"By concluding our evenings with many of Mozart's most moving chamber compositions," Finckel and Wu Han said in a statement, "we hope to 'return to Mozart' in a compelling way, with Mozart's eternal message of beauty and hope emerging transcendently."

Performers at the festival include violinists Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Joseph Silverstein; violist Paul Neubauer; cellist Peter Wiley; pianist Claude Frank, Jeffrey Kahane and Gilbert Kalish; flutist Carol Wincenc; and the Orion String Quartet.

The husband-and-wife team of cellist Finckel and pianist Wu Han launched Music@Menlo with a one-day event in 2002; a full-length festival followed in 2003. The two are also the artistic directors of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the founders of the ArtistLed record label; Finckel is the cellist of the Emerson String Quartet.