Morrison Chamber Music Center: Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar and Festival

This special event incorporates concerts and a seminar for ensembles of all ages, intensive coaching, public master classes, workshops and lessons. Performers and faculty include the Alexander String Quartet, violist and violinist Toby Appel from The Juilliard School faculty, Naumberg Prize and Irving M. Klein International String Competition winning cellist David Requiro, SF State Professor and pianist Roger Woodward and mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich. The theme of this year's Menuhin Seminar and Festival is "The Old Song and Dance," exploring influences of the vocal and dance arts on instrumental music. Launched in 2003 to honor the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin's association with San Francisco and SF State, this event advances the belief that music has the power to create understanding and transcend differences between people. Free.