Violinist

On this powerful program, eight acclaimed wind players—including Minnesota Orchestra Principal Oboe Nathan Hughes and Cleveland Orchestra Principal Horn Nathaniel Silberschlag—come together to play Mozart’s earliest masterpiece for wind ensemble, the Serenade, K.375, and violinist William Hagen leads an all-star ensemble in Brahms’s Piano Quintet, which one of the composer’s contemporaries, conductor Hermann Levi, described as “beautiful beyond words.”

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Mozart & Brahms Masterworks

New Mexico Museum of Art

Telemann’s lyrical expressiveness, Zelenka’s harmonic inventiveness, and Vivaldi’s pyrotechnics are all on display in this program of Baroque riches, which culminates with Bach’s immortal Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. The evening’s celebrated soloists include violinist William Hagen, violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, National Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassoon Sue Heineman, and Nashville Symphony Principal Trumpet William Leathers. 

Bach, Telemann & Zelenka

The world premiere of a Festival-commissioned work by composer Xinyang Wang, who draws equal inspiration from classical music and traditional Chinese arts, opens this program, which also features clarinetist Todd Levy in Academy Award–winning composer Bernard Herrmann’s quintet Souvenirs de Voyage, a cinematic journey through England, Ireland, and Italy. 

Souvenirs de Voyage

Four virtuoso soloists are featured in works by two illustrious members of the Bach family. Oboist Robert Ingliss and violinist Daniel Phillips play J. S. Bach’s lively and warm-hued Concerto for Oboe and Violin, flutist Bart Feller performs C. P. E Bach’s popular D Minor Flute Concerto, and pianist Gilles Vonsattel closes the program with J. S. Bach’s E Major Keyboard Concerto, a work that’s both lighthearted and full of challenging complexity. 

All Bach

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

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.

L. P. How

Violinist

Events

Past events

Aug 12, 2024

Mozart & Brahms Masterworks · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Aug 10, 2024

Bach, Telemann & Zelenka · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor by Bach

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Violin in 6 Sonatas by Dismas

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

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