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Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2017
Home of Linda and Fedele BauccioFriday, July 7, 2017, 6-9 pm At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrating the cuisine and music of New Orleans, with dancing to the lively Zydeco band CZ and the Bon Vivants. Click to Reserve Now In music, Sostenuto means to sustain. Just as Fedele Bauccio is committed to sustainable food, ...
$175
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Calder Quartet 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBack 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
The House Jacks 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured wines at this performance Describing themselves as a “rock band without instruments,” The House Jacks have been leaders in the contemporary a cappella world for 25 years. Their arrangements were used for the smash hit movie Pitch Perfect and their music has been the soundtrack for NBC’s The Sing-Off and ESPN’s Monday Night Football. ...
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
The House Jacks Workshop 2017
Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CAWatch the House Jacks singers work their magic on several local a cappella groups. FREE TICKETS
Free
Side Note 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesHip. Imaginative. Fun. Funky. Fresh. Side Note is a group of seven twenty-somethings, each from a wildly different musical background, who draw on their diversity to create an all-new sound. Performing everything from classic 60s hits to mashups of the latest chart toppers, it's contemporary a cappella pushed to the limits of pop, R&B, funk, ...
$12 – $30
Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesSoloist 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; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
In Bocca al Lupo 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA 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
Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA key figure in bluegrass, traditional and folk music circles, Berkeley’s Laurie Lewis has established herself as one of the finest and most diverse talents in music today. A winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year, multiple times and a Grammy winner for her contribution to True Life ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Opera (no orch.) (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesIn 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
Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Kathleen Grace 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States“Smart, alluring and evocative” (Washington Post), Kathleen Grace has traveled the world sharing her country, folk and jazz inspired music with audiences from New York to Peru. Her latest release, No Place to Fall, presents Grace’s dynamic original songs alongside revelatory covers of artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt and The Meat Puppets. Grace’s ...
$12 – $30
Pine Leaf Boys 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured wines at this performance Event Sponsor Four-time Grammy-nominated, the world-renowned Pine Leaf Boys have made a name presenting their own inimitable brand of music with youthful exuberance, reviving ancient songs and bringing them to the bandstand. Hailing from southwest Louisiana, they are known for their wild shows, thoughtful arrangements, and breathing new life into ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Opera Dress (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
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; 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
Band of Heathens 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 rhythm section. Hailing from Austin, Texas, and together ten years, the group fuses Lone Star blues, rock, and soul sounds with influences from Southern boogie-woogie, ...
$12 – $40
Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesZoe 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 many years with the Bay Area funk band, the Mo’Fessionals. A dynamic performer, Ellis’s credits include live performances with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Donald ...
$12 – $30
Pre-Concert Lecture, Jason Sherbundy and Ann Woodhead 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Opera: Don Pasquale 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Big Band (7/15)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
ZOFO Duet 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesWhen 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
Alex de Grassi with Andrew York 2017
Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CAFingerstyle 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 StatesFeatured 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 blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone. She has been compared to ...
$12 – $55
Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesIn 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
Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 and has never looked back. Soriano plays steel string bachata with equal parts romance and grit. The Afro-infused rhythm that permeates his music has made ...
$12 – $40
Joan Soriano Workshop 2017
Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United StatesBe 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/19)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesSusan 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
Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2017
Ledford House Restaurant 3000 CA-1, Albion, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 an intimate musical performance by tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Daniel Lockert. The Ledford House Restaurant is located seven miles South of Mendocino on Highway ...
$85
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/19)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Schubert Chamber Music 2 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThe 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
Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 including the Headhunters, Lenny White, and Whitney Houston, among others. Goods’ lengthy discography also includes Grammy award-winning and platinum albums of Alicia Keys and Common. ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/19)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Babaghanoush 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEvent 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 as soulful and unique, and his compositions have set a standard in cross-cultural pollination. Suzuki's improvisational talents have been showcased over a varied musical landscape. ...
$12 – $30
Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesKayleen 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 Francisco Conservatory of Music for seventeen years, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and ...
Festival Orchestra 2 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (no chorus) (7/22)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Julian Pollack and J3P0 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 Jackson. These jazz musicians explore popular songs from the later part of the 20th century as well as originals, through the lens of talk box ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/22)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/22)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Emerging Artists Concert 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThe 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 StatesAcknowledged 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 Japanese drum. Founded in 1973 by young Asian Americans searching to convey their experiences as third generation Japanese Americans, and inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, ...
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/22)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Piano Series: Molly Morkoski 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesWith 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
Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesDaniel 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 teacher, he has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, the San Francisco Conservatory of ...
Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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