Piano Series: John Novacek 2017

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

“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; ...

$12 – $30

Band of Heathens 2017

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

Featured wines at this performanceThe term "Americana" was practically invented to describe the Band of Heathens' sound, rich with lyrical content and supported by soaring guitar work and a rock-solid ...

$12 – $40

Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017

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

Zoe Ellis's dramatic and colorful voice is well known to music fans in the Bay Area and beyond. Described by reviewers as "a resourceful and inventive vocalist," she sang for ...

$12 – $30

Opera: Don Pasquale 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $50

ZOFO Duet 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $30

Alex de Grassi with Andrew York 2017

Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CA

Fingerstyle guitar master Alex de Grassi and Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist Andrew York will perform solo and duo, and will also be joined by members of the Mendocino Summer Guitar Workshop in the premier of a composition for guitar orchestra.

$12 – $30

Festival Big Band, featuring Kim Nalley 2017

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

Featured wines at this performance, and sponsoring Kim Nalley's performance. Event Sponsor Kim Nalley has pipes to burn, packing a 3½ octave range that can go from operatic to gritty ...

$12 – $55

Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

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

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. ...

$12 – $30

Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017

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

Featured wines at this performance Born in the rural countryside near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Joan Soriano fashioned his first guitar from a tin can and fishing line ...

$12 – $40

Joan Soriano Workshop 2017

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

Be inspired by Joan Soriano’s work with local middle and high school students who have been participating in the Lead Guitar program. FREE TICKETS

Free

Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $30

Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2017

Ledford House Restaurant 3000 CA-1, Albion, CA, United States

Featured wines at this event Enjoy a delightful evening of gourmet food and music at one of the area’s leading restaurants, with premium wines generously supplied by Husch Vineyards, and ...

$85

Schubert Chamber Music 2 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $30

Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 2017

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

Featured wines at this performance Bassist Richie Goods, the youngest person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, has toured with a variety of jazz and popular artists ...

$12 – $40

Babaghanoush 2017

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

Event Sponsor Guitarist Dimitris Mahlis, drummer Ralph Humphrey, bassist Jerry Watts and saxophonist Antti Suzuki bring life to the multi ethnic compositions of Mahlis. Mahlis’s playing style has been described ...

$12 – $30

Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017

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

Kayleen Asbo is a passionate scholar: a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. A faculty member of the San ...

Festival Orchestra 2 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $50

Julian Pollack and J3P0 2017

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

Featured wines at this performance Julian Pollack brings his project and band J3P0 to the Festival stage this summer. Pollack will be joined by Cale Hawkins, Justin Golder and Adam ...

$12 – $40

Emerging Artists Concert 2017

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

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

San Jose Taiko 2017

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

Acknowledged as one of the premier taiko ensembles in the world, San Jose Taiko has mesmerized audiences and critics alike with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of taiko, the ...

$12 – $50

Piano Series: Molly Morkoski 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $30

Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2017

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

Daniel Lockert has collaborated with singers past and present of the Metropolitan Opera, such as Deborah Voight, as well as current young recitalists, including Christopheren Nomura. As a coach and ...

Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2017

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

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 ...

$12 – $50

Fabulous Fall Fandango 2017

Home of Deborah Whigham and Gary Ratway 31101 Middle Ridge Road, Albion, CA, United States

Join us on September 24 from 1:30 to 4:30 in Deborah Whigham’s and Gary Ratway’s renowned private gardens. Taste treats of paella and tapas. Violinist Jeremy Cohen will be joined by Seth Asarnow, keyboard and bandoneon, for tangos and a bit of Gypsy jazz in a spectacular garden setting. After the music, landscape designer extraordinaire Gary Ratway and horticulturist Deborah Whigham (of Digging Dog Nursery fame) will lead a tour of their stunning gardens.

$125

MacCallum House Dine-Out 2017

MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant 45020 Albion St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Support the Mendocino Music Festival by treating yourself and your friends to a sumptuous meal in the restaurant, or lighter fare, wine and artisanal cocktails from the Grey Whale Bar! The MacCallum House Inn and Restaurant will donate a portion of the evening's food and beverage proceeds to the Festival.

Elegance in Elk 2017

The Prow House 7300 South Highway One, Elk, CA, United States

The Prow House, Elk
Kim Nalley; Libations, Sensations, Delectables, Treats, and your Festival Family—all in a matchless setting!

$135

Hanging Out With the Stars 2018

The Wave House 15320 Seadrift Ave., Caspar, CA

The Wave House, Mendocino
Libations, Sensations, Delectables, Treats, and your Festival Family—all in a matchless setting!

$100

MacCallum House Winemaker’s Dinner with Brutocao 2018

MacCallum House Restaurant 45020 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA

A perfect pairing: scrumptious food from MacCallum House’s celebrated chef Alan Kantor and elegant wines from Brutocao. An all-inclusive bargain at $100, the evening includes hors d'oeuvres and wine at ...

$100

Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2018

Home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio

Friday, July 6, 2018, 6-9 pm At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrating the cuisine and music of the Caribbean, with Caribbean-flavored music from Pankind. Click ...

$175

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

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

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

The StepCrew 2018

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

Bringing together three styles of exhilarating dance forms—Ottawa Valley stepdance, Irish stepdance, and Tap—these dancers and musicians take you on an amazing dance journey. As if dancing weren’t enough, The ...

$15 – $50

Festival Orchestra 1: Shawnette Sulker, soprano; Livia Sohn, violin 2018

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

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