Shepherd On The Rock

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

In this season-finale concert, violinist John Storgårds and pianist Kirill Gerstein play Janáček’s Violin Sonata, which is noted for both its urgency and lyricism, and, for the first time ever, Gerstein joins forces with the Dover Quartet for a performance of one of the standouts of the chamber music repertoire: Dvořák’s rousing Piano Quintet, Op. 81. The modal harmonies and improvisational feel of Janáček’s sonata coupled with the dumka and Bohemian dances in Dvořák’s quintet offers an invigorating taste of the folk music these two composers brought from their shared homeland and onto the international concert stage. 

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Dvořák & Janáček: Czech Icons

New Mexico Museum of Art

The Dover Quartet makes their first Festival appearance of the season playing Janáček’s moving testament to Love, Intimate Letters, and Debussy’s only string quartet, which ushered Impressionism into the genre with its exotic scales and rhythmic spontaneity. 

Dover Quartet

Widely considered the most influential quartet cycle after Beethoven’s, Bartók’s collection of six string quartets is a landmark artistic achievement. The rare opportunity offered here—to experience the full quartet cycle performed over the course of one evening—gives listeners a unique insight into Bartók’s creative development as he revolutionized the string quartet genre and moved from composing in the Late-Romantic style to pioneering modernism. The Escher String Quartet, praised by The New York Times for their “penetrating intelligence” and “gorgeous tonal sheen,” plays the six quartets in order, with two intermissions.

Escher String Quartet Plays Bartók

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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

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Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox - The '10' Tour

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Donald Runnicles makes his Festival debut conducting Mahler’s consummate fusion of song cycle and symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), performed here in its intimate chamber orchestra version. Mahler was reeling from the loss of his daughter and other crises when he wrote this deeply moving work, and the poems he set to music evoke the beauty, sadness, and transience of life. An all-star ensemble is joined by two extraordinary soloists who are also making their Festival debuts: German mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht, whose voice OperaWire has praised as “extraordinary for its beauty of tone,” and American heldentenor Clay Hilley, who was lauded by The New York Times for his “vocal heft [and] clarion sound.” 

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

International guitar sensation Łukasz Kuropaczewski is joined by violinist Danbi Um, the Verona Quartet, and double bassist Mark Tatum for a program of Italian charm and splendor. Two dazzling duo sonatas by Giuliani and Paganini are framed by two of Vivaldi’s warm and energetic guitar concertos in this tribute to the guitar’s beauty, versatility, and enduring appeal.

Italian Splendor: Vivaldi, Giuliani & Paganini

Grammy-nominated clarinetist Todd Palmer joins the Verona Quartet in Osvaldo Golijov’s celebrated quintet The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, an epic journey that invokes both the divinity of prayer and the freewheeling world of klezmer. The Verona then joins guitarist Łukasz Kuropaczewski for Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Guitar Quintet, which the composer described as a “melodious and serene work written almost in a Schubertian vein.” 

Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

The Verona Quartet—called a “powerhouse” ensemble by Classical Voice America—makes their Festival debut with a rich and wide-ranging recital program that includes the last of Mozart’s charming Milanese quartets, Britten’s delicate and ethereal Third Quartet, and Verdi’s only string quartet, which transports listeners into the world of Italian opera on a small yet potent scale. 

Verona Quartet

The Miami String Quartet plays beloved works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor is from a set that the composer dedicated to Haydn, who, after hearing the set, told Mozart’s father that his son was “the greatest composer” he’d ever known. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F Minor is his impassioned final chamber work, which he wrote following the death of his beloved sister Fanny, just months before his own death at the age of 38.

Miami String Quartet

Our 51st season begins with a thrilling program that spotlights the genius of three masters. Ligeti’s enchanting Six Bagatelles is a playful excursion through the wide range of delights only a wind quintet can offer, and Beethoven’s landmark Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 69, revels in the virtuosic demands placed on both the piano and cello, played here by Zoltán Fejérvári and, in his Festival debut, Narek Hakhnazaryan, whose performances the San Francisco Chronicle hailed as “nothing short of magnificent.” The program comes to a spectacular close with Mendelssohn’s superlative D Minor Piano Trio, which Schumann called “the master trio of our time.” 

Beethoven, Ligeti & Mendelssohn

Winners of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Isidore String Quartet embodies the excitement, dedication, and creativity of young classical musicians today. Named after Isidore Cohen of the Juilliard String Quartet, the Isidore Quartet infuses the repertory with life by approaching the established as if it were brand new and the new as if it were firmly established. Welcome these remarkable musicians for their Santa Fe concert debut, following performances at Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center!

Isidore String Quartet

Bringing our milestone 50th season to a spectacular end, the Dover Quartet, violist Ida Kavafian, and cellist Peter Stumpf play Schoenberg’s soaring tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), which takes its inspiration from a poem about the transformative power of compassion and understanding, and pianist Haochen Zhang and bassist Edgar Meyer join members of the Dover Quartet for what’s arguably the most-loved work in the chamber music repertoire: Schubert’s Trout Quintet.

Trout Quintet

Bassist Edgar Meyer—hailed by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso” in the history of his instrument—joins the Dover Quartet for his own bluegrass-, folk-, and jazz-influenced Quintet. The program also features the Dover Quartet playing Haydn’s stately Emperor Quartet (originally written for the last Holy Roman Emperor) and pianist Haochen Zhang, violinist Ida Kavafian, and cellist Peter Stumpf performing Brahms’s gorgeous Piano Trio in B Major.

Edgar Meyer Quintet

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

The Dover Quartet makes their first Festival appearance of the season playing George Walker’s String Quartet No. 1—a gripping early work by the pioneering, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer—and Schubert’s dramatic Rosamunde Quartet, whose second movement is based on a theme from Schubert’s incidental music for the play Rosamunde.

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

For the final piano-vocal recital of the season, husband-and-wife duo Jennifer Johnson Cano and Christopher Cano perform songs by 19th-century Romantic composers Bellini, Grieg, and Duparc as well as the 21st-century song cycle Nights Not Spent Alone, by leading English composer Jonathan Dove, whose text comes from poems by early-20th-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Jennifer Johnson Cano & Christopher Cano Recital

New Mexico Museum

On this single-work program, Haochen Zhang, who won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19, plays one of the pinnacles of the solo piano repertoire: Beethoven’s incredibly demanding, despairing, and exhilarating Hammerklavier Sonata.

Chamber music events in Santa Fe, NM

Shepherd On The Rock

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Postmodern Jukebox

Mahler: Das Lied von der ...

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Italian Splendor: Vivaldi...

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Golijov: The Dreams and P...

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Verona Quartet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Miami String Quartet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Beethoven, Ligeti & Mende...

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Isidore String Quartet

Performance Santa Fe

Trout Quintet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Edgar Meyer Quintet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

The Four Seasons

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Dover Quartet

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Brahms & Thuille Sextets

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Jennifer Johnson Cano & C...

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Haochen Zhang Piano Recti...

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival