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JUNE 11 - 15 2025
JUNE 11 - 15 2025
JUNE 11 - 15 2025
Sunkiss'd Mozart Summerfest 2025
Sunkiss'd Mozart Summerfest 2025
PROGRAMMING
PROGRAMMING
Highlights From Last Year
Highlights From Last Year
Featured Speakers of Canvas Series
Daixuan Ai and Alka Joshi
LEARNING
LEARNING
VENUES &
VENUES
VISION
From Artistic Director Cindy
From Artistic Director Cindy
VISION
In the process of developing this year's programming, an important lesson struck me — we must not be afraid of change, because it just might be one of the only things we can count on to happen in life.
What we rarely realize is that music and art actually thrive on change. Every moment is charged with the suspense and significance of change. So with this year's theme, "Metamorphosis," we embrace it, its process and destination.
Throughout the week, we will experience music with meditative otherworldliness, gripping storylines like a dramatic film, and festivities for gathering to celebrate the natural changes in our world.
(stay tuned for more)
In the process of developing this year's programming, an important lesson struck me — we must not be afraid of change, because it just might be one of the only things we can count on to happen in life.
What we rarely realize is that music and art actually thrive on change. Every moment is charged with the suspense and significance of change. So with this year's theme, "Metamorphosis," we embrace it, its process and destination.
Throughout the week, we will experience music with meditative otherworldliness, gripping storylines like a dramatic film, and festivities for gathering to celebrate the natural changes in our world.
(stay tuned for more)
This year's events take place in enchanting new venues, intimate settings chosen to resonate with and subtly expand each individual offering. Sure to evoke surprising and rewarding experiences, they range from an art-filled room in a vibrant cultural center in downtown Pacific Grove, to one affording dramatic views of Asilomar’s coastal majesty, to a treasure room deep in the Pebble Beach forest, and finally, a fragrant wine cellar in the hills of Corral De Tierra!
This year's events take place in enchanting new venues, intimate settings chosen to resonate with and subtly expand each individual offering. Sure to evoke surprising and rewarding experiences, they range from an art-filled room in a vibrant cultural center in downtown Pacific Grove, to one affording dramatic views of Asilomar’s coastal majesty, to a treasure room deep in the Pebble Beach forest, and finally, a fragrant wine cellar in the hills of Corral De Tierra!
This year's events take place in enchanting new venues, intimate settings chosen to resonate with and subtly expand each individual offering. Sure to evoke surprising and rewarding experiences, they range from an art-filled room in a vibrant cultural center in downtown Pacific Grove, to one affording dramatic views of Asilomar’s coastal majesty, to a treasure room deep in the Pebble Beach forest, and finally, a fragrant wine cellar in the hills of Corral De Tierra!
Festival Overview
Concerts
6/11 Aurora
6/13 Meta
6/15 Harvest
Canvas Series
6/12 "Inseparable With Transformation" with Author Alka Joshi
6/14 "Evolution Toward My Perfect Self" with Composer Daixuan Ai
+Additional Development Events
Festival Overview
Concerts
6/11 Aurora
6/13 Meta
6/15 Harvest
Canvas Series
6/12 "Inseparable With Transformation" with Author Alka Joshi
6/14 "Evolution Toward My Perfect Self" with Composer Daixuan Ai
+Additional Development Events
Venues
Asilomar Conference Grounds, the barn at Corral Wine Co., Pacific Grove Art Center, Sunkiss'd Mozart Home and the Stevenson School.
Venues
Asilomar Conference Grounds, the barn at Corral Wine Co., Pacific Grove Art Center, Sunkiss'd Mozart Home and the Stevenson School.
NEWS & UPDATES
NEWS & UPDATES
NEWS & UPDATES
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Summerfest
Summerfest
Change, Evolution and Becoming
Change, Evolution and Becoming
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
THEME
& MUSICIANS
& MUSICIANS
Metamorphosis: An experience that changes us; creations emerging from the transmutation of time, space and form take us into new worlds of fresh understanding. Through the concerts and conversations of the festival week, we travel through meditative darkness to the splendor of dawn; delve into illuminating reflections of heart, art and being; and arrive at a joyful celebration of the fruitfulness of harvest.
Metamorphosis: An experience that changes us; creations emerging from the transmutation of time, space and form take us into new worlds of fresh understanding. Through the concerts and conversations of the festival week, we travel through meditative darkness to the splendor of dawn; delve into illuminating reflections of heart, art and being; and arrive at a joyful celebration of the fruitfulness of harvest.
The fireworks of the 2025 Summerfest musicians’ performances will be stunning to behold. Adding to the power lineup of last year that includes Tanya Tomkins’ radiant sound, David Samuel’s articulate romanticism, and rising star Elena Ariza’s infectious energy, we have Sunny Yang, cellist for a decade with the renowned Kronos Quartet. With her superb versatility as a performer and educator, she helped shape some of the most important movements of music today, collaborating with leading artists and creators across a great swath of mediums and styles.
The fireworks of the 2025 Summerfest musicians’ performances will be stunning to behold. Adding to the power lineup of last year that includes Tanya Tomkins’ radiant sound, David Samuel’s articulate romanticism, and rising star Elena Ariza’s infectious energy, we have Sunny Yang, cellist for a decade with the renowned Kronos Quartet. With her superb versatility as a performer and educator, she helped shape some of the most important movements of music today, collaborating with leading artists and creators across a great swath of mediums and styles.
June 11-15, 2025
June 11-15, 2025
June 11-15, 2025
Summerfest 2025 hosts two Canvas Events inviting us inside the metamorphosis of the creative process in action. Concluding with a performance by festival artists that crowns each event’s narratives, director Cindy leads in-depth conversations with international bestselling writer Alka Joshi and composer-in-residence Daixuan Ai, sharing insights and inspirations, artist to artist. Our curiosity and imagination will be sparked by the vision and techniques revealed in these encounters.
Summerfest 2025 hosts two Canvas Events inviting us inside the metamorphosis of the creative process in action. Concluding with a performance by festival artists that crowns each event’s narratives, director Cindy leads in-depth conversations with international bestselling writer Alka Joshi and composer-in-residence Daixuan Ai, sharing insights and inspirations, artist to artist. Our curiosity and imagination will be sparked by the vision and techniques revealed in these encounters.
The Canvas Series Enriches the Mind
The Canvas Series Enriches the Mind
The Canvas Series Enriches the Mind
Click to watch highlight videos from last year including the world premiere of Kian Ravaei's Cradle Songs for Two Violins at the Sunset Magazine Idea House, and the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Sextet "Souvenir de Florence" at the Monterey Museum of Art.
A dynamic chamber music festival celebrating the land of cypresses and Pacific vistas harbors a matrix for the burgeoning of art and stories.
A dynamic chamber music festival celebrating the land of cypresses and Pacific vistas harbors a matrix for the burgeoning of art and stories.