piece “A Summer Evening at the Boonville Fair,” that musically evokes the many festive aspects of the ...

    $12 – $47

  • Bachfest: Bach and Beer 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance J. S. Bach enjoyed life enormously, and this certainly included beer drinking. He was often paid in beer. Find out more interesting and seldom considered facts in a multi-media lecture with historian Bob Winn, noted beer authority Jay R. Brooks, and scholar/pianist Susan Waterfall, covering life in early 18th century Germany, ...

    $27

  • Bachfest: Bach at the Keyboard 2014

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

    Pianists Susan Waterfall and Carolyn Steinbuck will consider Bach’s role as father and teacher, and will explore the international influences on his music. The concert consists of the Two-Part Inventions, the Italian Concerto, the C minor Partita, and the 6-Voiced Ricercare from the “Musical Offering.” iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click for Ticketing

    $27

  • Bachfest: The Unaccompanied Suites 2014

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

    Bach’s keyboard works are often played, but there are not so many opportunities to hear the wonderful suites for other instruments, and even more rare, to hear them in the lovely setting and gorgeous acoustics of the sanctuary of the Mendocino Presbyterian Church. Jeremy Cohen will perform the much-beloved Partita for Violin in D minor, ...

    $27

  • Bachfest: Musical Offering, and Prutsman Plays Bach 2014

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

    Susan Waterfall will describe the history and significance of Bach's Musical Offering.  Fascinating canons and the Trio Sonata from that work will be performed by Waterfall, with Jeremy Cohen, violin; Mindy Rosenfeld, flute; Burke Schuchmann, cello. On the second half of the program, the brilliant Bach interpreter Stephen Prutsman will play and conduct the Festival Chamber ...

    $12 – $37

  • Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2014

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

    Pianist Robert Schwartz is returning to the Festival to play Mozart Sonata in Bb Major K. 570, Mendelssohn Songs Without Words (Selected) and Brahms Sonata in F Minor Op. 5. Schwartz is an active performer and teacher, with international credits.  He is often soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and ...

    $27

  • Piano Series: Paul Hersh 2014

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

    The Piano Series regulars always welcome Paul Hersh’s lecture recitals. This season Hersh will bring his son, violinist Stefan Hersh, to explore Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonatas. iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click for Ticketing

    $27

  • Opera: Don Giovanni 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance Mozart’s Don Giovanni is one of the most important operas of all time, and is an audience favorite for good reasons. An extremely dramatic work, full of intrigue, spooky ghosts, beautiful damsels, and revenge, it's based on the fictional legends of the notorious seducer, Don Juan, who carelessly abuses everyone in ...

    $12 – $46

  • Calder Quartet 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello.  Called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet defies boundaries through performing a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel the true intention of the work’s creator.  The quartet ...

    $12 – $37

  • Frederica von Stade 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance The wonder of an art song is that it tells a story, defines its characters and makes an emotional connection in just a few brief minutes. In this recital, with pianist Miles Graber, von Stade will sing songs by Ned Rorem, Louis Guy, Jake Heggie, Maurice Ravel, Virgil Thompson, Aaron ...

    $12 – $37

  • Festival Orchestra with David McCarroll 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance Join us in a celebration of romance as you listen to the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Jean Sibelius and Symphony #2 of Rachmaninoff, both thrilling, monumental works. Julian Waterfall Pollack will premier his evocative Night Flower. Violinist David McCarroll grew up at a remote mountaintop monastery in the ...

    $12 – $46

  • Festival Chamber Players 2014

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

    The concert will consist of the Mozart Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Winds K.452, and the Schumann Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Strings, played by the world-class Festival Orchestra’s principal players, joined by pianists Miles Graber and Carolyn Steinbuck. Mozart wrote his only piano quintet at the height of ...

    $27

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2014

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

    This is a recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the Emerging Artists program. The Emerging Artists have won scholarships to receive intensive training at the Festival, and an opportunity to perform with established professionals in orchestral and chamber concerts. Don’t miss this recital. These are tomorrow’s renowned musicians at the outset of ...

    $27

  • Julian Waterfall Pollack and Natalie Tenenbaum: Duo Pianos 2014

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

    Two of the most brilliantly talented pianist/composers from the New York scene team up to play the driving, rhythmic music of Adams, Reich, and their own compositions, as well as creative arrangements of popular contemporary songs. The eclectic program was drawn together by the performers' love of great music, regardless of genre, and their interest ...

    $27

  • Festival Orchestra and Chorus 2014

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

    Featured wines at this performance The final orchestral concert of great choral works by Haydn and Bach will provide a fitting climax to the Festival.  Handel’s Royal Fireworks for orchestra alone will precede Bach’s Cantata #51 and Haydn’s Creation, sung by large choir and soloists. There is nothing as inspirational as hearing a powerful choir giving heartfelt ...

    $12 – $47