The Mendocino Music Festival is a magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California.
Evenings include breathtaking concerts featuring the glorious Festival Orchestra, the popular Big Band concert, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, and folk music.
Days include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a children's matinee, performances by the Young Musicians, and chamber concerts at beautiful venues throughout Mendocino Village.
The Mendocino Music Festival continues to maintain its commitment to bringing the highest quality classical and contemporary music and musicians to a place founder and Artistic Director Allan Pollack has described as ". . . one of the most picturesque towns in the world."
Music Festival Orchestra, Daniel Pollack, conductor. James D'Leon, piano
Verdi: Vespiri Siciliano; Prokofiev: Cinderella Ballet Suite No. 3: Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 forPiano and Orchestra in C Minor, Op. 18 ...
Tracy Kraus, flute; Don Erlich, viola; Roy Malan, violin; Baker Peeples, violin; Stephen Harrison, c
Takemitsu: And then I knew 'twas wind; Barber: Summer Music for wind quintet, Op. 31; Schubert: Quintet in C Major, Op. 163 (D. 956)...
Carolyn Steinbuck, piano; Mindy Rosenfeld, flute; Marcia Sloane, cello
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor; Hindemith: Sonata for Flute and Piano; Harrison: Suitefor Cello and Piano; Haydn: Trio in G, Hob. XV 15, for piano. flute and cello; Kodaly: Epigram No. 7; Han...
Allan Pollack, conductor. Shin-Ichi Fukuda, guitar
Sheng: Fanfare from "China Dreams"; Takemitsu: To The Edge of Dream; Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez for Orchestra and Guitar; Debussy: La Mer...
Allan Pollack, conductor.
Bruch: Kol Nedré; Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah), Chichester Psalms; Mozart: Rhapsodie, Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618; Beethoven: Hallelujah, from the Oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85...