pianoSonoma Presents Vino & Vibrato

Celebrate pianoSonoma’s 15th season with Vino & Vibrato, a summer concert series featuring pre-performance wine tastings and post-show artist talkbacks. Held over four evenings in July, the series showcases a dynamic program, including two Bach transcriptions for solo piano, two Ravel masterpieces in honor of the composer’s 150th birthday, Piazzolla’s Four Seasons performed across two concerts, and two world premieres by composer Peter Dugan, commissioned by pianoSonoma.

July 15: 5:30 p.m. wine tasting and a 6 p.m. concert. We start our fifteenth season with Busoni’s transcription of Bach’s Wachet auf and follow with Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis and Beethoven’s A Major Cello Sonata. 

July 17: 4:30 p.m. artist exchange with Kara Dugan, 5:30 p.m. wine tasting, and a 6 p.m. concert. Our second concert features a second Bach transcription, solo works by Chopin and Gabriel Kahane, and Juhi Bansal’s Life, Loss, and Exile, a vocal chamber piece that sets anonymous poetry by the women of Afghanistan.

July 22: 5:30 p.m. wine tasting and a 6 p.m. concert. Four sets with four incredible approaches to music. A haunting trio by young Rachmaninoff, a minimalist work by John Adams, two tangos by Piazzolla, and a jazz set performed by our Artists in Residence duo, Riley Mulherkar and Peter Dugan.

July 24: 4:30 p.m. artist exchange with Sasha Kasman Laude, 5:30 p.m. wine tasting, and a 6 p.m. concert. Celebrate pianoSonoma’s special anniversary season with our final concert, featuring Ravel’s La Valse, music by Brahms, Shchedrin, the second of our two world premieres by Peter Dugan, Piazzolla, and more from Riley and Peter.