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Bay Area violin events · Jul 31 – Aug 29, 2026 · chamber and classical symphonic coverage

JUL 31
Orchestra Violin

Stanford Summer Symphony & Chorus

Two-night Bing Concert Hall run with Smyth's The Wreckers overture, Shawn Kirchner's Heavenly Home, and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang

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JUL 31
Chamber Violin

Music@Menlo — Concert Program V: Resonance

Festival chamber program at Stent Hall with Telemann, Suk, Ludwig, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky

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AUG 2
Chamber Violin

Music@Menlo — Concert Program VI: Returning to Mozart

Festival chamber program at Spieker Center with Mahler, Shostakovich, and Mozart

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AUG 4
Chamber Violin Free

Music@Menlo — Prelude Performance: Mozart & Saint-Saëns

Free early-evening chamber set by Music@Menlo's International Program artists, with Mozart's “Dissonance” Quartet and Saint-Saëns's First Piano Trio

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AUG 5
Chamber Violin

American Bach — San Francisco Bach Festival: Intimate Bach

Toma Iliev and Elizabeth Blumenstock lead an all-Bach opening-night program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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AUG 7
Chamber Violin Free

Music@Menlo — Prelude Performance: Beethoven, Mozart, & Dohnányi

Free pre-concert chamber program by Music@Menlo's International Program artists, with Beethoven's “Kakadu” Variations, Mozart's K. 563, and Dohnányi's First Piano Quintet

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AUG 6
Chamber Violin

American Bach — San Francisco Bach Festival: Old Is New

Baroque-and-new chamber program with Purcell, Tartini, and Bach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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AUG 7
Chamber Violin

American Bach — San Francisco Bach Festival: Around the World in 80 Minutes

Elizabeth Blumenstock and colleagues lead a violin-rich Baroque tour through Baltzar, Telemann, Lully, Vivaldi, and Bach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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AUG 8
Chamber Violin

American Bach — San Francisco Bach Festival: Scintillations

Elizabeth Blumenstock and colleagues lead a concerto-rich Baroque night with Bach, Vivaldi, and Telemann at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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AUG 9
Chamber Violin

American Bach — San Francisco Bach Festival: Heav'nly Harmony

American Bach closes the festival with Telemann for four violins, Bach's Third Orchestral Suite, and Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

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Data note: Active 30-day window: July 31 – August 29, 2026. Official Stanford, Music@Menlo, American Bach, SF Symphony, SFCM, and Chamber Music San Francisco sources were rechecked for this roll-forward, with the standing summer-season goal of keeping both chamber-music and classical symphonic coverage in scope.

Window note: No current card dropped out of scope at this boundary, so the visible set still runs from July 31 through August 9 while the active 30-day window extends through August 29.

Source note: Stanford's orchestra and Department of Music pages still support the Summer Symphony's dual-date Bing Concert Hall run and published program; Music@Menlo's direct event pages still support Concert Programs V–VII plus the August 4 and August 7 Prelude Performances; American Bach's public festival page still tops out at August 9; Chamber Music San Francisco remains rolled to 2027 concerts; and the saved SF Symphony / SFCM checks did not surface a stronger addable violin listing through August 29.

Linking note: No newly added or materially updated published-program card entered scope in this pass, so no new Chrome YouTube search batch was needed.

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