Classical Music Festival San Luis Obispo

The Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo has a new name Festival Mozaic.

Crisp summer nights are ripe for hot music. Whether your taste is baroque or jazz, bring a blanket, a picnic and enjoy Central Coast wines while the sun sets before these open-air concerts begin. Families are welcome.

Check the website for this year’s schedule - past festivals have included:

Martin & Weyrich Winery, Paso Robles

Tangos & Traditions: 3 Leg Torso
Béla Balogh, violin and trumpet
Courtney Von Drehle, accordion and saxophone
Michael Papillo, double bass
Gary Irvine & Kyle MacLowry, vibraphone, marimba, xylophone and percussion

An evening of music that will transport you across the globe, from the jazz salons of Paris to the Argentinean Tango Hall to an Eastern European Jewish wedding to a Looney Tunes cartoon. This classy, classical and unclassifiable combination of music from across the world presents a Euro-Americana musical mélange that has been featured in several European films, on NPR’s All Things Considered and at the Hollywood Bowl, among other performances.

Chapel Hill, Shandon

Masters of the Baroque

Karol Bennett, soprano
Festival Brass Ensemble
Festival Period Players

Gabrieli • Canzona “La Spiritata”
Bach • Fugue No. 5 from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, (arr. W.A. Mozart, K. 405)
Bach • Aria “Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn’ ihn” BWV 1127
Vivaldi • Sonata “al Santo Sepolcro” RV 130
Vivaldi • Motetto “O qui coeli terraeque serenitas” RV 631
Gabrieli • Canzon No. 9
Three Renaissance Madrigals for Brass Quintet:
Bach • Three Contrapuncti
Handel • Royal Fireworks Music, HWV351
Gabrieli • Canzon No. 8
Gabrieli • Canzon No. 13

A stellar concert under the stars features a newly-discovered work by Bach and elegant and inspiring works for brass that will bring the picturesque hills of this special venue alive with music.

Hailed for her “sumptuous sound, wrenching poignancy, and faultless musicianship” (The New York Times), “resonant focus, glimmering tone and creamy fluidity” (The Los Angeles Times) soprano Karol Bennett has been heard worldwide in lieder, oratorio, opera, and new music. Her recording with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Scott Yoo was chosen for the “Critics’ Choices: Classical Music, 2001” by the New York Times and praised by Gramophone Magazine for its “authoritative performances.”

Castoro Cellars, Templeton

A Celtic Evening with Colcannon
Mick Bolger, vocals and percussion
Mike Fitzmaurice, guitar and acoustic bass
Rod Garnett, wooden flutes
Jean Bolger, fiddle
Brian Mullins, guitar and mandolin

The intimate outdoor courtyard of Castoro Cellars is infused with magic as this authentic Irish band playing music from the Celtic tradition delivers a distinctive, inventive, and contemporary musical style of traditional and original tunes.

Things to do San Luis Obispo

Website: Festival Mozaic

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