SFCMF 2023 Season Brochure

SANTA FE CHAMBER

MUSIC FESTIVAL

July 16–August 21, 2023

YEARS

YEARS

2023 is our 50th season!

We’ve come a long way since we featured 14 musicians in six Sunday concerts back in 1973, but the core of what we offer remains the same: great music played by great musicians in great locations.

The Festival was created to serve the people of New Mexico and to affirm the belief that music is a universal language—one that can foster community and togetherness. This summer, join us as we welcome 100 brilliant artists—longtime friends and brand-new collaborators alike—from around the world to perform in 44 unforgettable concerts that honor our past, celebrate our present, and look to our future. All of our concerts are held in two beautiful and historic venues— St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art (the site of our very first concert) and The Lensic Performing Arts Center—where the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Santa Fe’s storied architecture provide magical Land of Enchantment backdrops.

We hope you enjoy exploring all our 50th season has to offer, and we look forward to celebrating our exciting musical milestone with you this summer!

pictured left: St. Francis Auditorium; on the cover: Alan Gilbert, Festival musicians in 2019, Susan Graham

CELEBRATORY EVENTS

A centerpiece of the season is conductor Alan Gilbert (on August 13) leading more than 40 musicians in a performance of Messiaen’s From the Canyons to the Stars—a monumental work that evokes the awe-inspiring majesty of the American Southwest. The work’s soloists include one of the Festival’s longtime collaborators, pianist Kirill Gerstein

Another major musical moment is our 50th Anniversary Special Recital (on August 17), which features world-renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—hailed as “an artist to treasure” by The New York Times—beloved baritone Thomas Hampson (in his Festival debut), and acclaimed pianist Bradley Moore performing works by Berlioz, Mahler, and Mozart.

WIDE-RANGING REPERTOIRE

Our offerings span many styles and centuries—from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Ligeti’s Piano Concerto to Handel’s La Lucrezia and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night. We also have dozens of Festival favorites—like Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Schubert’s Trout Quintet, Dvořák’s American Quartet, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor—as well as lesser-known gems by Biber, Popper, Braunfels, Thuille, and others.

11 RECITALS

On our popular Music at Noon and Bach Plus series, we’re offering 11 vocal and instrumental recitals, which showcase several leading artists, such as violinist Rachel Barton Pine and pianists Inon Barnatan, Zoltán Fejérvári, Nicolas Namoradze, Juho

Pohjonen, and Haochen Zhang. Tenor Paul Appleby and pianist Laura Poe perform Schubert’s first song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin; soprano Tony Arnold and violinist Movses Pogossian join forces in György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments (one of their signature works); and soprano Ana María Martínez and pianist Craig Terry, mezzosoprano Michelle DeYoung and pianist Kevin Murphy, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano and pianist Christopher Cano render wonderfully powerful art songs.

COMMISSIONS AND PREMIERES

The Festival has a celebrated history of bringing new music to life through its championing of living composers, and this summer you can catch the world and US premieres of works we’ve commissioned from Magnus Lindberg, Ryan Chase, Christopher Stark, Charlotte Bray, and our two 2023 Young Composers Ryan Lindveit and Angela Elizabeth Slater—as well as the New Mexico premiere of a new Oboe Quartet by Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug.

AN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF ARTISTS

We’re excited to welcome back the dozens of returning artists traveling from around the country and around the world to play with us this summer, including pianist Gilles

Vonsattel; violinists Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, Paul Huang, Cho-Liang Lin, and Ida Kavafian; violist and former Festival Artistic Director Heiichiro Ohyama; cellist Kajsa

William-Olsson; bassist Edgar Meyer; New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill; Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr; and the Dover, Escher, FLUX, and Miami string quartets, to name just a few!

13 FESTIVAL DEBUTS

Pianist Katia Skanavi, violinist Chad Hoopes, violinist and violist Yura Lee, cellist Zlatomir Fung, and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Flute Chelsea Knox are among the 13 world-class artists you can catch in their first-ever Festival appearances this summer.

A 2022 performance of Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, featuring violinists John Storgårds and Paul Huang.

CONCERT HALLS

NMMA: St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.

The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St.

Programs and artists are current as of February 1, 2023, but are subject to change. For up-to-date information, visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org.

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SUNDAY, JULY 16

[S] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MONDAY, JULY 17

[M] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MOZART & SCHUMANN

Our 50th season begins with the highly anticipated return of violinist Cho-Liang Lin and the Festival debut of violist Yura Lee, both of whom join Cleveland Orchestra Principal Cellist Mark Kosower in one of the most brilliant works for string trio ever written: Mozart’s elegant and passionate Divertimento in E-flat Major, which is also Mozart’s only string trio. Pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist William Hagen, Lee, and Kosower close out the program with Schumann’s achingly Romantic Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, which was written in 1842— Schumann’s much-celebrated “year of chamber music.”

MOZART Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47

Inon Barnatan, piano; William Hagen, Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Mark Kosower, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

TUESDAY, JULY 18

[NT] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

INON BARNATAN PIANO RECITAL

Inon Barnatan—hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most admired pianists of his generation”—plays his own arrangements of Schumann’s Bachinfluenced Six Études in Canonic Form and Rachmaninoff’s final major work: the wonderfully original and deeply personal Symphonic Dances.

SCHUMANN Six Études in Canonic Form, Op. 56 (arr. Barnatan)

RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (arr. Barnatan)

Inon Barnatan, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured: Inon Barnatan Cho-Liang Lin

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

[NW] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

PAUL APPLEBY & LAURA POE RECITAL

In this single-work recital, Paul Appleby, one of the world’s most in-demand tenors, and acclaimed pianist Laura Poe perform a crown jewel of the piano-vocal repertoire: Schubert’s landmark song cycle Die schöne Müllerin

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795

Paul Appleby, tenor; Laura Poe, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

[W] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

THE RITE OF SPRING

This powerhouse program opens with pianists Gilles Vonsattel and Inon Barnatan playing two works for duo pianos—

Debussy’s En blanc et noir and Stravinsky’s own arrangement of his ballet The Rite of Spring—and it closes with Brahms’s sunny String Quintet in G Major, a work the composer intended to mark his retirement (but didn't) and that here marks the Festival return of violist and former Artistic Director Heiichiro Ohyama.

DEBUSSY En blanc et noir (In White and Black) for Two Pianos

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring for Two Pianos

BRAHMS String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111

Inon Barnatan, Gilles Vonsattel, piano; William Hagen, Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Yura Lee, Heiichiro Ohyama, viola; Mark Kosower, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour and 40 minutes

THURSDAY, JULY 20

[NTH] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

CHASE & RAVEL

Cho-Liang Lin and Mark Kosower play Ravel’s lean and animated Sonata for Violin and Cello, written in tribute to Debussy, and a new piano quintet by the celebrated and eclectic composer Ryan Chase is the first of six Festival-commissioned works to be premiered this summer.

RYAN CHASE Quintet (Festival Commission, World Premiere)

RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73

Gilles Vonsattel, piano; William Hagen, Yura Lee, Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Felix Fan, Mark Kosower, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour

POST-CONCERT TALK

Composer Ryan Chase

pictured: Paul Appleby

SATURDAY, JULY 22

[B] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

RACHEL BARTON PINE VIOLIN RECITAL

Renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine gives an all-Baroque recital featuring two of Bach’s immortal Partitas for Solo Violin and works by predecessors Westhoff and Biber that are revelations of early-Baroque virtuosity.

WESTHOFF Suite in A Major

BACH Partita in B Minor, BWV 1002

BIBER Passacaglia from Mystery Sonatas

BACH Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004

Rachel Barton Pine, violin

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured: Rachel Barton Pine

SUNDAY, JULY 23

[S] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MONDAY, JULY 24

[M] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

RAVEL & TCHAIKOVSKY

Ravel’s sparkling Introduction and Allegro opens this exuberant program, which also features Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Chad Hoopes, in his Festival debut, playing Ravel’s Sonata in G Major—a blues-inspired violin tour-de-force—with pianist Gilles

Vonsattel as well as Tchaikovsky’s roofraising string sextet Souvenir de Florence.

RAVEL Introduction and Allegro

RAVEL Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano

TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Rachel Barton Pine, William Hagen, Chad Hoopes, violin; Toby Appel, Heiichiro Ohyama, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Felix Fan, Mark Kosower, cello; Grace Browning, harp; Bart Feller, flute; Todd Levy, clarinet

Approximate length: 1 hour and 25 minutes

pictured:

Heiichiro Ohyama Chad Hoopes

TUESDAY, JULY 25

[NT] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MIAMI STRING QUARTET

The dynamic Miami String Quartet plays one of the most beloved works for string quartet, Dvořák’s American Quartet, which the composer wrote while living in the US, and another Czech delight: Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, a lively suite of international dance miniatures that span the waltz to the tango. The Miami opens the program with a work that marks Schubert’s entrée into his mature compositional years: the Quartettsatz

SCHUBERT String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703, Quartettsatz

SCHULHOFF Five Pieces for String Quartet

DVOŘÁK String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, American

Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, violin; Scott Lee, viola; Keith Robinson, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26

[NW] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ & CRAIG TERRY RECITAL

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

Program to be announced

Ana María Martínez, soprano; Craig Terry, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26

[W] 6 PM NM MUSEUM OF ART

MENDELSSOHN & CHAUSSON

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.

MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13

CHAUSSON Concerto in D Major for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano; Paul Huang, violin; Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, violin; Scott Lee, viola; Keith Robinson, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

pictured: Ana María Martínez

THURSDAY, JULY 27

[NTH] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI PIANO RECITAL

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.

BRAHMS Vier Klavierstücke (Four Piano Pieces), Op. 119

JANÁČEK Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 (From the Street, 1 October 1905)

SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstücke (Three Piano Pieces), D. 946

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

SATURDAY, JULY 29

[B] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

BACH SONATAS

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.

BACH Sonata in G Major for Cello and Piano, BWV 1027

BACH Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano, BWV 1028

BACH Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, BWV 1029

Zlatomir Fung, cello; Zoltán Fejérvári, piano

Approximate length: 55 minutes

pictured: Zoltán Fejérvári I Zlatomir Fung

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SUNDAY, JULY 30

[S] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MONDAY, JULY 31

[M] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

BEETHOVEN SEPTET

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.

BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano; Chad Hoopes, Paul Huang, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Zlatomir Fung, Eric Kim, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Todd Levy, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Jennifer Montone, horn

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

[NW] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MICHELLE DeYOUNG & KEVIN MURPHY RECITAL

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. The duo also performs Korngold’s beautiful and melancholy Songs of Farewell, which the Vienneseborn composer wrote while reeling from the losses of World War I and being separated from his future wife, as well as a newly discovered work: Five Night Songs by the Austrian-born American composer Eric Zeisl, who, like Korngold, was known for his famous film scores.

ZEISL Fünf Nachtlieder (Five Night Songs)

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

KORNGOLD Abschiedslieder (Songs of Farewell), Op. 14

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; Kevin Murphy, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1

[NT] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

JUHO POHJONEN PIANO RECITAL

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.

MOZART Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475

MOZART Sonata in C Minor, K. 457

RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit

Juho Pohjonen, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

[W] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

DVOŘÁK STRING QUINTET

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 program also spotlights another 19th-century Czech composer, the cello virtuoso David Popper—whose exquisitely tender Requiem features the unusual scoring of three cellos and a piano—and it includes the wonderfully rich (thanks to its two cellos) String Quintet in F-sharp Minor by the early-20th-century German composer Walter Braunfels.

POPPER Requiem, Op. 66

BRAUNFELS String Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 63

DVOŘÁK String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97

Juho Pohjonen, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, Alan Gilbert, L. P. How, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola; Zlatomir Fung, Joseph Johnson, Eric Kim, Kajsa William-Olsson, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3

[NTH] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

STARK & FRANCK

Cleveland Orchestra Assistant

Concertmaster Jessica Lee and pianist Juho Pohjonen play Franck’s emotional A-major Sonata—which ranges from songlike to mournful—and, along with cellist Zlatomir Fung, give the world premiere of a brandnew, Festival-commissioned trio by contemporary composer Christopher Stark, who describes his music as being “deeply rooted in the American West.”

CHRISTOPHER STARK New Work for Piano Trio (Festival Commission, World Premiere)

FRANCK Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano

Juho Pohjonen, piano; Jessica Lee, violin; Zlatomir Fung, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour

POST-CONCERT TALK

Composer Christopher Stark

pictured: Juho Pohjonen Michelle DeYoung

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

[MM] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Composers Charlotte Bray, Ryan Lindveit, and Angela Elizabeth Slater

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4

[MM] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

NEW MUSIC WITH FLUX QUARTET

The FLUX Quartet gives the US premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Festival-commissioned string quartet Ungrievable Lives, which takes its name and inspiration from an art installation by Caroline Burraway honoring the world’s 13 million child refugees. The program also features the first-ever Festival performance of Ligeti’s absorbing, Bartókinfluenced String Quartet No. 1 and the world premieres of works by Ryan Lindveit and Angela Elizabeth Slater, this year’s participants in the Festival’s annual Young Composers String Quartet Project.

LIGETI String Quartet No. 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes

RYAN LINDVEIT New Work for String Quartet (Festival Commission, World Premiere)

ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER New Work for String Quartet (Festival Commission, World Premiere)

CHARLOTTE BRAY Ungrievable Lives (Festival Co-Commission, US Premiere)

FLUX Quartet (Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Felix Fan, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

[B] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

ALL HANDEL

Three glorious works showcase the enduring and wide-ranging power of Handel’s music: the dramatic solo cantata La Lucrezia, sung by mezzosoprano Michelle DeYoung; the lovely Trio Sonata in G Major; and the Suite No. 5 in E Major, which features the charming airand-variations movement known as The Harmonious Blacksmith and is played here by New York Philharmonic harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon.

HANDEL Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430, The Harmonious Blacksmith

HANDEL Trio Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 4

HANDEL La Lucrezia (O Numi eterni), Cantata for Soprano and Continuo, HWV 145

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord; Jennifer Frautschi, Jessica Lee, violin; Joseph Johnson, cello

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured: Jennifer Frautschi I FLUX Quartet

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6

[S] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MONDAY, AUGUST 7

[M] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART LIGETI PIANO CONCERTO

Kirill Gerstein, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, joins forces with conductor Alan Gilbert and 21 Festival musicians to give the Festival’s first-ever performance of Ligeti’s magnificent Piano Concerto, a masterpiece of originality as witnessed in the composer’s treatment of rhythm, harmony, and more. The renowned pianist Juho Pohjonen joins a string quartet of musicians for Elgar’s late-Romantic Piano Quintet, known for its gorgeous second movement, and dazzling violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Jessica Lee open the program with duos by Bartók.

BARTÓK Selected Duos for Two Violins

LIGETI Piano Concerto

ELGAR Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84

Alan Gilbert, conductor; Kirill Gerstein, Juho

Pohjonen, piano; Harvey de Souza, Jennifer

Frautschi, Jennifer Gilbert, L. P. How, Jessica Lee, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Ashley Vandiver, violin; Margaret Dyer Harris, CarlaMaria

Rodrigues, Theresa Rudolph, viola; Eric Kim, Joseph Johnson, Kajsa William-Olsson, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Chelsea Knox, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Stefan Dohr, horn; William Leathers, trumpet; Jonathan Randazzo, trombone; Gregory Zuber, percussion

Approximate length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8

[NT] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART ESCHER STRING QUARTET

The popular Escher String Quartet, praised by The New York Times for their “passionate performances” and “gorgeous tonal sheen,” plays Dutilleux’s only string quartet—the exhilarating Ainsi la Nuit, whose inspiration includes another work on this program: Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4. In between those pieces, the Escher plays Haydn’s wonderfully evocative Bird Quartet.

DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night) for String Quartet

HAYDN Quartet in C Major for Strings, Op. 33, No. 3, The Bird

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Brendan Speltz, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured: Escher String Quartet I Kirill Gerstein

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9

[NW] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

TONY ARNOLD & MOVSES POGOSSIAN RECITAL

Soprano Tony Arnold and violinist Movses Pogossian partner for a signature work they’ve recorded and performed live to great acclaim: György Kurtág’s mid-’80s masterpiece Kafka Fragments, a work of staggering expressive range that draws its text from the iconic, early-20th-century author’s personal letters, notebooks, and diary entries.

GYÖRGY KURTÁG Kafka-Fragmente (Kafka Fragments), Op. 24

Tony Arnold, soprano; Movses Pogossian, violin

Approximate length: 1 hour

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9

[W] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

PRE-CONCERT TALK

Composers Magnus Lindberg and Marc Neikrug

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9

[W] 6 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

MOZART, LINDBERG & NEIKRUG

This thrilling program features two beloved works by Mozart; two premieres, including a Festival-commissioned piano-and-winds quintet by Magnus Lindberg and an oboe quartet by Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug; and performances by the Escher String Quartet, Alan Gilbert, Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr, and more.

MOZART String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, Prussian No. 2

MAGNUS LINDBERG New Work for Piano and Winds (Festival Commission, World Premiere)

MARC NEIKRUG Oboe Quartet (New Mexico Premiere)

MOZART String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516

Magnus Lindberg, piano; Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, violin; Alan Gilbert, CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Brendan Speltz, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello); Robert Ingliss, Liang Wang, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Stefan Dohr, horn

Approximate length: 2 hours

pictured: Tony Arnold

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10

[NTH] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

NICOLAS NAMORADZE PIANO RECITAL

Pianist Nicolas Namoradze, who won the Honens International Piano Competition in 2018 and made his Festival debut in 2022, returns with a rich recital program that features selections from one of Bach’s most seminal works, The Art of Fugue, and Schubert’s final piano sonata—the exquisite Sonata in B-flat Major, which Schubert wrote just months before his death at the age of 31.

BACH Selections from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080

LIGETI Selected Études

SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960

Nicolas Namoradze, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12

[B] 5 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

BACH BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 3

This all-Bach program features two brilliant, beloved works that showcase the virtuosic violin playing of Daniel Phillips— the Violin Concerto in E Major and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3—while pianist Nicolas Namoradze solos in arguably Bach’s best-known keyboard concerto: the Concerto in D Minor.

BACH Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042

BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048

BACH Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052

Nicolas Namoradze, piano; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord; Daniel Phillips, Daniel Jordan, Ashley Vandiver, violin; Margaret Dyer Harris, Theresa Rudolph, viola; Alastair Eng, Felix Fan, Joseph Johnson, cello; Mark Tatum, double bass

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured:

Daniel Phillips

Nicolas Namoradze

5 SUNDAY, AUGUST 13

[S] 6 PM LENSIC ALAN

GILBERT CONDUCTS MESSIAEN

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.

MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars)

Kirill Gerstein, piano; Stefan Dohr, horn; Daniel Druckman, xylorimba; Gregory Zuber, glockenspiel; Alan Gilbert, conductor; Jennifer Gilbert, Harvey de Souza, L. P. How, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Adam Barnett-Hart, Brendan Speltz, violin; Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Pierre Lapointe, viola; Kajsa William-Olsson, Eric Kim, Brook Speltz, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Tara Helen O’Connor, piccolo; Chelsea Knox, Rachel Blumenthal, flute; Bart Feller, alto flute; Liang Wang, Robert Ingliss, oboe; Julia DeRosa, English horn; Katherine Kohler, E-flat clarinet; Anthony McGill, Todd Levy, clarinet; Taylor Eiffert, bass clarinet; Julia Harguindey, Ted Soluri, bassoon; Lewis Kirk, contrabassoon; Leelanee Sterrett, Julia Pilant, horn; Ethan Bensdorf, trumpet in D; William Leathers, Charley Lea, trumpet; Joseph Alessi, Jonathan Randazzo, trombone; Christopher Bassett, bass trombone; Robert Klieger, Scott Ney, Joseph Ferraro, David Tolen, Gregg Koyle, percussion

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

pictured: Alan Gilbert

MONDAY, AUGUST 14

[M] 6 PM

LENSIC

BEETHOVEN & POULENC TRIOS

Poulenc’s delightful Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano and Beethoven’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano—the first of its kind—make up the first half of this program, while the second half features pianist Nicolas Namoradze in Korngold’s magnificent and virtuosic Suite for Piano Left-Hand, Two Violins, and Cello.

POULENC Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43

BEETHOVEN Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11

KORNGOLD Suite for Piano Left-Hand, Two Violins, and Cello, Op. 23

Nicolas Namoradze, Katia Skanavi, piano; Ida Kavafian, Benny Kim, violin; Joseph Johnson, Peter Stumpf, cello; Robert Ingliss, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon

Approximate length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

TUESDAY, AUGUST 15

[NT] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

HAOCHEN ZHANG PIANO RECITAL

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.

BEETHOVEN Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier

Haochen Zhang, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16

[NW] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO & CHRISTOPHER CANO RECITAL

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 late-20th-century song cycle All You Who Sleep Tonight, by leading English composer Jonathan Dove, whose text comes from poems by the Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth.

BELLINI “Vaga luna, che inargenti”

BELLINI “Malinconia, ninfa gentile”

BELLINI “Dolente immagine di Fille mia”

BELLINI “Per pietà, bell’idol mio”

GRIEG Sechs Lieder (Six Songs), Op.48

DUPARC “L’Invitation au voyage”

DUPARC “Phidylé”

DUPARC “Au pays où se fait la guerre”

JONATHAN DOVE All You Who Sleep

Tonight

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Christopher Cano, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes

pictured: Jennifer Johnson Cano

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16

[W] 6 PM

LENSIC BRAHMS & THUILLE SEXTETS

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-20thcentury Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano.

MOSZKOWSKI Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71

THUILLE Sextet for Piano and Winds in B-flat Major, Op. 6

BRAHMS String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18

Nicolas Namoradze, Katia Skanavi, piano; Jennifer Gilbert, Ida Kavafian, Benny Kim, Daniel Phillips, violin; Toby Appel, Steven Tenenbom, viola; Eric Kim, Peter Stumpf, cello; Chelsea Knox, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Leelanee Sterrett, horn

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

THURSDAY, AUGUST 17

[NTH] 12 PM

NM MUSEUM OF ART DOVER QUARTET

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

WALKER String Quartet No. 1, Lyric

SCHUBERT String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, Rosamunde

Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violin; Hezekiah Leung, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour

pictured: Anthony McGill I Dover Quartet

THURSDAY, AUGUST 17

[THU] 6 PM

LENSIC

50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL RECITAL WITH SUSAN GRAHAM, THOMAS HAMPSON & BRADLEY MOORE

Two of the world’s leading vocal talents—mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and baritone Thomas Hampson—join forces with acclaimed pianist Bradley Moore for the Festival’s very special and celebratory 50th Anniversary Recital, which features powerfully rendered works by Berlioz, Mahler, and Mozart.

Program to be announced

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Bradley Moore, piano

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19

[B] 6 PM LENSIC

THE FOUR SEASONS

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

VIVALDI The Four Seasons, Op. 8

Jennifer Gilbert, Ida Kavafian, Benny Kim, and Daniel Phillips, violin; with L. P. How, Daniel Jordan, Alejandro Valdepeñas, violin; Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Theresa Rudolph, viola; Alastair Eng, Peter Stumpf, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

Approximate length: 45 minutes

pictured:

Susan Graham I Thomas Hampson

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20

[S] 6 PM LENSIC

EDGAR MEYER 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.

HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:77, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor

EDGAR MEYER Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass

BRAHMS Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8

Haochen Zhang, piano; Ida Kavafian, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass; Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violin; Hezekiah Leung, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes

pictured: Edgar Meyer

MONDAY, AUGUST 21

[M] 6 PM LENSIC TROUT

QUINTET

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.

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4

SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, Trout

Haochen Zhang, piano; Ida Kavafian, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Edgar Meyer, double bass; Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violin; Hezekiah Leung, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

pictured: Ida Kavafian I Peter Stumpf

VOICE

Tony Arnold, soprano

Ana María Martínez, soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

Paul Appleby, tenor

Thomas Hampson, baritone*

CONDUCTOR

Alan Gilbert

PIANO

Inon Barnatan

Christopher Cano*

Zoltán Fejérvári

Kirill Gerstein

Magnus Lindberg

Bradley Moore

Kevin Murphy*

Nicolas Namoradze

Laura Poe*

Juho Pohjonen

Katia Skanavi*

Craig Terry

Gilles Vonsattel

Haochen Zhang

HARPSICHORD

Paolo Bordignon

Kathleen McIntosh

VIOLIN

Harvey de Souza

Jennifer Frautschi

Alan Gilbert

Jennifer Gilbert

William Hagen

Chad Hoopes*

L. P. How

Paul Huang

Daniel Jordan

Ida Kavafian

Benny Kim

Jessica Lee

Yura Lee*

Cho-Liang Lin

Daniel Phillips

Rachel Barton Pine

Movses Pogossian*

Alejandro Valdepeñas*

Ashley Vandiver

VIOLA

Toby Appel

Choong-Jin Chang

Alan Gilbert

Margaret Dyer Harris

L. P. How

Ida Kavafian

Yura Lee*

Heiichiro Ohyama

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt

CarlaMaria Rodrigues

Theresa Rudolph

Steven Tenenbom

CELLO

Alastair Eng

Felix Fan

Zlatomir Fung*

Joseph Johnson

Eric Kim

Mark Kosower

Peter Stumpf

Kajsa William-Olsson

DOUBLE BASS

Leigh Mesh

Edgar Meyer

Mark Tatum

HARP

Grace Browning

FLUTE

Rachel Blumenthal

Bart Feller

Chelsea Knox*

Tara Helen O’Connor

OBOE

Robert Ingliss

Liang Wang

ENGLISH HORN

Julia DeRosa

CLARINET

Katherine Kohler

Todd Levy

Anthony McGill

BASS CLARINET

Taylor Eiffert

BASSOON

Julia Harguindey

Ted Soluri

Programs and artists are current as of February 1, 2023.

CONTRABASSOON

Lewis Kirk

HORN

Stefan Dohr

Jennifer Montone

Julia Pilant

Leelanee Sterrett

TRUMPET

Ethan Bensdorf

Charley Lea

William Leathers*

TROMBONE

Joseph Alessi*

Jonathan Randazzo

BASS TROMBONE

Christopher Bassett

PERCUSSION

Daniel Druckman

Joseph Ferraro

Robert Klieger

Gregg Koyle

Scott Ney

David Tolen

Gregory Zuber

ENSEMBLES

Dover Quartet

Joel Link, violin

Bryan Lee, violin

Hezekiah Leung, viola

Camden Shaw, cello

Escher String Quartet

Adam Barnett-Hart, violin

Brendan Speltz, violin

Pierre Lapointe, viola

Brook Speltz, cello

FLUX Quartet

Tom Chiu, violin

Conrad Harris, violin

Max Mandel, viola

Felix Fan, cello

Miami String Quartet

Benny Kim, violin

Cathy Meng Robinson, violin

Scott Lee, viola

Keith Robinson, cello

*Festival debut

50th ANNIVERSARY Opening Weekend Celebration

SAVE THE DATE

Friday–Sunday | July 14–16, 2023

Friday – Special pre-season, all-Chopin concert by pianist Garrick Ohlsson

Saturday – Celebration at Bishop’s Lodge

Sunday & Monday – Season-opening concerts at St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of unrivaled chamber music concerts during our 50th Anniversary Opening Weekend Celebration. Proceeds from the weekend’s events support our summer concerts and year-round music education programs—Music in Our Schools, Strings in Our Schools, Guitar in Our Schools, the Dream Big Private Lesson Program, and Youth Concerts—which bring the joy of hands-on music-making to thousands of children and youth in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.

For more information about the Festival’s music education programs, contact Leanne DeVane, Director of Education and Outreach, at 505.983.2075, ext. 113, or ldevane@sfcmf.org. You can also visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org/education.

For more information about the Festival’s 50th Anniversary Opening Weekend Celebration, contact Cece Derringer, Director of Development, at 505.983.2075, ext. 108; 505.310.1103; or cderringer@sfcmf.org.

pictured: Garrick Ohlsson

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Artists’ Circle & Mozart Society

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Become a member of the Festival’s Artists’ Circle and enjoy exciting and exclusive benefits, including the opportunity to attend intimate, private recitals by Festival musicians throughout the year in Santa Fe’s most beautiful and historic venues and to meet and mingle with musicians at Artists’ Circle receptions

50TH ANNIVERSARY ARTISTS’ CIRCLE RECITAL DATES

Saturday, January 21, 2023: Cho-Liang Lin, violin, and Juho Pohjonen, piano

Sunday, April 23, 2023: Zoltán Fejérvári, piano

Sunday, July 23, 2023: Rachel Barton Pine, violin, and Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Friday, October 20, 2023: Jon Kimura Parker, piano

ARTISTS’ CIRCLE MEMBERSHIPP

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Platinum Recital and Dinner. The 2023

Platinum Recital and Dinner is on Friday, August 11, and features a recital by the Escher String Quartet

THE MOZART SOCIETY

For 50 years, the Festival has brought together world-class musicians to perform musical masterworks that resonate long after the final note is played. By including the Festival in your estate plans, you can be part of making that legacy live on for future generations.

The Festival established The Mozart Society to thank donors who’ve made a commitment to the organization through a bequest, and every year the Festival celebrates its Mozart Society members with a private recital. On Thursday, July 27, 2023, the Mozart Society recital features violinist Chad Hoopes and violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt.

For details on how to join the Festival’s Artists’ Circle or Mozart Society, contact Cece Derringer, Director of Development, at 505.983.2075, ext. 108; 505.310.1103; or cderringer@sfcmf.org.

pictured: Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt

THE FESTIVAL’S RADIO SERIES

If you missed a concert last season or want to hear one again, tune in to our national radio broadcasts, produced and distributed by the WFMT Radio Network and available on more than 200 affiliates. Check your local station’s schedule—if your station doesn’t carry the broadcasts, please ask them to—or visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org/radioprograms to stream performances from previous seasons.

SUMMER YOUTH CONCERT

The Festival’s free Summer Youth Concert is a great way to get children interested in music and expand the musical knowledge they already have. The concert features Festival musicians engaging children with fascinating storytelling—about composers, instruments, music, and musical styles—as well as performing repertoire drawn directly from the Festival’s regular programming. The Summer Youth Concert is a non-ticketed event.

MONDAY, JULY 24

10 AM

NM MUSEUM OF ART

DVOŘÁK AMERICAN QUARTET

Miami String Quartet

Benny Kim, violin

Cathy Meng Robinson, violin

Scott Lee, viola

Keith Robinson, cello

The Festival’s free Summer Youth Concert is generously sponsored by

The Festival's music education programs are generously sponsored by

pictured left: Cellist Keith Robinson and violist Scott Lee of the Miami String Quartet work with young musicians at a 2021 Summer Youth Concert.

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pictured:

A 2021 performance of Mozart's Horn Quintet, K. 407, by hornist Stefan Dohr, violinist Paul Huang, violists CarlaMaria Rodrigues and Brett Dean, and cellist Peter Stumpf.

Ohyama by Tsuru, Chad Hoopes by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; p. 12: Ana María Martínez by Ashkan Roayaee; p. 13: Zoltán Fejérvári by Balázs Böröcz, Zlatomir Fung by I-Jung Huang; p. 15: Juho

Pohjonen by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco, Michelle DeYoung by Michal Novak; p. 16: Jennifer Frautschi by Dario Acosta, FLUX Quartet by Iannis Delatolas; p. 17: Escher String Quartet by Anna Kariel, Kirill Gerstein by Marco Borggreve; p. 18: Tony Arnold by Claudia Hansen; p. 19: Daniel Phillips by Tara Helen O'Connor, Nicolas Namoradze by Nathan Elson; p. 20: Alan Gilbert by Peter Hundert; p. 21: Jennifer Johnson Cano by Matthu Placek; p. 22: Anthony McGill by Todd Rosenberg, Dover Quartet by Jesse Holland; p. 23: Susan Graham by Benjamin Ealovega, Thomas Hampson by Kristin Hoebermann; p. 24: Edgar Meyer by Jim McGuire; p. 25: Ida Kavafian by Cristina Cutts

Dougherty, Peter Stumpf courtesy of the artist; p. 27: Garrick Ohlsson by Dario Acosta; p. 28: Violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu and pianist Orion Weiss performing at a 2018 Artists' Circle recital by Joseph Hohlfeld; pp. 28–29: 2021 Gala and pre-Gala reception by Vlad Chaloupka; p. 29: Milena

Pajaro-van de Stadt by Roy Cox; p. 30: 2021 Youth Concert by Joseph Hohlfeld; pp. 34–35: Mozart Horn Quintet by Steven Ovitsky.

Photo Credits: Cover: Alan Gilbert by Peter Hundert, Mendelssohn Octet by Steven Ovitsky, Susan Graham by Dario Acosta; p. 2: St. Francis Auditorium (Festival photo); p. 5: Bach Concerto for Two Violins by Steven Ovitsky; p. 8: Inon Barnatan by Marco Borggreve, Cho-Liang Lin by Sophie Zhai; p. 9: Paul Appleby by JJ Geiger; p. 10: Rachel Barton Pine by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; p. 11: Heiichiro