Events

This program begins with oboist Frank Rosenwein making his Festival debut in Giovanni Benedetto Platti’s Oboe Sonata in G Minor, which also features cellist Felix Fan and harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon.

Three major 20th-century works kick off the last week of the Festival: Bartók‘s Contrasts, played by violinist Ida Kavafian, clarinetist Carol McGonnell, and pianist Soyeon Kate Lee.

A set of three presentations by leading neuroscientists who are actively engaged in researching the impact of music on the human brain.

This wonderfully wide-ranging program includes Brahms’ 1865 Horn Trio, which inspired the Ligeti trio on the previous evening’s program, as well as Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet.

For the final violin-and-piano recital of the season, Chad Hoopes and Katia Skanavi play Brahms’s Sonata in A Major, Op. 100, and Beethoven’s groundbreaking and jaw-droppingly virtuosic Kreutzer Sonata.

Two themes—flowers and waltzes, as heard in works ranging from Schumann’s Blumenstück (Flower Piece) to Ravel’s La Valse—shape this program performed by longtime Festival collaborator Kirill Gerstein.

For this one-night-only performance, Tony, Drama Desk, and John Rubinstein narrates and directs Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s World War II–set “play with music” Through Roses.

The dynamic Dover Quartet plays one of the most beloved works in the chamber music repertoire, Dvořák’s American Quartet.

Capocchi has recorded three CDs of solo and chamber music, and in Santa Fe, where he lives, he performs with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the New Mexico Performing Arts Society, the National Dance Institute, Guitar New Mexico, Opus OP, and other arts organizations.

The final Saturday evening concert of the season is a true powerhouse program that features famous soloistic works by Bach and Boccherini.

The penultimate program of the season features Festival-audience favorite William Hagen playing first violin in Mozart’s exquisite String Quintet in D Major, written a year before the composer’s death.

The Festival brings its 52nd season to a close with a deeply satisfying and sure-to-please program that features Beethoven’s Storm Quintet and Dvořák’s sweeping, orchestral-like Piano Quartet in E-flat Major.