VC LIVE | Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute Presents Overture Concert I: Mozart, Brahms, Fauré

Tune in here on Wednesday, August 16th at 7:00PM (ET) for an exciting concert featuring the performance of various works written by Mozart, Brahms, and Fauré

We're coming at you live from Music@Menlo, 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 pre-professional musicians. Intimate performance venues and signature offerings such as AudioNotes MP3s, 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.

The Overture Concerts feature International Program performers in collaboration with festival main-stage artists, providing a unique experience for audience members and musicians alike. This summer, International Program artists will perform across two concert programs side by side with violinists Paul Huang and Arnaud Sussmann, violists Matthew Lipman and Paul Neubauer, cellist Mihai Marica, oboist James Austin Smith, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianists Gilbert Kalish and Wu Han.

Program:

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART(1756–1791)

Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370 (1781)

JOHANNES BRAHMS(1833–1897)

Clarinet Sonata in E-flat major, op. 120, no. 2 (1894)

GABRIEL FAURÉ(1845–1924)

Piano Quartet no. 2 in G minor, op. 45 (1885–86)

Paul Huang, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Mihai Marica, cello; James Austin Smith, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet