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Encounter Series

Encounters, Music@Menlo’s signature series of multimedia symposia led by classical music’s most renowned authorities—named in memory of Michael Steinberg, the eminent musicologist and Music@Menlo guiding light—embody the festival’s context-rich approach to musical discovery.
  • <em>Haydn’s Life and Times</em>

    Encounter I  Haydn’s Life and Times

    Former Principal Flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Michael Parloff has established a reputation as one of the finest classical music lecturers of our time. He returns to Music@Menlo to ...

    Read morebuy tickets: Jul 14
  • <em>Haydn’s String Quartets</em>

    Encounter II  Haydn’s String Quartets

    Haydn’s corpus of nearly 70 string quartets testifies to his standing as the genre’s foundational figure. Without question, the quartets of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and all who have followed over ...

    Read morebuy tickets: Jul 22
  • <em>Music@Menlo at 20</em>

    Encounter III  Music@Menlo at 20

    For the season’s final Encounter, renowned academic Ara Guzelimian shines a revealing light on Music@Menlo itself, on the occasion of the festival’s twentieth anniversary. The evening provides both a retrospective ...

    Read morebuy tickets: Aug 3