Spring Concert
Saturday, March 29, 2025
4:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $35-$70
Violinist Chad Hoopes performs alongside alumni of the Music@Menlo International Program in a concert featuring Mozart’s beloved Piano Quartet in G minor. Then, hear the world premiere of Benjamin Scheer’s new work—a piano quartet—commissioned by Music@Menlo. Dvořák’s Piano Quartet no....more
Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Lecture
Friday, July 18, 2025
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Aaron Boyd–violinist, lecturer, scholar, and educator–returns to the Encounters series to present a bird’s-eye view of the art of chamber music, from the sixteenth century to the present. Aaron will offer a plethora of musical examples, and rare, informative visuals...more
Concert Program I
Saturday, July 19, 2025
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
The intimacy of duo music-making has beguiled composers for centuries and challenged musicians to deliver soloistic yet collaborative performances. In this opening program, four instruments showcase duos alongside the most versatile of partners, the piano. ...more
Concert Program I
Saturday, July 19, 2025
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
The intimacy of duo music-making has beguiled composers for centuries and challenged musicians to deliver soloistic yet collaborative performances. In this opening program, four instruments showcase duos alongside the most versatile of partners, the piano. ...more
Concert Program II
Sunday, July 20, 2025
4:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Since the earliest days of the Baroque trio sonata, the combination of three instruments has produced dialogue and drama. Trio performers move seamlessly between playing as one, accompanying each other, and shining as soloists. This program showcases trio dynamics at...more
Concert Program II
Sunday, July 20, 2025
4:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Since the earliest days of the Baroque trio sonata, the combination of three instruments has produced dialogue and drama. Trio performers move seamlessly between playing as one, accompanying each other, and shining as soloists. This program showcases trio dynamics at...more
Concert Program II
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Since the earliest days of the Baroque trio sonata, the combination of three instruments has produced dialogue and drama. Trio performers move seamlessly between playing as one, accompanying each other, and shining as soloists. This program showcases trio dynamics at...more
Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Lecture
Thursday, July 24, 2025
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Oboist extraordinaire James Austin Smith leads Music@Menlo audiences on a journey through musical history from a wind player’s perspective. For the first time at the festival, the evolution of wind instruments is revealed, from their beginnings some 40,000 years ago...more
Carte Blanche Concert I
Friday, July 25, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $90 full-price | $25 under age thirty
“The rich diversity of American society has fostered a vibrant tapestry of musical voices, each shaped by their own distinct backgrounds. Michael and I curated this program for violin and piano to celebrate that spirit of innovation and cultural exchange,...more
Concert Program III
Saturday, July 26, 2025
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
This lively program highlights the wind quintet as a centerpiece of chamber music, akin to the string quartet in tonal balance, depth, and versatility. Enhanced by piano and string collaborations, these ensembles create a variety of rich, colorful soundscapes. In...more
Concert Program III
Saturday, July 26, 2025
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
This lively program highlights the wind quintet as a centerpiece of chamber music, akin to the string quartet in tonal balance, depth, and versatility. Enhanced by piano and string collaborations, these ensembles create a variety of rich, colorful soundscapes. In...more
Concert Program IV
Sunday, July 27, 2025
4:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
The early string quintets on this program represent the passions of their composers: W. A. Mozart, the avid violist wanting to join the ensemble, and Luigi Boccherini, the premier cello virtuoso of his day. The works by these quintet pioneers...more
Concert Program IV
Sunday, July 27, 2025
4:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
The early string quintets on this program represent the passions of their composers: W. A. Mozart, the avid violist wanting to join the ensemble, and Luigi Boccherini, the premier cello virtuoso of his day. The works by these quintet pioneers...more
Concert Program IV
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
The early string quintets on this program represent the passions of their composers: W. A. Mozart, the avid violist wanting to join the ensemble, and Luigi Boccherini, the premier cello virtuoso of his day. The works by these quintet pioneers...more
Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Lecture
Thursday, July 31, 2025
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Brilliant American lyric tenor Nicholas Phan returns to Music@Menlo to lead this season’s third Encounter. Nicholas will explore the story of how the human voice joined with strings, pianos, and winds to create an essential chamber music genre. With a...more
Concert Program V
Friday, August 1, 2025
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Throughout history, the string quartet has offered composers a vehicle for their most compelling and deeply personal musical statements. The dynamic young Viano Quartet returns to Music@Menlo for a panorama of string quartet works including Anton Webern’s emotional Langsamer Satz,...more
Concert Program V
Friday, August 1, 2025
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Throughout history, the string quartet has offered composers a vehicle for their most compelling and deeply personal musical statements. The dynamic young Viano Quartet returns to Music@Menlo for a panorama of string quartet works including Anton Webern’s emotional Langsamer Satz,...more
Carte Blanche Concert II
Saturday, August 2, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $90 full-price | $25 under age thirty
“This program delves into the legends and myths of violin lore via the three-sided conversation between violin, violinist, and composer. We kick off this journey with a solo violin sonata composed by the namesake of the violin I now play,...more
Concert Program VI
Sunday, August 3, 2025
4:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
The human voice, the most natural instrument, has inspired chamber music for centuries, bringing melodic beauty and the unique musicality of languages. This program celebrates the range and timbre of the voice as the ideal chamber collaborator. Music@Menlo debut artists...more
Concert Program VI
Sunday, August 3, 2025
4:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
The human voice, the most natural instrument, has inspired chamber music for centuries, bringing melodic beauty and the unique musicality of languages. This program celebrates the range and timbre of the voice as the ideal chamber collaborator. Music@Menlo debut artists...more
Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Lecture
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
7:00 PM | Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber melodrama Pierrot lunaire experienced a tumultuous premiere on its way to becoming a twentieth-century classic. Ara Guzelimian returns to recount the origins of seventeenth-century commedia dell’arte and its famous character Pierrot, the sad clown. From there, he...more
Carte Blanche Concert III
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $90 full-price | $25 under age thirty
“As a young man I participated in an ensemble called the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble. It was a rather unwieldy group that had a full complement of strings, winds, brass, percussion, singers, and a pianist. We chose repertoire by consensus. When...more
Concert Program VII
Thursday, August 7, 2025
7:00 PM | Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Offering one of the lushest textures of any instrumental combination, the string sextet has long been a favorite ensemble of both listeners and performers. Although Luigi Boccherini invented this grouping in the eighteenth century, classical music had to wait until...more
Concert Program VII
Saturday, August 9, 2025
7:00 PM | Spieker Center for the Arts
Tickets: $65-$87 full-price | $25 under age thirty
Offering one of the lushest textures of any instrumental combination, the string sextet has long been a favorite ensemble of both listeners and performers. Although Luigi Boccherini invented this grouping in the eighteenth century, classical music had to wait until...more
Concert Program VII
Saturday, August 9, 2025
7:00 PM | Online
Tickets: $25
Offering one of the lushest textures of any instrumental combination, the string sextet has long been a favorite ensemble of both listeners and performers. Although Luigi Boccherini invented this grouping in the eighteenth century, classical music had to wait until...more