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  • Breakfast with Chou-Chou

    Breakfast with Chou-Chou
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Join Debussy at the breakfast table with his wife and beloved daughter, Chou-Chou, as his imagination is stirred by the toys in the nursery, the paintings on the wall, and fantasies of sunlit ancient Greece. Susan Waterfall will play the “Children’s Corner” suite, Eric Kritz will join her on the Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, and Daniel Lockert will team up with her on Six Épigraphes Antiques. Two sonatas will round out the petit-déjeuner: the darkly humorous Sonata for Cello and Piano, and the magical Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola.

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2019

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

    The annual recital by the enormously talented young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love chamber music. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Brahms: Bearded 2019

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

    Susan Waterfall and Eric Kritz will play the Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 120; Christopher Nomura and Daniel Lockert will sing Vier Ernste Gesänge; and Jay Zhong, Tammie Dyer, Susan Freier, Stephen Harrison, and Danny Sheu will play the String Quintet No. 2 in G Major Op. 111, “Prater.” BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Brahms: Clean-Shaven-2019

    Classical

    Susan Waterfall will play the Four Ballades Op. 10; Miles Graber, Larry Lowe, and Jay Zhong will essay the Horn Trio in E-flat Major Op. 40; and Carolyn Steinbuck, Jay Zhong, Tammie Dyer, Susan Freier, and Stephen Harrison will interpret the F minor Piano Quintet Op. 34. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Brahms: His Life and Times, featuring Susan Waterfall 2019

    Classical

    Brahms' momentous meeting with Clara and Robert Schumann when he was only 20 forged a bond of love and familial connection that lasted throughout Brahms’ and Clara’s lifetimes. Susan’s lecture will be supplemented with images and recorded examples. The two chamber concerts divide Brahms’ life roughly in half: before and after 1878, when he grew ...

    $15 – $30

  • Alex de Grassi and Andrew York 2019

    Jazz

    Fingerstyle guitar master Alex de Grassi is the founder of the Mendocino Summer Guitar Workshop which runs concurrently with the Mendocino Music Festival. Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, composer and guest workshop teacher Andrew York joins him again this year in a concert program featuring their solo and duo compositions and arrangements that blend the sonorities ...

    $15 – $30

  • Kathleen Grace 2019

    Jazz

    Kathleen Grace has forged a remarkable career that has sent her around the globe playing for audiences who appreciate her eclectic musical tastes that range from jazz, to blues, to indie folk. Following a year recording with the iconic Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) and performing with the chart-topping rock band, Portugal. The Man, ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Spencer Myer and Mario Diaz-Moresco 2019

    Chamber Music

    Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone; Spencer Myer, piano An afternoon of songs, old and new: Brahms, Schubert, and Barber will make up the first half; gems by Respighi, John Musto and Amy Beach will round out the program. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Robin Sutherland 2019

    Chamber Music

    By Tonality Joined Most known for his playing of Bach, Robin Sutherland will contrast some Bach works with pieces by other composers in the same key. This concert will pair Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major (BWV 848) with “partners,” the menuet movement of Ravel’s Sonatine, among others. After intermission, he will take us ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2019

    Chamber Music

    Robert Schwartz is an active performer and a teacher in the Bay Area. His wide-ranging program will include Haydn’s Sonata in E-flat Major; Chopin’s Impromptus in G-flat Major and A-flat Major; Chopin’s Barcarolle Op. 60; and Brahms’ 8 Klavierstücke Op. 76. His playing was crystal clear and his poetic insights remarkable.” BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Alex de Grassi, Andrew York 2018

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

    Fingerstyle guitar master Alex de Grassi is the founder of the Mendocino Summer Guitar Workshop which runs concurrently with the Mendocino Music Festival. Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, composer and guest ...

    $15 – $30

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2018

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

    The annual recital by the enormously talented young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love chamber music. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Chopin 4, Piano Series: Spencer Myer 2018

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

    Piano Series, with continued focus on Chopin In his recital for the Piano Series Spencer Myer will play, among other works, the Four Scherzi of Chopin. Haydn’s Keyboard Sonata in ...

    $15 – $30

  • Chopin 3, Piano Series: John Novacek 2018

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

    Piano Series, with continued focus on Chopin In his recital for the Piano Series,  John Novacek has chosen examples from four important Chopin genres: the etude, the nocturne, the impromptu, ...

    $15 – $30

  • Chopin 2: Susan Waterfall, Miles Graber, David Kadarauch

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

    Susan Waterfall will discuss and perform a selection of Chopin’s  Mazurkas,  the dance genre where he refined his mastery of the folk idiom and launched his most daring compositional experiments. Susan will also play Chopin’s Barcarolle, Opus 60, and touch on its special place both in Chopin’s output. and as a source for the future ...

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Chamber Players 2018

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

    Bach’s Trio Sonata in E-flat Major; Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor; and Mozart’s Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings. Tammie Dyer, violin; Susan Freier, violin; Jay Zhong, violin, Eric Kritz, clarinet; Tom Nugent, oboe; Stephen Harrison, cello; Carolyn Steinbuck, piano. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Clairdee: A Love Letter to Lena Horne 2018

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

    In “A Love Letter to Lena Horne,” Clairdee will commemorate the career of the groundbreaking singer, actress, and activist with fresh arrangements of songs associated with Horne from Harlem to Hollywood, Broadway and beyond. The program will include historical references and personal reflections on Horne’s significance as an American cultural icon. Clairdee’s lustrous voice and ...

    $15 – $30

  • The Mattlock Duo Cabaret 2018

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

    The Mattlock Duo (husband-and-wife team Daniel Lockert and Jenny Matteucci) will transform Preston Hall into a New York cabaret with music that crosses over from favorite standards, to twentieth century “classical” composers, and to Broadway. Their eclectic and humorous show “For the Love of…” will explore the many facets of love and showcase songs with ...

    $15 – $30

  • 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 2006, the quartet takes its name from the Hungarian estate where Joseph Haydn lived and worked for nearly three decades. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Business Casual 2018

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Formed in 2012, vocal band Business Casual is rapidly becoming a fixture in the Bay Area vocal music scene. The group explores a wide range of genres including funk, folk, pop, soul, swing, and R&B, guaranteeing that there is something for everyone in their energetic, all-ages shows. With powerful leads and sizzling beats, audiences can’t ...

    $15 – $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

  • 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

  • Babaghanoush 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017

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

    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 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

  • 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

  • Kathleen Grace 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Side Note 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Hip. 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

  • Gwyneth Moreland and Friends 2016

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Gwyneth Moreland’s gift for open-hearted storytelling is perfectly suited to the modern art of folk music. No wonder, then, that “Slaughterhouse Gulch,” the first single from her latest album, landed her on the Folk Airplay charts. Gwyneth’s songs flow with a graceful simplicity infused with the ambience of her home perched in the majestic redwoods ...

    $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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Sechs Klavierstücke, Op. 118; Pierre Jalbert Toccata; Chopin Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49; Barber Sonata for Piano, Op. 26. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $29

  • Clairdee, Soulful Songstress 2016

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

    This woman can do it all," is how the Los Angeles Daily News describes Clairdee. With her lustrous voice, soulful delivery, and scene-stealing charisma, she has honed a repertoire of standards set to state of the art arrangements that are equally smart and entertaining. Pianist Ken French has been performing jazz piano professionally for nearly ...

    $12 – $29

  • 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, sister of the great French pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger, who was a major figure in twentieth century music. Both women studied with Faure before Lili’s early ...

    $12 – $29

  • Side Note 2016

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Hip. Imaginative. Fun. Fresh. Funky Fresh. Side Note is a group of seven twentysomethings, from wildly different musical backgrounds, who draw their diversity to create an all-new sound. It's contemporary a cappella - pushed to the limits of pop, R&B, funk, rock, musical theater and jazz. Get ready for some buzzin' beats, rockin' riffs and ...

    $12 – $29

  • 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 to Gloria Cheng's recent CD, “what melodies, harmonies, what cadences haunt their private dreams?” Hear selections from pieces written expressly for her by John Williams ...

    $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 ...

    $12 – $29

  • 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. ...

    $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 ...

    $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 ...

    $12 – $29

  • Alex de Grassi 2015

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

    Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex de Grassi has influenced a whole generation of guitarists with his compositions, recordings and performances for solo guitar. The Wall Street Journal calls his playing “flawless,” and ...

    $12 – $29

  • WAHID: Dimitris Mahlis, oud, and Chris Wabich, frame drums 2015

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    The primary instruments for WAHID (meaning one) are oud and frame drums, each of which has an ancient history, as found on clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. A duo combination ...

    $12 – $29

  • 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 ...

    $12 – $29