Celebrate the 29th season of Music in the Vineyards, the nationally-acclaimed chamber music festival held each summer in the beautiful Napa Valley. Our 2023 season will welcome artists from around the world and features the renowned Calidore, Catalyst, and Telegraph Quartets. Returning this season is a special Not-So-Silent Cinema concert, special events, and more!

Schedule:
Thursday, July 27, 2023
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Open Rehearsal
Gain an insight into how the musicians prepare for their performances. Each open rehearsal features repertoire which will be performed in concerts during that week. Attendees are welcome to move from room to room as the musicians rehearse, and there will also be a chance to ask questions and talk to the musicians.

Tickets: Free Admission

Friday, July 28, 2023
7:00pm: Concert
This program, drawn from the 19th century, includes Schubert’s Rondo Brillante, an unknown gem rarely heard in the concert hall, Loeffler’s post-romantic Rhapsodies, which bring together mysticism and folksong, and Fauré’s most popular work, his Piano Quartet, which was the first music from his pen after a painful divorce.

Program
Schubert
Rondo Brillante for Violin and Piano
Loeffler
Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
Fauré
Piano Quartet no. 1, Op. 15

Musicians
Violin
Aaron Boyd, Susie Park
Viola
Ara Gregorian, Hyobi Sim
Cello
Bion Tsang
Piano
Rieko Aizawa
Oboe
Alexander Kinmonth

Location: Silverado Vineyards

Tickets: $85 Concert

Saturday, July 29, 2023
12:00pm: Competition Winners Showcase
Now in its 10th year, MITV’s Solo Instrumental Competition for California high school musicians awards cash prizes to outstanding instrumentalists selected by competitive audition. This year’s winners will be featured along with the Lírios Quartet, our 2023 Fellowship String Quartet, in this free lunchtime recital of talented young musicians.

Lírios Quartet
Violin
Benjamin Goldstein, Maggie Brady
Viola
Yuri Santos
Cello
Chas Barnard

Location: Congregation Beth Shalom

Tickets: Free Admission

5:00pm: Concert
Mozart’s effervescent Oboe Quartet precedes the premiere of a work for piano and strings that we co-commissioned from noted CA-based composer John Wineglass. We close with Brahms’ autumnal String Quintet which was to be his final work, before what turned out to be a failed retirement.

Program
Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F
John Wineglass
And the Summer Was Over
Brahms
String Quintet no. 2, Op. 111

Musicians
Violin
Aaron Boyd, Susie Park, Daria T. Adams
Viola
Ara Gregorian, Hyobi Sim
Cello
Karen Ouzounian, Bion Tsang
Piano
Rieko Aizawa
Oboe
Alexander Kinmonth

Musician Mingle
Following the concert, mingle with our composer and musicians while enjoying Silverado Vineyards wines, appetizers and a magnificent sunset over the vineyards.

Location: Silverado Vineyards

Tickets:
$85 Concert
$105 Concert & Musician Mingle

Sunday, July 30, 2023
5:00pm: Concert
Schubert’s serene Notturno, and great Quintet for Strings (the “Cello” Quintet), bookend two remarkable composers, Brazilian Clarice Assad and Anna Clyne of the U.K.

Program
Schubert
Notturno for Piano Trio
Clarice Assad
Synchronous for Oboe and Strings
Anna Clyne
Breathing Statues for String Quartet
Schubert
Quintet for Strings

Musicians
Violin
Aaron Boyd, Susie Park, Daria T. Adams
Viola
Ara Gregorian, Hyobi Sim
Cello
Karen Ouzounian, Bion Tsang
Piano
Rieko Aizawa
Oboe
Alexander Kinmonth

Location: Silverado Vineyards

Tickets: $85 Concert

Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Concert
The Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet, founded in 2010 by the internationally-acclaimed Sphinx Organization, has been a seismic force in promoting underrepresented classical musicians. Known for their “perfect ensemble unity” and “unequaled class of execution” (Lincoln Journal Star), Catalyst Quartet has toured widely throughout the United States and abroad.

Program
6:00pm
The Inside Story
with Artistic Director Michael Adams
How, Why, and When Do We Commission New Pieces of Music?
Insiders talk about the creation of new art.

7:00pm
Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76 no. 4, Sunrise
Eleven Miniatures
Commissioned by the Catalyst Quartet
Still
Lyric Quartette
Price
Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint

Catalyst Quartet
Violin
Karla Donehew Perez, Abi Fayette
Viola
Paul Laraia
Cello
Karlos Rodriguez

Time:
6:00pm: Pre-Concert Talk
7:00pm: Concert

Location: Domaine Carneros

Tickets: $100 Concert

Thursday, August 3, 2023
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Open Rehearsal
Gain an insight into how the musicians prepare for their performances. Each open rehearsal features repertoire which will be performed in concerts during that week. Attendees are welcome to move from room to room as the musicians rehearse, and there will also be a chance to ask questions and talk to the musicians.

Location: St. Helena Parochial School

Tickets: Free Admission

5:00pm: Music Illuminated
A series of lecture/demonstrations that look beyond the score.

We welcome back renowned pianist and composer John Novacek for an enlightening discussion and performance about one of the 20th century’s most influential musicians, Igor Stravinsky. The focus will be on his eleven ballets, the genre he influenced most, including Petroushka, The Firebird and The Right of Spring. You will be welcomed with a glass of sparkling wine before John’s one-hour presentation. Afterward, linger on the beautiful Napa terrace of this stunning private home with wine and appetizers along with musical conversation. Private residence in St. Helena, address issued with ticket receipt.

Location: Private residence in St. Helena

Tickets: $175

Friday, August 4, 2023
7:00pm: Concert
This program will take you on a journey, from the solemn Lamento of Kahlevi Aho, to the bawdy Café Music of Paul Schoenfield, which was inspired by his stint as the pianist at a steakhouse. We close with the exuberant and passionate Quintet no. 2 by Mendelssohn.

This concert will take place outdoors.

Program
Kahlevi Aho
Lamento for Two Violins
Borodin
String Trio
Charlton Singleton
Testimony
Paul Schoenfield
Café Music
Mendelssohn
String Quintet no. 2

Musicians
Violin
Owen Dalby, Karla Donehew Perez, Abi Fayette, Axel Strauss, Daria T. Adams
Viola
Paul Laraia, Yuri Santos, David Samuel
Cello
Julie Albers, Oliver Herbert
Piano
John Novacek

Location: Hudson Ranch

Tickets: $100 Concert

Saturday, August 5, 2023
5:00pm: Concert For The Community - An Echo in the Vineyards Event
This Concert for the Community will feature festival musicians in works by Antonio Vivaldi and tango master Astor Piazzolla, as well our first ever play-along, which will include you! All are welcome—on any instrument*—to join us in playing Johann Pachelbel’s beautiful Canon.

Location: First Presbyterian Church

Tickets:
$25
$10 for students and those under 18

Sunday, August 6, 2023
5:00pm: Concert
This program features three audacious Opus 1s: the first published works of three young composers who went on to great things. Already, each Opus 1 reveals their nascent brilliance.

Program
Beethoven
Trio for Piano and Strings Op. 1 no. 1
Locatelli
Concerto Grosso Op. 1
Dohnányi
Piano Quintet Op. 1

Musicians
Violin
Owen Dalby, Karla Donehew Perez, Axel Strauss, Daria T. Adams, Maggie Brady, Benjamin Goldstein
Viola
Paul Laraia, Yuri Santos
Cello
Julie Albers, Karlos Rodriguez, Chas Barnard
Piano
John Novacek

Location: Markham Vineyards

Tickets: $85 Concert

Wednesday, August 9, 2023
6:00pm: Concert
The Calidore Quartet was founded at the Colburn School in Los Angeles in 2010, and within two years won grand prizes in virtually all the major U.S. chamber music competitions. Their reputation has only grown in the decade since, and they now perform at the most esteemed venues and festivals around the world. This marks their MITV debut.

Program
6:00pm
The Inside Story with Artistic Director Michael Adams
Explore the deep connections between Mendelssohn’s Op. 13 quartet and Ludwig van Beethoven.

7:00pm
Mendelssohn
String Quartet no.1 Op. 13
Caroline Shaw
First Essay
Beethoven
String Quartet in C major Op. 59 no. 3

Musicians
Calidore Quartet
Violin
Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan
Viola
Jeremy Berry
Cello
Estelle Choi

Time:
6:00pm: Pre-Concert Talk
7:00pm: Concert

Location: Hudson House, Beringer Vineyards

Ticket: $85 Concert

Thursday, August 10, 2023
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Open Rehearsal
Gain an insight into how the musicians prepare for their performances. Each open rehearsal features repertoire which will be performed in concerts during that week. Attendees are welcome to move from room to room as the musicians rehearse, and there will also be a chance to ask questions and talk to the musicians.

Location: St. Helena Parochial School

Tickets: Free Admission

7:00pm: Music Illuminated
A series of lecture/demonstrations that look beyond the score.
Brilliantly prolific while terribly ill, Schubert's flurry of final works transcended the terrible suffering he endured. Curated by Artistic Director Michael Adams and assisted by festival musicians, this program will sample from the works of Schubert's miraculous last year, including the “cello” quintet, the two piano trios, and his final piano sonatas.

Before joining us in the EcoLab Theater at Copia take the opportunity to dine at The Grove, the signature restaurant of the Culinary Institute of America featuring a special two course prix fixe menu at $49 for MITV ticketholders. (Click here to make a reservation at The Grove on August 10th at 5:00pm or call CIA at Copia directly at 707-967-2500. Upon arrival, mention you are part of the Music in the Vineyards event and prix fixe dinner).

Part of An Echo in the Vineyards event, our concert and outreach activity for Napa’s Musical Community.

Location: CIA at Copia

Tickets: $25

Friday, August 11, 2023
7:00pm: Concert
Witness the intimate side of these three pillars of Russian music and “large-scale” masters. Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky show off their compositional dexterity in these pieces for very small forces.

Program
Carlos Simon
A Cry From the Grave
Shostakovich
Piano Trio no. 2
Prokofiev
Sonata for Two Violins
Stravinsky
Suite Italienne  for Violin and Piano

Musicians
Violin
Sunmi Chang, Ryan Meehan, Jeffrey Myers, Arnaud Sussmann
Viola
Masumi Per Rostad
Cello
Estelle Choi, Tanya Tomkins
Piano
Eric Zivian

Musician Mingle
Following the concert, mingle with our musicians while enjoying Beringer Vineyards wines, appetizers and musical conversation.

Location: Hudson House, Beringer Vineyards

Tickets:
$85 Concert
$105 Concert and Musician Mingle

Saturday, August 12, 2023
5:00pm: Esterhazy Concert and Dinner
One of the most captivating musicians of our time, violinist Tessa Lark returns to MITV for this one-night-only exclusive estate concert. Nominated for a Grammy in 2020, Tessa is a budding superstar in the classical realm, as well as a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky. She first appeared at MITV in 2009, as the winner of the Klein International Competition, returning for a second time last year.

Location: Private winery estate in Napa Valley

Tickets: $750 per person, of which $500 is tax deductible

Sunday, August 13, 2023
5:00pm: Concert
String Circle, by Kenji Bunch, explores the great history of American fiddle playing, flirting with ragtime, blues, and country. In this innovative presentation, the five movements of String Circle are paired with classical counterparts, revealing the close connection between genres.

Program
Kenji Bunch
String Circle along with selections from:

Dvo?ák: Terzetto
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33 no. 2, Joke
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor
Ravel: String Quartet
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings

Elgar
Piano Quintet

Musicians
Violin
Sunmi Chang, Ryan Meehan, Jeffrey Myers, Arnaud Sussmann, Daria T. Adams, Maggie Brady, Benjamin Goldstein
Viola
Jeremy Berry, Masumi Per Rostad, Yuri Santos
Cello
Estelle Choi, Tanya Tomkins, Chas Barnard
Piano
Eric Zivian

Location: Hess Persson Estates

Tickets: $85 Concert

Wednesday, August 16, 2023
6:00pm: Concert
California native and current Boonville resident Gabriella Lena Frank, explores the rhythms and sounds of the Andean culture of her heritage, including the sounds of the panpipe, the charango, and the wailing women hired to keen at funerals. Closing the program is one of Mendelssohn’s masterpieces, which Robert Schumann praised as “the master-trio of our time.” (And it still is!)

Program
6:00pm
The Inside Story with Artistic Directors Michael and Daria T. Adams
Music in the Vineyards at 29
Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?

7:00pm
Haydn
String Quartet Op. 50, no. 5
Gabriella Lena Frank
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no. 1

Musicians
The Telegraph Quartet
Violin
Eric Chin, Joseph Maile
Viola
Pei-Ling Lin
Cello
Jeremiah Shaw

Mendelssohn Piano Trio Musicians
Violin
Jennifer Frautschi
Cello
Edward Arron
Piano
Anna Polonsky

Time:
6:00pm: Pre-Concert Talk
7:00pm: Concert

Location: Frog’s Leap Winery

Tickets: $85 Concert

Thursday, August 17, 2023
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Open Rehearsal
Gain an insight into how the musicians prepare for their performances. Each open rehearsal features repertoire which will be performed in concerts during that week. Attendees are welcome to move from room to room as the musicians rehearse, and there will also be a chance to ask questions and talk to the musicians.

Location: St. Helena Parochial School

Tickets: Free Admission

Friday, August 18, 2023
7:00pm: Concert
This program opens with Caroline Shaw’s Schisma, which references the cleft in the rock that you cling to in dark times. We explore those “clefts” through a wide range of composers, and its meaning to each of them.

Program
Caroline Shaw
Schisma
Purcell
Two Fantasies for strings
Haydn
String Trio in G
Fauré
Elegie for Cello
Walker
Lyric for strings
Beach
Quintet for Piano and Strings

Musicians
Violin
Eric Chin, Jennifer Frautschi, Francisco Fullana, Joseph Maile, Daria T. Adams
Viola
Pei-Ling Lin
Cello
Edward Arron, Gaeun Kim, Jeremiah Shaw
Piano
Anna Polonsky

Location: Clos Pegase Winery

Tickets: $85 Concert

Saturday, August 19, 2023
12:00pm: Not-So-Silent Cinema
Two classic silent films with original music by Stephen Prutsman, performed by festival musicians, recreate the cinema experience of 100 years ago before recorded sound was integrated into filmmaking. The main attraction is a Buster Keaton classic, College, preceded by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a horror film, considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Directed by Robert Wiene

College (1927)
Directed by Buster Keaton

Musicians
The Telegraph Quartet
Violin
Eric Chin, Joseph Maile
Viola
Pei-Ling Lin
Cello
Jeremiah Shaw

Composer
Stephen Prutsman

Location: Jarvis Conservatory

5:00pm: Not-So-Silent Cinema
Two classic silent films with original music by Stephen Prutsman, performed by festival musicians, recreate the cinema experience of 100 years ago before recorded sound was integrated into filmmaking. The main attraction is a Buster Keaton classic, College, preceded by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a horror film, considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema.

Lcoation: St. Helena Performing Arts Center

Tickets:
$20
$10 for students and those under 18

Sunday, August 20, 2023
5:00pm: Concert
We turn the concert order upside down in this program that opens with Dvor?ák’s popular Piano Quintet and a piece inspired by it, written by Kian Ravaei. We close with music full of dancing, fury…and a bit of madness!

Program
Kian Ravaei
Fantasy Variations for piano quartet
Dvo?ák
Piano Quintet
Beethoven
Rage Over a Lost Penny
Vivaldi
La Folia Variations for Three Cellos
Sarasate
Navarra for Two Violins and Piano
Brahms
Hungarian Dance no. 5

Musicians
Violin
Eric Chin, Jennifer Frautschi, Francisco Fullana, Joseph Maile
Viola
Pei-Ling Lin
Cello
Edward Arron, Gaeun Kim, Jeremiah Shaw
Piano
Anna Polonsky
Double Bass
Scott Pingel

Tickets: $85 Concert

7:30pm: Festival Finale Dinner
Join the Music in the Vineyards family of musicians, patrons, and supporters at sunset around the iconic Inglenook fountain for appetizers, followed by a delicious three-course buffet dinner under the stars paired with premium Inglenook wines.

Tickets: $185 Dinner

Location: Inglenook

Date: July 28 - August 20, 2023

Location:
Silverado Vineyards, 6121 Silverado Trail Napa, CA 94558
Domaine Carneros, 1240 Duhig Road Napa, CA 94559
Hudson Napa Valley, 5398 Sonoma Hwy Napa, CA 94559
First Presbyterian Church, 1333 Third Street Napa, CA 94559
Markham Vineyards, 2812 St Helena Hwy Saint Helena, CA 94574
Beringer Vineyards, 2000 Main Street Saint Helena, CA 94574
CIA at Copia (The Culinary Institute of America), 500 1st St Napa, CA 94559
Hess Collection Winery, 4411 Redwood Road Napa, CA 94558
Frog's Leap Winery, 8815 Conn Creek Road Rutherford, CA 94573
Clos Pegase, 1060 Dunaweal Lane Calistoga, CA 94515
Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main Street Napa, CA 94559
Saint Helena Performing Arts Center, 1401 Grayson Avenue Saint Helena, CA 94574
Inglenook, 1991 St Helena Hwy Rutherford, CA 94573

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