For immediate release: February 17, 2011
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Music@Menlo Presents Seventh Annual Winter Residency
Residency program culminates in a public benefit concert on March 6.
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 for a weeklong series of special performances, a public benefit concert, and educational activities with local middle and high school students.
Violinists Sean Lee, Michelle Ross, and Areta Zhulla; cellist Eric Han; and pianist Gloria Chien—all past participants of Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute for outstanding aspiring professional musicians—are this year’s artists-in-residence. While on campus, they will join forces with Wu Han and another Institute alumnus, violinist Alexi Kenney, for Music@Menlo’s annual benefit concert and reception on Sunday, March 6, at 4:00 p.m. in Martin Family Hall on the Menlo School campus. The benefit concert, which is open to the public (tickets are $50), supports scholarship funds for Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute, a three-week summer program that offers emerging young artists the chance to work with a world-renowned artist-faculty as well as multiple performance opportunities and an enriching series of classes and lectures.
As part of the residency, the Chamber Music Institute alumni will work directly with a broad cross section of Menlo School’s esteemed faculty to create lesson plans that bring classical music to life by integrating it with curricula in subjects such as history, Latin studies, and other humanities. Highlights will include a special collaborative performance with middle school Latin student singers, performances at Upper and Middle School assemblies, and an array of classroom presentations in the Middle School’s foreign language classes as well as Upper School courses such as Advanced Placement History, American Literature, Art History, and Jazz Band.
“We are tremendously proud to be a program of Menlo School, whose uncompromising commitment to education and dedication to the arts have created the ideal setting for Music@Menlo since the festival’s inception in 2003,” Artistic Director Wu Han notes. “The Winter Residency provides an opportunity to bring the best of our educational resources into the classroom, giving Menlo students the chance to absorb the rich chamber music repertoire through close interaction with world-class artists. It’s also an incredible opportunity for our Chamber Music Institute alumni to enhance their teaching skills and share their passion for chamber music with a new generation of listeners.”
MUSIC@MENLO BENEFIT CONCERT AND RECEPTION
Music@Menlo will present its annual benefit concert and reception on Sunday, March 6, at 4:00 p.m. in Martin Family Hall on the Menlo School campus. Violinists Sean Lee, Michelle Ross, Areta Zhulla, and Alexi Kenney, cellist Eric Han, and pianists Gloria Chien and Wu Han offer a program comprising Claude Debussy’s Petite Suite for Piano, Four Hands; Camille Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op. 28; and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet in f minor, op. 34. A preview of the upcoming 2011 festival and a reception with the artists follow the concert. Tickets are $50 and $30 of each ticket is a tax-deductible contribution that supports Music@Menlo’s Ann S. Bowers Young Artist Fund. Tickets can be ordered online at www.musicatmenlo.org or by calling 650-331-0202. Seating is limited.
Music@Menlo is also gearing up for its ninth annual chamber music festival, which runs from July 22 through August 13, 2011. Complete details will be announced this spring.
ABOUT MUSIC@MENLO
Founded in 2003, Music@Menlo is an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival and institute under the artistic direction of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han. Based at Menlo School in Atherton, California, and an important part of the San Francisco Bay Area’s dynamic cultural fabric, Music@Menlo is noted for its world-class chamber music performances, extensive audience engagement programs, intensive training for preprofessional musicians through its Chamber Music Institute, and efforts to enrich and cultivate the global chamber music community.
ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Music@Menlo Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han are two of today’s most esteemed and influential classical musicians. Their appearances currently take them to the world’s most prestigious concert series and festivals as soloists, as a duo, and, in David’s case, as a member of the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet. In addition, they are the creators of classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording label, ArtistLed. Together, they have a unique ability to envision and realize innovative projects, be it in the recording arena with ArtistLed, on the world’s great concert stages, or as directors of a new music festival. In recent years, David Finckel and Wu Han have become widely recognized for their initiatives in expanding audiences for classical music and for guiding the careers of countless
young musicians. In recognition of their widespread contributions to the field of chamber music and their artistic excellence both on and off the stage, David Finckel and Wu Han were named Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2004.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
What: Music@Menlo Benefit Concert and Reception
Where: Martin Family Hall on the Menlo School campus (50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, California)
When: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Program: Claude Debussy: Petite Suite for Piano, Four Hands; Camille Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op. 28; Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor, op. 34
Tickets: $50 ($30 of each ticket is a tax-deductible contribution that supports the Ann S. Bowers Young Artist Fund). Order tickets online at www.musicatmenlo.org or call 650-331-0202.
Presented by: Music@Menlo
Description: Music@Menlo, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier chamber music festival, presents its annual benefit concert. A select group of the classical music world’s rising stars, including violinists Sean Lee, Michelle Ross, Areta Zhulla, and Alexi Kenney, cellist Eric Han, and pianist Gloria Chien, join forces with festival Coartistic Director Wu Han to offer a program comprising Claude Debussy’s Petite Suite for Piano, Four Hands; Camille Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op. 28; and Johannes Brahms ’s Piano Quintet in f minor, op. 34. A preview of the upcoming 2011 festival and a reception with the artists follow the concert. Tickets are $50 and $30 of each ticket is a tax-deductible contribution that supports the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Institute Scholarship Fund. Tickets can be ordered online at www.musicatmenlo.org or by calling 650-331-0202. Seating is limited.
For more information about Music@Menlo, please visit www.musicatmenlo.org or call 650-330-2030.
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