On behalf of Music Box Films, members of the press are invited to attend a LA screening of MOZART'S SISTER, scheduled to open in Los Angeles at the Laemmle's Royal Theatre on Friday, August 19, followed by a national roll-out. ...Read More

Music@Menlo, the Bay Area’s premier chamber music festival, concludes its first-ever Winter Series on May 8, 2011, with a program entitled “Great Piano Quartets” (4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton). An outstanding ensemble comprising four of Music@Menlo’s beloved festival musicians—renowned pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane and acclaimed virtuosos violinist Arnaud Sussmann, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellist Christopher Costanza of the St. Lawrence String Quartet—offers two quintessential works of the piano quartet literature...Read More

The Rubin Museum of Art's new classical music series, Resonating Light, continues on January 30, 2011 at 6 PM, when violinist Anne Akiko Meyers presents "Samsara", a program of music for solo violin. Along with works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Fritz Kreisler, Meyers will perform selections by Arvo Pärt , Astor Piazzolla, and Somei Satoh, as well as the premiere of two new works, the Lullaby for Natalie by John Corigliano, ....Read More

Music@Menlo's inaugural Winter Series continues on January 16 at 4:00 p.m. at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton with a sonically ravishing program of music for two pianos. "Pianos/Pianists" will be performed by three extraordinary pianists....Read More

Atherton, CA, February 17, 2011—Music@Menlo is pleased to announce its seventh annual Winter Residency from March 3 through 10 at Menlo School. Under the artis­tic direction of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, Music@Menlo’s 2011 Winter Residency Program brings a select group of the classical music world’s elite young musicians to the San Francisco Peninsula.....Read More

The Rubin Museum of Art's new classical music series, Resonating Light, continues on January 16, 2011 at 6 PM, when the Eroica Trio returns for the second of three performances at the Rubin this season. On this occasion the Trio will present the New York premiere of the Trio-Sinfonia by composer Kevin Puts.....Read More

The Rubin Museum of Art presents cellist Matt Haimovitz in recital on December 5 at 6:00 PM as part of the Rubin Museum of Art's new Sunday evening classical music series, Resonating Light. For the joint celebration, Haimovitz has created a program of 300+ years of Italian music for solo cello, weaving Dominico Gabrielli's seven Ricercare - composed in the late 17th century, and the true precursors of the Bach Cello Suites - into a series of works by some of Italy's most important 20th century composers.....Read More

The Rubin Museum of Art's new classical music series, Resonating Light, offers a rare opportunity for audiences to experience Peter Lieberson's monodrama/opera King Gesar on Saturday and Sunday, November 20 and 21 at 6:00 PM. Alan Pierson will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble and narrator David Adam Moore; this will be the first time since 1997 that the work has been performed in New York....Read More

The inaugural Winter Series presented by Music@Menlo will feature three Sunday afternoon concerts that will give listeners the chance to experience Music@Menlo's signature programming throughout the year. Concerts will be held at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, the Peninsula's new state-of-the-art concert hall. The 495-seat venue, designed by Hodgetts+Fong Architecture and Design of Culver City, California, is acoustically ideal for chamber music and conveniently located in close proximity to downtown Menlo Park.....Read More

This fall the Rubin Museum of Art launches Resonating Light, a new classical music concert series featuring many of today's leading artists. Violinist Hahn-Bin opens the season with a recital on September 19 at 6 PM.All concert presentations at the Rubin Museum of Art are programmed to reflect the museum's exquisite collection and exhibitions. Additionally, works of art portrayed in the concerts can be simultaneously projected behind the musicians during the performance.....Read More

Music@Menlo LIVE announces the release of Being Mendelssohn, a collection of six CDs commemorating Music@Menlo’s remarkable seventh season that captures the festival’s celebration of the Felix Mendelssohn bicentennial. Produced by Grammy Award-winning engineer Da-Hong Seetoo, the set features performances by a roster of the world’s finest chamber musicians...Read More

The Bay Area’s premiere chamber music festival, Music@Menlo presents its eighth season this summer, from July 23 through August 14, 2010, on the San Francisco Peninsula. The festival, billed “Maps and Legends”, explores music spanning a wide range of times and places…
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The Rubin Museum of Art's new classical music series, Resonating Light, continues on November 7 at 6PM, when the Eroica Trio is joined by special guest Richard Stoltzman. Featured works include Olivier Messiaen's towering masterpiece Quatuor pour la fin du temps and Robert Schumann's Second Piano Trio....Read More

The Rubin Museum of Art's new classical music series, Resonating Light, continues on September 26 at 6 PM when guitarist Benjamin Verdery is presented in recital. All concert presentations at the Rubin Museum of Art are programmed to reflect the museum's exquisite collection and exhibitions. Benjamin Verdery has chosen as his inspiration Tradition Transformed, the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum.....Read More

On August 30, ten of the world’s finest emerging string quartets will arrive in Banff, Canada for the 10th Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC). Chosen from dozens of applications from 16 countries, the preliminary jury selected an international roster of accomplished young musicians...Read More