Schedule:

Thursday, July 31, 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.

5:00 PM - Prelude Performance IX 
Stent Family Hall 
Tickets: Free

PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms(1833–1897)
 Piano Trio in C minor, op. 101 (1886)

Felix Mendelssohn(1809–1847)
 Piano Trio in C minor, op. 66 (1845)

Artists

VIOLIN

 Ariel Horowitz
 Eric Tsai

CELLO

 Camden Archambeau
 Sara Scanlon

PIANO

 Elliot Wuu
 Bo Zhang

7:00 PM - Encounter Lecture III: Chamber Music Voices
Martin Family Hall
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty

The Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Series invites you to go beyond the concert hall and explore the heart of chamber music. Led by top musicians and thinkers, these evening talks explore the themes of each festival with great stories, insights, and musical moments. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just getting into chamber music, you’ll come away inspired.

Brilliant American lyric tenor Nicholas Phan returns to Music@Menlo to lead this season’s third Encounter. Nicholas will explore the story of how the human voice joined with strings, pianos, and winds to create an essential chamber music genre. With a look back to the great vocal composers of the Baroque era such as Handel and Bach, visits to the worlds of Mozart and Schubert, and a rich sampling of the Romantic vocal literature, Nicholas will provide an enticing introduction to Music@Menlo’s August 3 Concert Program, Let’s Add Voices!

Artist

ENCOUNTER LEADER
 Nicholas Phan