MUSIC@MENLO LAUNCHES
SECOND ANNUAL WINTER SERIES
Sunday Afternoon Performances to Feature
Inon Barnatan: Darknesse Visible
(October 2, 2011)
Winds of France
(February 12, 2012)
Jupiter String Quartet
(April 29, 2012)
Atherton, CA----Music@Menlo announces the 2011/12 Winter Series, presenting pianists Inon Barnatan and Alessio Bax, wind players from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Jupiter String Quartet.
Complementing the world-class chamber music programming that distinguishes Music@Menlo's internationally acclaimed summer festival, the 2011-2012 Winter Series offers three exciting opportunities throughout the year to further explore the vast richness of the chamber music literature, interpreted by some of classical music's most commanding performers. The series of three Sunday afternoon performances takes place at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, the Peninsula's new state-of-the-art concert hall.
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Inon Barnatan: Darknesse Visible
Sunday, October 2, 2011, 4:00 p.m. Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student 
Hailed by the New Yorker as "a player of uncommon sensitivity," the virtuosic young pianist Inon Barnatan returns to Music@Menlo for a recital program that explores the palpable awareness of what lies beneath the music. "Darknesse Visible," a seductive program of works for solo piano, includes a work by one of the most exciting composers of the twentieth century, Thomas Adès. The program also features a masterpiece of the solo piano repertoire, Schubert's A Major Piano Sonata. |
Winds of France
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France's most compelling musical voices. Join pianist Alessio Bax and virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center---- Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; and Radovan Vlatković, horn---- as they explore this ravishing, and rarely heard, repertoire. The program includes Maurice Emmanuel's Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, op. 11; Jean Françaix's Wind Quintet; Francis Poulenc's Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn; and other works.
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Jupiter String Quartet
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
The venerated English conductor Jeffrey Tate once said, "The most perfect expression of human behavior is the string quartet." The Jupiter String Quartet, one of America's most exciting young chamber ensembles, returns to Music@Menlo for this special afternoon of masterworks from the string quartet repertoire. In addition to Haydn's delightful F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2, and Prokofiev's Second String Quartet, the program features the colossal and expressive String Quartet in G Major, D. 887, by Franz Schubert---- the final quartet that he wrote.
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Music@Menlo is an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by David Finckel and Wu Han as a program of Menlo School, Music@Menlo features unique immersive programming, a roster of world-class artists, and a Chamber Music Institute for emerging and preprofessional musicians. Intimate performance venues and signature offerings such as AudioNotes CDs, Café Conversations, and the Encounter lecture series offer a wide range of opportunities for aficionados and newcomers of all ages to connect with chamber music in new and innovative ways.
Music@Menlo was inaugurated in 2003 at Menlo School with concerts, lectures, a training program for aspiring professional musicians, young performers concerts, open-to-the-public master classes, and a daylong open house offering behind-the-scenes access for the entire community. Following the course charted by the inaugural season, and spurred by its great success, all festival seasons have been constructed around well-defined themes in chamber music history.
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Three-concert package tickets: $140/$125 adult; $65/$50 student
Individual concert tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
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