2014 Chamber Music Institute Benefit

Help bring remarkable young artists to the Chamber Music Institute and support the exceptional learning opportunities for students and audiences alike, including popular free festival programs such as Prelude Performances, the Koret Young Performers Concerts, master classes, and Café Conversations.

BENEFIT CONCERT & RECEPTION

Friday, March 21, 2014
8:00–10:30 p.m. / Concert & Reception
Enjoy a chamber music concert featuring alumni of the Chamber Music
Institute, with pianist and Music@Menlo Artistic Codirector Wu Han.
Following the concert, meet the musicians at a dessert and wine reception.
Tickets: $65 – Concert and dessert reception only. ($40 of each concert ticket is a tax-deductible donation.)

Concert Program

Joseph HAYDN: String Quartet in G Major, op. 77, no. 1 (1799)
Antonín DVOŘÁK: Slavonic Dances for Piano, Four Hands, op. 46, no. 1 (1878), and op. 72, nos. 1 and 2 (1886)
Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 57 (1940)

Featuring
Chamber Music Institute Alumni

Miki-Sophia Cloud,* violin
Kobi Malkin, violin
Leah Ferguson, viola
Richard Narroway, cello
Ellen Hwangbo, piano

with
Wu Han, piano

*Please note: Violinist Miki-Sophia Cloud will replace Francesca Rose dePasquale, who had to withdraw because of injury.

BENEFIT DINNER, CONCERT & RECEPTION

Friday, March 21, 2014
6:00–7:45 p.m. / Cocktails, Dinner & Discussion
8:00–10:30 p.m. / Concert & Reception
Enjoy a cocktail reception, followed by dinner, while listening to a panel
discussion with Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School
and Music@Menlo Encounter Leader, and Music@Menlo Artistic
Directors David Finckel and Wu Han. Learn about the role of Music@Menlo
in the larger context of music education worldwide. Dinner will be followed
by the Benefit Concert (see adjacent) and a dessert reception with the artists.
Tickets: $250 – Cocktails, dinner, panel discussion, concert, and dessert reception. ($210 of each dinner ticket is a tax-deductible donation.)

Featuring
Ara Guzelimian
Music@Menlo Encounter leader, writer, and lecturer Ara Guzelimian is Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School in New York City, one of the most distinguished performing arts conservatories in the world.

All events take place at Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Avenue, Atherton.

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Thank you for your support!