The Music@Menlo 2023 Festival celebrates Ludwig van Beethoven’s life, music, and legacy in parallel with the unfolding of chamber music history.

Music@Menlo is an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by David Finckel and Wu Han as a program of Menlo School, Music@Menlo features unique immersive programming, a roster of world-class artists, and a Chamber Music Institute for emerging and pre-professional musicians. Intimate performance venues and signature offerings such as AudioNotes MP3s, Café Conversations, and the Encounter lecture series offer a wide range of opportunities for aficionados and newcomers of all ages to connect with chamber music in new and innovative ways.

Music@Menlo was inaugurated in 2003 at Menlo School with concerts, lectures, a training program for aspiring professional musicians, and open-to-the-public master classes. All events take place on Menlo School’s campus.

Artistic Directors:

Music@Menlo founders and artistic co-directors since 2003, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artistic co-directors since 2004, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han continue to navigate the high seas of classical music in the multiple roles of performers, artistic leaders, recording producers, educators and cultural entrepreneurs. Recipients of Musical America’s Musicians of the Year award, they have appeared at the world’s most prestigious venues presenting duo repertoire that spans virtually the entire literature for their instruments. Last season, the duo designed and produced 270 digital concerts and educational events which sustained chamber music communities across the United States during the pandemic. Founders of ArtistLed, the classical music industry’s first musician-directed, internet-based recording company, they have released more than 20 CD’s of duo and chamber repertoire over two decades, as well as overseeing (and often performing in) more than 150 releases on both the Music@Menlo Live and CMS Live labels. Passionately committed to education, Wu Han and David Finckel oversee Music@Menlo’s annual Chamber Music Institute, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program, which attracts and nurtures the most promising young artists from all over the world.