To kick off the Festival's 40th season's orchestral offerings, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Leonard Bernstein’s sprightly Candide overture. The energy will continue to flow when soloist Stephen ...
Exploring a wide range of genres, Bay Area vocal band Business Casual is celebrated for their smart and surprising covers of popular songs. What would Mozart sound like as performed ...
With her dynamic guitar playing, formidable songwriting and pure vocals, Carolyn Wonderland hits the stage with an unmatched presence, mixing the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit ...
Beethoven's charming, enigmatic, and deeply felt Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Opus 10 No. 3 will be played by Susan Waterfall. The brooding and complex String Trio in C ...
For Brittany Davis, sound is three-dimensional. It is size, shape, and color. It is language. Blind since birth, Davis discovered a world of vivid, vibrant color in music. A childhood ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.
Cuban-American artist and musican John Fonseca Fatum is the solo creator of Jacksonport, named for the small Wisconsin town where he spent summers growing up. Now a Los Angeles-based songwriter, ...
Formed in New York City in 1995, Solas quickly rose to prominence as a revolutionary force in Irish-American music, and they have been lighting up stages across the globe ever ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.
Pianist Anthony Ratinov’s impressive talents will be on display when he performs selections from Debussy’s Douze Études, both Book I and Book II. The compositions address aspects of pianistic technique ...
Virginia-based folk-rock band The Steel Wheels have spent almost 20 years writing, recording, and touring, all the while constantly honing their evolving brand of American roots music. Additionally, they are ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.
NOT PUBLIC - PERFORMERS ONLY. We cannot accomodate audience members at this rehearsal site. (The same program will be rehearsed publicly at the tent Concert Hall the following morning. You're ...
Zoe Ellis's dramatic and colorful voice is known to music fans in the Bay Area and beyond. Described by reviewers as "a resourceful and inventive vocalist," she sang for many ...
Puccini’s famous opera is the story of love, friendship, poverty, and tragic death. Set in Bohemian Paris of the 1830s, it tells of four friends, all struggling artists of one ...
Rehearsing Festival Big Band (7/18).
This dynamic collaboration between guitarist William Coulter and violinist Edwin Huizinga explores the world’s musical landscape. Their performances blend iconic favorites with classic ballads, mixing North American folk and Celtic ...
Maiya Sykes, a classically trained vocalist and producer, wowed the audience at last year’s Festival Big Band concert. A graduate of Yale University, she continued her musical education at The ...
“Few string quartets can command the stage like the Calder Quartet,” according to The Washington Post. The extraordinary ensemble is just as renowned for its expert, empathetic readings of core ...
Prepare for an exciting evening of piano and keyboard work by perennial favorite, Julian Pollack (AKA J3PO). The San Francisco Chronicle calls him a “ferociously assured and creatively dazzling pianist, ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 3 (7/22): Shuying Li Purple Mountains overture, Barber Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (the "Pastoral Symphony").
The energetic duo of Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers will excite you with their interpretations of a wide range of contemporary two-piano music. The two San Francisco-based pianists have collaborated ...
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. Located seven miles south of Mendocino on the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1) in Albion, California, its bluff-top location on the Albion headlands allows panoramic views of the Pacific and breathtaking sunsets.
For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 3 (7/22): Shuying Li Purple Mountains overture, Barber Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (the "Pastoral Symphony").
In what has become something of a Festival tradition, Julian Pollack will join Susan Waterfall on one piano for the Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in D Major, Op. 6, ...
Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and national radio host Laila Biali has headlined festivals and venues on five continents. Winner of a Juno award, she has worked with Chris Botti and ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 3 (7/22): Shuying Li Purple Mountains overture, Barber Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (the "Pastoral Symphony").
The polyrhythmic heat of Evie Ladin’s clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories, and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections to Hardly ...
Shuying Li’s Purple Mountains overture will begin an evening of graceful lyricism and energetic rhythms. Amazing young violinist Mio Imai will perform Samuel Barber’s esteemed Violin Concerto. In her hands, ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/25): Pollack Songs of Love and Loss, Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK) and having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition ...
Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer whose shows offer a musical journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become. His ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/25): Pollack Songs of Love and Loss, Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/25): Pollack Songs of Love and Loss, Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
The annual concert by the wonderfully talented string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished young musicians interpret chamber music classics and ...
Originally from Canada, Sue Foley is a multi-award-winning blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. A five-time winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist, Foley has won a ...
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/25): Pollack Songs of Love and Loss, Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
The season will conclude with “Songs of Love and Loss” by Allan Pollack, a work for soprano, chorus, orchestra. The piece deals with emotions of grief and longing, blending contemporary ...