This year, with all safety protocols in place, VMMF was determined to connect in person with all five of our Apprentices. From New Haven, New York, and Montreal, these five extraordinary young musicians come together for the first time in beautiful Sonoma – forming new friendships, working with new mentors, and learning a fresh approach to chamber music on historical instruments. In this concert we enjoy the fruits of their labor in Schubert’s Grand Duo for violin and piano, and in a rarely heard gem by Carl Maria von Weber, one of the most important pioneers of Romanticism. Both of these pieces were written during the composers’ early 20s, around the same age as the young performers in this concert.

Kako Miura and Vivian Mayers, violin
Ramón Carrera-Martínez, viola
Drake Driscoll, cello