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NorCal Classical Concerts, Calendar, Venues & Tickets
Use this Northern California classical concert guide to compare concerts tonight, this week, and this month across opera, orchestra, chamber music, recitals, venue calendars, performance times, ticket status, and official source links.
Students of the week-long Harp Immersive present solo and ensemble works for Harp under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Ellis. Additional program information coming soon!
Prelude Performances showcase Music@Menlo’s International Program artists (ages 20–30), while Koret Young Performers Concerts feature the extraordinary Young Performers (ages 12–19). These events are a great way to introduce younger concert-goers to chamber music; Prelude Performances are shorter, typically without an intermission, and KYPCs showcase select movements from musical masterworks. These performances are free and open to the public; tickets are required and can be reserved from 9:00 a.m. on the event day.
A beloved tradition at Music@Menlo since the first season, Encounters are full-length lectures presented throughout the festival . Led by a rotating selection of eminent musicologists, educators, and musicians, they delve deeply into aspects of each summer’s theme. Audiences come away with enhanced historical and musical knowledge, leading to a richer understanding of and engagement with the festival’s composers and their works. This summer’s four composer-focused programs provide the perfect opportunity for the eloquent Michael Parloff to reveal the composers’ lives and explore their music. Bridging the Baroque and Romantic periods, their works played essential roles in the evolution of chamber music, from Bach’s intimate preludes and fugues to Schubert’s monumental Opus 100 Piano Trio. Parloff’s Encounters, always a highlight of the festival, are not to be missed, and this one celebrates the true source of our immortal repertoire: the composer.
In Translation: Dvořák and the British Isles, 1884-1904 Lecture Presented by Elaine Fitz Gibbon In the final decades of his life, Dvořák undertook extensive international travels, not just to the United States, where he famously lived and composed from 1882-1885, but also to England. Indeed, England was Dvořák’s first international destination, and the country to which, in the end, he owed his broad international success. In this lecture, Elaine will dive into this lesser-known yet transformative period in Dvořák’s life and professional career. Free for concert ticket holders. Concert Tickets
Let’s go to 19th-century England , where Dvořák’s music found eager audiences and his international reputation reached new heights. Echoing Haydn’s own celebrated success in London generations earlier, this program explores the artistic exchange between composers who drew inspiration from folk traditions and transformed them into deeply personal musical voices. Alongside Dvořák, the program features Vaughan Williams and Rebecca Clarke, later composers whose music reflects a similarly distinctive sense of place and expression. • Program HAYDN String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Hob. III:76, “Fifths” (1797) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Excerpts from Six Studies in English Folk Song for Cello and Piano (1926) DVOŘÁK Excerpts from Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166, “Dumky” (1891) CLARKE Dumka for Violin, Viola, and Piano (ca. 1941) DVOŘÁK Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23, B. 53 (1875) Artists Amizia Quartet in Residence | Elizabeth Dorman, Eric Zivian, PIANO | Jennifer Frautschi,
Prelude Performances showcase Music@Menlo’s International Program artists (ages 20–30), while Koret Young Performers Concerts feature the extraordinary Young Performers (ages 12–19). These events are a great way to introduce younger concert-goers to chamber music; Prelude Performances are shorter, typically without an intermission, and KYPCs showcase select movements from musical masterworks. These performances are free and open to the public; tickets are required and can be reserved from 9:00 a.m. on the event day.
Music@Menlo’s 2017 festival celebrated an instrument that shaped the evolution of classical music, exploring the violin’s history alongside celebrated composers and performers. In a nod to that season, this program unites two towering figures in that evolution: Antonio Vivaldi and Fritz Kreisler. Listen to the AudioNote, our preconcert listener guide for this Concert Program. https://musicatmenlo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26-CP1-GloriousViolin.mp3 Can’t make the concert/concert sold out? Purchase the livestream here .
