Events

Festival season opener, featuring Beethoven's Trio in B-flat Major, Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings, Schubert's mini-cantata The Shepherd on the Rock, and the NM premiere of IF, a monodrama co-commissioned by the Festival and written and conducted by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Harbison. 5 pm pre-concert talk with composer John Harbison and Valerie Guy.

The Miami String Quartet performs two wonderfully engaging works: Haydn’s String Quartet in D Minor, known as the “Fifths” Quartet due to the descending intervals heard at the beginning of the piece, and Bruch’s String Quartet in C Minor, one of only two chamber music works he published in his lifetime.

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury, England.

The first program on the Festival’s brand-new Music at Noon Wednesdays Series includes Schubert’s Sonatina No. 1, Debussy’s Violin Sonata (his last major work), and George Crumb’s Vox balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players.

Beethoven’s concerto-like Piano Quartet, Op. 16, featuring Inon Barnatan, is the centerpiece of this rich program, which also includes Arensky’s lyrical Piano Trio in D Minor and Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen’s wind quintet Walden—described by Abrahamsen as being written “in a style of re-cycling and ‘new simplicity.’”

This thrilling and passionate season features La Emi with special guests Nevarez y Jose Encinias, acclaimed guitarist Kambiz Pakan, singer Manuel Tañe, and guest appearances by singer Vicente Griego.

Pianist Kirill Gerstein opens his solo recital with Beethoven’s Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 7, followed by two powerful politically inspired pieces: Liszt’s Funérailles, an elegy for the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and Janáček’s Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, also known as From the Street.

Pull on your cowboy boots for a two-stepping country-Western dance and concert celebrating Buckaroo Ball's 25th anniversary. Featuring "True Willie," America's most authentic Willie Nelson tribute band!

Enjoy a beautiful night at the Pueblo of Pojoaque's stunning La Mesita Ranch, with live and silent auctions, a Western-style BBQ buffet, and live music. Our 2019 Grantees are Communities in Schools, Santa Fe Public Schools Adelante, Earth Care, and Resolve.

Two works by J.S. Bach—the Trio Sonata in C Major, BWV 1037, and the Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042—and two works by Antonio Vivaldi: the Cello Sonata in E Minor, RV 40, and the Violin Concerto in E Minor (from La stravaganza), featuring the members of the Miami String Quartet.

Beethoven’s trailblazing “Archduke” Trio is a landmark in the chamber music repertoire. The program also includes Kodály’s Serenade, scored for the unusual pairing of two violins and viola, and a late-20th-century work by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin, Stonewave for Three Percussionists.

The Escher String Quartet performs Schubert’s wonderfully frenetic Quartettsatz, the first movement of an unfinished string quartet; Webern’s finely distilled Five Movements for String Quartet; and Korngold’s String Quartet No. 3, which, like his popular Violin Concerto, draws on themes from his acclaimed film scores.