Summer Festival: Winds of Change

This lively program highlights the wind quintet as a centerpiece of chamber music, with familiar masterworks alongside lesser-known pieces by Charles Martin Loeffler and Ludwig Thuille. Renowned German clarinetist Sebastian Manz makes a Music@Menlo debut, joined by flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and bassoonist Jake Thonis.

PROGRAM
Beethoven | Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds, op. 16
Mendelssohn | Concert Piece no. 1 in F minor for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano, op. 113
Loeffler | Rhapsody no. 1 for Oboe, Viola, and Piano, "L’étang"
Mozart | Arias for Woodwind Quintet
Thuille | Sextet in B-flat major for Piano and Winds, op. 6

ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
James Austin Smith, oboe
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Jake Thonis, bassoon
Kevin Rivard, horn
Paul Neubauer, viola
Michael Stephen Brown, Hyeyeon Park, Sahun Sam Hong, pianos

LOCATION: Spieker Center for the Arts, Menlo School, Atherton

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