Events

In this lecture, AI expert Melanie Mitchell will demystify how current-day AI works, how "intelligent" it really is, and what our expectations---and concerns---about its near-term and long-term prospects should be.

Grammy Award winners Ana María Martínez and Craig Terry perform song cycles by Rodrigo, Falla, Campos Parsi, and Turina that reveal the richness of the Spanish-language art-song tradition.

Two of today’s most electrifying classical musicians—violinist Paul Huang and pianist Zoltán Fejérvári—join the Miami String Quartet for Chausson’s lyrical and bravura Concerto in D Major on a program that also includes one of Mendelssohn’s teenaged masterpieces: the String Quartet in A Minor—a work that features several nods to Beethoven, who died only a few months before the piece was written.

Zoltán Fejérvári’s recital program features brilliant collections of short works by Brahms and Schubert—both of which were written toward the end of the composers’ lives—as well as Janáček’s From the Street Piano Sonata, a deeply moving homage that conveys Janáček’s objection to violence as a response to organized protest.

In his Festival debut, cellist Zlatomir Fung, the youngest musician to win first prize in the cello division of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, joins pianist Zoltán Fejérvári to play sonatas that Bach originally wrote for viola da gamba and keyboard and that take listeners on an expansive journey through the composer’s boundless creativity.

The Santa Fe Opera celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Pueblo Opera Program (POP) with a new documentary film, The Pueblo Opera Program: And What Could Be Next, directed by Beverly R. Singer of Santa Clara Pueblo and produced by the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council (POCC) in collaboration with the Santa Fe Opera.

This two-work program opens with Beethoven’s sophisticated and innovative Septet—an early composition that remained an inescapable hit throughout the composer’s lifetime—and it closes with Tchaikovsky’s blockbuster Piano Trio in A Minor, which, for this performance, spotlights the virtuosic talents of pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, violinist Chad Hoopes, and cellist Eric Kim.

Pianist Juho Pohjonen praised as “positively electrifying” by The Plain Dealer, marks his Festival return with a recital program that features two dramatic C-minor works of Mozart—the improvisatory Fantasia, K. 475, and more austere Sonata, K. 457—as well as Ravel’s fiendishly challenging piano suite Gaspard de la nuit, whose inspiration comes from three haunting Romantic poems.

Songs of a Wayfarer, Mahler’s heartbreaking song cycle about lost love, is at the center of this recital by multiple Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and renowned pianist Kevin Murphy.

Alan Gilbert makes his first appearance of the season playing violin in Dvořák’s String Quintet in E-flat Major, which includes an additional viola (the composer’s own instrument) and dates from Dvořák’s time in America.

The music of Lenny Kravitz sets the stage for Love Rocks, a rousing spectacle that will bring you to your feet. Founded in 1994 by Alvin Ailey alums Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, this NYC-based ensemble has toured the globe several times over, and represents one of the most recognized, diverse, inclusive and respected performing arts brands in the world.

CHRISTOPHER STARK New Work for Piano Trio (Festival Commission, World Premiere)
DVOŘÁK Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 90, Dumky
Juho Pohjonen, piano; Jessica Lee, violin; Zlatomir Fung, cello