Encounter Lecture I
Friday, July 19, 2024
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $48 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Embark on an enriching and personal journey into the heart of French culture with distinguished lecturer, writer, and teacher Juliette de Marcellus. To open the 2024 festival, she delves into the essence of French art, culture, and heritage, setting the...more
Concert Program I
Saturday, July 20, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
The golden age of the Baroque saw musical explosions of invention across Europe; mathematical precision in Germany contrasted French flights of fancy in Versailles. In this opening program, J. S. Bach’s classic double concerto for oboe and violin is followed...more
Concert Program I
Saturday, July 20, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
The golden age of the Baroque saw musical explosions of invention across Europe; mathematical precision in Germany contrasted French flights of fancy in Versailles. In this opening program, J. S. Bach’s classic double concerto for oboe and violin is followed...more
Concert Programs
Saturday, July 20, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $150
With a livestream subscription you will get access to video recordings of all seven Concert Programs. Watch along in real time or revisit the performances on demand for one week following their premiere:
Baroque Tableau
Vienna to Paris
Quartets and...more
Carte Blanche Concert I
Sunday, July 21, 2024
4:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Festival favorites Kristin Lee and Michael Stephen Brown present a mesmerizing recital exploring the interplay between French and American music. The program features works by pioneering female composers Lili Boulanger and Amy Beach, each emblematic in their respective nations’ musical...more
Encounter Lecture II
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $48 full-price | $25 under age thirty
David Serkin Ludwig, the esteemed composer and Dean of the Juilliard School, delves into the mesmerizing world of Impressionism, a movement that not only reshaped the very essence of composition, but French culture as a whole. In this lecture, David’s...more
Concert Program II
Thursday, July 25, 2024
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Vienna and Paris have long been cultural powerhouses, from the visual to the literary to the musical. Joseph Haydn, the founder of the Classical style, and W. A. Mozart, who refined and augmented it, are represented in this program by...more
Concert Program II
Friday, July 26, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Vienna and Paris have long been cultural powerhouses, from the visual to the literary to the musical. Joseph Haydn, the founder of the Classical style, and W. A. Mozart, who refined and augmented it, are represented in this program by...more
Concert Program II
Friday, July 26, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Vienna and Paris have long been cultural powerhouses, from the visual to the literary to the musical. Joseph Haydn, the founder of the Classical style, and W. A. Mozart, who refined and augmented it, are represented in this program by...more
Concert Program III
Saturday, July 27, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Like Mozart, Maurice Ravel excelled in every genre he touched, and his single string quartet is considered among the greatest composed. And when speaking of favorite quartets, no one would leave out the famous Adagio from Samuel Barber’s 1936 quartet,...more
Concert Program III
Saturday, July 27, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Like Mozart, Maurice Ravel excelled in every genre he touched, and his single string quartet is considered among the greatest composed. And when speaking of favorite quartets, no one would leave out the famous Adagio from Samuel Barber’s 1936 quartet,...more
Carte Blanche Concert II
Sunday, July 28, 2024
4:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Sustaining Music@Menlo’s tradition of one-of-a-kind concerts, the dynamic French virtuoso Jean-Efflam Bavouzet makes his festival debut with Maurice Ravel’s complete works for solo piano. An unrivaled artistic feat, this Carte Blanche program includes the composer’s most famous blockbusters and delightful...more
Overture Concert
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $35 full-price | $15 under age thirty
Music@Menlo’s Overture Concert presents the fruits of artistic collaboration between world-renowned festival artists and the exciting young International Program artists. Fresh new perspectives on chamber music emerge as seasoned performers share their expertise with rising stars of the stage. ...more
Concert Program IV
Thursday, August 1, 2024
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Anchored by one ensemble and one instrument, Trios and Trumpets gathers music from Austria, Hungary, and France. The piano trio is represented by W. A. Mozart and Cécile Chaminade, the first woman composer to receive the Legion d’honneur. Two lighthearted...more
Concert Program IV
Friday, August 2, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Anchored by one ensemble and one instrument, Trios and Trumpets gathers music from Austria, Hungary, and France. The piano trio is represented by W. A. Mozart and Cécile Chaminade, the first woman composer to receive the Légion d’honneur. Two lighthearted...more
Concert Program IV
Friday, August 2, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Anchored by one ensemble and one instrument, Trios and Trumpets gathers music from Austria, Hungary, and France. The piano trio is represented by W. A. Mozart and Cécile Chaminade, the first woman composer to receive the Légion d’honneur. Two lighthearted...more
Concert Program V
Saturday, August 3, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
After Mozart and Beethoven established the piano as an essential force in classical music, Russian and French Romantic composers took the instrument to the next level. Yet these distinct cultures sought profoundly different sounds: Anton Arensky and Sergei Rachmaninov...more
Concert Program V
Saturday, August 3, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
After Mozart and Beethoven established the piano as an essential force in classical music, Russian and French Romantic composers took the instrument to the next level. Yet these distinct cultures sought profoundly different sounds: Anton Arensky and Sergei Rachmaninov...more
Carte Blanche Concert III
Sunday, August 4, 2024
4:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Exciting young Metropolitan Opera soprano Erika Baikoff returns to Music@Menlo to explore the broad, colorful art of French songs. Programmed in partnership with renowned pianist and vocal coach Ken Noda, the music of eleven different composers creates an entrancing immersion...more
Encounter Lecture III
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $48 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Former Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and renowned lecturer Michael Parloff explores two iconic masterpieces: George Crumb’s Black Angels and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Michael offers a unique perspective on these iconic and deeply...more
Concert Program VI
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Vocal Exchange juxtaposes treasured songs from three cultures. Without needing to understand a single word, listeners will experience national flavors through the very sounds of the languages. Russian-American soprano Erika Baikoff (a fluent French speaker) offers her unsurpassed vocal skill...more
Concert Program VI
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Vocal Exchange juxtaposes treasured songs from three cultures. Without needing to understand a single word, listeners will experience national flavors through the very sounds of the languages. Russian-American soprano Erika Baikoff (a fluent French speaker) offers her unsurpassed vocal skill...more
Concert Program VII
Thursday, August 8, 2024
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
With the passage of time, artists can disappear into obscurity while some emerge as immortal. The American George Crumb, who passed away in 2022, is undoubtedly in the pantheon of composers whose legacies are eternal. In this program, his cataclysmic...more
Concert Program VII
Saturday, August 10, 2024
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $60-$85 full-price | $25 under age thirty
With the passage of time, artists can disappear into obscurity while some emerge as immortal. The American George Crumb, who passed away in 2022, is undoubtedly in the pantheon of composers whose legacies are eternal. In this program, his cataclysmic...more
Concert Program VII
Saturday, August 10, 2024
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
With the passage of time, artists can disappear into obscurity while some emerge as immortal. The American George Crumb, who passed away in 2022, is undoubtedly in the pantheon of composers whose legacies are eternal. In this program, his cataclysmic...more