Schedule:

Thursday, August 7, 2025

11:00 a.m. - Mornings@Menlo
Martin Family Hall

Mornings@Menlo convene the entire festival community for hour-long master classes and Café Conversations, led by Music@Menlo faculty and artists. Mornings@Menlo are free and open to the public in Martin Family Hall; reservations are not required. All sessions are livestreamed on Music@Menlo’s website.

7:00 PM - Concert Program VII: Six to Eight
Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $87 full-price | $25 under age thirty

Offering one of the lushest textures of any instrumental combination, the string sextet has long been a favorite ensemble of both listeners and performers. Although Luigi Boccherini invented this grouping in the eighteenth century, classical music had to wait until 1860 for Johannes Brahms to revive this ensemble with his magisterial sextets. Violinists Benjamin Beilman and Erin Keefe return to Music@Menlo alongside an all-star cast of string players.

PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms(1833–1897)
 String Sextet no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 18 (1859–60)

Jörg Widmann(b. 1973)
 180 beats per minute (1993)

Felix Mendelssohn(1809–1847)
 String Octet in E-flat major, op. 20 (1825)

Artists

VIOLA

 Masumi Rostad

VIOLIN

 Benjamin Beilman
 Erin Keefe
 Kristin Lee
 Jessica Lee
 Richard Lin
 Julian Rhee
 Arnaud Sussmann

CELLO

 Dmitri Atapine
 Nicholas Canellakis
 David Finckel
 Clive Greensmith