Mendocino Music Festival, Mendocino CA

Category & Type :

Cultural Activities

Location :

45100 Main Street Number 2 , Mendocino CA

Phone :

707-937-4041

Website :

http://www.mendocinomusic.com

Information about Mendocino Music Festival...

The Mendocino Music Festival is a magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California. Evenings include breathtaking concerts featuring the glorious Festival Orchestra, the popular Big Band concert, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, and folk music. Days include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a children's matinee, performances by the Young Musicians, and chamber concerts at beautiful venues throughout Mendocino Village.

The Mendocino Music Festival continues to maintain its commitment to bringing the highest quality classical and contemporary music and musicians to a place founder and Artistic Director Allan Pollack has described as ". . . one of the most picturesque towns in the world."

For 2007, the line up includes violinsit Daniel Austrich, bues guitarist Chris Cain, eclectic string ensemble Time for Three, singer Mollie O'Brien, Company C Contemporary Ballet, Tex/Mex country rockers Sisters Morales, Janaki String Trio, multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, soprano Nicolle Foland, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, bluegrass quintet Blue Highway, and many others.

Pieces performed by the Festival Orchestra and guests include Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Copland's "Hoe Down" (from "Rodeo"), Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee", and a concert version of Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutti".

Also featured will be a Piano Series, Village Chamber Concerts, and much, much more.

Event Dates:  July 10, 2007 through Saturday, July 21, 2007

In addition to leading The Festival Orchestra in the classics, Mr. Pollack has conducted many fully staged operas.

With a Ph.D. in composition from UC Berkeley, Maestro Pollack has composed a variety of pieces especially for the Festival Orchestra and musicians: The Spiral Dance for chorus and orchestra; Two Movements in Time for orchestra; From the Song of Songs for soprano and orchestra; A Summer Evening at the Boonville Fair for orchestra; Albion Song: Jazz Concerto for Saxophone; a Vibraphone Concerto; and a String Quartet. As a jazz musician, he leads the fabulous Festival Big Band and sometimes takes a solo on saxophone.

Festival responsibilities aside, Allan is also Music Director and Conductor for Symphony of the Redwoods here on the Mendocino Coast and the Camellia Symphony Orchestra in Sacramento.
Festival Co-Founder
Pianist, Susan Waterfall, creates yearly multi-media, narrated settings for chamber music for the Festival. These have included: Voyage a Paris (2001); Argentina: Gauchos and Tangos (2002); Bartok's Women (2003); Tales of A Parisian Salon: Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (2004); Young Brahms (2005); Scandalous Music! Satie, Ravel, Debussy, and Stravinsky (2006); Leos Janacek: A Solitary Genius (2007); Degenerate Music! Kurt Weill, Schoenberg, and Hanns Eisler in Weimar Berlin (2008); They Left A Light, Masterpieces from Nazi Prison Camps (2009) and Hallelujah America (2010).

Ms. Waterfall studied piano with Ivan Moravec and Karl Ulrich Schnabel and musicology with Roland Jackson and Glenn Watkins. In the 1970s Susan lived, studied, and performed South Indian Classical Music with the legendary Dhanammal family in Madras (Chennai) India. Susan brings an enhanced sensibility of the role of music in culture to all of her concerts. She has presented numerous lecture recitals on Olivier Messiaen's monumental piano cycle Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant Jesus. Susan and Allan are the parents of the acclaimed jazz pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack.
Established in 1986, the Mendocino Music Festival was the dream of former principal bassoonist of the San Francisco Symphony, Walter Green (1926 – 2007), Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall. The Festival is a magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California. Evenings include orchestra concerts, Big Band, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, folk, bluegrass and popular contemporary music. Daytime concerts include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a performance by participants in the Emerging Artists Program, and small concerts in intimate venues throughout the historic towns of Mendocino and Fort Bragg.

The Mendocino Music Festival is committed to bringing the highest quality classical and contemporary music and musicians to a place, that Maestro Allan Pollack has described as ". . . one of the most picturesque towns in the world."
Festival Staff

Festival Manager, Nancy Harris
Ticket Office Manager/Webmaster, Brian Eich
Program Ad Sales & Office Assistant, Deborah Fulmor
Office Assistant, Linda Moore
Orchestra Personnel Manager, Mark Veregge
Orchestra Librarian, Sandra Cosca
Technical Director, Nick Reid
Sound Engineer, Peter Temple