Private salons
Host a Surround Sound private salon in your home or business. Our salons are built around music, art, and storytelling to create a memorable experience.
Hospitality Partnerships
For the hospitality business that values art and artists. Distinctive programming that gives your guests something to experience, talk about, and remember.
Every Surround Sound experience is thoughtfully composed.
Whether preparing a private salon for your home, business, or nonprofit, or partnering to build distinctive programming for your hospitality business, we design with intention.
Our programs feature classical music and wine pairings. Our explorations of music and wine are intended to inspire, to connect, and to help us pay attention.
Each program is unique, but consistently draws on music, storytelling, conversation, and place.
MUSIC
Music anchors our curiosity and approach. Programs are designed to feature live performances of classical music.
Shared listening is how we learn to pay attention.
STORY
Context changes perception. As we explore music, art, wine, history, and culture, we seek to understand where these come from, what shaped them, and what they can say to us today.
Here our attention shifts.
CONVERSATION
PLACE
Place matters. We love exploring where things come from and how they came to be. And yet we anchor in where we are today. The place becomes part of the experience.
Our attention comes to rest: on who and where we are, who we are with, and the beauty of a particular moment in time and space.
Private Salons
Surround Sound's private salons extend the rich tradition of dialogue and art with an emphasis on how we pay attention: how we listen, how we taste, how we connect.
We create thoughtful pairings of music and wine that explore place, cultural traditions, and the sensory language they share.
Our recent Germany program featured music by J.S. Bach, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann alongside two very different Rieslings and a Spätburgunder (pinot noir).
In addition to listening and tasting, we explored how concepts of structure and transformation permeate German music and wine.
"Having never done anything like this, I really enjoyed having the chance to experience this combination.
I've never had much chance to critically listen to music, let alone classical, but there is power in these pairings which you executed so well!"
- Michael
What to expect at a private salon
90
minutes
A full program typically runs 90 minutes.
12-24 guests
To cultivate an intimate atmosphere, Surround Sound programs work best with 12-24 guests.
3-4 pairings
A typical event unfolds across three or four pairings of live music and wine.
Hospitality Partnerships
Our hospitality partnerships are designed to help businesses stand out with distinctive programming. We collaborate with you to design salon-style events that honor the intimacy of the salon concert tradition in third spaces.
Our partnership with YORK in Ann Arbor began with an evening program featuring four pairings of wine and music. Four selections representing the diverse terroirs of the Loire Valley accompanied live piano performances of music from France by Rameau, Debussy, and Chopin.
Surround Sound provided creative direction, designing an overall program architecture based on YORK's wine program, and selecting and performing the music. YORK's wine and events teams selected the wines and provided a beautiful space.
Surround Sound and YORK presented the program together.
"For me as a wine and classical novice, the combination was educational, helpful and aroused my interest in both."
- Steve
How it works
1 / Discovery
A brief meeting or call to understand you or your business, your goals, and what excites you.
2 / (Co-)Design
We identify a theme and design the program. Design with us or let us do it for you.
3 / Delivery
You bring the occasion. We design the experience. We host a program with professional performance and thoughtful facilitation.
