Violinist

Beethoven & Dvořák

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Mozart & Brahms

Mozart & Dohnányi

Bridge & Mendelssohn

Schubert & Korngold

Concert 8: “Three B’s and a Bass”

Angel Fire Baptist Church

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Concert 6: “Harmonies of the Masters”

Angel Fire Community Center

Concert 4: “Chiaroscuro: Terror to Tranquility”

United Church of Angel Fire

Concert 3: “Silent Cinema Serenade”

Shuler Theater

Concert 2: “Melodies of Elegance”

Concert 1: “Virtuosic Rhapsodies”

Kit Carson Park

Two crown jewels of the chamber music repertoire— Ravel’s hypnotic Piano Trio and Brahms’s grand Piano Quartet in A Major—share a program with Elizabeth Ogonek’s Lightenings, a stunning and complementary piece that the Festival commissioned and premiered in 2016. Pianist Ran Dank, whom The Washington Post praised for playing with “explosive force and triumphant exultation,” is featured in the Ravel and Ogonek, and Haochen Zhang, hailed for his “preternatural virtuosity” by The Boston Music Intelligencer, joins violinist Paul Huang, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Peter Stumpf for the Brahms. 

Ravel & Brahms

New Mexico Museum of Art

Dvořák & Prokofiev

This program spans three eras of classical music: the Romantic, the avant-garde, and the contemporary. Anthony Manzo, solo bassist of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra, makes his Festival debut in Dvořák’s sonorous and sunny String Quintet in G Major, and violinist Yura Lee and pianist Zoltán Fejérvári present a riveting dialogue of rhythmic complexity in Bartók’s vibrant Sonata No. 1. Dutilleux’s Les Citations weaves a rich tapestry of sound with its unusual instrumentation of harpsichord, oboe, bass, and percussion.

Bartók & Dvořák

Four longtime friends of the Festival—violinists Benny Kim, Daniel Phillips, Ida Kavafian, and Jennifer Gilbert—solo in one of the most beloved and well-known works of the classical music repertoire: Vivaldi’s sparkling, infectious, and brilliantly evocative The Four Seasons.

The Four Seasons

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Two lush, 19th-century sextets—one for strings by Brahms and one for piano and winds by Thuille—feature on this program, which opens with Moszkowski’s spirited, early-20th-century Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano.

Brahms & Thuille Sextets

The expressive splendor that Messiaen drew from his religious mysticism and devotion to nature is on full display in his epic 12-movement work From the Canyons to the Stars. In one of our most powerful musical offerings of the season, conductor Alan Gilbert leads a star-studded performance that features an ensemble of 40 musicians and four soloists: pianist Kirill Gerstein, Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr, New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman, and Metropolitan Opera Principal Percussionist Gregory Zuber. The remarkable work—inspired by the landscape of southwestern Utah—was written in celebration of the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence, and we offer it here, in celebration of our 50th season.

Violinist

Toby Appel

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 1, 2026

Young Concert Artists on Tour · Mobile Chamber Music

Past events

Aug 18, 2025

Beethoven & Dvořák · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Aug 17, 2025

Mozart & Brahms · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Piano Quartet No. 1 by Brahms

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in Serenade in C major by Dohnányi

Mobile Chamber Music

Viola in Piano Quartet No. 2 by Mozart

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C minor by Bach

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in String Quintet No. 1 by Mendelssohn

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in String Quintet in C major by Schubert

Mobile Chamber Music

Viola in Brandenburg Concerto by Bach

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in Passacaglia by

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in Hobgoblinry for Viola and Harpsichord by Bunch

Music from Angel Fire

Viola in Oboe Quartet in Ten Parts by Neikrug

Music from Angel Fire

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