The Summerfest's grand opening concert, "Lone Cypress," celebrates our beloved Monterey Peninsula where art and beauty flourish. Set at the Monterey Museum of Art's Work Gallery, surrounded by California’s most prominent contemporary realist painters, is David Ligare's exhibition "Spheres of Influence". The music pairs with many elements of David Ligare's influences and inspirations that grew […]
Also at the Work Gallery of Monterey Museum of Art, the second concert "Viva!," celebrates the abundance and vigor of life that comes from the duplication of seeds. See instruments literally duplicate, pair up, interact in comradery, symmetry, dueling dialogues--like friends, lovers and competitors. Repertoire includes… one of the MOST beloved pieces in the entire […]
We return to our original Sunkiss'd Mozart's home at this talk with the young and brilliant Iranian-American composer Kian Ravaei. Ravaei shares with us his extraordinary and humorous journey searching for harmony between the music surrounding his childhood, music he experimented as a more-or-less typical American teenager, and music he writes as a professional concert […]
The final concert "Potpourri" will take our audience to a premier private residence in Monterra. As we revive and modernize this "music in chamber" tradition in a beautiful home of our time, we match it with a program that tells the stories of us today in a unique aspect of the world now— merely a […]
How do you tell a whole story in the span of a few minutes? The 2024 Merola artists explore the narrative arc of song in selections from a diverse range of eras and musical styles. This dramatic recital of vocal chamber music is sure to be a memorable musical evening. $10 tickets for audiences new […]
