Love & Longing: Festival 2021

Inspired by the human desire to connect, the chamber music of VMMF’s 7th Annual Season tells stories of separation, longing and coming together.

Blattner Series Lectures 2021

The Blattner Lecture Series is an integral part of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, helping listeners experience each season’s overarching theme more fully. This series is headed up by Harvard Musicologist – and VMMF bassoonist – Kate van Orden.

Virtual Beethoven: Festival 2020

Recorded live for the 6th Annual Valley of the Moon Music Festival

Virtual Beethoven 2020: Sonatas for Violin & Cello

Recorded live as part of the 2020 Virtual Beethoven Series.

Fermata Fridays with Tanya Tomkins 2020

Conversations and music during Shelter-in-Place with Tanya and Eric from their home in Berkeley, CA.

Salonnières: Women of Power & Influence. Festival 2019

A tribute to the extraordinary Salonnières of the 19th Century. These powerful women were the influencers of their day. They curated fantastic events in their homes by bringing together great performers, composers, and thinkers; helped shape the musical taste of 19th-century Europe; and launched the careers of outstanding composers whose music we still enjoy.

Vienna in Transition: Festival 2018

From the late 18th-century through World War I, Vienna was home to many of Europe’s most creative writers, thinkers, and artists. Our 2018 Festival concerts this year, performed on period instruments, span nearly 150 years of music. As a rare treat, we are extending the concept of historic performance practice to Expressionist chamber music by performing two works of Schoenberg on gut strings.

Schumann’s World: Festival 2017

Our 2017 Festival celebrates the world of Robert Schumann, juxtaposing the composer’s own compositions with chamber works by composers he idolized and championed. Schumann was a brilliant composer and an influential critic who wrote with passion and humor about the struggles and ecstasies of his contemporaries and musical precursors.