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The Sunset Center is a community gathering place, where citizens of the region meet to enjoy the full spectrum of performing arts, view visual-arts exhibits, exchange ideas, learn, and attend organization meetings and educational events. The Center is also home to some of the region’s leading performing-arts organizations, visual and arts service organizations, and volunteer groups.

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    Sunset Center

    San Carlos and 9th
    Carmel by the Sea, CA 93921

    Phone: 831-620-2040   |   Fax: 831-624-0147   |   Email   |   Official Website

    Admission:

    Various prices for various performances. Please call for details.

    Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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  • Parking Info

    2 parking lots.

  • Accessibility Services

    There is no accessibility service information available at this time.

  • • Current Events

      There are no current events at this time.

  • • Upcoming Events

      06/09/12	The Mystical Arts of Tibet Sunset Center The Mystical Arts of Tibet Presented by Sunset Center at Sunset Center June 9, 2012 In recent years, The Mystical Arts of Tibet, featuring the famed multiphonic singers of Drepung Loseling monastery, have taken the world by storm. Robed in magnificent costumes and playing traditional Tibetan instruments — from 10-foot long dung-chen horns to gyaling trumpets — the Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dances that are believed to generate energies conducive to world healing. The group is endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a...
      06/17/12	Run in the Name of Love Sunset Center Run in the Name of Love Presented by Sunset Center at Sunset Center June 17, 2012 Welcome to Run in the Name of Love, a unique event offering runners and walkers the opportunity to honor or to pay tribute to an individual who is/was a very special person in their lives. Participants will enjoy the charm of the area, historic sites, the natural beauty of the course (including views of sandy white beaches, the dramatic Pacific Ocean, Point Lobos, and Pebble Beach), and a memorable finish line celebration. It’s on Father’s Day! ...
      10/19/12- 10/21/12	Concert 1 - Delicacy Sunset Center Concert 1 - Delicacy Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center October 19-October 21, 2012 John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. O’Conor’s protégé, Heidi Hau, winner of the 1998 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, delivers an ebullient performance of Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11. Mozart’s Double Concerto is like listening to three classical...
      11/16/12- 11/18/12	Concert 2 - Power Sunset Center Concert 2 - Power Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
      11/16/12- 11/18/12	Concert 2 - Power Sunset Center Concert 2 - Power Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
      01/25/13- 01/27/13	Concert 3 - Introspection Sunset Center Concert 3 - Introspection Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center January 25-January 27, 2013 In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts this all-strings program—reflective and authentic of his native Spain, the noble concert halls of Vienna and the satisfaction of Bohemian life as conveyed in Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings. In her Monterey Symphony debut, Bulgarian born Anna Petrova performs...
      02/23/13- 02/24/13	Recital - Anticipation Sunset Center Recital - Anticipation Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center February 23-February 24, 2013 A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. In all its magnificence, the Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway sits centerstage and alone in this feature performance with Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun. One of classical music’s fast rising stars, De Solaun wowed audiences with his Monterey Symphony debut (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3) in January 2011....
      03/22/13- 03/24/13	Concert 4 - Revolution Sunset Center Concert 4 - Revolution Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center March 22-March 24, 2013 Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three Old Dance Airs (1928/29), a perfect introduction to two works by early-Romantic masters on the cusp of revolution. Jean Louis Steuerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a display of technical and compositional bravado which showcases Beethoven’s own pianistic talents. Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, steeped in the past of...
      04/19/13- 04/21/13	Concert 5 - Merriment Sunset Center Concert 5 - Merriment Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center April 19-April 21, 2013 Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. Satie’s Gymnopédies shine serenely like the morning sun off a summer lake. French pianist, Philippe Bianconi performs Ravel’s Concerto in G, jazz inspired with one of the most beautiful middle movements of any concerto, and Fauré’s elegant Ballade. The orchestra...
      05/17/13- 05/19/13	Concert 6 - Ecstasy Sunset Center Concert 6 - Ecstasy Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center May 17-May 19, 2013 Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A...

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  • Upcoming Events

    06/09/12	The Mystical Arts of Tibet Sunset Center The Mystical Arts of Tibet Presented by Sunset Center at Sunset Center June 9, 2012 In recent years, The Mystical Arts of Tibet, featuring the famed multiphonic singers of Drepung Loseling monastery, have taken the world by storm. Robed in magnificent costumes and playing traditional Tibetan instruments — from 10-foot long dung-chen horns to gyaling trumpets — the Loseling monks perform ancient temple music and dances that are believed to generate energies conducive to world healing. The group is endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a...
    06/17/12	Run in the Name of Love Sunset Center Run in the Name of Love Presented by Sunset Center at Sunset Center June 17, 2012 Welcome to Run in the Name of Love, a unique event offering runners and walkers the opportunity to honor or to pay tribute to an individual who is/was a very special person in their lives. Participants will enjoy the charm of the area, historic sites, the natural beauty of the course (including views of sandy white beaches, the dramatic Pacific Ocean, Point Lobos, and Pebble Beach), and a memorable finish line celebration. It’s on Father’s Day! ...
    10/19/12- 10/21/12	Concert 1 - Delicacy Sunset Center Concert 1 - Delicacy Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center October 19-October 21, 2012 John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. O’Conor’s protégé, Heidi Hau, winner of the 1998 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, delivers an ebullient performance of Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11. Mozart’s Double Concerto is like listening to three classical...
    11/16/12- 11/18/12	Concert 2 - Power Sunset Center Concert 2 - Power Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
    11/16/12- 11/18/12	Concert 2 - Power Sunset Center Concert 2 - Power Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
    01/25/13- 01/27/13	Concert 3 - Introspection Sunset Center Concert 3 - Introspection Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center January 25-January 27, 2013 In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts this all-strings program—reflective and authentic of his native Spain, the noble concert halls of Vienna and the satisfaction of Bohemian life as conveyed in Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings. In her Monterey Symphony debut, Bulgarian born Anna Petrova performs...
    02/23/13- 02/24/13	Recital - Anticipation Sunset Center Recital - Anticipation Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center February 23-February 24, 2013 A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. In all its magnificence, the Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway sits centerstage and alone in this feature performance with Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun. One of classical music’s fast rising stars, De Solaun wowed audiences with his Monterey Symphony debut (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3) in January 2011....
    03/22/13- 03/24/13	Concert 4 - Revolution Sunset Center Concert 4 - Revolution Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center March 22-March 24, 2013 Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three Old Dance Airs (1928/29), a perfect introduction to two works by early-Romantic masters on the cusp of revolution. Jean Louis Steuerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a display of technical and compositional bravado which showcases Beethoven’s own pianistic talents. Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, steeped in the past of...
    04/19/13- 04/21/13	Concert 5 - Merriment Sunset Center Concert 5 - Merriment Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center April 19-April 21, 2013 Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. Satie’s Gymnopédies shine serenely like the morning sun off a summer lake. French pianist, Philippe Bianconi performs Ravel’s Concerto in G, jazz inspired with one of the most beautiful middle movements of any concerto, and Fauré’s elegant Ballade. The orchestra...
    05/17/13- 05/19/13	Concert 6 - Ecstasy Sunset Center Concert 6 - Ecstasy Presented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center May 17-May 19, 2013 Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A...

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    05/12/12- 05/13/12	Golden Anniversary Celebration Sunset Center
    05/11/12	An Evening with Shirley MacLaine Sunset Center
    04/28/12	1964...The Tribute Sunset Center
    04/26/12	Mariachi Sol de Mexico Sunset Center
    04/25/12	Te Amo Argentina Sunset Center
    04/21/12- 04/23/12	From Fertile Ground Sunset Center
    04/14/12	Deadalus Quartet to premiere Joan Tower's 'White Water' a Sunset Center
    04/12/12	The Taj Mahal Trio Sunset Center
    04/07/12	Harlem Gospel Choir Sunset Center
    03/31/12	Selected Shorts Sunset Center
    03/24/12- 03/26/12	Sunrise in Scotland Sunset Center
    03/23/12	Eroica Piano Trio Sunset Center
    03/15/12	Forbidden Broadway Sunset Center
    03/09/12	Danu Sunset Center
    02/25/12	Concertos on Concert 2 Sunset Center
    02/18/12- 02/20/12	2002 Arabian Nights Sunset Center
    02/10/12	Joan Rivers Sunset Center
    02/02/12	Preservation Hall Jazz Band Sunset Center
    01/21/12- 01/23/12	The Rhine & Iberia Sunset Center
    01/20/12	The Peking Acrobats Sunset Center
    01/14/12	The Kingston Trio Sunset Center
    12/16/11	Paula Poundstone Sunset Center
    12/09/11- 12/11/11	Nutcracker ~ Dance Kids of Monterey County Sunset Center
    12/02/11- 12/03/11	Smuin Ballet's Holiday Program Sunset Center
    11/19/11- 11/21/11	George2 + Bragado2 = Sunset Center
    11/18/11	Pink Martini Sunset Center
    11/15/11	David Sedaris Sunset Center
    11/10/11	MOMIX: BOTANICA Sunset Center
    11/05/11	Youth Music Monterey County presents: “Delightful Dances” Sunset Center
    10/25/11	The Miles Davis Experience Sunset Center
    10/22/11	The Pink Floyd Experience Sunset Center
    10/22/11- 10/24/11	Lisztomania Sunset Center
    10/20/11	Howie Mandel Sunset Center
    10/07/11	Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Sunset Center
    09/29/11	The Bacon Brothers Sunset Center
    09/09/11	An Evening with Chris Botti Sunset Center
    09/09/11	The Temptations Sunset Center
    07/24/11	Next Generation performing at Bach Festival Sunset Center
    07/16/11- 07/30/11	2011 Carmel Bach Festival Sunset Center
    06/24/11- 06/26/11	AKASHA METAPHYSICAL FILM FESTIVAL Sunset Center
    06/19/11	Run in the name of Love Sunset Center
    04/08/11	Cheryl Kampe's Artwork Sunset Center
    03/27/11	Spring To It! Sunset Center
    03/26/11	Ain't Misbahavin Sunset Center
    03/19/11	Monterey Bay Film Society Presents: "Carmel by the Sea" Premiere Sunset Center
    02/27/11	Janina Fialkowska, piano and The Chamber Players of Canada Sunset Center
    02/26/11	Youth Music Monterey presents: Sunset Center
    01/16/11	Lynn Harrell, cello, and Jon Kimura Parker, piano concert Sunset Center
    12/10/10- 12/12/10	Nutcracker Sunset Center
    10/31/10	"Classical Creepies!" Halloween Concert Sunset Center
    10/13/10	The Manhattan Transfer Sunset Center
    09/10/10	Jonny Lang Sunset Center
    08/18/10	Michael Bolton Sunset Center
    08/14/10	WORKSHOP ON SETTING AND MAINTAINING BOUNDARIES AND ENHANCING YOUR SELF ESTEEM Sunset Center
    08/07/10	Big Brother & the Holding Company and Country Joe McDonald Sunset Center
    06/02/10- 06/30/10	Sunset to Sunrise Sunset Center
    04/05/10- 04/25/10	Marjorie Evans Gallery: Dante Rondo Sunset Center
    03/12/10- 04/04/10	Marjorie Evans Gallery Sunset Center