Tosca Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani Explore the Season For tickets and more information visit santafeopera.org or call 505-986-5900 #OpenAirOpera TOSCA Giacomo Puccini THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Richard Wagner PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE Claude Debussy RUSALKA Antonín Dvořák ORFEO Claudio Monteverdi World Premiere Orchestration Nico Muhly 8:30 pm • June 30; July 5, 8, 14, 21 8 pm • August 1, 7, 12, 19, 23, 26 MUSIC Giacomo Puccini LIBRETTO Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Tosca
Editor: Amy Hegarty; Contributors: Angelica Bernaert, Kevin Brown, Cece Derringer, Leanne DeVane, Valerie Guy, Joseph Hohlfeld, Marc Neikrug, Steven Ovitsky, Toni A. Pittman, Nancy Steedman, Emily Van Cleve; Designer: Natalie Baca; Program Advertising: Mary Meredith-Kirchner; Printer: Paper Tiger. Historical photos and text are from the Festival's archives, with a special acknowledgment of the Festival’s 20th anniversary commemorative book (editor and project coordinator Gretchen Grogan, writer and project coordinator K. C. Compton).
On the Cover
Nora Naranjo Morse
Woman. Cello. Glitter. Sound. (ca. 2022–23) Clay, wood, metal 14 ½” x 9”
From the artist: “Woman. Cello. Glitter. Sound. incorporates traditional Pueblo pottery techniques with clays mined in northern New Mexico to create a sculpture celebrating music.
“WCGS is made from Kha’p’o and micaceous clays. The micaceous clay comes from a pocket of land high in the mountains of La Madera, New Mexico, where mica flecks cover the ground. WCGS ’s form is simple, with a continuous line that creates a visual flow from the cello to the woman to the stool she sits on to play her music.
“The gathering of materials and the experimentation with concept and form were intentionally created in celebration of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 50th anniversary."
—Nora Naranjo Morse
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2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 1 Contents Welcome to Our 50th Season 5 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Trustees, Advisory Council, 8 Past Presidents, and Administration The Festival at 50 10 2023 Festival-Commissioned Works 24 and a History of Festival Commissions Young Composers String Quartet Project 34 Marc Neikrug Celebrates 25 Years as the Festival’s Artistic Director 36 The Gifford Phillips Award 2023: Steven Ovitsky 38 2023 Season Sponsors 42 2023 Festival Concerts 45 2023 Festival Artists 87 Annual Fund and Artists’ Circle Donor Benefits 110 Annual Fund: How You Make the Music Happen 111 Artists’ Circle and Annual Fund Contributors 113 Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support 119 The Endowment: Investing in the Festival’s Future 120 The Mozart Society 123 Save the Date: 2024 Opening Weekend Gala 124 Education and Outreach 126 2023 Business Partners and Community Hosts 128 2023 Festival Volunteers 129 The Festival’s 2023 Radio Broadcasts 130 Artwork on Our Stage 131 Patron Information 132 2024 Season Preview 134 Photo Credits 135
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Welcome to Our 50th Season
Dear Friends of the Festival,
We’re thrilled to have you join us this summer, as we mark a very special time in our history: our 50th anniversary season. Over the course of six weeks—when we present more than 40 concerts and 100-plus artists—and throughout the pages of this program book, we showcase everything that makes the Festival extraordinary—yesterday, today, and always.
The Festival draws inspiration from its namesake hometown, which is famously and affectionately known as the City Different. And things are different here, both in Santa Fe and at the Festival.
From our very first concert in 1973, we’ve made our primary home in the Pueblo Revival–style St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, which dates to 1917, and artists and audiences alike—who come from around the city, state, country, and world—experience our concerts amid the splendor of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the abundance of multicultural offerings that make Santa Fe unique.
Our unrivaled programming is thoughtful and innovative. It makes an indelible impression on our audience, casting an enchantment of its own through an exciting combination of wide-ranging repertoire performed by the world's finest chamber musicians.
But at the heart of our success and singularity are our relationships—with our musicians, composers, and you, our audience and community. Many of you have supported us and shared your love of chamber music with us for years or even decades. And you’re the reason we’re here 50 years after we presented our very first concert, and you’re the reason we’ll still be here 50 years from now.
Thank you for making everything we do possible, and thank you for celebrating this momentous musical milestone with us.
We hope you enjoy our 50th anniversary season.
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Ralph P. Craviso President, Board of Trustees
Above: Festival musicians in the 1970s and '80s. For highlights and more archival photos from our first 50 years, turn to page 10.
Marc Neikrug Artistic Director Steven Ovitsky Executive Director
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Trustees, Advisory Council, Past Presidents, and Administration
Marc Neikrug, Artistic Director
Steven Ovitsky, Executive
Board of Trustees
Ralph P. Craviso
President
John Berghoff
1st Vice President
David Muck
2nd Vice President
Robert L. Clarke Treasurer
Elizabeth McGown Secretary
Benjamin Allison
Anna-Marie Baca
Brett Bachman
Barbara B. Balser
Beth Beloff
Neil Berman
Carole Brown
Elisbeth Challener
Michael Everett
David Frank
Peter B. Frank
Diane Grob
Jeremy Guiberteau, MD
Bessie Hanahan
John H. Hart
Michael Hindus
Robert Hull
Hervey Juris
Paul L. King
Ronald S. Lushing
Ellen Marder
Kenneth R. Marvel
Jay W. Oppenheimer
Barry W. Ramo, MD
Crennan M. Ray
Louisa Stude Sarofim
Herman Siegelaar
Nat Sloane
Jan Chavez Wilcynski
Director
Trustee Emerita
Jane Ann Welch
Honorary Board
Susan Graham
Hon. Senator Martin Heinrich and Julie Heinrich
Marilyn Horne
Arnold Steinhardt
Ambassador Tom Udall and Jill Cooper Udall
Pinchas Zukerman
Advisory Council
Kelley O’Neal Berman
Douglas Brown
Joan Z. Cohen
Lynn Coneway
Richard J. Cronin, MD
Patricia Marcus Curtis
Sue and Chris Fan
Donna Hankinson
Joanna Hess
Lynne Horning
Kay Duke Ingalls
Jani Leuschel
David Sontag
Jasper Welch
Cheryl Willman, MD
Leshek Zavistovski
Nancy Zeckendorf
Past Presidents
Bergère Kenney (1973–76)
Philip Naumburg (1977–78)
Nicholas Molnar (1979–80)
Owen Lopez (1981–82)
Laurel Seth (1983–84)
Philip Naumburg (1985–86)
Marsha Ard (1987–88)
Stanley Davis (1989–90)
Edward B. Kaufmann, PhD (1991)
Gifford Phillips (1992)
Dode Kenney and Gifford Phillips, Co-chairs (1993–94)
James P. Cohen and Jill Z. Cooper, Co-chairs (1995–96)
Wood “Mike” Arnold (1997)
Jane Ann Welch (1998–99)
L. Donald Tashjian, MD (2000–01)
Thomas F. O’Toole (2002)
Quarrier B. Cook (2003–04)
Carole Brown (2005–07)
Toni Zavistovski (2008–10)
Douglas M. Brown (2011–12)
Kenneth R. Marvel (2013–15)
Arnold Tenenbaum (2016–18)
Michael Everett (2019–22)
Year-round Staff
Angelica Bernaert Operations and Production Manager and Archivist
Cece Derringer Director of Development
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Leanne DeVane
Director of Education and Outreach
Valerie Guy
Director of Artistic Administration
Amy Hegarty Director of Publications
Joseph Hohlfeld Development Operations Director
Toni A. Pittman Director of Ticketing and Patron Services
Nancy Steedman CFO/Controller
Part-time Staff
Jamie Kim Dream Big Private Lesson Program Coordinator
Edna Reyes-Wilson Volunteer Services Manager
Edgard Rivera Guitar in Our Schools Instructor
Janine Sammeth
Music in Our Schools Curriculum Writer and Workshop Presenter
Hilary Schacht Strings in Our Schools Instructor
Seasonal Staff
Bernard Alexander Piano Technician
Eric Bromberger
Program Annotator
Wouter Feldbusch Production Specialist
Therra Gwyn Jaramillo House Manager
Cora Large Development and Special Events Intern
Patricia Morrison
Artistic Administration Intern
G. Nicholas Quintero Production Associate
Jennifer Rhodes
Titles and Translations
Matthew Snyder
Recording Engineer and Videographer
Kent Williamson Page Turner
Professional Partners
Natalie Baca
Design
Kevin Brown Design
Alexis Hilty Design
Sweibel Arts
Marketing
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SCAN ME
THE SIX-WEEK SUMMER CELEBRATION HAS GROWN AND EVOLVED OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY, BUT EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT ITS CORE.
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Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug (at the piano) and violinist Pinchas Zukerman rehearsing ca. 2000
Vibrations in the Air
THE HUSBAND-AND-WIFE DUO of pianist Alicia Schachter-Rich and music and film producer Sheldon Rich were visiting Santa Fe from New York City when they got the idea to create an international chamber music festival in the high-desert city famously nicknamed the City Different, which they’d become enchanted with.
“We went to Santa Fe on our vacation in 1972,” Rich told The New York Times in 1979. “There were many well-known painters, writers and photographers. I asked them what there was besides their particular work … [and] asked how they’d react to a few concerts. They responded positively, and one person connected with the National Endowment for the Arts decided the idea was great. That led, as we hoped, to a grant. There was a groundswell of enthusiasm. Directors of the [Santa Fe Opera] gave us a lot of advice and suggestions. The local St. John’s College promised to lend us chairs and pianos. Georgia O’Keeffe, who has become one of the festival’s best friends, let us use her art for posters. In 1973, our first year, we gave six concerts.”
Those six concerts were held in St. Francis Auditorium, today’s primary home for Festival concerts, and there were additional performances in other New Mexico and Arizona communities. The Festival grew steadily every year, and, in 1984, Rich told The Christian Science Monitor: “The idea caught on like wildfire. Everyone wanted this chamber music.’’
Today—50 years after the first Festival concerts were performed in the summer of 1973—everyone still wants this chamber music. And the Festival’s current leadership believes people will want it 50 years from now, too.
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, two things about the Festival were clear: It would feature the highest-quality artistry, and it would be an integral part of the local community.
In its first program book, the Festival paid homage to two extraordinary but very different artists: cellist Pablo Casals (1876–1973), whom Schachter-Rich had studied chamber music with in Switzerland, and painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), who was one of New Mexico’s most famous residents. The program book opened by noting that Casals, who was also a composer and conductor, was the Festival’s honorary president. In a mission statement of sorts, the Festival said:
In the David Aubrey–directed documentary Vibrations in the Air—which the Festival commissioned in honor of its 50th anniversary and is available on our website, SantaFeChamberMusic.org—Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug and several of the Festival’s longtime collaborators share their thoughts on what makes the Festival so special.
“[The Festival has] one of the most sophisticated audiences anywhere in the world. The musicians that come—and they’re global, they’re superstars— all remark about this audience. And I want to find a way where [the] audience is always comfortable having something they’re familiar with and, at the same time, open to the expanse of what this music is.”
—MARC NEIKRUG, PIANIST, COMPOSER, FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
“It is quite magical to come here to make music, being surrounded and inspired and nourished.”
—KIRILL
GERSTEIN, PIANO
“The amount of repertoire that’s covered in the length of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is extraordinary.”
—TODD
LEVY, CLARINET
“The repertoire is very adventurous here, so this is not only sort of the international standard fare; [it’s also] things that truly deviate from the standard fare [and] need to be heard.”
—KIRILL
GERSTEIN
“[In Santa Fe,] you have this enormity of space above you, but [there’s also] this beautiful earth and there’s the smell of juniper in the air. Then you put a chamber music festival in this beautiful place with world-class chamber music musicians playing together, [and] you get incredible creativity.”
—TARA
HELEN O’CONNOR, FLUTE
“It became known that only the best people play here, that they love it, that the audience is magnificent, and everything surrounding it is beautiful.”
—MARC
NEIKRUG
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The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, inspired by the example of Maestro Casals, is designed to serve the people of New Mexico.
It is an affirmation of Maestro Casals’ belief that music is an international language that can be understood by all people and a heritage that belongs to all people.
In dedicating the Inaugural Concert to Maestro Casals, we remind ourselves of our commitment to those ideals which he has served throughout his life—peace and brotherhood—and to follow the example of a man who, in the words of Thomas Mann, “is one of those artists who comes to the rescue of humanity’s honor.”
With regard to O’Keeffe, the Festival acknowledged the striking image that adorned that first program book, writing: “Miss Georgia O’Keeffe, in allowing reproduction of her painting Music—Pink and Blue No. 1 [1918] on the cover of the announcement brochure and this program, has added great beauty to the Festival. We gratefully acknowledge Georgia O’Keeffe’s generous contribution.”
The bar for excellence, it had been made abundantly clear, was set very high for the Festival from day one,
and over the course of the past half century, that bar has remained in its elevated position. As you’ll see over the next several pages of this 2023 program book—where we present highlights of our first 50 years—the Festival, which, in 1997, The New York Times called a “phenomenon in the high desert,” has maintained and exceeded the founders’ initial expectations in new and exciting ways.
“I am very pleased at the position of the Festival today,” says composer and pianist Marc Neikrug, who’s served as the Festival’s Artistic Director since 1998. “It is exemplary in its insistence on presenting concerts of the highest artistic quality and programming that is uncompromising in its exploration of iconic masterpieces as well as neglected works from the past and a substantial presentation of the music of our time. Santa Fe,” he adds, “is a cultural and spiritual mecca unequaled in our country, and that’s mirrored in the experiences that the Festival provides.”
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■ The Festival at 50 continued
Top: Festival founders Alicia Schachter-Rich and Sheldon Rich Right: Cellist Pablo Casals, honorary president of the Festival’s first season Far right: The Festival’s first program-book cover, featuring Georgia O’Keeffe’s Music—Pink and Blue No. 1 (1918) Collection Barney A. Ebsworth © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Collection Barney A. Ebsworth.
50 Years!
Over the course of the next few pages, we’re sharing illustrated highlights—taken directly from our archives— that showcase the evolution of the Festival throughout its first half century.
1972
Pianist Alicia Schachter-Rich (1935–2012) and producer Sheldon Rich (1932–2020) establish the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
1973
The Festival presents its first season from June 24 through July 29. Six Sunday concerts are held in St. Francis Auditorium in the Museum of Fine Arts (now known as the New Mexico Museum of Art), and seven additional concerts are held outside Santa Fe in communities such as Albuquerque, Chimayó, Los Alamos, and Window Rock, Arizona.
Schachter-Rich is the Festival’s first artistic director, a position she holds through 1991. Bergère Kenney is the Festival’s president, Rich is the Festival’s vice president and project director, and Rich and SchachterRich are board members.
The inaugural concert—which opens with Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 493—is dedicated to legendary cellist Pablo Casals, who serves as the Festival’s honorary president. Casals dies in October 1973, at age 96, three months after the conclusion of the Festival’s first season.
“Something that sets the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival apart is its fearlessness in its programming. There’s a real courage here in putting on things that challenge the audience [and] musicians, and there’s a real sense of palpable excitement and a sense of risk-taking.”
—GILLES VONSATTEL, PIANO
“Marc is a full musician, and he’s, of course, a wonderful, important, distinguished composer, but [he’s also] an important pianist who has performed for many, many years on all the greatest world stages. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of the chamber music repertoire, and it’s really about trust. He makes combinations that are daring and unexpected, and he presents new music. It’s one thing to believe in contemporary music. It’s another thing to actually be one of the important producers of music.”
—ALAN GILBERT, CONDUCTOR, VIOLINIST, VIOLIST
“Marc has an incredible knowledge of repertoire, [and] he’s also a great cook. He approaches the programs very much like he approaches cooking. It’s about getting the ingredients right. He [also has] a wonderful feel for where to place new pieces so that they speak to audiences [and] sing with the other pieces that are on the program. They’re thought-provoking [and] great combinations of pieces. That’s always just a pleasure to behold.”
—BRETT DEAN, COMPOSER AND VIOLIST
“[One] of the reasons this is one of my favorite festivals to play in [is] because [Marc] knows how to match people; he knows how to match repertoire. That’s an art form to be able to do that, and that’s what this festival brings.”
—ERIC KIM, CELLO
“This was just so wonderful to arrive here and know that I get to play with friends who I’ve known for years.”
—LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, VIOLIN
“[The Festival] is music-making for all the right reasons.”
—ALAN
GILBERT
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Vibrations
in the Air continued
Above: Pianist Alfred Brendel, inaugural season, 1973
The season’s 14 artists include such luminaries as Schachter-Rich, pianist Alfred Brendel, cellist Claus Adam, and mezzo-soprano Jean Kraft.
New Mexico resident Georgia O’Keeffe loans one of her iconic paintings— Music—Pink and Blue No. 1 (1918)—to the Festival for use on its first program-book cover, establishing a tradition that endures for the Festival’s first 20 seasons (and for six years after O’Keeffe’s death, in 1986, at age 98).
Throughout the early years of the Festival, musicians give private performances for O’Keeffe at various locations.
The Festival offers free open rehearsals in locations around Santa Fe and in Albuquerque.
1974
In addition to its six Sunday-evening concerts in St. Francis Auditorium, the Festival adds three Tuesday night recitals at St. John’s College.
Festival musicians tour to Albuquerque, Gallup, Los Alamos, and Window Rock, Arizona.
1975
The Festival starts to grow financially, thanks to grants and donations from foundations, local businesses, and individuals.
The season expands to include Friday and Wednesday lecture/ performances, which include lectures by four Festival artists: pianist Alfred Brendel, violinist Mark Kaplan, violist John Graham, and cellist Claus Adam.
Festival artists give a special concert in the home of New Mexico Governor Jerry Apodaca.
The first Festival concert in the Santuario de Guadalupe is presented in cooperation with the Guadalupe Historic Foundation in honor of the church’s restoration.
Festival musicians tour to Abiquiú, Los Alamos, Portales, and Window Rock, Arizona.
With underwriting support from the Driscoll family, the Festival creates and sells its first poster, which features O’Keeffe’s painting Ladder to the Moon (1958). Posters become an important source of revenue for the Festival in its early years, and O’Keeffe’s iconic images help convey the quality of the Festival.
The Arriaga Quartet is the first ensemble to play at the Festival. The season’s opening and closing concerts are dedicated to the memory of Casals.
1976
The Festival collaborates with the Santa Fe Brass Choir and other local musicians in a special ecumenical service commemorating the 200th anniversary of the United States at St. Francis Cathedral.
Festival artists perform in an outdoor concert at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiú. Additional touring concerts are performed in Gallup, Los Alamos, Silver City, and Window Rock, Arizona.
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Left and right: Festival musicians performing for and attending a postconcert reception with O’Keeffe ca. 1980
William Schuman, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Music (in 1943), is the Festival’s first Composer-in-Residence. Schuman falls ill and is unable to travel to Santa Fe, but the Festival presents several of his works, including CaseyattheBat:ABaseballCantata(1976).
1977
The Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary. Iconic American composer Aaron Copland is the Festival’s Composer-in-Residence. He participates with musicians in a discussion-rehearsal in St. Francis Auditorium, and the Festival
“It's impossible not to be inspired. The atmosphere of the city itself, the landscape, the nature…”
—ALAN GILBERT
“The Festival is a very particular dynamic, because you come together, in many cases, never having met before, and you have a sort of short, intense time together. So you’ve got a couple of days to get to know one another and put it together, and that brings with it this immediacy, this spontaneity, particularly with the level of players that come to Santa Fe.”
—BRETT DEAN
“One thing that is very particular about how Marc brings people together is the intergenerational aspect of Santa Fe—of bringing young, up-and-coming artists together with established artists, this sense of passing of baton. … Why I’ve really loved the return visits over the years to Santa Fe is that it brought me into contact with this whole other world of just fantastic chamber music players.”
—BRETT DEAN
“I need to be here, and I need to be with these people, and I need to be in this space. It’s good for my soul, it’s good for my head, it’s good for my artistry. I feel like I grow when I play with people like this.”
—TARA HELEN O’CONNOR
presents an evening that features screenings of films he wrote music for as well as commentary from the composer, who once called the Festival “an amazing accomplishment.” The Festival also performs several other Copland works, including his Sextet for Clarinet, Piano, and String Quartet (1937).
“[Audiences are] going to walk into [our] hall and walk out an hour or two later transformed. You’ve got humans sitting on a stage, making vibrations in the air from these instruments, which have been developed over hundreds of years, which are capable of doing that in a very sophisticated way. These vibrations have the capability of communicating emotions much better than language, much more direct. It brings us to a different place in our lives.”
—MARC NEIKRUG
The Vermeer Quartet makes their Festival debut, becoming the second ensemble to perform at the Festival. 1978
To accommodate ticket demand and expand its reach, the Festival repeats its Sunday-evening programs on Monday evenings, a tradition that continues to this day.
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Vibrations in the Air continued
Top: A tour to Window Rock, Arizona, in 1976
Above: Schuman's Casey at the Bat in 1976
The Festival further expands its reach with off-season residencies in Seattle and New York City.
George Rochberg serves as Composer-in-Residence, and the Concord String Quartet plays his Quartets Nos. 4, 5, and 6, which he wrote for them and which they’d premiered earlier in the year. The Concord String Quartet joins Rochberg and pianist Alan Marks for a lecture-performance, featuring the composer’s Piano Quintet (1975), at the Santuario de Guadalupe. 1980
The Museum of Fine Arts undergoes a renovation, so the Festival uses the College of Santa Fe’s Greer Garson Theatre and the Santuario de Guadalupe for its concerts.
The Festival becomes the first American music festival to be broadcast nationwide via satellite when its New York residency at the 92nd St. Y is carried on 150 National Public Radio stations.
The Festival gives the world premiere of its first commissioned work: Composer-in-Residence and Pulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem’s The Santa Fe Songs, which is scored for baritone, violin, viola, cello, and piano and features 12 poems by Santa Fe poet Witter Bynner. Rorem had been called “the world’s best composer of art songs—a master writer for the human voice” by Time Magazine, and The New York Times called The Santa Fe Songs “a milestone of recent American composition.” For a list of every Festival-commissioned work throughout the Festival’s history, see page 27.
1981
John Harbison serves as Composer-inResidence, a position he holds again in 1991 and 2002.
Festival concerts are held at the Santuario de Guadalupe, the Capitol Rotunda, Greer Garson Theatre, and the Great Hall of St. John’s College.
1982
The Festival celebrates its 10th season and returns to its renovated and refurbished home in St. Francis Auditorium. Aaron Copland attends a Festival performance of his Piano Quartet (1950) by violinist Rose Mary Harbison, violist Geraldine Walther, cellist Carter Brey, and pianist Ursula Oppens.
The Festival inaugurates its residency in La Jolla, California, and continues its Seattle residency.
The Festival presents its first Youth Concerts.
Fort Worth Productions makes a documentary about the Festival and its impact on the chamber music scene in the United States.
A Festival recording of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello is hailed as the best chamber music release of the year by the London Times and one of the top 12 classical recordings of the year by Newsweek magazine. Artists include violinists Ani Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, and Yuuko Shiokawa; violists Heiichiro Ohyama and Walter Trampler; and cellists Timothy Eddy and Ralph Kirshbaum.
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1979
■ The Festival at 50 continued
Left and right: Aaron Copland in 1977 conducting the New Mexico Children’s Choir and during a discussion-rehearsal featuring his Sextet
1983
The Festival presents six Youth Concerts, including one at SeaWorld during the Festival’s residency in La Jolla.
1984
The Mendelssohn String Quartet makes their Festival debut as the Festival’s first-ever Quartet-in-Residence.
The Festival commissions and premieres its first piece of electronic chamber music: Composer-in-Residence Ivan Tcherepnin’s Explorations for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano, and Electronics.
1985
The Mendelssohn String Quartet performs the first work heard at the Festival by a female 20th-century American composer: Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet.
The Festival establishes its Artists’ Circle to raise funds and cover the costs of artists’ residencies.
1987
The Festival’s 15th season features its first-ever color program-book cover, which includes an image of O’Keeffe’s Black Cross, New Mexico (1929).
The Festival launches its five-year series Music of the Americas, which celebrates the vibrant musical cultures of the Western Hemisphere. The first guest artists are Astor Piazzolla and his New Tango Quintet from Argentina. The Festival presents Piazzolla and his colleagues in a national tour, including in large outdoor concerts in Miami and New York City.
The Festival presents its first staged production: Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, conducted by George Manahan and narrated by Thomas Stewart.
Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer, Dave Taylor, and Gordon Gottlieb play free concerts in Santa Fe’s Alto Park and Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza.
Tobias Picker serves as Composer-in-Residence. The Festival premieres his Festival-commissioned work New Memories, written in honor of the centennial of O’Keeffe’s birth and performed by the Mendelssohn String Quartet.
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Top: The Vermeer Quartet with Heiichiro Ohyama and Alicia Schachter-Rich in 1977
Above: Aaron Copland after a performance of his Piano Quartet in 1982
Top right: Composer George Rochberg, the Concord String Quartet, and pianist Alan Marks in the Santuario de Guadalupe in 1979
Bottom right: The Mendelssohn String Quartet in 1984
1988
The Festival presents works by Krzysztof Penderecki with the composer in attendance.
Festival co-founders Alicia Schachter-Rich and Sheldon Rich receive New Mexico’s Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Schachter-Rich receives an ASCAP award for her programming.
1989
The Festival embarks on its first springtime national tour, visiting Seattle, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco.
Bruce Adolphe serves as composer-in-residence. The Festival premieres his Festival-commissioned work Sharéhi (Dancing Stories) for Dancers and Chamber Ensemble, featuring dancers Gary Chryst (former principal dancer for the Joffrey Ballet) and Christine Spizzo Serrano. The Festival also presents Sharéhi at a Youth Concert at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum.
1990
The Festival presents a solo dance performance for the first time, with Gary Chryst performing his own choreography to two Debussy works: Syrinx with flutist Ransom Wilson and the Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano with Carter Brey and Christopher O’Riley.
The Shostakovich String Quartet makes their Festival debut as part of the Festival’s Dmitri Shostakovich Series. They also give the US premiere of Vassily Lobanov’s String Quartet No. 4.
For the first time, the Festival features two composers-inresidence: Ned Rorem and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who, in 1983, became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Edgar Meyer performs in a Youth Concert for students at the New Mexico School for the Deaf.
The Festival tours major cities throughout the year.
1991
Composer and pianist Vassily Lobanov and the Shostakovich String Quartet give the world premiere of Lobanov’s Festival-commissioned Quintet for Piano and Strings.
The Festival presents a semi-staged production of Mozart’s youthful chamber drama Bastien und Bastienne, directed by Nicholas McGegan, staged by John Conklin, and featuring soprano Janet Williams, tenor Robert White, and baritone William Parker.
1992
Soprano Jessye Norman and pianist Dan Saunders open the Festival’s 20th anniversary season with a gala-benefit recital featuring songs by Schumann, Strauss, Ravel, and Falla.
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Top left: Astor Piazzolla in 1987
Top right: Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer, and Dave Taylor in Santa Fe's Alto Park in 1987
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Above: Heiichiro Ohyama, who becomes the Festival’s second Artistic Director in 1992
Violist Heiichiro Ohyama, who made his Festival debut in 1977, becomes the Festival’s second Artistic Director, a position he holds through 1997.
Bringing a 20-season agreement to its end, the Festival features its final O’Keeffe painting on one of its program-book covers: A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills (1946). (In 2007, the Festival once again features the painting it used on its first-ever program book.)
1993
The Orion String Quartet makes their Festival debut. From 1993 through 2021, the quartet, which is retiring at the end of the 2023–24 season, appears at the Festival every season except for two.
1995
Marc Neikrug makes his Festival debut as a pianist and serves as Composer-in-Residence with Tomiko Kohjiba.
1997
The Festival launches its first in-school music education program: Music in Our Schools, which today presents in-school chamber music concerts for students in pre-K and grades K–6 at 14 schools in Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, and Pecos. The program includes Festival-run curriculum training for teachers and reaches nearly 5,000 students annually.
1998
Marc Neikrug becomes the Festival’s third Artistic Director.
Violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman— whom Neikrug performed, toured, and recorded with as a duo partner for 35 years—makes his Festival debut.
1999
Neikrug begins a tradition of featuring work by local Native American artists on the cover of the Festival’s program book, a tradition that continues to this day. The 1999 program book features the painting New Mexico Dust #2, created for the Festival by Dan Namingha, who is of Hopi-Tewa heritage.
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Top: Gary Chryst and Christine Spizzo Serrano perform at the Santa Fe Children's Museum in 1989
Above: Ned Rorem and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1990
Right: Edgar Meyer with students from the New Mexico School for the Deaf in 1990
Far right top: Soprano Jessye Norman and pianist Dan Saunders in 1992
Far right bottom: Chryst rehearsing Debussy's Syrinx in 1990
The Festival launches two series that continue to this day: Music at Noon (which begins with two Thursday concerts and one Monday concert) and A Salute to Indian Market, a free concert held in St. Francis Auditorium on the Friday during Indian Market weekend. Performers on the inaugural Indian Market concert include flutist Ronald Roybal and the Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute Ensemble.
2001
The Festival adds a new venue, The Lensic Performing Arts Center, which, along with St. Francis Auditorium, remains one of the official homes for Festival concerts.
2004
Steven Ovitsky begins his tenure as the Festival’s Executive Director. Ovitsky is set to retire in September 2023.
2006
The Festival launches a new radio series, which is still heard today. The series runs for 13 weeks annually and is produced and distributed nationally by the Chicago-based WFMT Network.
Conductor Alan Gilbert makes his Festival debut. A highlight of the season includes Gilbert conducting a production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat directed and designed by Doug Fitch and featuring Valerie Madonia, John Rubinstein, Daniel Studi, and Wes Studi as narrators. 2003
The Festival takes over the management of the music-education program Strings in Our Schools at the request of the program’s founder, Robbin Close. Today, Strings in Our Schools offers small-group violin instruction to students in grades 2–6 in four elementary schools in Santa Fe and Pecos.
2007
The Fine Arts Museum, home of St. Francis Auditorium, becomes the New Mexico Museum of Art.
2009
The Festival presents the world premiere of Chickasaw composer and pianist Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s À Bec Quintet for woodwinds, commissioned and performed by flutist R. Carlos Nakai, who is of Navajo-Ute heritage.
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2000
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Above: Conductor Alan Gilbert (see here in 2012) made his Festival debut in 2001
Top right: Violinist Benny Kim, pianist Yuja Wang, and cellist Lynn Harrell in 2010
Right: The Orion String Quartet in 1998
Festival Memories from Our Longtime Friends
BOB HILGENDORF AND LING TONG
On a windy day in 1973, I went to a Festival performance in Window Rock, Arizona, the Navajo Nation capital. It was so windy that the players, whose sheet music was blowing off the music stands, couldn’t perform! I moved to Santa Fe in 1974 and have attended 50 years of performances without interruption. I bought three-dollar rush tickets in the early years. During the last decades, Ling and I have hosted musicians and rehearsals in our home, making many friends with Festival staff and artists. We feel extremely privileged to have had these connections with the Festival.
SHARON AND LEW SIBERT
Summer, 1987. Our first Santa Fe visit. Caught in a downpour, we quickly sought shelter in the museum. Hearing music, we entered the auditorium. It was a rehearsal. We moved toward the front and took a seat. Moments later, a leaking roof gutter dumped into the auditorium, ending the rehearsal. We had to come back to see what we missed! And we’ve come back faithfully for over three decades. Every summer. The backbone of our chamber music education. Many superb
performances and memories. Thank you, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and congrats on #Fifty.
JAMES ORTH
I started coming to the Festival with family members in 1991 and have come every year since except for 2012 and 2013. I’ve met some of my best friends at the Festival, people I still cherish when we meet in Santa Fe every summer. One standout memory is an open rehearsal that took place on a rainy Friday afternoon in the mid-’90s. Pianist Christopher O’Riley was working on a piece, and he eventually played it all the way through. He was clearly in a zone, and it was a spiritual experience for me. Another unforgettable experience was my all-time favorite Festival group, the Orion String Quartet, playing Beethoven’s Op. 132 in the ’90s. Early during the Sunday concert, one of violinist Daniel Phillips’s strings broke! The performance of the same work the following night was magical—truly a transcendent experience. Ever since then, I’ve tried to attend both the Sunday and Monday concerts to see how different they might be. It’s been quite an educational experience in recognizing differences in nuance of playing.
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham serves at the Festival’s first-ever Artist-in-Residence. A highlight of her residency is a set of performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor Paul Groves and conductor David Zinman.
Yuja Wang, who made her Festival debut early in her career (in 2005, at age 18), closes out the season by performing Beethoven’s Archduke Trio alongside violinist Benny Kim and cellist Lynn Harrell.
NANCY MEEM WIRTH
My son, Peter, remembers going to his first Festival concert with my parents, John and Faith Meem, when he was 10. I was on the board for six years (1987–93). More recently, my daughter-in-law, Carol Romero Wirth, was also a board member. The family, including my grandchildren, continues to attend concerts. We consider ourselves a Festival family!
LISA M. ENFIELD
My family moved to Santa Fe from Roswell in the mid-1970s, when I was a young adolescent. One of the most remarkable aspects of that move was our introduction to live performing arts. The Festival was in its earliest years then, and my parents took every opportunity to attend, with all three children in tow. I will never forget the wonder and awe I felt attending those first live concerts. They were transporting and gave me a wondrous sense of the world far beyond New Mexico in a time before mass global communications. And yet the Festival remained grounded in New Mexico, too, as evidenced by the years’ worth of Georgia O’Keeffe Festival posters that were hung all over our home. The Festival was—and, decades later, remains —a magical and transformative experience.
As part of her turn as the Festival’s second Artist-in-Residence, soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Osvaldo Golijov’s song cycle Ayre (2004), which he wrote for her and which she recorded in 2005.
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2011
Above: The 2009 world-premiere performance of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s À Bec Quintet, commissioned by and featuring flutist R. Carlos Nakai
The Festival launches its Albuquerque Series with two evening concerts in Simms Auditorium at the Albuquerque Academy. The series grows to include more evening concerts over the years before concluding at the end of the 2018 season.
2012
The Festival celebrates its 40th season, with major events including the three-day symposium Music, the Brain, Medicine, and Wellness: A Scientific Dialogue, co-presented by the Festival, the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research.
2013
The Festival launches its annual, mentorshipbased Young Composers String Quartet Project, with the FLUX Quartet giving the world premieres of Festival-commissioned works by the three inaugural participants: composers Reena Esmail, David Hertzberg, and Elizabeth Ogonek.
2015
Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert conducts a 44-member chamber orchestra, which includes four soloists, in Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles… (From the Canyons to the Stars…)—a work he conducts again in 2023 in celebration of the Festival’s 50th anniversary. The Festival releases a live recording of the 2015 performance the following year.
Pianist Peter Serkin makes his Festival debut as Artist-in-Residence, performing repertoire that spans the 16th through the 20th centuries.
The Festival launches its Guitar in Our Schools program. Today, the program offers twice-weekly lessons to students in grades 3–6 at the Ramirez Thomas and Sweeney elementary schools in Santa Fe.
Doug Fitch returns to design and direct a new production of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat conducted by John Storgårds and narrated by Wallace Shawn.
Alan Gilbert returns to serve as Artist-in-Residence, a position he holds again in 2015 and 2018.
The members of the Guarneri Quartet reunite for a special appearance at the Festival, collaborating with other musicians (including pianist Joyce Yang for Franck’s Piano Quintet and violinists Jennifer Gilbert, Harvey de Souza, and Alan Gilbert and cellist Eric Kim for Mendelssohn’s Octet) as part of the Festival’s anniversary celebration and symposium offerings.
The Festival takes over the Dream Big Private Lesson Program, founded by Leanne DeVane at Santa Fe Public Schools. Today, Dream Big offers weekly low- and no-cost private lessons to students at two middle schools and one high school in Santa Fe.
The Festival presents an all-star lineup for its first-ever performance of Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, which features tenor Paul Appleby and Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr and is conducted by David Zinman.
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2016
2017
2019
Above: Conductor David Zinman (left), mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and tenor Paul Groves in 2010
Right: The 1999 program-book cover, featuring the painting New Mexico Dust #2, created for the Festival by Dan Namingha
Violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott perform, for the first time in the Festival’s history, the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano.
The Festival expands its Music at Noon series to include Wednesday concerts, which primarily showcase piano-vocal recitals.
The Dover Quartet and pianist Haochen Zhang bring the Festival’s 49th season to a close with a performance of Schumann’s Piano Quintet. The performance also marks the final appearance of all four founding members of the audience-favorite Dover Quartet, who made their Festival debut in 2014.
The Festival presents the New Mexico premiere of a new work by Neikrug called A Song by Mahler, which he describes as “a combination of theater and music” and features the talents of mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, baritone Kelly Markgraf, clarinetist David Shifrin, and the FLUX Quartet. The production is directed and designed by Doug Fitch.
The newly formed Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio (pianist Gloria Chien, violinist Soovin Kim, and cellist Paul Watkins) performs, for the first time in the Festival’s history, a cycle of the Beethoven Piano Trios over the course of a single season.
The Festival presents its 50th anniversary season, which features more than 40 concerts and 100-plus artists.
The Festival releases the documentary Vibrations in the Air, directed by David Aubrey, in honor of its anniversary. The film can be viewed for free on SantaFeChamberMusic.org.
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2021
Artistic Director Marc Neikrug receives New Mexico’s Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
2022
2023
Above: Violinist Ida Kavafian and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott in 2019
Top right: Hornist Stefan Dohr, conductor David Zinman, and tenor Paul Appleby in 2019
Bottom right: The 2021 New Mexico premiere of Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler, starring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano and baritone Kelly Markgraf
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Commissioned Works and a History of Festival Commissions
One of the Festival’s most distinctive features is its long, celebrated history of bringing new music to life through its championing of living composers— from the most important and influential to the most intriguing up-and-comers. Since 1980, when the Festival presented its first commissioned work—Pulitzer Prize winner Ned Rorem’s The Santa Fe Songs, scored for baritone, violin, viola, cello, and piano and featuring settings of 12 poems by Santa Fe poet Witter Bynner—the Festival has presented at least one commissioned work almost every year.
At the conclusion of its 50th season this summer, the Festival will have presented the world, US, or New Mexico premieres of 115 commissioned works, including ones by Ryan Chase, Christopher Stark, Charlotte Bray, and Magnus Lindberg. These four new works are among a total of seven that the Festival commissioned to celebrate its milestone anniversary, with ones by Kaija Saariaho, Shulamit Ran, and Detlev Glanert having been premiered during the 2022 season. This summer, the Festival also premieres commissioned works by Ryan Lindveit and
The first 2023 premiere takes place on July 20, when five musicians—pianist Gilles Vonsattel, violinists Yura Lee and William Hagen, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Felix Fan— give the world-premiere performance of the Piano Quintet by the celebrated and eclectic composer Ryan Chase, who
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Angela Elizabeth Slater, the two participants in its 2023 Young Composers String Quartet Project.
Clockwise from left: Ryan Chase, Christopher Stark, Charlotte Bray, and Magnus Lindberg
returns to the Festival after having served as one of its Young Composers in 2014.
Chase was born in Port Jefferson, New York, in 1987. His music has been described as “the stuff of memory” by Bloomington, Indiana’s The Herald-Times and a “whirlwind” and “deftly explored contrasts of mood, from bombastic to introverted” by The New York Times. Among the ensembles that have performed and recorded his works are the American Composers Orchestra, the Chelsea and Albany symphony orchestras, the Mivos and FLUX quartets, Alarm Will Sound, Contemporaneous, Collage New Music, the Society for New Music, and the Texas State University Wind Symphony. His honors include a Fromm Commission, a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, multiple awards from ASCAP and BMI, and an Emmy Award nomination. He earned degrees from the Mannes School of Music and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and he currently serves as an assistant
professor of music at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
Next, on August 3, pianist Juho Pohjonen, Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster Jessica Lee, and cellist Zlatomir Fung give the world premiere of Other Pines by Christopher Stark, who describes his music as being “deeply rooted in the American West.” Stark, who, in 2016, also served as one of the Festival’s Young Composers, was born in St. Ignatius, Montana, in 1980. He spent his formative years in rural western Montana, and, he says, his music, which has been called “fetching and colorful” by The New York Times, seeks to “capture the expansive energy of [that] quintessential American landscape." Stark has received prizes from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, ASCAP, the Fromm Music Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Barlow Endowment. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named him
Festival-Commissioned Premieres and Pre- and Post-Concert Talks
Thursday, July 20, 12 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
RYAN CHASE Piano Quintet (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Yura Lee, violin
William Hagen, violin
Toby Appel, viola
Felix Fan cello
Thursday, July 20, 1 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
Post-Concert Talk
Composer RYAN CHASE
Thursday, August 3, 12 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
CHRISTOPHER STARK Other
Pines for Piano Trio (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Jessica Lee, violin
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Thursday, August 3, 1 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
Post-Concert Talk
Composer CHRISTOPHER STARK
Friday, August 4, 5 p.m.
Women’s Board Room
New Mexico Museum of Art
Pre-Concert Talk
Composers CHARLOTTE BRAY, RYAN LINDVEIT, and ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
Friday, August 4, 6 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
CHARLOTTE BRAY Ungrievable
Lives (2022; Festival CoCommission; US Premiere)
FLUX Quartet
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Felix Fan, cello
Wednesday, August 9, 5 p.m.
Women’s Board Room
New Mexico Museum of Art
Pre-Concert Talk
Composers MAGNUS LINDBERG and MARC NEIKRUG
Wednesday, August 9, 6 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
MAGNUS LINDBERG Quintet for Piano and Winds (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Katia Skanavi, piano
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Todd Levy, clarinet
Julia Harguindey, bassoon
Stefan Dohr, horn
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a “Rising Star” in 2017, and his music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, New Morse Code, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Momenta Quartet, BIT20 Ensemble, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and No Exit New Music Ensemble. He’s held residencies at Civitella Ranieri (2012) and the Bogliasco Foundation (2020) in Italy; at Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York (2016); and in Bergen, Norway (2018). His music was performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the 2016 NY Phil Biennial (a new-music festival), and he scored the 2017 feature film Novitiate.
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The day after the premiere of Stark’s new work, on August 4, the FLUX Quartet gives the US premiere of Charlotte Bray’s Ungrievable Lives, which is the composer’s first-ever string quartet and takes its name and inspiration from an art installation by Caroline Burraway that honors the world’s 13 million child refugees. The installation features 13 dresses made from discarded life jackets worn by the refugees, and it was displayed in the foyer of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg during the premiere of Bray’s quartet in April 2022. The quartet was co-commissioned by the Festival and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as well as by Wigmore Hall and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.
Bray was born in Oxford, England, in 1982 and is today one of the most esteemed composers of her generation. Her music is known for its expressiveness, and it’s been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Aurora Orchestra, and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. It’s also been heard at such festivals as Aixen-Provence, Aldeburgh, the BBC Proms, Cheltenham, Tanglewood, and Verbier and led in performances by Marin Alsop, Karina Canellakis, Jessica Cottis, Sir Mark Elder, Daniel
Harding, and Oliver Knussen. Bray’s honors include a 2019 Ivor Novello Award, the 2014 Lili Boulanger Prize, and a 2014 Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent; she's also served as composer-in-residence for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in a partnership with Sound and Music (2009–10), the Oxford Lieder Festival (2011), and the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival (2015). Bray graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and earned a master’s in composition from the Royal College of Music in London. She also participated in the Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition Course and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center.
The last premiere of the season is on August 9, when the Festival presents the world premiere of the Quintet for Piano and Winds by Magnus Lindberg, performed by pianist Katia Skanavi, New Jersey Symphony Principal Oboe Robert Ingliss, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet Todd Levy, Nashville Symphony Principal Bassoon Julia Harguindey, and Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr.
Lindberg—whom the Festival commissioned and premiered works from in 2006, 2012, and 2018—was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1958 and has been called “one of the major voices of 21st-century composition” by The New York Times. He studied at the Sibelius Academy with acclaimed Finnish composers Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen. He also studied in Paris with avant-garde composer Vinko Globokar and spectral-music pioneer Gérard Grisey; in Siena, Italy, with modernist Franco Donatoni; and in Darmstadt with Brian Ferneyhough, a leading figure of the New Complexity movement. Lindberg, who’s also a virtuoso pianist, began earning international acclaim in the early 1980s, when he founded the Toimii Ensemble with fellow Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen and other musicians from the Sibelius Academy and premiered his experimental, large-scale works Action-Situation-Signification (1982) and Kraft (1983–85). Lindberg has served as composer-in-residence for the New York Philharmonic (2009–12), SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart (2011–12), and London Philharmonic Orchestra (2014–17), and his works are performed by the world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Chicago, San Francisco, and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras; and Ensemble intercontemporain. His honors include the Prix Italia, Nordic Council Music Prize, Koussevitzky Prize, Royal Philharmonic Society Prize, and Wihuri Sibelius Prize.
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Caroline Burraway's installation Ungrievable Lives (above) inspired Charlotte Bray's quartet.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival–Commissioned World, US, and New Mexico Premieres
For co-commissioning details, visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org.
1980
Ned Rorem, The Santa Fe Songs: 12 Poems of Witter Bynner for Baritone, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1981
John Harbison, Piano Quintet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1982
Ned Rorem, Winter Pages (Festival CoCommission; New Mexico Premiere)
Yehudi Wyner, On This Most Voluptuous Night: Five Songs for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble on texts by William Carlos Williams (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1983
Leon Kirchner, The Twilight Stood (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
1984
Ivan Tcherepnin, Explorations (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1985
Ned Rorem, Scenes from Childhood for Oboe, French Horn, String Quartet, and Piano (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1987
Tobias Picker, New Memories (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1988
Morton Subotnick, And the butterflies begin to sing (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1989
Bruce Adolphe, Sharéhi (Dancing Stories) (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Edgar Meyer, Quartet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1990
Edgar Meyer, Quintet (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Mark O’Connor, Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1991
John Harbison, Between Two Worlds (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
1986
Stephen Paulus, Letters from Colette for Soprano, String Quartet, Piano, and Percussion (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Ned Rorem, The Auden Poems (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Vassily Lobanov, Quintet for Piano and Strings (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (Festival CoCommission; New Mexico Premiere)
Morton Subotnick, All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
1992
Jacob Druckman, Come Round (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
1993
Charles Wuorinen, A Winter’s Tale (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
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1994
Richard Danielpour, Sonnets to Orpheus, Book II for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1995
Tomiko Kohjiba, The Transmigration of the Soul (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1996
Lee Hoiby, Rain Forest (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
1997
Feliu Gasull, Contra-xions (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Bright Sheng, The Silver River (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
1999
Mario Lavista, String Quartet No. 6 (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2000
Augusta Read Thomas, Invocations (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2001
Peter Lieberson, Rilke Songs (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Marc Neikrug, Petrus (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Per Nørgård, Into the Source: Quartet No. 9 for Two Violins, Viola, and Cello (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2002
Annie Gosfield, Lightheaded and Heavyhearted (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Dave Grusin, Three Latin American Dances for Violin, Cello, and Piano (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
John Harbison, Quartet No. 4 for Two Violins, Viola, and Cello (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
2003
Morton Subotnick, Release for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and ComputerGenerated and -Controlled Surround Sound (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Charles Wuorinen, Fenton Songs II (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2004
Chick Corea, String Quartet No. 1, The Adventures of Hippocrates (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Marc Neikrug, Piano Quintet (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
2005
Mark O’Connor, String Quartet No. 2, Bluegrass (Festival CoCommission; World Premiere)
Lalo Schifrin, Letters from Argentina (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
2006
Leon Kirchner, String Quartet No. 4 (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
David Lang, Work (Festival CoCommission; New Mexico Premiere)
Magnus Lindberg, Konzertstück for Cello and Piano (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Marc Neikrug, Three Wine Pieces (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2007
Marc Neikrug, Ritual for Cello, Piano, and Percussion (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
John Wyre, Quartet: Music for 16 Gongs (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2008
Huang Ruo, Real Loud: Trio for Cello, Percussion, and Piano (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Kaija Saariaho, Serenatas (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Roberto Sierra, Concierto de cámara (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Joan Tower, A Gift for Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
2009
Gunther Schuller, Quintet for Horn and Strings (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
George Tsontakis, Stimulus Package (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Mark-Anthony Turnage, Grazioso! (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
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2010
Brett Dean, Epitaphs for String Quartet (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
2012
David Del Tredici, String Quartet No. 2 (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Helen Grime, Snow and Snow for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Aaron Jay Kernis, Perpetual Chaconne (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Magnus Lindberg, Acequia Madre (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2014
Julian Anderson, String Quartet No. 2, 300 Weihnachtslieder (300 Christmas Songs) (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Brett Dean, String Quartet No. 2, And Once I Played Ophelia (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Lowell Liebermann, Four Seasons, Op. 123 (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Ryan Chase, Songs the Monsters Sang for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Tonia Ko, String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2015
Steven Stucky, Piano Quintet (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Chinary Ung, AKASA: Formless Spiral (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Cynthia Lee Wong, Piano Quartet (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
2011
Marc-André Dalbavie, Piano Quartet (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Christopher Rouse, String Quartet No. 3 (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Sean Shepherd, Quartet for Oboe and Strings (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
2013
Thierry Lancino, Falling Angels for String Quartet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Alexander Goehr, Seven Impromptus for Two Pianos, Op. 96 (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Sean Shepherd, String Quartet No. 2 (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Katherine Balch, With Each Breathing for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Reena Esmail, String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
David Hertzberg, Méditation boréale for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Elizabeth Ogonek, String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Max Grafe, The Palace of the Windowed Rocks (Tanguy Responses I) (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2016
Gideon Lewensohn, Movements and Gestures for Clarinet and String Quartet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Elizabeth Ogonek, Lightenings: A Set of Variations for Four Players (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
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Poul Ruders, Occam’s Razor (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Loren Loiacono, Waxing Cerulean for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Christopher Stark, Spring Music (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2017
Julian Anderson, Sensation for Solo Piano (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Freya Waley-Cohen, Snap Dragon for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2018
Alexander Goehr, after “The Waking,” Op. 101 (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Max Grafe, Quintet for Clarinet, Strings, and Piano (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Magnus Lindberg, Maguey de Tlalcoyote (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Binna Kim, Stacked Emotions for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Alex Stephenson, Bloom for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2021
Brett Dean, Imaginary Ballet—Dances and Interludes for Piano and String Trio (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Helen Grime, String Quartet No. 2 (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Michael Seltenreich, Sextet for Piano and Winds (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
William Bolcom, Sextet (Festival CoCommission; New Mexico Premiere)
Brett Dean, Rooms of Elsinore (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Phil Taylor, of embers and aspen leaves for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Michael Seltenreich, Stalactite and Stalagmite for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2019
Michael Gandolfi, String Quartet: Dissembling the Essential (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
John Harbison, IF, Monodrama for Soprano and Ensemble (Festival CoCommission; New Mexico Premiere)
Matthew Ricketts, Ember for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Sean Shepherd, Old Instruments for Flute and Percussion (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Augusta Read Thomas, Filigree of the Sun for String Quartet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Huw Watkins, Seven Inventions for Marimba and Piano (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Jack Hughes, Jubilate PM for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Lara Poe, Dialetheia for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
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2022
Detlev Glanert, String Quartet No. 3 (Festival Co-Commission; World Premiere)
Marco-Adrián Ramos, Woven clay for the death of Mario Lavista or Quartet II (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Benjamin Scheer, The Funambulist’s Double for String Quartet (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
2023
Shulamit Ran, All Roads Leading for Flute, Viola, and Harp (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Kaija Saariaho, Semafor for Eight Instruments (Festival Co-Commission; New Mexico Premiere)
Charlotte Bray, Ungrievable Lives (Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)
Ryan Chase, Piano Quintet (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Magnus Lindberg, Quintet for Piano and Winds (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Christopher Stark, Other Pines for Piano Trio (Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Ryan Lindveit, Small Things (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
Angela Elizabeth Slater, Where skies aflame (Young Composers String Quartet Project; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
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This summer, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival showcases the talents of Angela Elizabeth Slater and Ryan Lindveit for its 10th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project. New, Festival-commissioned works by these inspiring, emerging artists will be premiered by the distinguished FLUX Quartet in St. Francis Auditorium on August 4. by Emily Van Cleve
“To be commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is an absolute honor,” says Angela Elizabeth Slater, a 33-year-old UKbased composer who directs the Illuminate Women’s Music project, which presents both new and historically neglected musical works written by women. Twentynine-year-old Ryan Lindveit, who recently completed his doctoral degree in composition at the University of Michigan, agrees. “It’s a thrill to be invited to bring my musical voice to Santa Fe this summer,” he says. Slater and Lindveit are the 2023 participants in the Festival’s annual Young Composers String Quartet Project, which has been nurturing up-and-coming composers since its
inception in 2013 by hosting a week-long visit to Santa Fe that includes mentoring from Artistic Director Marc Neikrug, guidance from music-industry professionals, and feedback from the FLUX Quartet, who premieres the participants’ works every season.
Slater and Lindveit share not only a deep love for composing but also the experience of having made pivotal career decisions in their late teens. For Slater, it was deciding to become a professional musician instead of studying pharmacology. “I was composing a piece at the piano when I had an epiphany that I wouldn’t be living properly if I pursued a pharmacy degree,” she explains. Lindveit thought he might be a pre-med student at the University of Southern California
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Angela Elizabeth Slater
Ryan Lindveit
until, during his first year there, he found himself in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. “It became clear to me, as I lay in the hospital for one week, that music is what I wanted to do,” he says. “I actually wrote a string quartet in response to that experience.”
A euphonium and trombone player, Lindveit worked with several exceptional music teachers while growing up in a small community near Houston, Texas. He also studied music theory and composition on his own, and by the end of eighth grade, he was composing band pieces. “My first composing award, a gift of $25,000 to my band program, came during my junior year in high school,” he recalls. Since then, Lindveit’s colorful, kaleidoscopic, emotionally driven and rhythmically engaging compositions have earned him many additional honors, including the BMI Student Composer Award and the Outstanding Graduate Award from USC’s Thornton School of Music. Among the prestigious fellowships he’s enjoyed are ones at the Aspen Music Festival and the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. After completing his bachelor’s degree at USC, he earned a master’s degree from Yale University before pursuing his doctoral work at the University of Michigan.
Slater, who earned her PhD at the University of Nottingham, didn't have robust in-school music programs growing up, but her mother was musical, and she introduced her to the piano and supported her flute studies.
Nature is a big inspiration for Slater, and figuring out the sound of a new piece is key to Lindveit's compositional process.
Slater’s teenage-established routine of composing at the piano continues today, although it took a while for her to find her musical voice. “I looked for female composers who inspired me,” she says. “Some of them embraced gestural energy, while others embraced the disintegration of melody.” A 2017 string quartet that accompanies a poem Slater wrote shortly after completing her PhD was the first work that really captured her compositional style, which she describes as “colorful, expressive, and impassioned.” In recent years, Slater has enjoyed many professional achievements, including serving as a Britten Pears Young Artist and a compositional fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center as well as being selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society Composers program and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composers program.
Before Slater begins writing a new piece of music, she establishes a title for the work to help her know its intention and direction. Having the tactile experience of an instrument in hand is also part of her composition process. And when it comes to ideas, she’s never at a loss. Nature is a big inspiration, and when she composes, she creates “a map of a piece,” she explains. “I literally draw shapes on the manuscript and put in scribbles. Sometimes I add poetry.”
For Lindveit, figuring out the sound of a new piece— developing a central harmonic structure—is key to his compositional process. His string quartet for the Festival, he says, will consist of a series of very short, 30- to 60-secondlong movements. “I want to write pithy movements for the FLUX Quartet,” he adds. “I consider this a great opportunity.”
Emily Van Cleve has been an arts writer in Santa Fe for more than 25 years. Her articles have appeared in local, regional, and national magazines and in the Albuquerque Journal
Premieres and Pre-Concert Talk
Friday, August 4, 5 p.m.
Women’s Board Room
New Mexico Museum of Art
Pre-Concert Talk
Composers CHARLOTTE BRAY, RYAN LINDVEIT, and ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
Friday, August 4, 6 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
RYAN LINDVEIT Small Things (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
Where skies aflame (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
FLUX Quartet
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Felix Fan, cello
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Marc Neikrug Celebrates 25 Years as the Festival’s Artistic Director
The esteemed composer, pianist, and arts administrator shares the vision he’s always had for the Festival and his hopes for the organization’s future. by Emily
Van Cleve
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is integrally woven into the life of composer and pianist
Marc Neikrug, who celebrates 25 years as the organization’s Artistic Director—a position he began in 1998 and one that’s been held by just two predecessors.
“The kinds of activities I do now as Artistic Director are ones I was doing before I joined the Festival,” says Neikrug, who was born in New York City and moved permanently to New Mexico in 1988. “What’s wonderful about being the Artistic Director is that the entire staff embraces everything I’ve been interested in and everything we do with great enthusiasm.”
Neikrug’s passions—promoting high-quality new music, supporting talented living composers, bringing the finest players to the Festival, and offering the best possible music education programs to children and youth in the Santa Fe
area—have blossomed during his tenure at the Festival. “More than ever, championing new music is my greatest legacy,” he says. “I continue to do all the programming, staying mindful of the history of Western classical music by offering music from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility for the audience and what they hear. I need to provide them with a broad and inclusive sense of this culture, which is why I feature classical masterpieces and lesser-known pieces by great composers as well as 20th- and 21st-century music.”
When colleagues remark that he’s demonstrating “courage” through his programming, Neikrug changes the direction of the conversation, saying it’s less about courage and more about respect for the audience. “I program ‘up,’ and it works,” he notes. “I believe in the integrity and curiosity
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Marc Neikrug and the Variation String Trio following the world premiere of his String Trio in 2017
of audience members. After 25 years, our audiences are as healthy as ever.”
Steven Ovitsky, who’s worked closely with Neikrug since 2004, when he became the Festival’s Executive Director, agrees that Neikrug’s vision has had a transformative effect on the organization. “Over time, the Festival’s audience has grown to not only accept but to really appreciate the new and innovative music that’s an integral part of our seasons,” Ovitsky says. “This broad mix of repertoire is one of the Festival’s strongest features, and it’s a great tribute to Marc’s artistic leadership.”
Out of his many initiatives over the past 25 years, Neikrug is particularly proud of the Festival’s Young Composers
String Quartet Project, which he’s overseen since it began in 2013. Neikrug chooses two up-and-coming composers to participate in the program every year; offers them a Festival commission to write a string quartet, which the FLUX Quartet premieres during a Festival concert; and provides mentoring and feedback along the way. “Music touches us and communicates with us, so I search for young creators who are self-aware and expressive,” he says. “When I look at classical music, I see 500 years of a continuum. The composers who are of most interest to me are adding to this continuum.”
Neikrug is dedicated to making the Young Composers
String Quartet Project not only musically memorable for the composers but personally memorable for them, too, which he does by introducing them to the places in New Mexico that are closest to his heart during their weeklong visit to Santa Fe. Beginning in 2024, the project will be funded by the newly named Neikrug Young Composers Commissioning
Fund, which recognizes Neikrug’s legacy of supporting young composers as well as his and the Festival’s enduring commitment to commissioning new works and contributing to the growth and evolution of the chamber music repertoire.
Another significant way in which Neikrug has reached out to young musicians is through the Festival’s yearround music education programs: Music in Our Schools, Strings in Our Schools, Guitar in Our Schools, the Dream Big Private Lesson Program, and the Summer Youth Concert.
“I remember my first day on the job, a staff member came up to me to ask what we were going to do about music in the schools,” Neikrug says. “We were doing what was colloquially called ‘drive-by concerts’ when I came on board. I developed a whole program for schools—real education with prepared curriculum and trained teachers. Our program
“We are viewed as the standard-bearer of what a classical music organization should be,” Neikrug says. … “I want to make sure we continue to be a shining example for the country.”
is presented in schools in areas of town, particularly the Southside, where music education has not been strong. One of the things that is really important to me,” he adds, “is that our music reaches preschoolers. I’ve always been interested in early childhood development.”
Even after a quarter of a century of commitment to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Neikrug continues to generate tremendous energy for leading the Festival in years to come. “We are viewed as the standard-bearer of what a classical music organization should be,” he says. “The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has great integrity and excellence. I want to make sure we continue to be a shining example for the country.”
Emily Van Cleve has been an arts writer in Santa Fe for more than 25 years. Her articles have appeared in local, regional, and national magazines and in the Albuquerque Journal
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Left: Neikrug (at the piano) and violinist Pinchas Zukerman rehearsing for a Festival performance
Right: Neikrug enjoying some downtime earlier this year
The Gifford Phillips Award 2023 Steven Ovitsky
In 1999, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival established The Gifford Phillips Award to honor its longtime trustee and former board chairman Gifford Phillips (who passed away in 2013, at the age of 94) and to recognize individuals and organizations that have supported both the Festival and the local performing arts scene. Among the qualities the award’s recipients share are integrity, leadership, and generosity, and this year the Festival is proud to present The Gifford Phillips Award to Festival Executive Director Steven Ovitsky. by Emily Van Cleve
(April 2006–October 2007 and January 2018–October 2019), the Festival has an endowment fund of more than $12.5 million.
Before he joined the Festival, Ovitsky, who was born and raised in Chicago, served as artistic and executive director of the Grant Park Music Festival, vice president and general manager of the Minnesota Orchestra, and president and executive director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra— all of which prepared him for his role with the Festival despite the organization’s smaller size and scope. “I very much appreciate the intimacy of the Festival,” Ovitsky says. “I’m basically a city kid who still enjoys city life, but I took to Santa Fe immediately when I arrived in 2004. Managing a large symphony is like running a corporate department store chain,” he adds, “while managing the Festival is like running a small, very high-end boutique, where you’re directly involved in all aspects of the operation, even taking letters to the post office.”
Steven Ovitsky has received many accolades over the course of his distinguished career, but he’s particularly honored to receive the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s Gifford Phillips Award in July.
“This is very meaningful to me,” says Ovitsky, who’s retiring from his 20-season tenure as the Festival’s Executive Director in September. “As the only Festival staff member to receive this award, it feels especially significant joining the distinguished past recipients.”
An accomplished and classically trained horn player, Ovitsky is also a skilled administrator who’s been essential in helping the Festival establish—and maintain—secure financial footing. Although he inherited an organization with a deficit when he became Executive Director in 2004, by the end of his first fiscal year, the Festival was operating with a surplus. Today, after two carefully planned endowment campaigns
Working collaboratively with Artistic Director Marc Neikrug has been an essential part of Ovitsky’s job as well as one of its pleasures. “Marc and I have developed a wonderful partnership through the years,” Ovitsky notes, “and I’ll miss our discussions about music, food, and wine and, of course, our many jokes.”
Neikrug, who joined the Festival six years before Ovitsky did, in 1998, shares Ovitsky’s feelings. “In 20 years of partnership, I don’t recall a single disagreement with Steve,” he says. “His background as a musician infused his every decision as an administrator. He’s been a steadfast supporter of our art form and, through his deep understanding of its fundamental societal values, has made it possible for our organization to thrive. Through the most difficult of times, he never lost sight of our goal to present the highest-quality music performed by the highest-quality musicians. I can’t imagine a more perfect tenure or contribution.”
Throughout his career as an administrator, Ovitsky, who earned a bachelor-of-music degree from the University of
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Steven Ovitsky at the Festival's 2021 Gala
Michigan and a master-of-music degree from Northern Illinois University, has always found time to perform with various ensembles, including the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, Opera Southwest, the New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble, and the Albany Symphony. He’s also played the recorder with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and served as the shofar soloist on the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s recording of T’kiatot by Hugo Weisgall. His experience as a trained musician, an active performer, and an administrator for renowned orchestras has made him a discerning leader for the Festival. “What’s kept me in Santa Fe all these years is that the quality of the performances at the Festival is so high,” Ovitsky says. “It’s as high as what one finds with the best orchestras in the country. And the Festival presents this level of music on a regular basis.”
Ovitsky alludes to that kind of quality when he recalls one of his fondest memories over the past 20 seasons. “In 2010, David Zinman conducted the chamber version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and tenor Paul Groves, and Leonard Slatkin was conducting at The Santa Fe Opera. David and Leonard were our two main conductors when I was director of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago from 1979 through 1990, and they both also conducted when I was with the Minnesota Orchestra. It was great to see both of them here in Santa Fe.”
For Ovitsky, retirement doesn’t necessarily mean abandoning music or leaving Santa Fe, especially given
how much he values the local community. Photography has become an important part of his artistic expression and is something he wants to pursue in greater depth. His photos of Festival concerts are often featured in the organization’s promotional materials.
“I’ve had a long career, working full time since finishing Army service in 1971,” Ovitsky says, “so I’m going to take some time to figure out my next steps.”
The Gifford Phillips Award is being presented to Steven Ovitsky at the season’s opening-night concert, on July 16, 2023. Ovitsky joins the following distinguished previous recipients of the award: Louisa Stude Sarofim, Shirley F. and Charles M. Weiss, Nancy and Bill Zeckendorf, Susan Herter, David and Kay Duke Ingalls, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, Quarrier and Philip Cook, Edgar Foster Daniels, Mara and Chuck Robinson, Betsy and Ted Rogers, Toni and Leshek Zavistovski, Paul King, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Senator Tom Udall and Jill Cooper Udall, and Arnold and Lorlee Tenenbaum.
Emily Van Cleve has been an arts writer in Santa Fe for more than 25 years. Her articles have appeared in local, regional, and national magazines and in the Albuquerque Journal
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Above: Ovitsky, Artistic Director Marc Neikrug, and then-Board President Arnold Tenenbaum present the 2018 Gifford Phillips Award to then-Senator and now Ambassador Tom Udall and Jill Cooper Udall.
Right: Ovitsky with (from left) conductors and longtime colleagues David Zinman and Leonard Slatkin in 2010
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ANNUAL SPONSORSHIPS
The following donors have generously directed their annual gifts in support of specific aspects of the Festival.
Anna-Marie Baca
Barbara B. and Ronald Davis Balser
Beth Beloff and Marc Geller
Jean and John Berghoff
Carole and David Brown
David Bulfer and Kelly Pope
Elisbeth Challener and Brett Bachman
Kathleen and Robert L. Clarke
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Paula and Steven Fasken
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Haochen Zhang, piano
Nicolas Namoradze, piano
Stefan Dohr, horn
Daniel Druckman, percussion
L. P. How, violin
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Julia Harguindey, bassoon
Alan Gilbert, conductor, violin, and viola
Katia Skanavi, piano
Leigh Mesh, double bass
Thursday Noon series
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Paul Huang, violin
Julia Pilant, horn
David Tausig Frank and Inon Barnatan, piano
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Peter Frank and Leslie Shaw
Maria and Edward Gale
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David Goodrich and Brian Clarke
Diane and Werner Grob
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Jennifer Montone, horn
Wednesday Noon series
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Miami String Quartet
Toby Appel, viola
Daniel Phillips, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Ana María Martínez, soprano
Yura Lee, violin and viola
Benny Kim, violin
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Choong-Jin Chang, viola
Dover Quartet
Joseph Johnson, cello
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Liang Wang, oboe
Todd Levy, clarinet
Ellen Marder and CarlaMaria Rodrigues, viola
Wolfgang Schmidt-Nowara
Kenneth R. Marvel and Robert R. Gardner
Paul Appleby, tenor
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David Muck and Cole Martelli
Eric Kim, cello
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Jay W. Oppenheimer Peter Stumpf, cello
Bruce S. Ross and Eileen Gallo-Ross
Louisa Stude Sarofim
Shellie Scott
Chad Hoopes, violin
Escher String Quartet
Kajsa William-Olsson, cello
James R. Seitz, Jr. Jennifer Gilbert, violin
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PERPETUAL SPONSORSHIPS
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These Named Funds of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Endowment were established by friends of the Festival to provide support in perpetuity for performances, artists, and programs.
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Marc Neikrug, Artistic Director
Sunday series
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To learn how you can sponsor an artist, performance, or program annually or in perpetuity, contact the Festival’s Director of Development, Cece Derringer, at 505-983-2075, ext. 108, or cderringer@sfcmf.org.
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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Nocturne in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1 (1832) (1810–49)
Nocturne in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3 (1832)
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60 (1845–46)
Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49 (1841)
Scherzo in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39 (1839)
INTERMISSION
Impromptu in F-sharp Major, Op. 36 (1839)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 (1844)
Allegro maestoso
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Largo
Finale: Presto, non tanto; Agitato
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 45
Friday,
p.m.
PRE-SEASON GALA CONCERT
5:30
JULY 14
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
JULY 16 & 17
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
The July 16 concert is generously sponsored by The July 17 concert is generously sponsored by
INON BARNATAN, Piano
WILLIAM HAGEN, Violin
CHO-LIANG LIN, Violin
YURA LEE, Viola MARK KOSOWER, Cello
Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563 (1788) (1756–91)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegretto
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto
Allegro
Cho-Liang Lin, Yura Lee, Mark Kosower
INTERMISSION
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 (1842) (1810–56) Sostenuto assai; Allegro ma non tanto
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Andante cantabile
Vivace
Inon Barnatan, William Hagen, Yura Lee, Mark Kosower
46 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Sunday & Monday, 6 p.m. SUNDAY & MONDAY SERIES
Hamburg Steinway D concert grand pianos are supplied by Pro Piano for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival pianos are moved by A & A Piano Moving.
Generously sponsored by the Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum Memorial Fund
INON BARNATAN, Piano
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Moments musicaux, D. 780 (1823–28) (1797–1828)
Moderato in C Major
Andantino in A-flat Major
Allegro moderato in F Minor
Moderato in C-sharp Minor
Allegro vivace in F Minor
Allegretto in A-flat Major
Moments musicaux, Op. 16 (1896) (1873–1943)
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Andantino in B-flat Minor
Allegretto in E-flat Minor
Andante cantabile in B Minor
Presto in E Minor
Adagio sostenuto in D-flat Major
Maestoso in C Major
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 47 MUSIC AT NOON Tuesday, 12 p.m. JULY 18
FRANZ SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Miller Girl ), D. 795 (1823) (1797–1828)
Das Wandern (Wandering)
Wohin? (Where to?)
Halt! (Stop!)
Danksagung an den Bach (Giving Thanks to the Brook)
Am Feierabend (At the End of the Work Day)
Die Neugieriege (The Curious Questioner)
Ungeduld (Impatience)
Morgengruß (Morning Greeting)
Des Müllers Blumen (The Miller’s Flowers)
Tränenregen (Shower of Tears)
Mein! (Mine!)
Pause (Pause)
Mit dem grünen Lautenbande (With the Lute’s Green Ribbon)
Der Jäger (The Hunter)
Eifersucht und Stolz (Jealousy and Pride)
Die liebe Farbe (The Favorite Color)
Die böse Farbe (The Malevolent Color)
Trocknen Blumen (Dried Flowers)
Der Müller und Der Bach (The Miller and the Brook)
Des Baches Wiegenlied (The Brook’s Lullaby)
48 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Wednesday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON JULY
19
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
PAUL APPLEBY, Tenor LAURA POE, Piano
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
INON BARNATAN, Piano
GILLES VONSATTEL, Piano
WILLIAM HAGEN, Violin
CHO-LIANG LIN, Violin
YURA LEE, Viola
HEIICHIRO OHYAMA, Viola
MARK KOSOWER, Cello
En Blanc et Noir (In White and Black) (1862–1918) for Two Pianos (1915)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Avec emportement
Lent: Sombre
Scherzando
Gilles Vonsattel, Inon Barnatan
The Rite of Spring for Two Pianos (1911–13) (1882–1971)
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Part I: The Adoration of the Earth
Introduction
Auguries of Spring (Dance of the Young Girls)
Ritual of Abduction
Spring Dances
Games of the Rival Tribes
Procession of the Wise Elder
Adoration of the Earth (The Sage)
Dance of the Earth
Part II: The Sacrifice
Introduction
Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
Glorification of the Chosen One
Evocation of the Ancestors
Ritual of the Ancestors
Sacrificial Dance
Inon Barnatan, Gilles Vonsattel
INTERMISSION
String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 (1890) (1833–97)
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
Adagio
Un poco allegretto
Vivace ma non troppo presto
Cho-Liang Lin, William Hagen, Yura Lee, Heiichiro Ohyama, Mark Kosower
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 49 WEDNESDAY SERIES Wednesday, 6 p.m. JULY 19
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
GILLES VONSATTEL, Piano
WILLIAM HAGEN, Violin
YURA LEE, Violin
CHO-LIANG LIN, Violin
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
TOBY APPEL, Viola
FELIX FAN, Cello
MARK KOSOWER, Cello
Suite for Solo Cello (1926) (1897–1966)
GASPAR CASSADÓ
Preludio-Fantasia
Sardana (Danza)
Intermezzo e Danza Finale
Mark Kosower
Piano Quintet (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)◊ (b. 1987)
RYAN CHASE
I. cantus—organum
II. canto I—canto II—canto III—canto IV—canto V
III . caprice
Gilles Vonsattel, Yura Lee, William Hagen, Toby Appel, Felix Fan
Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73 (1920–22) (1875–1937)
MAURICE RAVEL
Allegro
Scherzo: Très vif Lent
Vif, avec entrain
Cho-Liang Lin, Mark Kosower
50 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Thursday, 12 p.m. 1
Post-Concert Talk: Composer Ryan Chase MUSIC AT NOON
p.m.,
JULY 20
◊Ryan Chase’s Piano Quintet was commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Generously sponsored by
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
RACHEL BARTON PINE, Violin
JOHANN PAUL VON WESTHOFF
Suite No. 2 in A Major (1696) (1656–1705)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Partita in B Minor, BWV 1002 (1720) (1685–1750)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Allemande
Double Courante
Double: Presto
Sarabande
Double
Tempo di Bourrée
Double
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ VON BIBER Passacaglia from Mystery Sonatas (1674–76) (1644–1704)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004 (1720)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Chaconne
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 51 BACH PLUS Saturday, 5 p.m.
JULY 22
Sunday & Monday, 6 p.m.
JULY 23 & 24
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
GILLES VONSATTEL, Piano
WILLIAM HAGEN, Violin
CHAD HOOPES, Violin
RACHEL BARTON PINE, Violin
TOBY APPEL, Viola
HEIICHIRO OHYAMA, Viola
MILENA PAJARO-VAN DE STADT, Viola
SUNDAY & MONDAY SERIES
The July 23 concert is generously sponsored by
FELIX FAN, Cello
MARK KOSOWER, Cello
GRACE BROWNING, Harp*
BART FELLER, Flute*
TODD LEVY, Clarine t*
MAURICE RAVEL
Introduction and Allegro (1905) (1875–1937)
Introduction: Très lent
Allegro
Grace Browning, Bart Feller, Todd Levy, Rachal Barton Pine, William Hagen, Heiichiro Ohyama, Felix Fan
MAURICE RAVEL
Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano (1923–27)
Allegretto
Blues (Moderato)
Perpetuum mobile (Allegro)
Chad Hoopes, Gilles Vonsattel
INTERMISSION
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (1890; rev. 1891–92) (1840–93)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio cantabile e con moto
Allegretto moderato
Finale: Allegro vivace
William Hagen, Chad Hoopes, Toby Appel, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Mark Kosower, Felix Fan
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Monday, 10 a.m.
JULY 24
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
YOUTH CONCERT
Generously sponsored by
Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, Scott Lee, Keith Robinson)
52 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season
Generously sponsored by the Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum Memorial Fund
MIAMI STRING QUARTET
BENNY KIM, Violin
CATHY MENG ROBINSON, Violin
SCOTT LEE, Viola
KEITH ROBINSON, Cello
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703, Quartettsatz (1820) (1797–1828)
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923) (1894–1942)
Alla Valse Viennese
Alla Serenata
Alla Czeca
Alla Tango Milonga
Alla Tarantella
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, American (1893) (1841–1904)
ANTONÍN DVORÁK
Allegro ma non troppo
Lento
Scherzo
Finale: Vivace ma non troppo
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 53 MUSIC AT NOON Tuesday, 12 p.m. JULY 25
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ, Soprano CRAIG TERRY, Piano
JOAQUÍN RODRIGO Cuatro madrigales amatorios (1947) (1901–99)
¿Con qué la lavaré?
Vos me matásteis
¿De dónde venís, amore?
De los álamos vengo, madre
MANUEL DE FALLA Siete canciones populares españolas (1914) (1876–1946)
El paño moruno
Seguidilla murciana
Asturiana
Jota
Nana
Canción
Polo
ERNESTO LECUONA Danza Negra for Solo Piano (1934) (1895–1963)
HÉCTOR CAMPOS PARSI Canciones de cielo y agua (1947) (1922–98)
Los signos en el cielo
El aguacero
El arroyo
JOAQUÍN TURINA Poema en forma de canciones, Op. 19 (1923) (1882–1949)
Dedicatoria
Nunca olvida
Cantares
Los dos miedos
Las locas por amor
54 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Wednesday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON JULY
26
ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, Piano
PAUL HUANG, Violin
MIAMI STRING QUARTET
BENNY KIM, Violin
CATHY MENG ROBINSON, Violin
SCOTT LEE, Viola
KEITH ROBINSON, Cello
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13 (1827) (1809–47)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Adagio; Allegro vivace
Adagio non lento
Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto—Allegro di molto
Presto
Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, Scott Lee, Keith Robinson)
INTERMISSION
Concerto in D Major for Violin, Piano, (1855–99) and String Quartet, Op. 21 (1889–91)
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Décidé
Sicilienne
Grave
Très animé
Paul Huang, Zoltán Fejérvári, Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, Scott Lee, Keith Robinson)
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 55 WEDNESDAY SERIES Wednesday, 6 p.m. JULY 26
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, Piano
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Vier Klavierstücke (Four Piano Pieces), Op. 119 (1893) (1833–97)
Intermezzo in B Minor
Intermezzo in E Minor
Intermezzo in C Major
Rhapsody in E-flat Major
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 (From the Street, 1 October 1905) (1854–1928) (1905–06)
LEOŠ JANÁCEK
Con moto: Pr˘edtucha (Foreboding)
Adagio: Smrt (Death)
Drei Klavierstücke (Three Piano Pieces), D. 946 (1828) (1797–1828)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
No. 1 in E-flat Minor: Allegro assai
No. 2 in E-flat Major: Allegretto
No. 3 in C Major: Allegro
56 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Thursday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON
JULY 27
Generously sponsored by
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
ZLATOMIR FUNG, Cello ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, Piano
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata in G Major for Cello and Piano, BWV 1027 (1685–1750) (before 1741)
Adagio
Allegro ma non tanto
Andante
Allegro moderato
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, BWV 1029 (before 1741)
Vivace
Adagio
Allegro
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano, BWV 1028 (before 1741)
Adagio
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 57 BACH PLUS Saturday, 5 p.m.
JULY 29
JULY 30 & 31
The July 30 concert is generously sponsored by
ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, Piano
CHAD HOOPES, Violin
PAUL HUANG, Violin
CHOONG-JIN CHANG, Viola
ZLATOMIR FUNG, Cello
ERIC KIM, Cello
LEIGH MESH, Double Bass
TODD LEVY, Clarinet *
JULIA HARGUINDEY, Bassoon*
JENNIFER MONTONE, Horn
Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1799) (1770–1827) Adagio—Allegro con brio Adagio cantabile
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Tempo di menuetto
Tema con variazioni: Andante
Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
Andante con moto alla marcia; Presto
Paul Huang, Choong-Jin Chang, Zlatomir Fung, Leigh Mesh, Todd Levy, Julia Harguindey, Jennifer Montone
INTERMISSION
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 (1881–82) (1840–93)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai
Tema con variazioni—Variazione finale e coda
Zoltán Fejérvári, Chad Hoopes, Eric Kim
58 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Sunday & Monday, 6 p.m. SUNDAY & MONDAY SERIES
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Generously sponsored by the Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum Memorial Fund
JUHO POHJONEN, Piano
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 (1784) (1756–91)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Sonata in C Minor, K. 457 (1784)
Allegro Adagio
Molto allegro
Gaspard de la nuit (1908) (1875–1937)
MAURICE RAVEL
Ondine Le Gibet Scarbo
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 59
AT
Tuesday, 12 p.m. AUGUST 1
MUSIC
NOON
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
MICHELLE DeYOUNG, Mezzo-soprano
KEVIN MURPHY, Piano
ERIC ZEISL Fünf Nachtlieder (Five Night Songs) (1930–39) (1905–59)
Nachts
Die Nacht Bricht an Ein Stündlein wohl vor Tag
Schrei
Stilleben
GUSTAV MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (1860–1911) (1883–85)
Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit nacht
Ging heut’ Morgen übers Feld
Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer
Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Abschiedslieder (Songs of Farewell ), Op. 14 (1920–21) (1897–1957)
Sterbelied
Dies eine kann mein Sehnen nimmer fassen
Mond, so gehst du wieder auf
Gefaßter Abschied
60 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Wednesday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON AUGUST 2
Generously sponsored by Allan Houser, Inc.
JUHO POHJONEN, Piano
JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI, Violin
ALAN GILBERT, Violin
L. P. HOW, Violin
CHOONG-JIN CHANG, Viola
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
CARLAMARIA RODRIGUES, Viola
ZLATOMIR FUNG, Cello
JOSEPH JOHNSON, Cello*
ERIC KIM, Cello
KAJSA WILLIAM-OLSSON, Cello
Requiem, Op. 66 (1892) (1843–1913)
DAVID POPPER
Juho Pohjonen, Zlatomir Fung, Joseph Johnson, Eric Kim
String Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 63 (1944) (1882–1954)
WALTER BRAUNFELS
Allegro
Adagio
Scherzo
Finale: Rondo
Jennifer Frautschi, L. P. How, Choong-Jin Chang, Eric Kim, Zlatomir Fung
INTERMISSION
String Quintet in E–flat Major, Op. 97 (1893) (1841–1904)
ANTONÍN DVORÁK
Allegro non tanto
Allegro vivo
Larghetto
Finale: Allegro giusto
Alan Gilbert, Jennifer Frautschi, CarlaMaria Rodrigues, Choong-Jin Chang, Kajsa William-Olsson
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 61
Wednesday,
p.m. AUGUST
WEDNESDAY SERIES
6
2
*Santa Fe Opera artist
p.m.
JUHO POHJONEN, Piano
JESSICA LEE, Violin
ZLATOMIR FUNG, Cello
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
CHRISTOPHER STARK
Other Pines for Piano Trio (b. 1980) (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)◊
I. The Pines of the Vatican Gardens
II. The Former Pines of Villa Ada
III. Pines Near a Fascist Monument
IV. The Pines as Refuge (Parco del Pineto)
Juho Pohjonen, Jessica Lee, Zlatomir Fung
Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano (1886) (1822–90)
CÉSAR FRANCK
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitative—Fantasia. Ben moderato—Molto lento
Allegretto poco mosso
Jessica Lee, Juho Pohjonen
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AUGUST
Thursday, 12
1 p.m., Post-Concert Talk: Composer Christopher Stark MUSIC AT NOON
3
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
◊Christopher Stark’s Other Pines was commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
MODERN MASTERS
5 p.m., Pre-Concert
Talk: Composers Charlotte
Bray,
Ryan Lindveit, and Angela Elizabeth Slater
Women’s Board Room in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Friday, 6 p.m.
AUGUST 4
FLUX QUARTET
TOM CHIU, Violin
CONRAD HARRIS, Violin
MAX MANDEL, Viola
FELIX FAN, Cello
GYÖRGY LIGETI
String Quartet No. 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes (1923–2006) (1953–54)
RYAN LINDVEIT Small Things
(b. 1994) (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
ANGELA ELIZABETH SLATER
Where skies aflame
(b. 1989) (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)
CHARLOTTE BRAY
Ungrievable Lives
(b. 1982) (2022; Festival Co-Commission; US Premiere)◊
I. Loud, inciting—suffocating
I. Delicate, dreaming—in and out of consciousness
III. Playful, light
IV. Illuminated, dancing
V. Tense, transfixed
VI. Intense, full-bodied
VII. Inert, petrified—
VIII. With urgency, nervous—
IX. Wild, aggressive, dangerous
X. Frayed, weary
XI. Loss: the absent body
XII. Muted, grainy
XIII. Weighty, intense
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 63
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
◊Charlotte Bray’s Ungrievable Lives was co-commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Generously sponsored by
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
MICHELLE DeYOUNG, Mezzo-soprano
PAOLO BORDIGNON, Harpsichord
JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI, Violin
JESSICA LEE, Violin JOSEPH JOHNSON, Cello*
Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430 (1720) (1685–1759)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Air con variazioni (The Harmonious Blacksmith) Paolo Bordignon
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Trio Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 4, HWV 399 (1737–38)
Allegro
A tempo ordinario
Passacaille
Gigue
Menuet
Jennifer Frautschi, Jessica Lee, Joseph Johnson, Paolo Bordignon
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
La Lucrezia (O Numi eterni ), Cantata for Soprano and Continuo, HWV 145 (1709)
Recitative: O Numi eterni!
Aria: Già superbo del mio affanno
Recitative: Ma voi forse nel cielo
Aria: Il suol che preme
Recitative: Ah! che ancor nell’abisso
Aria: Alla salma infedel porga la pena
Recitative: A voi, padre, consorte
Arioso: Già nel seno comincia
Michelle DeYoung, Joseph Johnson, Paolo Bordignon
64 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Saturday, 5 p.m. BACH PLUS AUGUST
5
*Santa Fe Opera artist
The August 6 concert is generously sponsored by
ALAN GILBERT, Conductor
KIRILL GERSTEIN, Piano
JUHO POHJONEN, Piano
JENNIFER BEST TAKEDA, Violin*
KATHLEEN BRAUER, Violin*
HARVEY DE SOUZA, Violin
JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI, Violin
JENNIFER GILBERT, Violin
L. P. HOW, Violin
JESSICA LEE, Violin
ALEJANDRO VALDEPEÑAS, Violin*
MARGARET DYER HARRIS, Viola*
CARLAMARIA RODRIGUES, Viola
THERESA RUDOLPH, Viola*
ASHLEY VANDIVER, Viola*
JOSEPH JOHNSON, Cello*
ERIC KIM, Cello
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
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Selected Duos for Two Violins (1931) (1881–1945)
BÉLA BARTÓK
No. 35: Rutén Kolomejka (Ruthenian Kolomejka)
No. 16: Burleszk (Burlesque)
No. 22: Szunyogtánc (Mosquito Dance)
No. 26: Ugyan Édes Kománasszony (Teasing Song)
No. 42: Arab Dal (Arabian Song)
No. 43: Pizzicato
No. 44: Erdélyi Tánc (Transylvanian Dance)
No. 36: Szól a Duda (Bagpipes)
Jennifer Frautschi, Jessica Lee
Piano Concerto (1985–88) (1923–2006)
GYÖRGY LIGETI
Vivace molto ritmico e preciso—
Lento e deserto
Vivace cantabile
Allegro risoluto, molto ritmico—
Presto luminoso: fluido, costante, sempre molto ritmico
Kirill Gerstein, Alan Gilbert, Jessica Lee, Jennifer Frautschi, Alejandro Valdepeñas, L. P. How, Jennifer Best Takeda, Kathleen Brauer, Margaret Dyer Harris, Theresa Rudolph, Ashley Vandiver, Kajsa William-Olsson, Joseph Johnson, Leigh Mesh, Chelsea Knox, Liang Wang, Todd Levy, Julia Harguindey, Stefan Dohr, William Leathers, Jonathan Randazzo, Gregory Zuber
INTERMISSION
Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84 (1918–19) (1857–1934)
EDWARD ELGAR
Moderato
Adagio
Andante; Allegro
Juho Pohjonen, Harvey de Souza, Jennifer Gilbert, CarlaMaria Rodrigues, Eric Kim
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 65 SUNDAY & MONDAY SERIES Sunday & Monday, 6 p.m. AUGUST 6 & 7
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
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ESCHER STRING QUARTET
ADAM BARNETT-HART, Violin
BRENDAN SPELTZ, Violin
PIERRE LAPOINTE, Viola BROOK SPELTZ, Cello
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Ainsi la Nuit (Thus the Night) for String Quartet (1916–2013) (1976)
I. Nocturne
II. Miroir d’espace
III. Litanies
IV. Litanies 2
V. Constellations
VI. Nocturne 2
VII. Temps suspendu
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3, The Bird (1732–1809) (1781)
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegretto—Trio
Adagio ma non troppo
Rondo: Presto
String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 (1928) (1881–1945)
BÉLA BARTÓK
Allegro
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
Allegretto pizzicato
Allegro molto
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 67 MUSIC AT NOON Tuesday, 12 p.m. AUGUST 8
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
TONY ARNOLD, Soprano
MOVSES POGOSSIAN, Violin
GYÖRGY KURTÁG
Kafka-Fragmente (Kafka Fragments), Op. 24 (1985–86) (b. 1926) Part 1
1 Die Guten gehn im gleichen Schritt...
2 Wie ein Weg im Herbst
3 Verstecke
4 Ruhelos
5 Berceuse I
6 Nimmermehr (Excommunicatio)
7 “Wenn er mich immer frägt”
8 Es zupfte mich jemand am Kleid
9 Die Weißnäherinnen
10 Szene am Bahnhof
11 Sonntag, den 19 Juli 1910 (Berceuse II): Hommage à Jeney
12 Meine Ohrmuschel...
13 Einmal brach ich mir das Bein (Chassidischer Tanz)
14 Umpanzert
15 Zwei Spazierstöcke (Authentisch-plagal)
16 Keine Rückkehr
17 Stolz (1910/15 November, Zehn Uhr)
18 Träumend hing die Blume (Hommage à Schumann)
19 Nichts dergleichen
Part 2
1 Der wahre Weg (Hommage-message à Pierre Boulez)
68 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Wednesday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON AUGUST
9
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
Part 3
1 Haben? Sein?
2 Der Coitus als Bestrafung: Canticulum Mariae Magdalenae
3 Meine Festung
4 Schmutzig bin ich, Milena...
5 Elendes Leben (Double)
6 Der begrenzte Kreis
7 Ziel, Weg, Zögern
8 So fest
9 Verstecke (Double)
10 Penetrant Jüdisch
11 Staunend sahen wir das große Pferd
12 Szene in der Elektrischen (1910: “Ich bat im Traum die Tänzerin Eduardowa, sie möchte doch den Csárdás noch einmal tanzen...”)
Part 4
1 Zu spät: 22 Oktober 1913
2 Eine lange Geschichte
3 In memoriam Robert Klein
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 69 MUSIC AT NOON Wednesday, 12 p.m. AUGUST 9
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
4 Aus einem alten Notizbuch
5 Leoparden
6 In memoriam Joannis Pilinszky
Wiederum
7 Wiederum,
blendete
die Mondnacht…
8 Es
uns
5 p.m., Pre-Concert Talk:
Composers Magnus Lindberg and Marc Neikrug
Women’s Board Room in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Wednesday, 6 p.m.
AUGUST 9
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
KATIA SKANAVI, Piano
ADAM BARNETT-HART, Violin
HARVEY DE SOUZA, Violin
JENNIFER GILBERT, Violin
ALAN GILBERT, Viola
PIERRE LAPOINTE, Viola
CARLAMARIA RODRIGUES, Viola
ERIC KIM, Cello
BROOK SPELTZ, Cello
ROBERT INGLISS, Oboe*
LIANG WANG, Oboe
TODD LEVY, Clarinet *
WEDNESDAY SERIES
JULIA HARGUINDEY, Bassoon*
STEFAN DOHR, Horn
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759) / Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin and Viola (1894)
JOHAN HALVORSEN (1864–1935)
MARC NEIKRUG
(b. 1946)
Adam Barnett-Hart, Pierre Lapointe
Oboe Quartet in 10 Parts (2022; World Premiere)
Liang Wang, Adam Barnett-Hart, Pierre Lapointe, Brook Speltz
INTERMISSION
Quintet for Piano and Winds (b. 1958) (2023; Festival Commission; World Premiere)◊
MAGNUS LINDBERG
Katia Skanavi, Robert Ingliss, Todd Levy, Julia Harguindey, Stefan Dohr
String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (1787) (1756–91)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Allegro
Menuetto: Allegretto
Adagio ma non troppo
Adagio: Allegro
Jennifer Gilbert, Harvey de Souza, Alan Gilbert, CarlaMaria Rodrigues, Eric Kim
70 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season
◊Magnus Lindberg’s Quintet for Piano and Winds was commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in celebration of its 50th anniversary.
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
NICOLAS NAMORADZE, Piano
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Contrapunctus VI from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (1685–1750) (before 1742; rev. ca. 1745 and 1748–49)
GYÖRGY LIGETI Étude No. 11, En suspens (1988–94) (1923–2006)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Contrapunctus VII from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (before 1742; rev. ca. 1745 and 1748–49)
GYÖRGY LIGETI Étude No. 16, Pour Irina (1995)
FRANZ SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 (1828) (1797–1828)
Molto moderato
Andante sostenuto
Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza
Allegro ma non troppo
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 71 MUSIC AT NOON Thursday, 12 p.m. AUGUST 10
F A R M S H O P
Farm Shop at Town & Ranch (downtown Albuquerque)
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Farm Shop (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque) 4803 Rio Grande Boulevard NW
72 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season
Farm Shop Norte for a unique Los Poblanos shopping experience in downtown Santa Fe. One block north of the Santa Fe Plaza, Farm Shop Norte is housed in a renovated 1935 gas station and farm supply store. This one-of-a-kind environment is a destination for shopping Los Poblanos’ signature lavender products, botanical gin, and Farm Foods, alongside curated objects for the home, and New Mexico wine and spirits. Adjacent, Bar Norte is an intimate space to enjoy a cocktail made with Los Poblanos Botanical Spirits and enjoy a light tasting menu. Stop in before your next concert.
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NICOLAS NAMORADZE, Piano
KATHLEEN McINTOSH, Harpsichord
JENNIFER BEST TAKEDA , Violin*
DANIEL JORDAN, Violin*
DANIEL PHILLIPS, Violin
ASHLEY VANDIVER, Violin and Viola*
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
MARGARET DYER HARRIS, Viola*
THERESA RUDOLPH, Viola*
ALASTAIR ENG, Cello*
FELIX FAN, Cello
JOSEPH JOHNSON, Cello*
MARK TATUM, Double Bass*
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042 (ca. 1720) (1685–1750)
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro assai
Daniel Phillips, Daniel Jordan, Ashley Vandiver, Margaret Dyer Harris, Joseph Johnson, Mark Tatum, Kathleen McIntosh
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (1720)
[Allegro]—Adagio
Allegro
Daniel Phillips, Daniel Jordan, Jennifer Best Takeda, Margaret Dyer Harris, Theresa Rudolph, Ashley Vandiver, Joseph Johnson, Alastair Eng, Felix Fan, Mark Tatum, Kathleen McIntosh
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 (1738)
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Nicolas Namoradze, Daniel Jordan, Ashley Vandiver, Margaret Dyer Harris, Joseph Johnson, Mark Tatum
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 73
BACH PLUS Saturday, 5 p.m.
12
*Santa Fe Opera artist
AUGUST
Generously sponsored by
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
KIRILL GERSTEIN, Piano
STEFAN DOHR, Horn
DANIEL DRUCKMAN, Xylorimba
GREGORY ZUBER, Glockenspiel
ALAN GILBERT, Conductor
JENNIFER GILBERT, Violin
HARVEY DE SOUZA, Violin
L. P. HOW, Violin
ALEJANDRO VALDEPEÑAS, Violin*
ADAM BARNETT-HART, Violin
BRENDAN SPELTZ, Violin
STEVEN TENENBOM, Viola
TOBY APPEL, Viola
PIERRE LAPOINTE, Viola
KAJSA WILLIAM-OLSSON, Cello
ERIC KIM, Cello
BROOK SPELTZ, Cello
LEIGH MESH, Double Bass
TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, Piccolo
CHELSEA KNOX, Flute
RACHEL BLUMENTHAL, Flute*
BART FELLER, Alto Flute*
LIANG WANG, Oboe
ROBERT INGLISS, Oboe*
JULIA DeROSA, English Horn*
KATHERINE KOHLER, E-flat Clarinet
ANTHONY McGILL, Clarinet
TODD LEVY, Clarinet *
TAYLOR EIFFERT, Bass Clarinet *
JULIA HARGUINDEY, Bassoon*
TED SOLURI, Bassoon
LEWIS KIRK, Contrabassoon*
MARK ALMOND, Horn
JULIA PILANT, Horn
ETHAN BENSDORF, Trumpet in D
WILLIAM LEATHERS, Trumpet *
CHARLEY LEA, Trumpet *
JOSEPH ALESSI, Trombone
JONATHAN RANDAZZO, Trombone*
CHRISTOPHER BASSETT, Bass Trombone*
ROBERT KLIEGER, Percussion*
SCOTT NEY, Percussion*
JOSEPH FERRARO, Percussion*
DAVID TOLEN, Percussion*
GREGG KOYLE, Percussion*
74 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Sunday, 6 p.m. SUNDAY SERIES AUGUST
13
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Generously sponsored by
AUGUST 13
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Des canyons aux étoiles… (From the Canyons to the Stars…) (1908–92) (1971–74)
Part I
Le désert (The Desert)
Les orioles (The Orioles)
Ce qui est écrit sur les étoiles… (What Is Written in the Stars…)
Le cossyphe d’Heuglin (The White-Browed Robin-Chat)
Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte (Cedar Breaks and the Gift of Awe)
Part 2
Appel interstellaire (Interstellar Call)
Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange (Bryce Canyon and the Red-Orange Rocks)
Part 3
Les ressucités et le chant de l’étoile Aldébaran (The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran)
Le moqueur polyglotte (The Mockingbird)
La grive des bois (The Wood Thrush)
Omao, leiothrix, elepaio, shama (Omao, Leiothrix, Elepaio, Shama)
Zion Park et la cité céleste (Zion Park and the Celestial City)
This performance will last approximately 90 minutes and will not include an intermission.
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 75
Sunday, 6 p.m.
SUNDAY SERIES
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
NICOLAS NAMORADZE, Piano
KATIA SKANAVI, Piano
IDA KAVAFIAN, Violin
BENNY KIM, Violin
JOSEPH JOHNSON, Cello*
PETER STUMPF, Cello
ROBERT INGLISS, Oboe*
TODD LEVY, Clarinet *
JULIA HARGUINDEY, Bassoon*
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43 (1926) (1899–1963)
FRANCIS POULENC
Lent; Presto
Andante con moto
Rondo: Très vif
Robert Ingliss, Julia Harguindey, Katia Skanavi
Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 (1798) (1770–1827)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Theme and Variations: “Pria ch’io l’impegno”
Todd Levy, Joseph Johnson, Katia Skanavi
INTERMISSION
Suite for Piano Left Hand, Two Violins, and Cello, Op. 23 (1930) (1897–1957)
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Präludium and Fugue
Walzer
Groteske
Lied
Rondo-Finale
Nicolas Namoradze, Benny Kim, Ida Kavafian, Peter Stumpf
76 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Monday, 6 p.m. MONDAY SERIES AUGUST 14
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
*Santa Fe Opera artist
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
Generously sponsored by the Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum Memorial Fund
HAOCHEN ZHANG, Piano
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier (1817–18) (1770–1827)
Allegro
Scherzo: Assai vivace
Adagio sostenuto
Largo; Allegro risoluto
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 77
Tuesday, 12 p.m. AUGUST
MUSIC AT NOON
15
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Honoring the memory of Ronald Goldberg, MD
JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO, Mezzo-soprano
CHRISTOPHER CANO, Piano
VINCENZO BELLINI
“Vaga luna, che inargenti” (1827–35) (1801–35)
“Malinconia, Ninfa gentile” (date unknown)
“Dolente immagine di Fille mia” (1821)
“Per pietà, bell’idol mio” (date unknown)
Sechs Lieder (Six Songs), Op. 48 (1884–88) (1843–1907)
EDVARD GRIEG
Gruss
Dereinst, Gedanke mein
Lauf der Welt
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall Zur Rosenzeit Ein Traum
“L’Invitation au voyage” (1870) (1848–1933)
HENRI DUPARC
“Phidylé” (1882)
“Au pays où se fait la guerre” (1869–70)
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (1912; rev. 1915) (1873–1943)
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
JONATHAN DOVE
Nights Not Spent Alone (2015) (b. 1959)
I. Recuerdo
II. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
III. I Too Beneath Your Moon
78 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Wednesday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON AUGUST
16
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
NICOLAS NAMORADZE, Piano
KATIA SKANAVI, Piano
JENNIFER GILBERT, Violin
IDA KAVAFIAN, Violin
BENNY KIM, Violin
DANIEL PHILLIPS, Violin
TOBY APPEL, Viola
STEVEN TENENBOM, Viola
ERIC KIM, Cello
PETER STUMPF, Cello
CHELSEA KNOX, Flute
LIANG WANG, Oboe
ANTHONY McGILL, Clarinet
JULIA HARGUINDEY, Bassoon*
MARK ALMOND, Horn
Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71 (1903) (1854–1925)
MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
Allegro energico
Allegro moderato
Lento assai
Molto vivace
Jennifer Gilbert, Daniel Phillips, Katia Skanavi
Sextet for Piano and Winds in B-flat Major, Op. 6 (1861–1907) (1886–88)
LUDWIG THUILLE
Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Gavotte: Andante, quasi allegretto
Finale: Vivace
Nicolas Namoradze, Chelsea Knox, Liang Wang, Anthony McGill, Julia Harguindey, Mark Almond
INTERMISSION
String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (1859–60) (1833–97)
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Allegro ma non tanto
Andante, ma moderato
Scherzo: Allegro molto
Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
Ida Kavafian, Benny Kim, Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Eric Kim, Peter Stumpf
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 79
*Santa Fe Opera artist
WEDNESDAY SERIES Wednesday, 6 p.m. AUGUST 16
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
DOVER QUARTET
JOEL LINK, Violin
BRYAN LEE, Violin
HEZEKIAH LEUNG, Viola
CAMDEN SHAW, Cello
GEORGE WALKER
String Quartet No. 1, Lyric (1946) (1922–2018)
Allegro
Molto adagio
Allegro con fuoco
String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, Rosamunde (1824) (1797–1828)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Allegro ma non troppo
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto
Allegro moderato
80 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Thursday, 12 p.m. MUSIC AT NOON AUGUST
17
50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL RECITAL
Thursday, 6 p.m. AUGUST 17
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
SUSAN GRAHAM, Mezzo-soprano
THOMAS HAMPSON, Baritone
BRADLEY MOORE, Piano
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
“Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio” from Le nozze di Figaro (1786) (1756–91)
“Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo,” K. 584 (1789)
“Là ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni (1787)
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (1932–33) (1875–1937)
MAURICE RAVEL
Chanson romanesque
Chanson épique
Chanson à boire
Selections from Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7 (1840–41) (1803–69)
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Villanelle
Le Spectre de la rose
L’Île inconnue
Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1898) (1860–1911)
GUSTAV MAHLER
Rheinlegendchen
Lied des Verfolgten im Turm
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen
Der Schildwache Nachtlied
INTERMISSION
RICHARD RODGERS (1902–79)
FRANZ LEHÁR (1870–1948)
“If I Loved You” from Carousel (1945)
Selections from The Merry Widow (1905)
Danilo’s Aria
Vilja Song
COLE PORTER (1902–79)
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–90)
“Begin the Beguine” from Jubilee (1935)
“Fascinating Rhythm” from Lady Be Good (1924)
“Tonight” from West Side Story (1957)
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 81
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation in memory of Edgar Foster Daniels
ROBERTO CAPOCCHI, Guitar
JOAQUÍN TURINA Homenaje a Tárrega, Op. 69 (1932) (1882–1949) Garrotin
Soleares
LEO BROUWER
El arpa del guerrero (The Harp of the Warrior)
El Decameron Negro (The Black Decameron) (1981) (b. 1939)
La huída de los amantes por el Valle de los Ecos
(Fleeing of the Lovers through the Valley of the Echoes) Balada de la doncella enamorada (Ballad of the Maiden in Love)
Five Bagatelles (1971) (1902–83)
WILLIAM WALTON
Allegro Lento
Alla Cubana
Lento
Con slancio
ALBERTO GINASTERA Sonata, Op. 47 (1976) (1916–83)
Esordio
Scherzo
Canto
Finale
82 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Friday, 6 p.m. INDIAN MARKET CONCERT AUGUST
18
Generously sponsored by
JENNIFER GILBERT, Violin
L. P. HOW, Violin
DANIEL JORDAN, Violin*
IDA KAVAFIAN, Violin
BENNY KIM, Violin
DANIEL PHILLIPS, Violin
ALEJANDRO VALDEPEÑAS, Violin*
TOBY APPEL, Viola
THERESA RUDOLPH, Viola*
STEVEN TENENBOM, Viola
Saturday, 6 p.m.
AUGUST 19
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
ALASTAIR ENG, Cello*
PETER STUMPF, Cello
EDGAR MEYER, Double Bass
KATHLEEN McINTOSH, Harpsichord
ANTONIO VIVALDI
The Four Seasons, Op. 8 (1725) (1678–1741)
Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, La primavera (Spring)
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Benny Kim, solo; Jennifer Gilbert, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, L. P. How, Daniel Jordan, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Theresa Rudolph, Peter Stumpf, Alastair Eng, Edgar Meyer, Kathleen McIntosh
Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315, L’estate (Summer)
Allegro non molto
Adagio
Presto
Daniel Phillips, solo; Benny Kim, Jennifer Gilbert, Ida Kavafian, L. P. How, Daniel Jordan, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Theresa Rudolph, Peter Stumpf, Alastair Eng, Edgar Meyer, Kathleen McIntosh
Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, L’autunno (Autumn)
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Ida Kavafian, solo; Daniel Phillips, Benny Kim, Jennifer Gilbert, L. P. How, Daniel Jordan, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Theresa Rudolph, Peter Stumpf, Alastair Eng, Edgar Meyer, Kathleen McIntosh
Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, L’inverno (Winter)
Allegro non molto
Largo
Allegro
*Santa Fe Opera artist
Jennifer Gilbert, solo; Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Benny Kim, L. P. How, Daniel Jordan, Alejandro Valdepeñas, Steven Tenenbom, Toby Appel, Theresa Rudolph, Peter Stumpf, Alastair Eng, Edgar Meyer, Kathleen McIntosh
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 83
BACH PLUS
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
Generously sponsored by
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
HAOCHEN ZHANG, Piano
IDA KAVAFIAN, Violin
PETER STUMPF, Cello
EDGAR MEYER, Double Bass
DOVER QUARTET
JOEL LINK, Violin
BRYAN LEE, Violin
HEZEKIAH LEUNG, Viola
CAMDEN SHAW, Cello
String Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:77 (Op. 76, No. 3), Emperor (1797) (1732–1809)
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Allegro
Poco adagio cantabile: Theme and variations
Menuetto: Allegro
Finale: Presto
Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, Hezekiah Leung, Camden Shaw)
Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass (1995) (b. 1960) I II III IV
EDGAR MEYER
Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, Hezekiah Leung, Camden Shaw), Edgar Meyer
INTERMISSION
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 (1854; rev. 1889) (1833–97)
Allegro con brio
Scherzo: Allegro molto
Adagio non troppo
Finale
Haochen Zhang, Ida Kavafian, Peter Stumpf
84 2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season Sunday, 6 p.m. SUNDAY SERIES
AUGUST 20
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
MONDAY SERIES Monday, 6 p.m. AUGUST 21
Generously sponsored by
The Lensic Performing Arts Center
HAOCHEN ZHANG, Piano
IDA KAVAFIAN, Viola
PETER STUMPF, Cello
EDGAR MEYER, Double Bass
DOVER QUARTET
JOEL LINK, Violin
BRYAN LEE, Violin
HEZEKIAH LEUNG, Viola
CAMDEN SHAW, Cello
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (1899) (1874–1951)
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Joel Link, Bryan Lee, Hezekiah Leung, Ida Kavafian, Camden Shaw, Peter Stumpf
INTERMISSION
Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, Trout (1819) (1797–1828)
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Allegro vivace
Andante
Scherzo: Presto
Andantino: Theme and variations
Finale: Allegro giusto
Haochen Zhang, Joel Link, Hezekiah Leung, Camden Shaw, Edgar Meyer
2023 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival | 50 th Season 85
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival thanks The Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support of our concerts.
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2023 Festival Artists
For further details about the Festival’s artists, please visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org.
n Marc Neikrug (Festival Artistic Director/composer) has been the Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival since 1998. His works have been performed at major festivals and by major orchestras and opera companies around the world. Recent compositions include his Fourth Symphony, commissioned by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, which premiered the work in Hamburg in May 2022, and his Second Piano Quintet, commissioned by Music Accord for pianist Haochen Zhang and the Dover Quartet, who premiered the work at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in October 2021. Neikrug lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Dolly Naranjo, and they now have five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, Atlas and Ares.
n Joseph Alessi* (trombone) was appointed principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic in 1985. In 1990, he made his solo debut with the orchestra, performing Paul Creston’s Fantasy for Trombone and Orchestra, and in 1992, he premiered Christopher Rouse’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Trombone Concerto. Recent world-premiere performances include William Bolcom’s Trombone Concerto with the Philharmonic in 2016 and Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil in 2021. In 2002, Alessi was awarded an International Trombone Association Award for his contributions to the world of trombone music and trombone playing. He’s been a professor of trombone at The Juilliard School since 1990, and he’s a clinician for the Eastman-Shires Instrument Co. Alessi has recorded extensively for Summit Records and the Naxos label.
n Mark Almond* (horn) joined the San Francisco Symphony as associate principal horn during the 2020–21 season. He joined the San Francisco Opera Orchestra as co-principal horn in 2016, and before that, he was third horn for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. While growing up in Bolton, England, he won principal horn positions with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the European Union Youth Orchestra. Almond made his professional debut playing with the London Symphony Orchestra at age 19. Since then, he’s performed as guest principal horn with numerous ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to playing the horn, Almond is an experienced hospital physician and has a PhD in immunology and virology from Imperial College London.
n Toby Appel (viola) has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. He’s been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI and the Lenox and Audubon quartets; a guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, Alexander, and Dover quartets; and a frequent guest with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and jazz artists Chick Corea and Gary Burton. His festival appearances include Mostly Mozart; Chamber Music Northwest; the Seattle Chamber Music Society; Music from Angel Fire; the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; the Marlboro, Manchester, Colorado College Summer, and Bravo! Vail music festivals; and festivals in England, France, Korea, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Greece. Appel is a member of the viola and chamber music faculties of The Juilliard School, where he’s been teaching for more than 30 years.
n Paul Appleby (tenor) is one of the most sought-after voices of his generation. His 2022–23 season includes singing the role of Caesar in the world premiere of John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at San Francisco Opera, conducted by Eun Sun Kim; reprising his acclaimed portrayal of the title role in Bernstein’s Candide for Opéra de Lyon; and returning to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for performances of Adams’s Girls of the Golden West, conducted by the composer. Concert engagements include singing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Music of the Baroque; performing Britten’s Serenade with The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall; and appearing with the American Modern
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Opera Company, of which he's a founding core member. Appleby is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. He has an artist diploma and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
n Tony Arnold (soprano) is internationally acclaimed as a leading proponent of contemporary music. She's a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble; appears regularly with the world’s leading ensembles, presenters, and festivals; and has premiered major works written for her voice by Georges Aperghis, George Crumb, Brett Dean, Jason Eckardt, Gabriela Lena Frank, Josh Levine, George Lewis, Philippe Manoury, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Christopher Theofanidis, Ricardo ZohnMuldoon, and many others. Her extensive discography includes her Grammy-nominated recording of Crumb’s iconic Ancient Voices of Children. Arnold serves on the faculties of the Peabody Institute and the Tanglewood Music Center. Her honors include the 2015 Brandeis Creative Arts Award and first prize at both the Gaudemus International Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music and the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition.
n Inon Barnatan (piano) regularly appears with the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors and collaborates with world-class partners. He’s the music director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, and he was the inaugural artist-in-association for the New York Philharmonic. His passion for contemporary music has resulted in commissions from and performances of works by many living composers. Barnatan’s 2022–23 season includes concerto performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra; Boston, Atlanta, and San Diego symphony orchestras; Los Angeles, Royal Liverpool, Royal Stockholm, and South Netherlands philharmonic orchestras; and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Barnatan gives solo recitals in London, Kansas City, Aspen, and Santa Fe; plays chamber music at festivals throughout the US; and tours North America with Les Violons du Roy. A recent addition to Barnatan’s acclaimed discography is a two-volume set of Beethoven’s complete piano concertos recorded with Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
n Christopher Bassett (bass trombone) is the acting bass trombone for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Since 2017, he’s been the bass trombone for the Jacksonville Symphony and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He’s performed as a solo recitalist and worked with students at DePaul University, the University of Florida, the University of New Mexico, and Florida State University, and he’s the co-founder of the Santa Fe Trombone Summit, a multiday seminar. Bassett is a winner of the Steven Zellmer Trombone Competition, American Trombone Workshop (ATW) National Solo Competition, Edward Kleinhammer Orchestral Bass Trombone Competition, and International Trombone Association (ITA) Trombone Quartet Competition, and he was a Tanglewood Music Center fellow. He’s performed with the Boston, Detroit, and Indianapolis symphony orchestras; The Cleveland Orchestra; and the Boston Pops. Bassett earned his bachelor-of-music degree from the New England Conservatory. He can be heard on the Santa Fe Trombones’ debut album, Tres Amigos
n Ethan Bensdorf (trumpet) joined the New York Philharmonic’s trumpet section in 2008, after spending the 2007–08 season as acting assistant principal trumpet with the Naples Philharmonic in Florida. In 2006, he received the Armando Ghitalla International Trumpet Classic Award, and in the summers of 2006 and 2007, he was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he received the Voisin Trumpet Award. Bensdorf has coached and given masterclasses internationally at such renowned institutions as the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America and the New World Symphony. Since 2014, he’s served on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. Bensdorf has performed at the Grand Teton Music Festival and with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His discography includes the 2021 soundtrack for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Bensdorf is also a member of the Principal Brass Quintet of the New York Philharmonic.
n Jennifer Best Takeda* (violin) is assistant concertmaster of the Sarasota Orchestra, violinist of the Sarasota Piano Quartet, and a member of the violin section of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. Previously, she was a concertmaster for the New World Symphony, the concertmaster of the Crested Butte Music Festival Orchestra, and associate concertmaster of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. She’s also performed with the Naples Philharmonic, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, and the Florida, National Repertory, New York Chamber Opera, Kennedy Center Opera House, National Orchestral Institute, Breckenridge Music Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA orchestras. Best Takeda’s chamber
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music engagements have included the New York Historical Society; Columbia University’s Meet the Composers series; the Manhattan School of Music’s Claremont Ensemble; the Chroma Quartet, which she co-founded in 2008; and ensembleNewSRQ, a Sarasota-based new-music ensemble.
n Rachel Blumenthal (flute) was appointed acting flute/piccolo of the Lyric Opera Orchestra in 2022. She joins the Lyric from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where she served as acting utility flute during the 2021–22 season. Blumenthal spends her summers performing with The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, where she’s served as second flute/piccolo since 2019. Previously, she was a member of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and the Des Moines Symphony, and she spent many years performing with the Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic, and many other ensembles as a freelance Chicago musician.
n Paolo Bordignon (harpsichord) is the harpsichordist for the New York Philharmonic and the organist and choirmaster for St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. In the 2022–23 season, he appears with the Philadelphia Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Mark Morris Dance Group; Camerata Pacifica; and the New York City–based orchestra The Knights. Bordignon has collaborated with Sir James Galway, Itzhak Perlman, Reinhard Goebel, Paul Hillier, Bobby McFerrin, and Midori as well as Renée Fleming and Wynton Marsalis at The Juilliard School’s 100th Anniversary Gala. Bordignon has appeared at the Bard Music Festival in New York; on the Parlance Chamber Concerts series in New Jersey; and at festivals in Aspen, Bridgehampton, Jackson Hole, Palm Beach, and Vail. He’s also been a frequent recitalist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
n Kathleen Brauer (violin) made her solo debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at age 15. She’s a member of the first violin sections of the Lyric Opera Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and she’s an assistant concertmaster of and frequent soloist with the Music of the Baroque chamber orchestra. Previously, she was a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and the assistant concertmaster of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit. Brauer has performed with numerous other ensembles, including the Rembrandt Chamber Players, Ensemble Modern, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Civitas Ensemble, and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. She’s also appeared at the Aspen, Norfolk, Bowdoin, Hampden-Sydney, and Kolkata International music festivals. Brauer holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Yale University.
n Grace Browning (harp) is principal harp of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. She can be heard on Grammy Award–winning recordings by both ensembles: American Rapture and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, respectively. As guest principal harp, Browning has performed with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, and, most recently, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on its 2023 North American tour. An avid chamber musician, she appears regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and with the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. She also curates her own annual Santa Fe summer series, Chamber Music at San Miguel Chapel, which is held in the oldest chapel in the continental United States.
n Christopher Cano* (piano) has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, Israel, Europe, and the Far East. He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in the 2017–18 season, and he’s appeared as a collaborative pianist at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as well as on radio stations such as NPR, WQXR in New York City, and KUAT in Arizona. As a studio pianist, Cano has worked with some of the greatest vocal artists and teachers, including sopranos Marni Nixon, Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Rita Shane, and Diana Soviero; mezzo-sopranos Marilyn Horne and Patricia McCaffrey; baritone Sherrill Milnes; and tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Cano is currently the director of Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program and American Opera Initiative.
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n Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano) is acclaimed for her performances of both new and standard repertoire. In the 2022–23 season, she sings the role of Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff at The Metropolitan Opera, makes her company debut with The Atlanta Opera as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and appears with the New York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She has return engagements with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and also with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where, previously, she starred in the New York and New Mexico premieres of Marc Neikrug’s chamber opera A Song by Mahler. Other recent highlights include singing the role of Virginia Woolf in the world-premiere performance of the orchestral version of Kevin Puts’s The Hours with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and making her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by Riccardo Muti.
n Roberto Capocchi (guitar) was born in Brazil, where he studied classical guitar with Henrique Pinto and Brazilian jazz with Conrado Paulino. He later studied with Thomas Patterson at the University of Arizona and privately with Jorge Caballero. Capocchi helped design the first Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Guitar in Our Schools program at Santa Clara Pueblo’s Kha’p’o Community School, and he’s recorded three CDs of solo and chamber music. He lives in Santa Fe, where he keeps a private teaching studio and performs with Guitar New Mexico, 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, and other arts organizations.
n Choong-Jin (C. J.) Chang (viola) became principal viola of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2006 after joining the orchestra in 1994 as associate principal viola. He made his performance debut as a 12-year-old violinist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1981, at age 13, he moved to New York City to attend The Juilliard School. He went on to study in Philadelphia at Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received degrees in both violin and viola. Chang made his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2007, and since then, he’s appeared in numerous recitals in the United States and South Korea. Chang was a founding member of the acclaimed Johannes Quartet. He serves as a viola professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and, during the summer, as an artist and faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
n Harvey de Souza (violin) is principal first violin for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He’s been a member of the Academy since 1993 and has led the orchestra on tours with Sir Neville Marriner and soloists such as Joshua Bell and Julia Fischer. As a member of the Academy’s Chamber Ensemble, he’s performed extensively throughout South America, Europe, and the United States. De Souza has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Vellinger String Quartet, which won the 1994 London International String Quartet Competition. He was a principal guest director of the Lancashire Sinfonietta, and he served as the co-artistic director of the Sangat Chamber Music Festival in Mumbai from 1995 to 2015. De Souza is currently an assistant professor of violin at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse (CNSMD) in Lyon, France.
n Julia DeRosa (English horn) is principal oboe of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and second oboe and English horn of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. An accomplished freelancer based in New York City, she regularly performs with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theater, Orpheus Chamber, and Saint Paul Chamber orchestras; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; and the Baltimore, American, and New Jersey symphony orchestras. DeRosa is a faculty member at the Mannes School of Music and for The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. She attended Juilliard, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the studio of Elaine Douvas, with additional instruction from Richard Dallessio, Pedro Díaz, Nathan Hughes, and Linda Strommen.
n In the 2022–23 season, Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano) makes appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, the Houston Symphony, Opera Colorado, and the Tulsa Opera. She frequently appears with the world’s leading ensembles, including the Los Angeles, New York, Royal, and Vienna philharmonic orchestras; the Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philharmonia orchestras; the BBC, Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras; the Staatskapelle Berlin; and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others. Her numerous festival appearances include Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Bayreuth, Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Lucerne, and her opera
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engagements include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, La Scala, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris, and English National Opera, among many others. DeYoung is a multiple Grammy Award winner with an extensive discography. She recently appeared in The Metropolitan Opera’s special performance of Verdi’s Requiem, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and was broadcast nationally on PBS and released on DVD.
n Stefan Dohr (horn) has served as principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1993. Previously, he held the same position with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Deutsche SymphonieOrchester Berlin, and Bayreuth and Lucerne festival orchestras. In the 2022–23 season, he performs with the Utah, Vancouver, Royal Bangkok, and Danish National symphony orchestras; Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne; and Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra as well as on tour with the Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie. A prolific chamber musician, Dohr is a permanent member of the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, and Berlin Philharmonic Octet. He’s also appeared at the Lucerne, Salzburg, Rheingau, Baden-Baden, and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals. Dohr has an extensive discography, and he’s a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music and the Sibelius Academy as well as a permanent faculty member at the Herbert von Karajan Academy and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.
n The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet was named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine. They’re the inaugural Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, and they also hold residencies at The Kennedy Center, the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and Artosphere. Their honors include winning every prize at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, top prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the 2022–23 season, they collaborate with bassists Edgar Meyer and Joseph Conyers and pianist Haochen Zhang, and they tour Europe twice. In October 2022, Cedille Records released the third volume of the Dover’s recording of the complete Beethoven String Quartets.
n Daniel Druckman (percussion) is the associate principal percussionist for the New York Philharmonic. He’s performed at festivals around the country, and he’s appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra; on the New York Philharmonic’s Horizons and Sound ON series; on the San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music series; and in recital in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Tokyo. As a longtime member of the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae, he’s premiered works by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Oliver Knussen, Poul Ruders, and Charles Wuorinen, among others. Recent performances include the US premiere of Steve Reich’s Quartet at Carnegie Hall and the world premiere of George Crumb’s Kronos-Kryptos with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Druckman is a faculty member at The Juilliard School, where he's the chair of the Percussion Department and director of the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble. His discography includes many solo recordings.
n Taylor Eiffert (bass clarinet) will join the clarinet section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2023–24 season. Prior to his appointment to the LA Phil, he held positions with the Milwaukee and Winnipeg symphony orchestras. He’s also performed with The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra on bass clarinet for the past three seasons. Eiffert, who’s originally from Dallas, Texas, was the bass clarinet fellow for the Aspen Festival Orchestra during the 2015–17 seasons. He holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Northwestern University, where his primary teachers were Yehuda Gilad, Steve Cohen, and J. Lawrie Bloom.
n Alastair Eng (cello) is assistant principal cello of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Prior to joining the TSO, he was associate principal cello of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra. He’s served as guest principal cello for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and he’s performed with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra and the London and Calgary philharmonic orchestras. Eng has worked extensively with the Grammynominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry, and, as a chamber musician, he’s appeared at the Ravinia Festival, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Ottawa Chamberfest, and the Strings Music Festival. He also arranges music for a wide variety of instrumentations, and his scores have been
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heard across North America and Europe in venues as varied as the Musikverein in Vienna and Fenway Park in Boston.
n The Escher String Quartet is a former BBC New Generation Artist and a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. They’ve performed at the BBC Proms, and they’re regular guests at London’s Wigmore Hall and season artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In the 2022–23 season, their tour engagements include Alice Tully Hall and Bohemian National Hall in New York City; the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the Harris Theater in Chicago; New Orleans Friends of Music; Santa Fe Pro Musica; the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City; Chamber Music Cincinnati; the Florida Keys Concert Association; and, with the Emerson String Quartet, the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. They also make debuts in San Miguel de Allende and St. John. The Escher releases two albums this season: one featuring string quartets by Pierre Jalbert and one featuring Janác˘ek’s two string quartets plus Haas’s Quartet No. 2 with percussionist Colin Currie.
n Felix Fan (cello) is well known for his versatility. He’s performed chamber music with Yo-Yo Ma, János Starker, and Gil Shaham, and he’s appeared in such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Recent solo engagements include the San Diego Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, and Munich Chamber Orchestra. Fan is the founder of Muzik3, a performance series and commissioning foundation dedicated to advancing modern music with an emphasis on integrating theater, dance, and video; this led Fan, percussionist David Cossin, and pianist Andrew Russo to form the Real Quiet trio, which has premiered and recorded many works. In 2008, Fan became the cellist for the FLUX Quartet.
n Zoltán Fejérvári (piano) won first prize at the 2017 Concours Musical International de Montréal and is a recipient of a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. His 2022–23 season includes a US tour with the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, a performance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz, and engagements with Impromptu Classical Concerts in Key West, Florida; Capital Region Classical in Schenectady, New York; Music for Galway in Ireland; and Wigmore Hall and the Nicholas Yonge Society in the UK. He’s given recitals throughout Europe and the Americas in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, and, as a soloist, he’s appeared with the Budapest Strings and Verbier Festival chamber orchestras and Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Fejérvári is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Musik-Akademie Basel, in Switzerland. He released his most recent recording, Schumann, in 2020.
n Bart Feller (flute) is principal flute of the New Jersey Symphony and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He’s performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and he’s appeared at Bargemusic. Feller graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and has given recitals and classes throughout the United States. Among the summer festivals he’s participated in are the Santa Fe and Napa Valley chamber music festivals, Marlboro and Grand Teton music festivals, OK Mozart International Festival, and Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Feller is a professor of flute at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and he teaches in the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School.
n Joseph Ferraro (percussion) is a member of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, where he currently serves as acting principal percussion, and he’s played with The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra since 1985. He earned his bachelor-of-music degree from the University of Michigan and his master-ofmusic degree from Southern Methodist University. Ferraro is also an active freelance musician, having played with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, tenor Andrea Bocelli, the rock band The Who, and many others.
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n The FLUX Quartet has performed at the Tate Modern in London with BBC Radio 3; the Park Avenue Armory and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Mount Tremper Arts and EMPAC in New York State; LACMA in Los Angeles; and international festivals in Australia, Europe, and Asia. FLUX avidly pursues interdisciplinary projects, which has led to performances of new works with choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Christopher Wheeldon, balloonist Judy Dunaway, video artists OpenEndedGroup, and visual artist Matthew Barney. FLUX also actively commissions new works and has been awarded grants from many leading organizations. FLUX’s extensive discography includes the full string-quartet catalog of Morton Feldman and a live recording of the complete quartet output of Toshi Ichiyanagi. This year marks FLUX’s 10th season as the resident ensemble for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s Young Composers String Quartet Project.
n Jennifer Frautschi (violin) is a two-time Grammy Award nominee and an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. Her 2022–23 season includes appearances with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and New World Symphony, re-engagements with the New Mexico Philharmonic and Santa Rosa Symphony, and a residency at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ School of Music. During the 2022 summer season, she appeared at Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Sarasota Music Festival, Tippet Rise Arts Center, and Vivace Festival. Frautschi has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Utah symphony orchestras; Minnesota Orchestra; Florida Orchestra; Boston, Buffalo, and Rhode Island philharmonic orchestras; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center; and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo, among others. Frautschi is an artist-inresidence at Stony Brook University in New York.
n Zlatomir Fung* (cello) is the first American in four decades and the youngest musician ever to win first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division. Highlights of his 2022–23 season include giving the world premiere of a cello concerto by Katherine Balch with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and engagements with the BBC and Rochester philharmonic orchestras; Milwaukee, Reading, Lincoln, Ridgefield, and Santa Fe symphony orchestras; Baltimore Chamber Orchestra; Sarasota Orchestra; and APEX Ensemble. He plays recitals throughout North America with pianists Benjamin Hochman, Dina Vainshtein, and Janice Carissa, and tours of Europe and Asia include a recital at London’s Wigmore Hall as well as two performances at the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam festival. Fung’s numerous honors include the 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
n In the 2022–23 season, Berlin-based Kirill Gerstein (piano) serves as artist-in-residence for London’s Wigmore Hall and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and he gives concerts at home and on tour with Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Antonello Manacorda, and Erina Yashima. He also appears in recital with Christian Tetzlaff and Tabea Zimmermann and on The Concertgebouw’s Great Pianists series, and he appears with The Cleveland Orchestra; the Dresden, London, and New York philharmonic orchestras; and the Chicago, City of Birmingham, Tokyo Metropolitan, and St. Louis symphony orchestras. Gerstein’s forthcoming release for myrios classics pairs music of Debussy and Komitas. His world-premiere recording of Thomas Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra won a 2020 Gramophone Award and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. Gerstein’s honors include the Gilmore Artist Award, first prize at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
n Grammy Award winner Alan Gilbert (conductor/violin/viola) is chief conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, music director of the Royal Swedish Opera, principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Previously, he served as music director of the New York Philharmonic for eight years. Highlights of Gilbert’s 2022–23 season include leading the inaugural edition of Elbphilharmonie Visions, a biennial 10-day celebration of 21st-century music; conducting three productions and a range of concerts for the Royal Swedish Opera; and making return appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, and Royal
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Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Gilbert has conducted productions for The Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Zurich Opera, and The Santa Fe Opera, where he served as the inaugural music director. His numerous honors include being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and being named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
n Jennifer Gilbert (violin) is concertmaster of the Orchestre National de Lyon and enjoys an international career as a soloist and chamber musician. She’s toured with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and she’s collaborated with artists such as violinist Midori; pianists Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax, and Peter Serkin; and members of the Guarneri, Orion, and Juilliard string quartets. Dedicated to performing the works of American composers, she’s recorded John Harbison’s Due libri dei mottetti di Montale and Earl Kim’s Three Poems in French. Gilbert is a graduate of The Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Harvard University.
n Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), dubbed “America’s favorite mezzo” by Gramophone magazine, began her 2022–23 season with the Music from Copland House ensemble, premiering a new work called A Standing Witness, written for her by Richard Danielpour and featuring text by Rita Dove. She then sang the role of Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s The Merry Widow for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s gala concert. Additional season highlights include performing the role of Geneviève in Sir David McVicar’s production of Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande at LA Opera and reprising the role with The Santa Fe Opera. Graham recently expanded her distinguished discography with Nonesuch Records’ DVD/Blu-ray release of William Kentridge’s new treatment of Berg’s Lulu, which captures her celebrated role debut as Countess Geschwitz at The Metropolitan Opera. Graham’s numerous honors include being awarded the French government’s prestigious Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur for her popularity as a performer in France and in recognition of her commitment to French music.
n William Hagen (violin) has an operatic repertoire that comprises more than 80 roles, and his discography includes more than 170 albums, with multiple nominations and winners of the GRAMMY Award, Edison Award, and Grand Prix du Disque. Highlights of his 2022–23 season include a gala concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; singing Mahler songs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Bamberger Symphoniker, and MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra; and playing a vital role in the Mahler Festival Leipzig. He also returns to the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where he appears with Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón, and to the Opéra national de Paris for his role debut as Richard Nixon in John Adams’s Nixon in China, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Hampson is a Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France. In 2017, he and his longtime collaborator, pianist Wolfram Rieger, received the Hugo Wolf Medal.
n Thomas Hampson* (baritone) has an operatic repertoire that comprises more than 80 roles, and his discography includes more than 170 albums, with multiple nominations and winners of the Grammy Award, Edison Award, and Grand Prix du Disque. Highlights of his 2022–23 season include a gala concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; singing Mahler songs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Bamberger Symphoniker, and MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra; and playing a vital role in the Mahler Festival Leipzig. He also returns to the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where he appears with Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón, and to the Opéra national de Paris for his role debut as Richard Nixon in John Adams’s Nixon in China, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Hampson is a Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the Republic of France. In 2017, he and his longtime collaborator, pianist Wolfram Rieger, received the Hugo Wolf Medal.
n Argentinian-born Julia Harguindey (bassoon) joined the Nashville Symphony and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra as principal bassoon at the beginning of the 2016–17 season. She’s performed with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and as a guest principal bassoon with numerous ensembles, including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy (in Québec). After arriving in Montréal in 1991, Harguindey studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and, later, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her teachers have included Daniel Matsukawa and Mathieu Harel.
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n Margaret Dyer Harris (viola) is assistant principal viola of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and a member of the New York City–based orchestra The Knights. She was a founding member of the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry, and she’s performed with various other ensembles, such as ECCO and the Moscow, Orpheus, and Saint Paul chamber orchestras. Harris has appeared as guest principal viola with the Sarasota, Santa Fe Opera, and Princeton Symphony orchestras and the Brooklyn and Long Island philharmonics. She’s been a guest artist and teacher at the Guildhall School of Music in London, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, and she’s given masterclasses in Mexico City, Lima, Abu Dhabi, and cities across the United States. She was also a fellow in Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program and a guest artist in its Musical Connections program.
n Chad Hoopes* (violin) won first prize at the Young Artists Division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 2008, and in 2017, he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Recent or upcoming highlights include performances with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Hoopes has also performed with the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, National, and Frankfurt Radio symphony orchestras; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He frequently appears with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and he’s given recitals on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in New York City and at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Tonhalle Zürich, and Louvre Museum in Paris. Hoopes’s discography includes works by Mendelssohn, Adams, Bernstein, and Dvorˇák. He’s on the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and is a sought-after masterclass teacher.
n L. P. How (violin) has been a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1980 and frequently appears with the conductorless group as concertmaster and soloist. He’s the former concertmaster of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and a former member of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and he’s regularly engaged as the concertmaster of the Monterey Symphony. An active soloist and chamber musician, How has toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia with Orpheus and many other ensembles; appeared with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and performed at the Caramoor, Spoleto, Lockenhaus, and Moab chamber music festivals. He’s appeared at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival every season since 2002.
n Paul Huang (violin) is the recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. During the 2022–23 season, he opens the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan’s season, makes debuts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Hiroshima and Dallas symphony orchestras, and appears with the Buffalo and Fort Wayne philharmonic orchestras and the Colorado, San Diego, and Pensacola symphony orchestras. His recital and chamber music engagements include returns to The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Camerata Pacifica; a recital debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott; and appearances at Wolf Trap and The Rockefeller University and with Washington Performing Arts, The Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, and Chamber Music San Francisco. In January 2023, Huang launched the Paul Huang & Friends International Chamber Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, in association with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.
n Robert Ingliss (oboe) is principal oboe of the New Jersey Symphony and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He’s premiered solo and chamber music works by numerous composers, including Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Marc-André Dalbavie, Henri Dutilleux, and Charles Wuorinen. He’s performed in more than 30 countries on five continents, and, as a soloist, his engagements have included the American Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, League of Composers/ISCM Chamber Players, New Jersey Symphony, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Santa Fe Pro Musica; and the Washington Square Music Festival, among others. Ingliss has taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Purchase, and the University of Connecticut.
n Joseph Johnson (cello) is principal cello of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. Recent solo performances include Dvorˇák’s Cello Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra,
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and Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Niagara Symphony Orchestra. Johnson has given the Canadian premieres of Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto with the Esprit Orchestra and Miguel del Aguila’s Concierto en Tango with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well as the North American premieres of Peter Eotvos’s Cello Concerto Grosso with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Marc-Andre Dalbavie’s Cello Concerto with the Esprit Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Johnson appears in recitals and concerts around the world. He’s also an assistant professor of cello at the University of Toronto, the cello coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, and a coach and teacher at the New World Symphony orchestral academy.
n Daniel Jordan (violin) is concertmaster of the Sarasota Orchestra, principal second violinist of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and director of artistic planning for the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota. Formerly, he was assistant principal first violinist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. He’s played as concertmaster for the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, and Erie Philharmonic; performed in the violin section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, and Florida Orchestra; and returned twice to lead the New World Symphony as concertmaster in alumni concerts. He’s also spent summers serving as concertmaster of the National Repertory Orchestra, assistant concertmaster of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and a member of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Recent summer appearances include the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
n In 2019, Ida Kavafian (violin/viola) completed her 35-year tenure as artistic director of the Music from Angel Fire chamber music festival in New Mexico. A frequent artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for more than 40 years and the former violinist of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Kavafian currently performs as a soloist; in recital with her sister, violinist Ani Kavafian; as a guest with distinguished ensembles; and as a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music. She’s premiered many new works, and she’s the founder of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival in Colorado and the co-founder of the ensembles TASHI, OPUS ONE, and Trio Valtorna. She holds the Nina von Maltzahn Chair in Violin Studies at Curtis, where she was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Kavafian also breeds, trains, and shows prizewinning Hungarian vizsla dogs.
n Benny Kim (violin) is first violinist for the Miami String Quartet and is known for his versatility as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Engagements include recital appearances at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; festival appearances in Santa Fe, Savannah, and Angel Fire; and concertos with the Chicago, Boston, and St. Louis symphony orchestras. Kim is an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, and he appears on several recordings.
n Eric Kim (cello) made his solo debut at age 15 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he’s served as principal cello of, and been a featured soloist with, the Cincinnati, Denver, and San Diego symphony orchestras. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An active chamber musician, he’s performed with such artists as pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Stephen Hough; violinists Joshua Bell and Jaime Laredo; mezzo-soprano Susan Graham; and cellist Lynn Harrell. Kim has also toured Europe, South America, and Israel as a member of the Pinchas Zukerman and Friends chamber ensemble.
n Lewis Kirk (contrabassoon) is a member of the orchestras of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Santa Fe Opera, playing bassoon and contrabassoon. He performs regularly at the Bach Week Festival in Evanston, Illinois, and with the Chicago Philharmonic and the Music of the Baroque chorus and orchestra. His music studies were at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Kirk is a former member of the Städtischen Orchester of Bremerhaven, Germany, and the New Orleans Symphony. He’s recorded music of Villa-Lobos and Badings for Albany Records and music of Ned Rorem for Cedille Records. His own original compositions are published by Prairie Dawg Press. Kirk is also a lecturer on bassoon at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
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n Since 2011, Robert Klieger (percussion) has been part of the Milwaukee Symphony and Santa Fe Opera orchestras, where he serves as principal percussionist. Previously, he was a member of the West Virginia and Canton symphony orchestras, and he completed a fellowship with the New World Symphony, where, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, he performed as both an orchestra member and a soloist. Klieger has also appeared with the Chicago, Detroit, Hawai’i, Kansas City, St. Louis, and San Diego symphony orchestras, and he’s toured internationally with The Cleveland Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. In the 2019–20 season, he joined the San Francisco Symphony for a one-year appointment as percussionist. His summer festival appearances include the Verbier, Aspen, and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals and the Center for World Music Workshop and Festival in Bali.
n Chelsea Knox* (flute) is principal flute of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Previously, she was assistant principal flute of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and principal flute of the New Haven and Princeton symphony orchestras. An active orchestral and chamber musician, Knox has appeared with such ensembles as the Seattle, Vancouver, and San Diego symphony orchestras and the IRIS Orchestra. As a soloist, she’s performed concertos with the Baltimore, Princeton, Hartford, and Manchester symphony orchestras; Juilliard Lab Orchestra; and Connecticut Youth Symphony. Her honors include winning the New York Flute Club Young Artists Competition and the Hartford Symphony Young Artists Competition. Knox earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School.
n Katherine Kohler (clarinet) joined the Nashville Symphony in the fall of 2018 as assistant principal clarinet and E-flat clarinet. From 2016 to 2018, she was second clarinet of The Phoenix Symphony, and prior to that she spent three years with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. She’s also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, and, since 2011, The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. Her chamber music engagements have included the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, the Downtown Chamber Series (in Phoenix, Arizona), Chamber Music Milwaukee, and the Roma Trio, appearing on WFMT’s weekly Saturday-morning program Introductions. A dedicated teacher, Kohler is an instructor for the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando program, and, in the summer, she teaches high school students at the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Wisconsin. Kohler is also an active recording-studio musician.
n Mark Kosower (cello) is principal cello of The Cleveland Orchestra. He’s performed as a soloist with many of the world’s leading conductors, and he’s appeared with the Orchestre de Paris; Florida and Minnesota orchestras; Hong Kong and Rotterdam philharmonic orchestras; and Bamberg, China National, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, North Carolina, Oregon, Phoenix, and Seattle symphony orchestras. Festival appearances include the Santa Fe and North Shore chamber music festivals and the Aspen, Pacific, and Ravinia music festivals. Kosower teaches masterclasses at Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel Valley, California, every summer, and he works with students in lessons and masterclasses with, among others, the New World Symphony fellowship program, Carnegie Hall’s NYO-USA program, the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, and the Baccarelli Institute in Sao Paulo. His discography includes recordings on several labels.
n Gregg Koyle (percussion) is a percussionist and orchestra manager, and for 21 seasons he served as the principal timpanist and orchestra manager for Sarasota Opera. He’s been the orchestra manager for The Santa Fe Opera since 2005, and he played on the opera’s Grammy-nominated recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain and Grammy-winning recording of Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. He’s performed as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestral musician throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, and he’s appeared at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival USA. Koyle taught percussion at the Interlochen Arts Camp and was on the faculty of Texas Tech University, where he co-directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble.
n Charley Lea (trumpet), a native of Charlotte, Michigan, is principal trumpet of the Grand Rapids Symphony. Lea joined the Grand Rapids Symphony in 1991 and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra in 1994. Prior to joining the Grand Rapids Symphony, he was principal trumpet of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra in Detroit. He’s played numerous times with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and with the Festival of Two Worlds in both Charleston, South Carolina, and Spoleto, Italy. As a soloist, Lea has appeared several times with the Grand Rapids
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Symphony, including in a premiere of a concerto for brass trio by James Stephenson. Lea is a devoted teacher and maintains a studio of private students. He’s a graduate of the University of Michigan, and he’s served on the faculties of Grand Valley State University, Hope College, and Aquinas College.
n William Leathers* (trumpet) is the principal trumpet for The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Nashville Symphony. He’s also a substitute trumpet player for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Leathers has performed with several other notable ensembles, including the American Brass Quintet, New York Philharmonic Brass, Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, and National Brass Ensemble. He’s a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship, the inaugural Fendi Vanguard Award, and a Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award. The Mississauga Music Awards named him Musician of the Year in 2020. In addition to speaking for organizations such as the Pinball Clemons Foundation and the Lifelong Leadership Institute, Leathers served as a jury member for the Glenn Gould Foundation for the 2022 Glenn Gould Prize and the 2022 Toronto Arts Council grants. Leathers earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School.
n Jessica Lee (violin) has built a multifaceted career as a soloist, a chamber musician, and, since 2016, the assistant concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra. She was the grand-prize winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and her solo engagements have included the Pilsen Philharmonic, Malaysia Festival Orchestra, and Houston, Grand Rapids, Spokane, and Gangnam symphony orchestras. She’s given recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City, the Rudolfinum in Prague, and The Phillips Collection and The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as well as on the Ravinia Festival’s Rising Stars series in Illinois. Lee was a member of the Johannes Quartet and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. She’s toured frequently with Musicians from Marlboro, and she toured with the Guarneri Quartet during their farewell season. Her festival appearances include Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Seoul Spring, Caramoor, Olympic, and Music@Menlo.
n Yura Lee* (violin/viola) has performed with such leading ensembles as the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles and New York philharmonics, and Baltimore, Chicago, and San Francisco symphony orchestras. She’s also given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Brussels’s Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Lee is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and she regularly appears with Caramoor and the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Marlboro Music Festival, Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. Her numerous honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant; top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions; first prize across four categories at the 2013 ARD International Music Competition; and a Diapason d’Or for her CD Mozart in Paris with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie. Lee is a professor at the USC Thornton School of Music.
n Todd Levy (clarinet) is principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He’s a four-time Grammy Award winner, and he’s performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City and with the Israel Philharmonic. He’s appeared with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, Ying, Miró, and Miami string quartets and with Pinchas Zukerman, Christoph Eschenbach, and Mitsuko Uchida. He’s served as guest principal clarinet for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Levy’s two solo CDs for Avie Records are Rhapsodie, featuring 20th-century classics for clarinet, and a recording of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas and works by Schumann. Levy is on the clarinet faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.
n Cho-Liang Lin (violin) launched his career playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta. He’s since performed as a soloist with virtually all the major orchestras. Recent solo engagements include the Munich, New York, and Royal philharmonic orchestras and the Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville, and Toronto symphony orchestras. Many leading composers have written works for him, including John Harbison, Tan Dun, John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower, among others. Lin joined the faculty
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of The Juilliard School in 1991, and in 2006, he became a professor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He was the music director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest for 18 years, and he currently serves as artistic director of the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. Recently, he founded the Taipei Music Academy and Festival. Lin’s recordings have been honored with Gramophone’s Record of the Year Award, Penguin Guide Rosettes, and Grammy Award nominations.
n In the 2022–23 season, Grammy Award winner Ana María Martínez (soprano) returns to The Metropolitan Opera to sing Donna Elvira in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, directed by Ivo van Hove and conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, and she returns to LA Opera to sing the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by James Conlon. She also appears at the Toronto Summer Music Festival as a guest teaching artist and in a concert with pianist Craig Terry, and she performs as a guest artist with the Music Academy of the West. Recent highlights include singing the title role in Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with Lyric Opera of Chicago and Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Palm Beach Opera as well as role debuts as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte with Washington National Opera and Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca with Opera Philadelphia, a role she sang again with Cincinnati Opera.
n Anthony McGill (clarinet) is principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, the first African American principal player in the organization’s history. He appears as a soloist with top ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Detroit symphony orchestras. In 2009, he performed alongside violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianist Gabriela Montero at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering a piece by John Williams. McGill is a collaborator of the Brentano, Daedalus, Guarneri, JACK, Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, Takács, and Tokyo string quartets, and he performs with such leading artists as violinists Gil Shaham and Midori and pianists Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Gloria Chien, Yefim Bronfman, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang. McGill serves on The Juilliard School faculty and is the artistic director for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program. He holds the William R. and Hyunah Yu Brody Distinguished Chair at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2020, he received the Avery Fisher Prize.
n Kathleen McIntosh (harpsichord) has been a Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival artist since 1996. She’s performed at festivals in the United States, Cuba, Japan, Peru, Spain, and Germany, and she’s appeared as a soloist with chamber orchestras in Russia, Vietnam, and many places in between. As a teacher, McIntosh regularly travels to Havana, Lima, and Opole (Poland). She’s premiered works by Melinda Wagner, Leo Brower, John Steinmetz, Carl Mansker, and many other composers, and she’s performed in New Mexico, where she lives, with Chatter, Severall Friends, the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Symphony, and many chamber ensembles.
n Leigh Mesh (double bass) is associate principal bass of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He’s a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, and he's taught masterclasses at the Cincinnati Conservatory, The Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the New World Symphony orchestral academy in Miami Beach. He’s performed regularly at the Verbier Festival and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and with the Met Chamber Ensemble, Brentano Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, and Caramoor Virtuosi.
n Edgar Meyer (double bass/composer) has been hailed by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument.” In 2000, he became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize, and in 2002, he was recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship. Meyer has won five Grammy Awards, including for The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, and Stuart Duncan, and his album Appalachia Waltz, with Ma and Mark O’Connor, remained at the top of the charts for 16 weeks. His works have been performed by violinists Joshua Bell and Hilary Hahn; the Academy of St Martin in the Fields; the Saint Paul and Los Angeles chamber orchestras; the Alabama, Boston, Detroit, Nashville, and Toronto symphony orchestras; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and many others. Meyer is a visiting professor at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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n For more than 30 years, the Miami String Quartet has been one of America’s top-rank chamber music ensembles. Highlights of recent seasons include performances at the 92nd Street Y and Alice Tully Hall in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; and venues in cities such as Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Lausanne, and Paris. The group has served as quartet-in-residence at the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University since 2004, and they’ve appeared at Chamber Music Northwest and the Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Kent Blossom, and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals. They’ve commissioned and premiered works by Bruce Adolphe, Ricky Ian Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Philip Maneval, Roberto Sierra, Robert Starer, Augusta Read Thomas, Joan Tower, Pe teris Vasks, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Their honors include Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
n Grammy Award winner Jennifer Montone (horn) is principal horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Previously, she was principal horn of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and associate principal horn of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She’s also appeared as a guest artist with the Berlin and New York philharmonics and the Cleveland, Metropolitan Opera, Saint Paul Chamber, and Orpheus Chamber orchestras. She performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Santa Fe and Lake Champlain chamber music festivals; Strings, Bravo Vail!, and Marlboro music festivals; National Brass Ensemble; La Jolla Chamber Music Society’s SummerFest; Bay Chamber Concerts; and Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy. She’s a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Her honors include winning an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006 and the Bob Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year Award in 1996.
n Bradley Moore (piano) has appeared in recital with mezzo-sopranos Susan Graham and Jamie Barton; sopranos Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, and Angela Meade; bass-baritones Ryan Speedo Green and Eric Owens; and tenor Eric Cutler, among others. He’s been a piano soloist with such orchestras as the National Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, performed the Martinů Harpsichord Concerto with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for the world premiere of Mark Morris’s Beaux, and appeared as a recitative accompanist and continuo player with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Met Chamber Ensemble. As a conductor, Moore has served as associate music director of the Houston Grand Opera and assistant conductor of The Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Canadian Opera Company, Opera National de Paris, and LA Opera.
n Kevin Murphy* (piano) is a leading figure in the world of classical vocal music. He’s a professor of music in collaborative piano and the director of coaching and music administration for the IU Opera Theater at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He frequently serves as a guest vocal coach for The Santa Fe Opera, and in 2023 he’s a guest coach for LA Opera. From 1993 to 2006, Murphy was an assistant conductor at The Metropolitan Opera. Murphy has collaborated in concerts and recitals with numerous leading artists. He's appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, Music@Menlo, and other venues and festivals in the US and abroad. He’s recorded for the EMI, Centaur, Arabesque, and Koch labels. n Nicolas Namoradze (piano) came to international attention in 2018, when he won the triennial Honens International Piano Competition. He’s been named a Gramophone One to Watch and a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star, and he won the 2020–21 Young Talent Award from the Music Section of the Critics’ Circle. Highlights of Namoradze’s 2022–23 season include residencies with the Toronto Summer Music festival, Honens, and the Grand Piano Series in Florida; recital appearances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Le Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Beethovenfest in Germany, the Miami International Piano Festival, Kulturpalast Dresden, and LuganoMusica, among others; a tour of recitals for piano and electronic marimba with Lukas Ligeti to mark György Ligeti’s centenary; and concerto performances with multiple Canadian orchestras of a new work written for him by Kati Agócs. Namoradze’s acclaimed discography includes Arabesque, which features his own compositions alongside works by Schumann.
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n Scott Ney (percussion) is an active educator and performer specializing in contemporary solo and chamber ensemble music. He’s appeared at festivals and universities throughout the United States and Europe; at several Percussive Arts Society International Conventions; the International Festival of Percussive Arts Perkusja in Warsaw, Poland; Cologne Cathedral, St. Agnes Church, and Brauweiler Abbey in Germany; and, most recently, at venues in Strasbourg, Nuremberg, and Würzburg. A faculty member at the University of New Mexico since 1998, Ney serves as the Department of Music undergraduate coordinator, an associate professor of music, and the director of percussion studies. He’s served as a timpanist with the Opera Southwest Orchestra and as a percussionist with the New Mexico Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and Santa Fe Symphony. Ney attended the Boston Conservatory, Eastern Illinois University, and the University of Washington.
n Tara Helen O’Connor (flute) is an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, a season artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and a Wm. S. Haynes Flute Artist. She’s premiered hundreds of new works and is a frequent performer at numerous festivals, including Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Bravo! Vail Music Festival. O’Connor is a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape and a founding member of the Naumburg Award–winning New Millennium Ensemble. She’s on the faculties of the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and she’s a visiting artist, teacher, and coach at The Royal Conservatory in Toronto. O’Connor and her husband, violinist Daniel Phillips, are the artistic directors of the Music from Angel Fire festival in New Mexico.
n Garrick Ohlsson (piano) is one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Chopin, and he also commands an enormous repertoire that spans the entire piano literature. His 2022–23 season includes a US tour with Poland’s Apollon Musagète Quartet and appearances with orchestras in Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, San Diego, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Since the resumption of concert activity in the summer of 2021, Ohlsson has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, Seattle, and Toronto symphony orchestras; in recital in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Houston; at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals; and on tour in the US with pianist Kirill Gerstein. Ohlsson has an extensive discography, and his numerous honors include the gold medal at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, the Avery Fisher Prize, and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit from the Polish Deputy Culture Minister.
n Heiichiro Ohyama (viola) made his Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut in 1977, and from 1991 to 1997, he served as the Festival’s artistic director. He’s currently the artistic director of Music Dialogue in Japan, artistic director and music director of the Lobero Theatre Chamber Music Festival in Santa Barbara, and artistic director of the Chanel Pygmalion Chamber Music Series in Tokyo. Previously, he was the founding artistic director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, music director and conductor of the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, music director of the Nagasaki Music Festival, principal chief conductor of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Symphony Orchestra, and a professor of music at the University of California. Ohyama also served as principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 13 years and as the orchestra’s assistant conductor for almost four years.
n Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola) is one of the most sought-after violists of her generation. In addition to appearances as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, she’s performed in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, including her acclaimed 2011 debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall. Pajaro-van de Stadt is the founding violist of the Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, which she played with from 2008 to 2022. Her numerous awards include first prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the Tokyo International Viola Competition and Sphinx Competition.
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Daniel Phillips (violin) is a founding member of the 36-year-old Orion String Quartet, and he’s the co-artistic director of the Music from Angel Fire chamber music festival with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor. He’s appeared as a soloist with the Boston, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, and Yakima symphony orchestras, and his festival appearances include Chamber Music Northwest, the Spoleto Festival USA, and the Chesapeake Music Festival. He’s performed at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival every season since 1979, and he’s participated in the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England, since its inception. Phillips’s faculty appointments include the Mannes School of Music, The Juilliard School, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the summer faculties of the Heifetz International Music Institute and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford. In September, he judges the Bartók World Competition in Budapest.
n Julia Pilant (horn) is assistant principal horn of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a horn instructor at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Before joining The Met, she was principal horn of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for 10 years. She’s also played principal horn for the Saito Kinen and Tokyo Opera Nomori music festivals and the Mito Chamber Orchestra in Japan under Music Director Seiji Ozawa, and she’s performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Stamford and American symphony orchestras, and New York City Ballet, Orpheus Chamber, and New York City Opera orchestras. Pilant has been a guest artist with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and her festival appearances include Classical Tahoe, Mainly Mozart, OK Mozart, and Affinis (in Japan); the Santa Fe, Bard, and Strings chamber music festivals; and the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy and La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest. In 1994, she won the American Horn Competition.
n Rachel Barton Pine (violin) performs with the world's leading orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Chicago, Vienna, and Detroit symphony orchestras. In the 2022–23 season, Pine joins composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery for a Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW performance of a duo-violin work Montgomery wrote for her. Her solo appearances include engagements with the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Berkeley and Grand Rapids symphony orchestras. She also performs for LMMC Concerts in Montréal and with harpsichordist Jory Vinikour at Milwaukee’s Early Music Now, and she appears on the Purdue University Northwest Sinai Forum series. Pine also releases two albums this season: Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th Anniversary Edition and Malek Jandali: Concertos, on which she plays the composer’s Violin Concerto with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop.
n Laura Poe* (piano) is in her 12th season serving on the music staff of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Previously, she worked at San Francisco Opera, De Nationale Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and the Semperoper Dresden, where she made her professional conducting debut. Poe has taught as a vocal coach at the Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival and School, and American Institute of Music Studies (AIMS) in Graz, among others. A graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she’s trained under the tutelage of world-class musicians, conductors, and directors. She works closely with the composer John Adams as both a pianist and an editor of the piano-vocal arrangements of his recent operas. Poe has her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a graduate diploma from Juilliard.
n Movses Pogossian* (violin) made his American debut in 1990, performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Boston Pops. He's a laureate of several competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition, and performs extensively worldwide. Pogossian is a devoted chamber musician, and he’s appeared with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets and with artists such as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Harrell, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. He frequently collaborates with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, teaching annually at their summer music festival in New Hampshire. A committed champion of new music, Pogossian has premiered more than 100 works and collaborates closely with composers such as György Kurtág, Kaija Saariaho, Tigran Mansurian, Gabriela Lena Frank, and many others.
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Pogossian has an extensive discography, and he’s a professor of violin at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the founding director of the UCLA Armenian Music Program.
n Juho Pohjonen (piano) performs widely in Europe, Asia, and North America. In the 2022–23 season, he appears at several summer festivals, including the ChamberFest Cleveland, the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and the Peninsula Music Festival in Wisconsin as well as on The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Summer Evenings series in New York City. Pohjonen makes concerto appearances with the German Radio Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, and Taiwan Philharmonic, and his recital engagements include the Steinway Society in California’s Bay Area; The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida; the Weis Center at Bucknell University; and, with cellist Inbal Segev, the Howland Chamber Music Circle in Beacon, New York. Pohjonen’s most recent recording features Schumann’s Drei Fantasiestücke and cello sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, all performed with Segev. As a member of the Sibelius Trio, he released a recording in honor of the centennial of Finland’s independence.
n Jonathan Randazzo (trombone) was appointed principal trombone of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the 2023–24 season. Previously, he was assistant principal trombone of the North Carolina Symphony. In August 2017, Randazzo was appointed second trombone of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and since the summer of 2021, he’s served as the orchestra’s acting principal trombone. Randazzo was an adjunct trombone professor at NC State University from 2015 to 2022, and over the past several years, he’s been hired as a guest artist-clinician at DePaul University, the UNC School of the Arts, Gardner-Webb University, and East Carolina and Appalachian state universities. He’s also a founding member of the Santa Fe Trombone Summit, an educational trombone workshop featuring masterclasses, sectionals, and performances.
n CarlaMaria Rodrigues (viola) has been principal viola of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra since 1996. Chamber music activities have taken her around the world with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin, Rudolf Serkin, Steven Isserlis, and Daniel Hope. She’s toured in Europe, South America, Israel, and Australia as a member of the Pinchas Zukerman and Friends chamber ensemble, and she’s been an active participant at the Sangat Chamber Music Festival; Marlboro, Savannah, and Schleswig-Holstein music festivals; and Aldeburgh, Gstaad Menuhin, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals, among others. Rodrigues has been a regular guest instructor at the Jerusalem Music Centre and an adjunct professor of viola at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her 2023 engagements include return appearances with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood, and IMS Prussia Cove and serving as a guest teacher for the week-long intensive study course VIVACE . . . ma non troppo! in Florence, Italy.
n Theresa Rudolph (viola) is assistant principal viola of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a member of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, where this summer she serves as acting principal viola. She began her orchestral career at age 21, as the youngest member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and she’s performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. Her chamber music appearances include the Vancouver and Great Lakes chamber music festivals, Ottawa Chamberfest, and New Music Detroit. She also regularly performs as a member of the TSO Chamber Soloists and has been featured on CBC/Radio-Canada. Rudolph serves on the faculty of the University of Toronto, and she’s the viola coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. She earned her bachelor-of-music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. While studying at CIM, she toured and recorded with the Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, was a prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and performed at Carnegie Hall.
n Katia Skanavi* (piano) is equally active as a soloist and chamber musician. She’s based in Moscow and Berlin and has collaborated with the major orchestras in Russia and with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, the Orchestre National de France, and the Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Tokyo symphony orchestras. She’s also given recitals in Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Vienna, and New York. Interested in crossgenre collaborations, Skanavi has been involved in creating theater works that combine poetry, music, video projections, and dance. Skanavi’s discography includes an all-Chopin recital on the Pro Piano label that Gramophone magazine selected as their record of the month. She was a multiple
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prizewinner in the finals of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, and she won further prizes at the Van Cliburn competition in Fort Worth and the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens.
n Ted Soluri (bassoon) has been principal bassoon of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2015. Previously, he held the same position with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He’s made numerous solo appearances, including with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2020 in a concerto he commissioned from Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate called Ghost of the White Deer. In 2019, he began teaching at Southern Methodist University. Before that, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He’s also given masterclasses at Florida State, Northwestern, and McGill universities and at the Eastman School of Music, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, and New World Symphony orchestral academy. In 2022, Soluri released his second recording, Songs of Late Season, which features French music for bassoon and harp.
n Peter Stumpf (cello) is a professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Previously, he was principal cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and associate principal cello of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Stumpf is a member of the Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio and a former member of the Johannes Quartet. He’s appeared at many of the leading chamber music festivals, and he’s performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and venues in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Boston and Los Angeles philharmonics, among other ensembles. As a recitalist, Stumpf has performed at the Universities of Hartford and Delaware, Syracuse University, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Phillips Collection and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Stumpf ‘s honors include first prize at the Washington International Competition, Graham-Stahl Competition, and Aspen Concerto Competition.
n Mark Tatum (double bass) is a member of The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, principal bass of the Opera Southwest Orchestra, and assistant principal bass of the New Mexico Philharmonic. He’s performed with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Germany, the Moab Music Festival, the Cascade Festival of Music, and numerous regional orchestras throughout the inner mountain West. Tatum is active in jazz music and in composing for string ensemble. After teaching at the University of New Mexico for 30 years, he retired in 2019. Tatum began playing with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 1989.
n Steven Tenenbom (viola) has a distinguished career as a chamber musician, soloist, recitalist, and teacher. A recipient of the Coleman Chamber Music Award and a former member of the Galimir Quartet, he’s currently a member of the Orion String Quartet, TASHI, and the piano quartet OPUS ONE. He’s appeared as a guest artist with ensembles and organizations such as the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets, the Beaux Arts and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trios, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Tenenbom has performed as a soloist with the Utah Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and he’s toured with the Brandenburg Ensemble throughout the United States and Japan. His festival appearances include the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, and the Aspen, Marlboro, June, and Bravo! Vail music festivals. Tenenbom serves on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School, Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Mannes School of Music.
n Craig Terry (piano) regularly performs with the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. His 2022–23 recital schedule includes more than 40 performances in North America, Europe, and Asia. Terry is the music director of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago and artistic director of Beyond the Aria, a highly acclaimed recital series presented by the Harris Theater in collaboration with the Ryan Opera Center and Lyric. Previously, he was an assistant conductor at The Metropolitan Opera after joining the organization’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. As a chamber musician, Terry has collaborated with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Pro Arte String Quartet. Terry’s latest recording project, Songplay, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, received the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
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n David Tolen (percussion) is the principal percussionist for the Santa Fe Symphony. He regularly appears at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and he performs as a timpanist with the Santa Fe Pro Musica chamber orchestra. Tolen has been a percussionist with The Santa Fe Opera since 2000, and previously he was the principal percussionist for Sarasota Opera. The Spoleto Festival USA featured him as a soloist, and he’s toured throughout Japan in percussion ensemble concerts and a series of youth concerts with marimbist Mayumi Hama. Tolen has performed and recorded Marc Neikrug’s Through Roses with violinist Pinchas Zukerman, and his discography includes recordings on the Equilibrium and Koch International recording labels.
n Alejandro Valdepeñas* (violin) joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the 2022–23 season as associate principal viola. A native of Toronto, Canada, Valdepeñas made his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and violinist Sarah Chang at the age of nine. Recent engagements include performances and recordings with the Amici Chamber Ensemble and The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists. He’s also performed with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and he’s spent multiple summers performing as a violinist with The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. His summer engagements have also included the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival at Yale University. Valdepeñas received his bachelor-of-music degree from the New England Conservatory and his master-of-music degree from Rice University.
n Ashley Vandiver (violin/viola) is the fourth-chair viola in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and a violinist in The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra during the summer. Previously, she was a violinist in the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Vandiver was a founding member and rotating concertmaster of the Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry. She’s also performed regularly with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, and the New York City–based orchestra The Knights. She’s performed at chamber music and orchestral festivals across North America and Europe, including Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein, Yellow Barn, and Verbier, where she held the position of principal second violin in the festival’s orchestra. Vandiver has served on the violin faculties of the University of Ottawa, Wellesley College, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Project STEP.
n Gilles Vonsattel (piano) is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and the winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions. He’s appeared with the Munich Philharmonic, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, and Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, and San Francisco symphony orchestras. He's also appeared in recital and chamber music concerts at the Ravinia, Lucerne, Bravo! Vail Music, and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals; Chamber Music Northwest; Music@Menlo; Tokyo’s Musashino Hall; and London’s Wigmore Hall. Recent highlights include performing at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium with The Orchestra Now, appearing with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, making his Mainly Mozart debut, and releasing a critically acclaimed recording of music by Richard Strauss and Kurt Leimer with The Bern Symphony Orchestra and Mario Venzago. Vonsattel is a professor of piano at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a faculty member at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
n Liang Wang (oboe) is principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic, which he joined in 2006, and he’s performed as a concerto soloist with the orchestra dozens of times. He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in April 2011, and he’s appeared as a soloist with Les Violons du Roy and the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai and Guangzhou symphony orchestras, and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, among other ensembles. An active chamber musician, Wang marks his 16th season appearing with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival this summer. He’s also performed at Music from Angel Fire and the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest and with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Wang is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, and he’s given masterclasses at the Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and Curtis Institute of Music; Seoul National University; New York University; and the Beijing, Cincinnati, Shanghai, Hanoi, and Singapore conservatories.
n Kajsa William-Olsson (cello) has been a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996. In 2001, she was awarded Sweden’s Gunnar de Frumerie Prize in Music and made her US debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. As a founding member of the VITALIS and Hanna string quartets, she’s performed throughout Europe; as a member of the ARK trio for soprano, cello, and piano, she’s commissioned and performed new pieces for their unique setting. William-Olsson
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regularly teaches and performs at the Music Masters Course Japan (MMCJ) festival, and she appears at the Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Sangat Festival in Mumbai, and Salt Bay Chamberfest in Maine. She was the featured soloist in Tan Dun’s Cello Concerto, with the composer conducting, in Norway and China, and, as a chamber musician, she’s collaborated with artists such as Eric Kim, Emanuel Ax, Joyce Yang, Brett Dean, William Hagen, and her husband, Alan Gilbert.
n Haochen Zhang (piano) won the gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and received a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Highlights of his 2022–23 season include performances with the Filarmonica della Scala; Staatskapelle Berlin; Festival Orchestra of Arizona Musicfest; China and Hong Kong philharmonic orchestras; and Guangzhou, Memphis, NHK, and Shanghai symphony orchestras. Additionally, he tours North America with the Dover Quartet and makes recital appearances at The Frederic Chopin Society in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and in Asia. Zhang has performed with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse; Mariinsky, NDR Elbphilharmonie, and Philadelphia orchestras; Israel, Japan, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Taiwan, and Warsaw philharmonic orchestras; and London, Frankfurt Radio, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, and Sydney symphony orchestras. His recital engagements have included Carnegie Hall, Spivey Hall, the Cliburn Concerts, and Wolf Trap’s Discovery Series, among others. His most recent recording features Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky concertos performed with Dima Slobodeniouk and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
n Gregory Zuber (percussion) is the principal percussionist for The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He’s toured the United States, Europe, and Japan with The Met, and he’s been featured with the orchestra as a concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall. As a solo recitalist and chamber musician, Zuber has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, the Verbier Festival, the Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminar, the New York Chamber Music Festival, The Juilliard School’s Summer Percussion Seminar, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire. He’s also performed regularly with The Met Chamber Ensemble. Zuber plays chamber music with his wife, flutist Patricia Zuber, as Duo Zuber. They can be heard on their duo album, Blackbird Redux, and Zuber can also be heard on his solo album, Life Behind Bars: Masterworks for Marimba.
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Annual Fund How YOU Make the Music Happen
Dear Festival Friends,
This summer marks the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s highly anticipated 50th anniversary season. Every year, we offer our audience an unforgettable musical experience by presenting a wide range of chamber music performed by the highest-caliber musicians from around the world. Your generosity—as donors, patrons, and valued members of our musical family—makes this glorious music possible, and it’s made our first half century possible, too.
Your support also allows us to bring music into the lives of thousands of children and youth through our year-round music education programs. Music in Our Schools is a series of in-school chamber music concerts for students in pre-K and grades K–6 at 14 schools in Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, and Pecos. Strings in Our Schools offers small-group violin instruction in four elementary schools in Santa Fe and Pecos, serving students in grades 2–6. Guitar in Our Schools provides small-group guitar instruction to students in grades 3–6 at two elementary schools in Santa Fe. The Dream Big Private Lesson Program offers weekly, subsidized, private lessons on each student’s chosen instrument, including voice, at two middle schools and one high school in Santa Fe. And our Summer Youth Concert features Festival musicians engaging children with delightful storytelling and performances of repertoire drawn directly from our regular programming.
In addition to our concerts and education programs, your generosity supports the creation of important new music, which the Festival commissions every year from today’s leading composers as well as exciting up-and-coming talents, and it allows us to broadcast Festival performances via our national radio series on stations around the country and beyond, including in areas where access to classical music may be limited.
All of us at the Festival thank you for your ongoing support of our concerts and programs. To make your tax-deductible 2023 donation to the Festival, contact our Director of Development, Cece Derringer, at 505-983-2075, ext. 108, or cderringer@sfcmf.org. You can also mail your donation to the Festival at PO Box 2227, Santa Fe, NM, 87504-2227, or pick up an Annual Fund brochure at the Ticket Office desk—located in our venues’ lobbies during the Festival season—and drop the enclosed donation envelope into the donation box near the Ticket Office desk.
Now and always, please know that your generosity in making the music happen is deeply and warmly appreciated. You make a difference. Thank you.
YOUR DONATION MATTERS
—NOW MORE THAN EVER! This year, the Festival is the recipient of two exciting challenge grants. Please consider supporting the music you love with a tax-deductible gift that can be matched through these grants.
Still Water Foundation Special 50th Anniversary Donor Challenge
The Still Water Foundation is issuing a special challenge to the Festival to raise $50,000 in honor of our 50th anniversary season. Between now and October 31, 2023, new Festival donors who give $250 or more and returning donors who increase their gifts by $250 or more over last year’s amount will have their gifts matched, dollar for dollar, by the Still Water Foundation—which means your gift’s impact will double instantly.
One-Time 50th Anniversary Audience Challenge
Between now and October 31, 2023, a generous supporter will match all gifts to the Festival at 50 cents on the dollar up to $100,000. That means your gift of $200, for example, will instantly become $300. Your gift and its matched funds will support our programming and our Music at Noon concert series in memory of Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum.
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Classical Music Festivals of the West 2023
CALIFORNIA
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
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Santa Cruz, CA
July 30-August 13
Carmel Bach Festival bachfestival.org
Carmel, CA
July 15-29
La Jolla Music Society SummerFest
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La Jolla, CA
July 28-August 26
Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival
mainlymozart.org
San Diego, CA
June 15-24
Music@Menlo musicatmenlo.org
Atherton, CA
July 14-August 5
COLORADO
Aspen Music Festival and School
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Aspen, CO
June 29-August 20
Bravo! Vail Music Festival
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Vail, CO
June 22-August 3
Colorado Music Festival coloradomusicfestival.org
Boulder, CO
June 29-August 6
Strings Music Festival stringsmusicfestival.com
Steamboat Springs, CO
June 24-August 23
IDAHO
Sun Valley Music Festival svmusicfestival.org
Sun Valley, ID
July 30-August 24
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
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Santa Fe, NM
July 16-August 21
OREGON
Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival cmnw.org
Portland, OR
June 24-July 29
Oregon Bach Festival
oregonbachfestival.org
Eugene, OR
June 30-July 16
WASHINGTON
Seattle Chamber Music Society
Summer Festival
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Seattle, WA
July 3-29
WYOMING
Grand Teton Music Festival gtmf.org
Jackson, WY
June 30-August 19
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the musical riches and unique settings of these allied festivals of the Western United States.
Artists’ Circle and Annual Fund Contributors
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival gratefully acknowledges the individuals listed here for their generous gifts. More than half of our annual budget comes from you, our wonderful contributors. We want to especially recognize and thank the loyal members of our Sostenuto Society—indicated here with an asterisk (*)—who’ve made gifts to the Festival for the past five or more consecutive years.
We warmly thank everyone who’s contributed to the Festival for the critical role they’ve played and continue to play in helping us make the music happen.
THE ARTISTS’ CIRCLE
This special core group of annual supporters contributing $2,000 or more ensures the Festival’s continued artistic excellence by generously underwriting musicians’ residencies. Their outstanding commitment is deeply appreciated.
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Newlyn and Ben Allison
Anna-Marie Baca
Barbara B. and Ronald Davis Balser*
Beth Beloff and Marc Geller*
Jean and John Berghoff*
Kelley O. and Neil H. Berman
Carole and David Brown*
David Bulfer and Kelly Pope
Elisbeth Challener and Brett Bachman*
Kathleen and Robert L. Clarke*
Lynn Coneway*
Ralph P. Craviso*
Patricia Marcus Curtis and Robert Curtis*
Susan and Conrad De Jong*
David B. Dillard
Mike and Marty Everett*
Sue and Chris Fan*
Paula and Steven Fasken
David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama*
Peter Frank and Leslie Shaw*
Maria and Edward Gale*
David Goodrich and Brian Clarke*
Diane and Werner Grob*
Bessie Hanahan*
John Hart and Carol Prins*
Michael Stephen Hindus and Lynne Elizabeth Withey*
Robert L. Hull and Myra Barker Hull*
Olga and Jim Hutson-Wiley*
Dan Jackson and Jeremy Guiberteau, MD
Hervey Juris and Leslie Nathanson Juris*
Sue Kimm and Seymour Grufferman*
Paul L. King*
Mary Lattimore*
Ron Lushing and Dan Reid*
Margaret and Barry Lyerly*
Ginnie Maes and The Kanter Kallman Foundation*
Marcella Fund
Ellen Marder and Wolfgang Schmidt-Nowara*
Anthony and Kay Marks*
Kenneth R. Marvel and Robert R. Gardner*
Beth McGown and Russ Toal*
David Muck and Cole Martelli*
Jay W. Oppenheimer*
Bruce S. Ross and Eileen Gallo-Ross
Louisa Stude Sarofim*
Shellie Scott*
James R. Seitz, Jr.*
Herman Siegelaar and Cornelia Bryer*
Nat and Rebecca Sloane*
Marilynn and Carl Thoma*
John and Jan Wilcynski
Drs. Cheryl Willman and Ross Zumwalt*
Rosalind Wolf
Platinum Patrons ($5,000–$9,999)
Yoko and Thomas Arthur
Suzanne and Enrico Bartolucci*
Sarah and Doug Brown*
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.*
Terry and Pamela Carter*
Benjamin F. Crane†*
Janet Desforges*
Donna and Lee Dirks*
Mrs. Ronald Dubin*
Kevin Dvorak and Steven Toms
Halley Faust
Susan Foote and Stephen Feinberg*
Joanna Hess*
Lynne Hohlfeld and Michael Crockett
Lynne and Joe Horning*
Ellen and James Hubbell*
Jo Kurth Jagoda*
Diane and John Lenssen*
Jani and Jeff Leuschel*
Harry and Betsey Linneman*
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus*
Steve Moise*
Glenn Ostergaard and David Kaplan
Tom and Jane O’Toole*
Lisa and John Overbey*
Steven Ovitsky*
Roberta and Barry W. Ramo, MD*
Crennan M. Ray*
David Sontag* †Deceased
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Richard Tang and Lewis Brooks*
Jane Ann and Jasper Welch
Jody and Rob Wilson
Gold Patrons
($3,000–$4,999)
Richard C. Bentley*
Jocelyn and Donald Blair*
Brian Braa and Andy Eiseman*
Elaine and Ken Cole*
Mrs. Kay Crawford*
Christine and Daniel Fallon*
Julanna Gilbert and Robert Coombe
Donna and Hal Hankinson*
Jeanne and Van Hoisington*
Edward and Patricia Hymson*
Elizabeth and Albert Kidd*
John Kongsgaard
Phyllis Lehmberg
Alan and Elisabeth Lerner*
Van Mabee
Marilyn Macbeth and Forrest Carlton
Dee Ann McIntyre*
Penelope Penland*
Jane Phillips-Conroy and Glenn Conroy*
Gary and Lois Podolny
Dr. Robert and Kathleen Reidy
Roberta Robinson
Dave Rossetti and Jan Avent*
Theodore P. Ruskin†
Larri Short and Steve Reilly
Richard and Willa Sisson
Lea and David Soifer
Mary and Rusty Tally
Marcia Torobin
Patti Wetzel and Sirous Partovi
Nancy Zeckendorf*
Silver Patrons
($2,000–$2,999)
Lori and Edward Adcock
Michael and Ann Anastasio
Anonymous
Donna and Tom Berg
Virginia and Morgan Boatwright*
Keri and Michael Brinegar
Cynthia and Alan Coleman*
Phil Cook*
Mary and David Cost through the Charles Piper Cost Foundation*
Margaret A. and Richard J. Cronin, MD*
Julie and Glenn Davidson
George de Garmo
Paula Sass Donnelly*
Carol and David Farmer
Nancy and Roland Feiner
Doris Francis-Erhard*
Elizabeth Glassman
Caryn Glickman
Pamela and Richard Hanlon*
ANNUAL FUND CONTRIBUTORS
Festival Associates ($1,000–$1,999)
Dabney Abel
Perry C. Andrews and Scott Baker
Susan Bowey
Lori Brown
Robert Brown and Dennis Karbach
Mike and Diane Cannon
Laurence Colton
Anne and Tom Conner
Dr. Ron Costell and Marsha Swiss*
Joan Dayton and Richard Curless*
Maudy Dealey and Michael B. Kentor
Douglas and Marcia Dworkin*
Kathleen and Jerry Eberhardt
†Deceased
Annette and Knut Eriksen
Natalie Foster
Dr. Phillip Fuselier
Leah Gordon
John L. Gray and Ray Alex Landy
Gary Haber
Claudia Hardwick
Robin and John Hendricksen
Charlene and Charles Hyle
Kay Duke Ingalls*
Charles and Ellen Lacy
Barbara Lenssen and Keith Anderson*
Kay and Eugene Mascoli
Frances Walton Moore
Helen T. Murphy and Mary S. Riebold*
Sherry and Robert Johnson
Kim Jordan*
Eugene Kornblum
Mary Jean Little*
Mary Meredith-Kirchner and Dr. Walter L. Kirchner
Elaine Meyerhoffer*
Sandra and Russell† Osterman
Yehuda and Nurit Patt
Matilda Perkins, MD, and Michael Freeburger
Robert and Mary Platt
Gary and Lois Podolny
Gretchen and Tom Pomeroy
Carolyn and Preston Reed
Dr. Robert and Kathleen Reidy
Grace and John Rosenquist*
Molly and Fred Seibel
Victoria Shepard
Samuel Shorstein
Marcia Southwick*
Barbara Teichert
Evelyne Thomas*
Suzanne M. Timble
Nancy West
Linda Westerburg
Martha B. and David G. Winfield*
Nancy Meem Wirth*
Elizabeth Yasek
Linda and Max Myers
Gwendolyn and Thomas Paine
Dr. John Petricciani*
Amelia and John Petrila
Sasha and Alexandra Pyle
Jack and Clare Ratliff
Leanne Rees
Jill Reichman
Helen and William Rogers*
Mary Rohman and Mike Godwin
Cynthia Ross and Martin Hauer-Jensen
Andrew Rudnick and Andrea Meditch
Joel and Beth Scott
Judy and Bob Sherman*
Jennifer Taylor
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Margo Thoma
Barbara Wagner and Charles Palmer
Kim Walter
Mary Wells and John McCabe
Dan Winske*
Linda and Owen Youngman*
Festival Supporters
($500–$999)
Cindy Aloi and Irwin Sugarman*
Anonymous*
Anonymous
Ryan and Melanie Bailey
Laura Balser
Christine Bassett and Carey Alexander
Hilary Benton and David Williams
Tana and Roy Bidwell
Alix and John Corboy
Eudice and Les Daly
Jim Davis
Bill and Nancy Doolittle
Yolanda and Abram Eisenstein
David and Ellen Evans
Naomi and Richard Fiske
Estela Freeman
Elizabeth French
Pamela J. George*
Barbara and Jeffrey Griffith*
Richard Grimes
David Hawkanson*
Chris Haynes
Maya Hoffman*
Richard Hughes
Joyce Idema*
James V. Jordan, Jr.
Robin and Julius Kaplan*
Eslee Kessler*
Thomas King
Lee Kintzel
Sarah Westkaemper Lake
Malcolm Lazin
Kathleen and Alan Lebeck*
Donna and Trevor Lumb*
Beverly and George Martin*
Juliet Mattila and Robin Magowan*
Sana Morrow
Dede and Paul Natale
Wendy and George Powell
Paige Hendricks Russey and Robert Russey
Vicki and Bob Schaevitz
Robert and Barbara Shaklee
Gay P. and Graham J. Sharman
Harriet Silverman and Hon. Paul Smelkinson
Sarah and Peter Solmssen
Eric Springsted
Renee and Larry Stevens
John Van Horn and Ray Owens*
Joan Vernick*
Kimberly Walker
Tobi Watson
Claire and Steven Weiner
Mary Adams Wotherspoon
Ellen Yarrell
Festival Contributors
($250–$499)
Herb and Jillian Adcock
Eugene B. and Ellen Andes
Bob and Pat Anker
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mikaela Barnes*
Joseph Blackburn
Carl Bogenholm
Deborah Boldt
Richard and Jane Borchers
Susan Brake
John J. Burks*
Anne and Jack Burton
Irene and John Bush*
Tish Butler
Tee Campion*
Dr. and Mrs. Michael B. Clayman*
Cece Derringer
Lynn Dolven
Lucie Duranceau-Church
Bonnie Ellinger and Paul Golding*
Rachel and Melvin Epstein
Timothy Fox
Tom Frost and Meaghan Solay
Ralph and Gwen Fuller*
Paula Greer
Jeffrey and Barbara Griffith
Beverly and Dudley Hafner
Anita Kay Hardy
J. Harrison
Leon Heller
Anne Hetlage
Bernhard B. Holzapfel
Adrienne Horwitch
Clark and Carolyn Hulse
Marjorie Eddy Johnson
Jenifer and Grayson Kirtland
Jack Kitzmiller and Linda Dean
Audrey Lafehr and Stephen Marquart
Dan Leach
Tina Ludutsky-Taylor and Allen Taylor
Robert Lynn and Janet Braziel
Jessica and Lowry McAllen
Evelyn McClure*
Shelley McGehee
Grete Meilman
Zachary Morowitz
James Orth
Jerald and Cindi Parker*
John and Sue Prange
Tahlia Rainbolt and Richard Atkinson
John Rask*
Nancy Scanlan*
Jeffrey Schamis and Eva Eves*
Doris Segall
William S. Singer
Marilyn Smith and Ellen Smith
Susan and John Stafford
Stephen Straub
Scott and Toni Temple
Sam and Steve Tilton
Hella and George Vroom*
Adair Waldenberg and Jon Peck*
James and Lucy Wang
Tami Wiggins
John Willett
Glory and Lynn Witherspoon
Margaret Wolak*
Festival Donors ($100–$249)
Glenn Addleman and Monnie Parker*
Jerome Andersen and June Hajjar*
Robert C. Anderson*
Sally and Ken Anderson*
Teresa and John Andrus
Anonymous †Deceased
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Anonymous
Anonymous
John Arango
Carol Beck
Rachel Belash and Robert Burman*
Nina Binin
Rachel Blank
Joan Blythe
Helen and Douglas Brooks
Stephen Bubul
Hugh and Carol Burleigh
Christophe Caillot
Ann Caldwell*
Roberto L. Ceriani and Pedro Surroca*
Jerry W. Claiborne
Karen Clarke
Drs. John and Lois Crowe
Pamela Culwell and Charles Case*
Anne D’Alessandro and Lawrence Lyons*
Anya Darrow and Louise Harrison
Richard Dauphin
Elisabet de Vallee and D. Reed Eckhardt
Raul Delgado
Katherine DeMott
Ariane Eberhardt and Brian Crone
Bobbie Elliott
Elizabeth Ferring
Gail and Douglas Fine
F. Harlan Flint
Kerry Frumkin*
Sheila Gershen
Gwen Gilligan
GIFTS MADE IN TRIBUTE
In Honor of Anna-Marie Baca
Mary Leavitt
In Honor of John Berghoff
Susan Bowey
In Honor of the Marriage of Elizabeth and Caleb Carlson
Anna Merin
James and Adele Glimm
Kevin Gould
John Greer
Gerald and Diane Gulseth
Leonard Heil
William Hering
Jane Herron
Joseph Hessenthaler*
Ed and Judy Hildebrand
Deirdre Howley and Ira Eisenstadt*
Mark Jacobs
Brenda and Michael Jerome
Jerald Johnson
Michael Kalkstein and Susan English
Linda Kenney
Arthur J. Kerr, Jr.
Carol Lakin
Connie Langston
Ruth LaNore
Kimberly Leight
Toby and Jerry Levine
Michael Liebman and Barbara Beames*
Mickey Long
Thomas Lopez
Jo Malins and Robert Plotczyk
Patrick McCabe*
Melinda V. McLain
Anna Merin
Katherine and Andre Mesi
Agnes Mura
Hal Myers
Beverly O’Connell
Harrell Odom and Barry Cook
Frank Pajerski
Victoria and Howard Palefsky*
George Papcun
Dr. James Parks and Ms. Donna Behnke
Lynn Pollock*
Chris Price
Ellen Primack
Randall Reaves
Diane and Robert Reid
Robert Ripps
Phyllis and Elliot Ross*
Constance Roy
Daniel Rusthoi
Brenda Ruttenberg
Terese Sanchez
Richard Schacht and Judith Rowan*
John Serkin and Catherine Kurland
Valerie Simms
Elisabeth Spanhoff
Jane Stecher
Joyce and Steve Stivers
Kathleen and Robert Sturm
Barbara Sylvor-Marks
Lynn Taulbee and Bart Stucky
Jay Ven Eman
Sandy Wade
Willard R. Wadt*
Mayor Alan Webber and Frances Diemoz
Steven and Alison Weinstein
Anna L. Wilson
Edna and Harvey Wilson
Donna Winters
In Memory of Benjamin Crane
Richard and Willa Sisson
In Honor of Marty and Michael Everett
Terry and Pamela Carter
In Memory of Susan Herter
Cece Derringer
In Memory of Barbara Holzapfel
Bernhard B. Holzapfel
In Memory of Mickey Inbody and in Support of the Festival’s Education Programs
The Mickey Inbody Charitable Foundation, Inc.
In Honor of Jamie Marie Jordan
James V. Jordan, Jr.
In Honor of the Marriage of Walt Kirchner and Mary Meredith
Cece Derringer and Michael Brown
Gwen Gilligan
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In Honor of Mary Meredith-Kirchner
Walt Kirchner
In Honor of the Marriage of Walt Kirchner and Mary Meredith
Cece Derringer and Michael Brown
Gwen Gilligan
In Memory of Beth Moise
Kenneth R. Marvel and Robert R. Gardner
In Honor of Jay Oppenheimer and Todd King
Ann Caldwell
In Memory of Ann Rubenstein
Hugh and Carol Burleigh
In Memory of Rufus Scott
Richard Dauphin
In Memory of Marsha Swiss
Keri and Michael Brinegar
In Memory of Sally Whiteley
Yoko and Thomas Arthur
In Memoriam
Enrique Bocedi
Patron
Joan and Tom Dalbey Patrons and donors
Haines Gaffner
Patron
Shana Gunn
Patron and donor
Susan Herter
Former board member, patron, and donor
Maya Hoffman
Patron and donor
Nancy Holmes
Patron
Pieter Hull
Patron
Linda Krull
Patron and donor
Thomas F. O’Toole
Former board president, advisory council member
Robert Roach
Patron and donor
Bobbie Smith
Patron
Marsha Swiss
Patron and donor
Helen Vanni
Patron, donor, and Festival musician
Janet Wise
Patron
Renate Zinn
Patron and donor
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Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support
Support received by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival from local and national businesses, corporations, foundations, and government agencies is critical to its ongoing success. The Festival expresses its profound gratitude to the following entities for so generously recognizing the importance of music to the Santa Fe community and the artistic significance of the Festival nationally and internationally.
Corporate Support
Act 1 Tours
Adobo Catering
Allan Houser, Inc.
Arroyo Vino
Century Bank
The Compound
Enterprise Bank & Trust
La Fonda on the Plaza
LewAllen Galleries
Los Poblanos
Palace Prime
Pulakos CPAs
RVK, Inc.
Santa Fe Valet
Video Magic
Walter Burke Catering
Corporate Matching Gifts
Boeing Company
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
ExxonMobil Foundation
IBM International Foundation
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Miller Stratvert, PA, Law Offices
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Company
Stillman Pacific, Inc.
Texas Instruments Foundation
Foundation Support
Alexandra Pyle Charitable Fund, Fidelity Charitable
Beloff and Geller Family Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation
Berkman Family Charitable Trust
Boeckman Family Foundation
Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation
Carter Family Fund, Tulsa Community Foundation
Caryn Glickman Charitable Fund, Fidelity Charitable
Charles Piper Cost Foundation
Coneway Family Foundation
Dave Rossetti and Jan Avent
Philanthropic Fund
Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation
Fasken Foundation
Fay Shwayder Foundation
Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation
Hoffman-Bravy Charitable Foundation
Hutson Wiley and Echevarria Foundation, Inc.
Ira N. Langsan and Lillian Langsan
Philanthropic Fund
Jane Phillips-Conroy and Helen Cohn Charitable Fund
Jo Kurth Jagoda Charitable Fund, Fidelity Charitable
John H. Hart Foundation
Kantar Kallman Foundation
Kaplan-Privitera Charitable Fund
Kathryn O’Keeffe Charitable Foundation
Lair Ranch Fund
Little Charitable Fund, Tulsa Community Foundation Marcella Fund
Marcia Southwick Charitable Fund, Fidelity Charitable
Martha Anne Dorminy Fund, The Boston Foundation
Mickey Inbody Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Moise Family Fund
Muzik 3 Foundation
Nathanson/Juris Family Fund, Fidelity Charitable
Paul L. King Charitable Foundation
Peters Family Art Foundation
Richard & Jane Borchers Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Special Relativity Education Foundation
Still Water Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. O’Toole Fund, Communities Foundation of Texas
Tulsa Community Foundation
Turnip Top Foundation
United Way of Central New Mexico
Welch Family Fund, Vanguard Charitable
Government Support
City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department
National Endowment for the Arts
New Mexico Arts
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The Endowment: Investing in the Festival’s Future
In 1998, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival created a permanent endowment to ensure that its rich tradition of presenting the world’s finest chamber music could continue for generations to come. Through bequests and outright gifts large and small from many donors over the years, the Endowment has grown to nearly $12.5 million today, and the Festival is deeply grateful to the donors who have so generously participated in this important effort.
You, too, can make a lasting impact on the Festival and play a crucial role in its future by contributing to the general Endowment or establishing your own Named Fund. (Please see the Perpetual Sponsorships section of this program book for a list of current Named Funds.) Named Funds can support an exciting range of Festival activities, including artists’ and composers’ residencies, unique education and outreach programs, and special Festival projects, such as recordings and national radio broadcasts.
Gifts of any amount—whether made today or as part of your estate plans—are welcome and deeply appreciated. For more information, please contact the Festival’s Director of Development, Cece Derringer, at 505-983-2075, ext. 108, or cderringer@sfcmf.org.
Endowment Board of Directors
Peter B. Frank, President
Albert Kidd, Treasurer
Robert L. Clarke, Secretary
Brett Bachman
Douglas M. Brown
Richard J. Cronin, MD
Michael Everett
Michael Stephen Hindus
Paul L. King
Kenneth R. Marvel
Herman Siegelaar
Nat Sloane
Ralph P. Craviso, Ex officio
Donors of Distinction
Anonymous
Anonymous
Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston
Nancy C.† and Kenneth C. Cain
David T. Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama
Kay Duke Ingalls and David K. Ingalls†
Diane B. Jergins†
Mara† and Charles† Robinson
Guarantors
Quarrier† and Philip Cook
John Hart and Carol Prins
Nancy E. and P. Anthony Jacobs
David Muck and Cole Martelli
Mr.† and Mrs.† Gifford Phillips
Herman Siegelaar and Cornelia Bryer
Benefactors
Deborah L. Berkman†
Susan Black†
Carole and David Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Clarke
Ralph P. Craviso
Mike and Marty Everett
Susan Gardner and Devon Ross
Michael Stephen Hindus
Jacqueline Hoefer†
Susan† and David† Horowitz
Betty Gardner Meyers†
National Endowment for the Arts
Kathryn O’Keeffe†
Crennan M. Ray
Nat and Rebecca Sloane
The Tenenbaum Family
Thaw Charitable Trust
Jane Ann and Jasper Welch
Nancy and Bill† Zeckendorf
Sponsors
Wood Arnold II
Barbara B. and Ronald Davis Balser
Dr. Barry† and Natalie Beller
Sarah and Doug Brown
Elisbeth Challener and Brett Bachman
Lynn and Peter† Coneway, Coneway Family Foundation
Patricia Marcus Curtis and Robert Curtis
Judy† and Lee Dirks
Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation
William E. and Tina Santi Flaherty
Susan Foote
Peter and Eleanor† Frank
Susan and Steven J. Goldstein, MD
David Goodrich and Brian Clarke
Stanton Hirsch†
Robert L. Hull and Myra Barker Hull
Barry Lapidus
Ron Lushing and Dan Reid
Kenneth R. Marvel and Robert R. Gardner
Faith B. Meem†
Bob and Vicki Midyett
Mary Mill, Mill Atelier Foundation
Beth† and Steve Moise
Judy Naumburg
Jay W. Oppenheimer
Mary Lawrence Porter
Bruce S. Ross and Eileen Gallo-Ross
James Clois Smith, Jr.
Jill Cooper Udall and Amb. Tom Udall
Professors Emeriti Charles M.† and Shirley F.† Weiss
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Nancy Meem Wirth and John Wirth†
Partners
Anonymous
Jean and John Berghoff
Donald and Jocelyn Blair
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†
Drs. Glenna and Curtis Boyd
Richard† and Eleanor P. Brenner
Robert and Nancy Carney
Joan and David Clark
James and Linda Cohen
Joan Z. Cohen
Sally† and Ben Crane†
Margaret A. and Richard J. Cronin, MD
Florence Dapples†
Stan and Zu Davis
Douglas† and Joan Dayton
Anne Dean† and John W. Turk†
Marthanne Dorminy and Stewart Gardner
Mrs. Avery Fisher†
Adeline† and Richard† Fleischaker
Helen C. and Bertram† Gabriel, Jr.
Diane and Werner Grob
Hal and Donna Hankinson
Lynn and William Herbert
Susan Herter
Phillip A. Hertzman and Jeri Berger Hertzman
Leda Hirsch†
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Irving Harris Foundation
Virginia and Ira† Jackson
Hervey Juris and Leslie Nathanson
Virginia L. Kahn
Edward B. Kaufmann
Sarah Lawless
Alan and Elisabeth Lerner
Margot and Robert Linton Foundation, Inc.
Marthanne Dorminy Fund
Balene Cross McCormick†
The Honorable Patricia A. McFate†
Ann and James† McGarry
Charles and Beth Miller
Philip H. Naumburg†
New Mexico Community Foundation
Marianne and Michael† O’Shaughnessy
Jane and Thomas† O’Toole
Steven Ovitsky
Joseph and Anne Ponce
Jean S. Potter
Carolyn and Bill Rainer
Roberta and Barry W. Ramo, MD
Margaret Robson†
Betsy and Ted Rogers
Dave Rossetti and Jan Avent
Paul Ira Rubinfeld†
Alicia Schachter-Rich† and Sheldon Rich†
Lorraine Schechter†
Sidney and Sadie Cohen Foundation
Eve and Fred† Simon
Marvin Sloves†
Jane and Arthur† Stieren
Ling Tong and Robert Hilgendorf
Erich Vollmer
B. J. and Bob Weil
Joseph M. and Eileen Wells
Sol and Marsha Wiener
Dr. Cheryl Willman and Dr. Ross Zumwalt
Estelle B.† and S. P.† Yates
Toni† and Leshek Zavistovski
Friends
Richard D. Alby†
Joyce and Tom Allen
Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous
Linda and Lance Armer
William and Julia Ashbey
Anna-Marie Baca
Jane and John Bagwell
Jeff Ballowe
Mikaela and Craig† Barnes
Marie Baum
Richard K. Beaubien
Stephen Benjamin
Jane and Charles Berger
Judith and Sam Berger
Gisela and Laurence Berns
Katherine† and Bruce Besser
Eleanor and M. H. Blakemore
Maxine and Sidney Bloom
Elizabeth and Duncan† Boeckman
Amy Bourret
Susan and Donald Bowey
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Bransky
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.
Natalie Smith Buck
Jean and Waldo Burnside
Marcella† and Clifford† Burton
Tish Butler
Helen and Julius Cahn
Ann and Lynn Carrozza
Vincent Carrozza
Ann Casady
Robbin and Donald H. Close
Corinne and Dan Collins
Gloria Cordova and Dan Winske
Harry R. Courtright
Gloria R. and Philip R. Cowen
Mr.† and Mrs. William W. Crawford
John and Lois Crowe
Scott Cuming†
Hope Curtis
Mollie and Robert Custer
Sherry† and Jim Davis
Anne Hunt Deal† and Family
Lisl and Landt Dennis
Cece Derringer
Ellen and Ralph Digneo
John and Cynthia Dobson
Susan Dupépé
Dr. Nader D. Ebrahimi and John K. Wheeler
Robert† and Brenda Edelson
Edward and Ann C. Levy
Charitable Remainder Trust
Dr. Bernice Elkin
Bobbie Elliott
Eleanor and Frank Evans
Sandra and James Fitzpatrick
Nancy M. Folger and Sydney Werkman, MD
Barbara Forslund
A. Charles Forte
Loulie M. Fox
John V. Frank
Letitia E. Frank†
Laurel and Orrie Friedman
Marjorie Garber
William Gates and Helen Lamberton
Amy and Philip Geier
Sheila Gershen
Robert Glick and Jacquelyn Helin
Mary Goodman
Carmoline† and William† Grady
Kathleen and Alan Grainger
Brooke Suzanne Gray
Dolly H. Gray-Bussard
Geneva Griffin
Clara Keyes Hardin
Marie F. Harper
Dorothy S. Harroun †Deceased
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Hascoe Family Foundation
Milton S. Heath, Jr.
Jackie and Jack Heise
Beth and C. Wolcott Henry
Joanna Hess
Thomas G. D. Hesslein
David Hillson and Eileen Grevey Hillson
Joseph Hohlfeld
Theodora Hooten
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hotchkiss
Robert L. Houget
Jane Hunt Houston
Jo Kurth Jagoda and Bill Jagoda†
Barbara and Perry Jeffe
Dr. Cone Johnson
Fred and Kim Johnson
Susan D. Jones
Hilde and Ernest Kahn
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey H. Kahn
Audrey† Kaplan and Norman Kaplan, MD†
Julius and Robin Kaplan
Louise and Jerome Kaplan
Timothy D. Karsten
Lisa and Paul Kaufman
Brian Kern
Alice and Jerry Kessler
Carola Kieve, MD
Dr.† and Mrs. Morton M. Kligerman
Helen Kornblum
Andrea Kroh
Nancy and Martin Kuckly
Edwin F. LeGard, Jr.
Joan and Harold Leinbach
Michael and Nancy Levin
Audrey Lewis
Erika† and Fred Little
Galen S. Lockwood
Melanie S. and Peter K. Maier
Mary Jean Manning
Tom Margittai†
Marlene Nathan Meyerson Foundation
Jerome Marshak
Michael G. McCafferty
Marilyn and John McConnell
Milo L. McGonagle
Susan McGreevy†
Marguerite McGregor
Janet and James McKay
Martha B. McLanahan
William H. Mears, Jr.
Alicia and Bill Miller
Ellen and Roger Miller
Susan and Charles Mize
Marjorie and David Morehead
Barbara-lyn† and Tom Morris
Sana Morrow
Jackie M. and Michael Motley
Gardner M. Mundy
Rochelle and Edward Nanas
Lee J. Nash
Peg Nelson
Scott Nelson
New Mexico Concierge Association
Bridget and Bob Nurock
Michael Ogg and Barbara Doroba-Ogg
Ellen S. O’Gorman
Richard T. Okinaka
Dolores† and Frank† Ortiz
Estate of Katya Overhage†
Madeline C. Papile†
Stu Patterson and Ellie Schrader
Paul and Elissa Cahn Foundation
Katie and Gerald Peters
Ann and Felix Phillips
Mary Claire† and Charles Phipps
Joseph Pisacane
Mary Polhemus
Mary and James Polk
Lynn and Lewis Pollock
Maya Pool
Lisa S. and John A. Pritzker
Gail and Owen† Quattlebaum
Joan Cuming Read
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Kathie and Tom Reed
Diane and Robert Reid
Ed Reid† and Ellen Bradbury-Reid
Reynolds Family Foundation
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Ann† and Alan† Rolley
Rolley Foundation
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Mr.† and Mrs. Ian Russell
Charles Ryskamp†
Santa Fe Art Foundation
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Ernamarie T. Williams
Robert A. Willis
Cynthia and Tom Wilson
Thea Witt and Tom Maguire
Lena and James Wockenfuss
Barbara and Clark Woolley
Linda Wright
B. Wyckliffe and Libby S. Pattishall
Memorial and Honorarium Gifts
Gift in Honor of Barry Beller by: Robert L. Hull and Myra Barker Hull
Gift in Memory of Eleanor Frank by: Peter Frank
Gift in Honor of Carol Deal Schaefer in Memory of Her Parents, Anne and Lanham Deal, by: Kathleen and Alan Grainger
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■ The Endowment continued †Deceased
The Mozart Society
Play a part in the future of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival through your planned gift.
The group of passionate Festival supporters we call The Mozart Society comprises chamber music lovers who wish to leave a permanent legacy of support for the Festival in their wills or other estate plans. Like the enduring beauty of Mozart’s music, the generosity of our Mozart Society members lives on, ensuring that future generations can enjoy and be inspired by the Festival’s world-class chamber music performances. To thank this special group of donors, every summer the Festival celebrates its Mozart Society members with a private recital and reception.
Your gift of any size is truly meaningful. Legacy gift options are varied, and we can work with you to find a plan that best suits you and your family.
If you’ve already made a provision for a bequest or another planned gift, please let us know so that we can welcome you into The Mozart Society and acknowledge and honor your commitment.
And to our current Mozart Society members, we extend our heartfelt thanks.
The Mozart Society Members
Barbara B. and Ronald Davis Balser
Natalie and Barry† Beller
Beth Beloff and Marc Geller
Gayle S. Bishop
Susan Black†
Carole and David Brown
Doug and Sarah Brown
Marcella† and Cliff† Burton
Nancy C.† and Kenneth C. Cain
Elisbeth Challener and Brett Bachman
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†Deceased
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David Goodrich and Brian Clarke
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Jane and Thomas† O’Toole
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Mara† and Charles† Robinson
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Ted Ruskin†
Lorraine Schechter†
Herman Siegelaar and Cornelia Bryer
Fred† and Eve Simon
James Clois Smith, Jr.
Drew Stewart
William Tierney and Barry Weiss
Ling Tong and Robert Hilgendorf
Jill Cooper Udall
Shirley† and Charles† Weiss
Toni† and Leshek Zavistovski
Nancy and Bill† Zeckendorf
For information on the many ways you can contribute to the Festival, please contact Director of Development
Cece Derringer at 505-983-2075, ext. 108, or cderringer@sfcmf.org.
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L. Goodman and John F. Simpson
FRIDAY JULY 12 2024
FRIDAY JULY 12 2024
The Recital
The Recital
Join us on Friday, July 12, 2024, for an exclusive, pre-season recital at St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art featuring two of the world's greatest musicians: violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist
Join us on Friday, July 12, 2024, for an exclusive, pre-season recital at St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art featuring two of the world's greatest musicians: violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist
Jon Kimura Parker
Jon Kimura Parker
The Party
The Party
The evening of merrymaking includes post-recital cocktails and a gourmet dinner at the spectacular La Terraza
The evening of merrymaking includes post-recital cocktails and a gourmet dinner at the spectacular La Terraza
rooftop patio at La Fonda on the Plaza
rooftop patio at La Fonda on the Plaza
Whom We Benefit
Whom We Benefit
Our annual Gala is our single-largest fundraising event for our outstanding music education programs, which reach nearly 6,000 local children and youth annually.
Our annual Gala is our single-largest fundraising event for our outstanding music education programs, which reach nearly 6,000 local children and youth annually.
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THE DATE
SAVE
Events and Sponsorship
Beardsley: 505-983-2075, ext. 117 | abeardsley@sfcmf.org ! SAVE THE DATE
Contact
Manager Asya Ghafarshad
Contact Events and Sponsorship Manager Asya Ghafarshad Beardsley: 505-983-2075, ext. 117 | abeardsley@sfcmf.org ! Contact Director of Development Cece Derringer: 505-983-2075, ext. 108, cderringer@sfcmf.org
Education and Outreach
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival upholds a passionate commitment to the artistic needs of its local community through engaging and inspiring music education programs for children and youth in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
Strategically structured for efficacy and reach, our programs provide powerful learning experiences over a period of many years. Our sequential, spiral, and research-based curriculum, coupled with intentional teacher-student interaction, has a transformative impact on students’ school attendance, graduation rates, worldviews, career choices, and potential for success in life.
Music in Our Schools
Music in Our Schools is a series of in-school chamber music concerts for students in pre-K and grades K–6 at 14 schools in Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, and Pecos. The program reaches nearly 5,000 students annually and introduces them to classical chamber music.
Prior to each concert, music and classroom teachers attend a Festival-run workshop, where they receive training, lesson plans, and materials related to an upcoming performance. Teachers return to their schools and introduce the music to their students through standards-based learning sequences.
When musicians arrive on concert day, students are already familiar with the music—its sounds, melodies, characteristics, instruments, and composers. The pre-concert learning experiences make each school performance personal, safe, intellectually accessible, and deeply meaningful.
Strings in Our Schools
Strings in Our Schools offers small-group violin instruction in four elementary schools in Santa Fe and Pecos, serving students in grades 2–6. The free program provides students with violins and materials. Instruction is individualized for unique learning needs.
Strings in Our Schools students go on to enroll in public-school orchestra programs at the middle school level, taking their musical study to ever-higher levels. Without Strings in Our Schools, students would miss the opportunity to learn violin during critical elementary school years and wouldn’t be fully prepared to play in their middle school orchestras.
Guitar in Our Schools
Guitar in Our Schools provides youth with instruction in classical guitar. The program is based at the Ramirez Thomas and Sweeney elementary schools in Santa Fe and serves students in grades 3–6. Students learn multiple
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aspects of guitar playing through twice-weekly lessons, and they perform every school year during winter holiday concerts and spring concerts.
Dream Big Private Lesson Program
The Dream Big Private Lesson Program is a subsidized private lesson program serving low-income music students in public middle and high schools. It offers weekly low- and no-cost private lessons taught at school by professional musicians on each student’s chosen instrument, including voice. The program serves 38 students and provides an average of 1,144 private lessons per year.
Public-school performing groups—band, choir, guitar ensemble, and string orchestra—require students to accurately and independently carry sophisticated parts. Private lessons empower students to master their parts and perform them with confidence and artistry. They earn the respect of their peers while contributing to their ensembles as valued team members.
Dream Big students always rise to the top of their performing groups. They play for honor ensembles at regional and state levels, and they often continue their music studies at the university level, pursuing music as their life path. Perhaps most importantly, Dream Big students also, through their instructor, gain a relationship with a caring
2023 Summer Youth Concert
Monday, July 24, 10 a.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
New Mexico Museum of Art
DVORÁK AMERICAN QUARTET
Miami String Quartet
Benny Kim, violin
Cathy Meng Robinson, violin
Scott Lee, viola
Keith Robinson, cello
adult that they can bond with and rely on during critical teenage years.
Dream Big students harbor the hope that musicianship might be their unique way to express themselves and contribute to society as adults. Through Dream Big, we empower our students to make their biggest dreams come true.
Summer Youth Concert
The Festival’s Summer Youth Concert makes chamber music fun and accessible for kids of all ages. The free, interactive event is held during the Festival’s summer season in St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art. It features Festival musicians engaging children with storytelling—about composers, instruments, music, and musical styles—as well as performing repertoire drawn directly from the Festival’s regular programming.
The concert delights and inspires our youngest audiences and builds their knowledge and curiosity about the world of music. It draws individual children of all ages (plus their family members or guardians) and hundreds of students from public schools and summer camps.
For more information, contact Leanne DeVane, Director of Education and Outreach, at ldevane@sfcmf.org. The Festival’s music education programs are generously sponsored by
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2023 Business Partners and Community Hosts
The Festival gratefully recognizes and encourages the support of its generous business partners.
4Leet Business IT Services
95.5 KHFM
2540 Group
21C Media Group
AA Events and Tents
A&A Piano Moving
Absolute Entertainment Santa Fe
Adobo Catering
Alexis Hilty Design
Allan Houser, Inc.
Alliance Audio Visual
Arroyo Vino Restaurant and Wine Shop
Arts, Etc. Public Relations
ASB Real Estate Investments
BBJ La Tavola Specialty Linens
Candyman Strings and Things
Capital High School
Carlos Vierra House
Century Bank
Chamber Music Albuquerque
Chamber Music Festivals of the West
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chihuly Studio
CHRISTUS St. Vincent
Clafoutis
Clearly Clean Janitorial Service
Colorado Party Rentals
The Compound
Delancey Street Movers
Delta Dental of New Mexico
El Rancho de las Golondrinas
Enterprise Bank & Trust
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Heritage Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
Herrera Transportation
Historic Santa Fe Foundation
HTLF Retirement Plan Services
Joe Illick
JAME American Cleaning
Kanestrom Bows
Kevin Brown Design
La Casa Sena Restaurant and Wine Shop
La Fonda on the Plaza
La Lecheria
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Lightningwood Pictures
Los Poblanos Farm Shop Norte
Metropolitan Opera
Michael’s Valet
Moss Adams
Mountain Elementary School
Museum Hill Café
Nacha Mendez
Natalie Baca Design
New Mexico Bank & Trust
New Mexico Kids! Magazine
New Mexico Museum of Art
New Mexico Mutual
New Mexico PBS-KNME
New York Philharmonic
Nusenda Credit Union
Otra Vez en Santa Fe
Pacific Office Automation
Palace Prime
Paper Tiger
Paul Thompson, Auctioneer
Pecos Elementary School
Performance Santa Fe
Peter Stephenson Design
Phoenix Chamber Music Society
Pro Piano
Publication Printers
Purple Adobe Lavender Farm
The Raven
Rio Chama Prime Steakhouse
Road RunneR Private Ride and Charter
RVK, Inc.
Santa Fe Audio Video
Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Santa Fe Dining, Inc.
Santa Fe Drum Source
Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe Party Rentals
Santa Fe Pro Musica
Santa Fe Public Schools
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Santa Fe Valet
Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association
Santacafé
Seattle Chamber Music Society
Seattle Rep
Seattle Symphony
SITE Santa Fe
Sommer Udall Law Firm
Steinway & Sons
Substrakt
Sweibel Arts
Taos Ale House
Taos Integrated School of the Arts
Taos Ski Valley, Inc.
Thornburg Investment Management, Inc.
Tumbleweeds Magazine
UnitedHealthcare
Video Magic
Violin Shop
VladFoto, Inc.
Walter Burke Catering
WFMT, Chicago
Zia Insurance Agency
2023 Community Hosts
The Festival also gratefully acknowledges the following partners for generously accommodating our musicians’ rehearsal and housing needs and hosting Artists’ Circle and other donor events.
Bishop’s Lodge
Casa Peña Serena
Casas de Guadalupe
Center for Contemporary Arts
Club at Las Campanas
Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe
Eldorado Hotel & Spa
Ellen Marder and Wolfgang Schmidt-Nowara
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe
Four Seasons Rancho Encantado
Gerald Peters Contemporary
Inn of the Five Graces
La Fonda on the Plaza
LewAllen Galleries
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Museum of International Folk Art
San Miguel Chapel
School for Advanced Research
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2023 Festival Volunteers
A heartfelt Thank You to our dedicated and hard-working volunteers, who generously donate their time, energy, and expertise to help make our concerts a success. We couldn’t do what we do without these invaluable friends.
John Burke
Chuck Case
Lucie Church
Donna Clark
Elaine Coleman
Kenneth Collins
Dennis Connor
Judy Costlow
Joalie Davie
Rebecca Dempsey
Delphine Douglass
Bill Epstein
Bill Fajman
Barbara Forslund
Gregory Gillette
Mary Alice Gillette
Nora Gluck
Eda Gordon
Anna Griswold
Barbara Grogin
Barbara Hadley
Mary Hale
Christopher Hayes
Dani Hayes
Barbara Hays
Judy Henry
Chris Howson
Marie Howson
Hanna Kaiser
Penny Kapin
Stephen Kapin
Dale Kellogg
Keith Kintigh
Edwina Lieb
Anne Maglisceau
Sharon McCawley
Linda Miller
Paula Miller
Ann Moon
Ann Parks
Janet Peacock
David Ponder
Madeline Pryor
Niloufar Rahimi
Edna Reyes-Wilson
Eileen Rhine
Sandra Smith
Ellen Stelling
Erin Taylor
Michael Thompson
Sue Thompson
Deborah Tulchin
Frank Wechsler
Jim Werbel
Harvey Wilson
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2023 Radio Broadcasts
Every year, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival airs 13 radio broadcasts on stations around the country as well as on its website. The broadcasts are part of the Festival’s national Radio Series—which the WFMT Radio Network produces and distributes—and they feature high-quality recordings of live performances from the previous year’s Festival season. WFMT’s Kerry Frumkin hosts the series, and Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug provides insightful commentary. Festival musicians also share thoughts on the broadcasts’ performances and repertoire.
For more information on both our series and our broadcasts, visit RadioNetwork.WFMT.com/programs. To stream our past broadcasts, visit SantaFeChamberMusic.org/radio-programs.
Here are just a handful of highlights from our 2023 broadcasts:
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
John Storgårds, violin
Paul Huang, violin
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello
Leigh Mesh, double bass
Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2
Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio
Gloria Chien, piano
Soovin Kim, violin
Paul Watkins, cello
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Todd Levy, clarinet
Haochen Zhang, piano
ANTONÍN DVORÁK
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Escher String Quartet
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello
OLIVER KNUSSEN
Requiem: Songs for Sue, Op. 33
Tony Arnold, soprano
John Storgårds, conductor
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Theresa Rudolph, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello
Alastair Eng, cello
Leigh Mesh, double bass
Grace Browning, harp
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano and celeste
Rachel Blumenthal, flute
Bart Feller, flute
YaoGuang Zhai, clarinet
Todd Levy, clarinet
Taylor Eiffert, bass clarinet
Jennifer Montone, horn
Julia Pilant, horn
Gregory Zuber, percussion
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
(Quartet for the End of Time)
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Paul Watkins, cello
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Wind Serenade in C Minor, K. 388
Alexander Vvedenskiy, oboe
Robert Ingliss, oboe
YaoGuang Zhai, clarinet
Todd Levy, clarinet
Christopher Millard, bassoon
Daniel Shelly, bassoon
Jennifer Montone, horn
Julia Pilant, horn
MARC NEIKRUG
Piano Quintet No. 2 in Six Parts
Haochen Zhang, piano
Dover Quartet
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Semafor for Eight Instruments
James Gaffigan, conductor
Nicolas Namoradze, piano and celeste
L. P. How, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Joseph Johnson, cello
Leigh Mesh, double bass
Bart Feller, flute
Todd Levy, clarinet
Ted Soluri, bassoon
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Haochen Zhang, piano
Dover Quartet
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
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The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Radio Broadcasts are supported, in part, by generous underwriting from New Mexico Arts.
John Storgårds and Paul Huang solo in Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Artwork on Our Stage
St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art
Allan Houser Water Spirit Bird
1980, bronze, edition of 10 50˝ x 18˝ x 3.5˝
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Patron Information
Concert Venues
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concerts take place in St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., and The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Both venues are in downtown Santa Fe.
Ticket Purchases and Ticket Office Hours
Tickets can be purchased with any major credit card by phone at 505-9821890 or 888-221-9836, ext. 102, or in person at the Festival’s Ticket Office, which, from mid-June until the end of the Festival, is in the lobby of the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 W. Palace Ave., Santa Fe; daily, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.). On concert days, the Ticket Office remains open until after intermission or until the start of the concert if there is no intermission. From the end of the Festival until mid-June 2024, the Ticket Office is at 208 Griffin St., in Santa Fe, and is open Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Lost 0r Misplaced Tickets
If you lose or misplace your tickets, contact the Ticket Office to arrange for free replacements. Call 505-982-1890 or 888-221-9836, ext. 102.
Ticket Exchanges and Refunds
All ticket sales are final. There are no refunds or cancellations. The Festival permits ticket exchanges for most concerts up to 48 hours prior to the concert date. This service is free to subscribers; an exchange fee per ticket applies to nonsubscribers. Exchanges are subject to availability. For more information or to exchange your tickets, contact the Ticket Office at 505-982-1890 or 888-221-9836, ext. 102.
If You Can’t Attend, Consider Donating Your Tickets
If you can’t attend a performance, please consider donating the cash value of your tickets to the Festival, which is a 100 percent tax-deductible
contribution. Prior to the performance, you can donate your tickets in person at the Festival’s Ticket Office (see address in previous column) or via email at info@sfcmf.org. When emailing, please include the name of the person who purchased the tickets, the date and time of the performance, the number of seats to be donated (and the seat numbers, if possible), and the order number, if possible. The Festival can’t accept ticket donations via phone. We appreciate receiving your ticket donations as soon as possible so that we can increase our chances of reselling the tickets. You’ll receive a receipt for tax purposes, and you’ll give other music lovers the opportunity to hear a live Festival performance. Please note: Once you donate a ticket, your donation is final, and the ticket is instantly made available for resale.
Health and Safety Protocols
The Festival’s health and safety protocols and procedures meet or exceed recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New Mexico Department of Health. COVID vaccinations are strongly encouraged but not required for entry to Festival concerts. Face masks are encouraged in St. Francis Auditorium and The Lensic Performing Arts Center regardless of your vaccination status. Festival tickets are available digitally for touchless entry into St. Francis Auditorium as well as in their traditional physical form. For further details, visit SantaFeChamberMusic. org/healthandsafety.
Patrons With Special Needs
The Festival provides wheelchair seating, accommodations for guide dogs and walkers, and other assistance. Please notify the Ticket Office of your needs when ordering tickets.
Emergencies
Medical or other emergencies should be brought to the attention of a
museum guard, a Festival volunteer (look for their blue sash), or a Festival staff member.
Recording and Electronic Devices
The use of cameras and other recording and electronic devices is not permitted in the Festival’s concert halls. Out of consideration for the Festival’s musicians and your fellow concertgoers, please turn off your cell phone, alarm watch, pager, and other electronic devices before your concert begins.
Late Seating
Concerts begin promptly at indicated times. Out of consideration for the Festival’s musicians and your fellow concertgoers, and to minimize distractions, latecomers or those leaving a performance in progress won’t be admitted or readmitted to the concert until an appropriate time, as determined by a Festival staff member or volunteer. Please remember that traffic, parking, and weather can affect your arrival time. We suggest arriving 30 minutes prior to the concert to allow time to find your seat and get ready for the performance. The Festival assumes no responsibility for portions of any concert missed due to lateness and can’t make any adjustments to the ticket price. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated.
Inclement Weather
The Festival is committed to honoring its concert schedule; therefore, performances proceed at their scheduled times regardless of weather conditions or traffic delays. The Festival regrets that tickets not used due to inclement weather or traffic delays can’t be refunded, exchanged, or returned for a tax receipt.
Length of Concerts
Performance lengths vary, but most evening concerts last about two hours, including intermission. Noon and Saturday concerts last about one hour and don’t have an intermission.
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Children Attending Concerts
Children ages five and older can attend concerts with tickets that are purchased for them; however, concerts are best suited for children ages ten and older. The Festival offers a free Summer Youth Concert that’s designed especially for children. Visit SantaFeChamberMusic. org/youth-concerts for information.
Applause
Although most artists appreciate applause at any time during a performance, audiences should wait until the end of a piece to clap. This is considered respectful to the performers’ concentration and mindful of musical continuity. If you’re unsure about when to applaud, a good rule of thumb is to follow the lead of other audience members.
Coughing
If you’re prone to coughing, please have unwrapped throat lozenges ready when the concert begins, or try to
cough during a loud passage of music. If you begin to cough a lot, it’s perfectly acceptable to leave the hall; a Festival staff member or volunteer will readmit you to the hall during an appropriate part of the performance.
Smoking, Food, and Beverages
Smoking, food, and beverages are not permitted inside the concert halls or in any part of the New Mexico Museum of Art building. Food and drinks are permitted in the museum’s courtyard during intermission. Refreshments are available for purchase in The Lensic Performing Arts Center lobby before concerts and during intermission.
Jewelry and Fragrances
Please avoid wearing jewelry and accessories that make noise and any scented personal products that may compromise the health and comfort of other concertgoers.
Lost and Found
Lost articles may be claimed at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s information desk and at The Lensic Performing Arts Center’s box office during regular business hours.
For More Information
If you want to receive future Festival mailings, such as our 2024 season brochure, or if you want to stay in touch with the Festival through our monthly electronic newsletter, sign up via our website at SantaFeChamberMusic.org.
Please note: All programs, artists, and performance dates are subject to change.
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SEASON PREVIEW
U N P A R A L L E L E D M U S I C A L E X C E L L E N C E 2 0 2 4 July 14 through August 19, 2024
Join us next summer when we present our 51st season from July 14 through August 19, 2024. Highlights include:
n Debuts by two of the world’s most renowned conductors: Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket , who leads an orchestra of Santa Fe Opera musicians in Handel’s three regal Water Music suites, and Deutsche Oper Berlin General Music Director Donald Runnicles, who conducts an orchestra and two vocal soloists—mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht and tenor Clay Hilley (both in their Festival debuts)—in Schoenberg’s arrangement of Mahler’s “song-symphony” Das Lied von der Erde
n The Escher String Quartet playing, for the first time in the Festival’s history, the full cycle of Bartok’s String Quartets— six towering works of the chamber music repertoire
n Premieres of Festival-commissioned works by Outi Tarkiainen and Xinyang Wang and the two participants in the 11th-annual Young Composers String Quartet Project
n Recitals by mezzo-sopranos Kelley O’Connor, Fleur Barron, and Schlicht as well as mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and baritone Benjamin Appl (both in their Festival debuts), plus pianists Zoltán Fejérvári, Kirill Gerstein, Gilles Vonsattel, and Haochen Zhang
n Additional Festival debuts by violinist Danbi Um, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, bassist Anthony Manzo, clarinetist Todd Palmer, hornists Kelly Cornell and Nathaniel Silberschlag, and the Verona Quartet
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Clockwise from top: Verona Quartet, conductor Harry Bicket, mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor
n Return appearances by pianist Ran Dank and Jacob Greenberg; violinists Paul Huang, Leila Josefowicz, Yura Lee, and John Storgårds; violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt; cellist Paul Watkins; guitarist Łukasz Kuropaczewski; clarinetist David Shifrin; and the Dover, FLUX , and Miami string quartets and much more!
Subscriptions for our 2024 season are available now, and individual tickets and FlexPasses go on sale in February 2024. For further details about our 2024 season, pick up our 2024 subscriptions brochure at our Ticket Office desk in the lobby of your concert’s venue or view it online at SantaFeChamberMusic.org. To purchase or renew your subscription, call our Ticket Office at 505-982-1890. We look forward to seeing you next summer!
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Photo Credits
Photos courtesy of the Santa Fe Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival except: p. 1: Addison Doty; p. 12: Pablo Casals: public domain; p. 17: Mendelssohn String Quartet: Lisabeth Menzies; pp. 18–19: Astor Piazzolla; Youth Concerts; Ned Rorem and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; Gary Chryst: Murrae Haynes; p. 20–21: Alan Gilbert; Benny Kim, Yuja Wang, and Lynn Harrell; Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s À Bec Quintet: InSight Foto; p. 22: David Zinman, Susan Graham, and Paul Groves: InSight Foto; p. 24: Ryan Chase: Katie Chlad; Christopher Stark: Laura Bianchi, courtesy of the Bogliasco Foundation; Charlotte Bray: David Beecroft; Magnus Lindberg: Saara Vuorjoki/Music Finland; p. 26: Caroline Burraway; p. 27: John Harbison; Vassily Lobanov and Shostakovich
String Quartet; Morton Subotnick: Murrae Haynes; p. 28–29: InSight
Foto; p. 34: Angela Elizabeth Slater: Adam Whittaker; Ryan Lindveit: Chase Ward; p. 38: VladFoto, Inc.; p. 87: Joseph Alessi: Tom Moore;
Toby Appel: Da Ping Luo; Paul Appleby: Jonathan Tichler; p. 88: Tony Arnold: Claudia Hansen; Inon Barnatan: Marco Borggreve; Christopher
Bassett: Siyu Zhang; Ethan Bensdorf: Ethan Bensdorf; Jennifer Best
Takeda: Matthew Holler Photography; p. 89: Rachel Blumenthal: Mollye Miller; Paolo Bordignon: Matt Dine; Grace Browning: Miran
Kim; Christopher Cano: Caitlin Oldham; p. 90: Jennifer Johnson
Cano: Grant Legan; Roberto Capocchi: InSight Foto; Choong-Jin (C. J.) Chang: Pete Checchia; Harvey de Souza: Benjamin Ealovega; Julia DeRosa: Matt Dine; Michelle DeYoung: Michal Novak; p. 91: Stefan
Dohr: Simon Pauly; Dover Quartet: Jesse Holland; M. Taylor Eiffert: Vanessa Beymer; p. 92: Escher String Quartet: Shervin Lainez; Felix
Fan: Richard Corman; Zoltán Fejérvári: Balázs Böröcz; Bart Feller: Glenn Bo; p. 93: Jennifer Frautschi: Dario Acosta; Zlatomir Fung: Fred Conrad; Kirill Gerstein: Marco Borggreve; Alan Gilbert: Peter Hundert; p. 94: Susan Graham: Dario Acosta; William Hagen: Matt Clayton; Thomas Hampson: Marshall Light Studio; Julia Harguindey: Austin Lord; p. 95: Chad Hoopes: Jiyang Chen; Paul Huang: Marco Borggreve; Robert Ingliss: Charles Brooks; Joseph Johnson: Bo Huang; p. 96: Ida Kavafian: Cristina Cutts Dougherty; Lewis Kirk: Bill Burlingham; p. 97: Robert Klieger: Abdiel Thorne; Chelsea Knox: Geoff Robertson; Katherine Kohler: LeXander Bryant; Mark Kosower: Kim Bonggyun; p. 98: William Leathers: Sophia Szokolay; Jessica Lee: Jodi Buren; Yura Lee: Giorgia Bertazzi; Cho-Liang Lin: Sophie Zhai; p. 99: Ana María Martínez: Ashkan Roayaee; Anthony McGill: Todd Rosenberg Photography; Kathleen McIntosh: Charles McMillan; Leigh Mesh: Pedro Díaz; Edgar Meyer: Jim McGuire; p. 100: Miami String Quartet: Tara McMullen; Jennifer Montone: Sue Burrough Photography; Bradley Moore: Kristin Hoebermann; Nicolas Namoradze: Nathan Elson; p. 101; Tara Helen O’Connor: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Garrick Ohlsson: Dario Acosta; Heiichiro Ohyama: Tsuru; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt: Roy Cox; p. 102; Daniel Phillips: Matthew Dine; Julia Pilant: Leichtner Studio; Rachel Barton Pine: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Laura Poe: Kristin Hoberman; Movses Pogossian: Mark Silber; p. 103: Juho Pohjonen: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Jonathan Randazzo: Brea Youngblood; CarlaMaria Rodrigues: Elizabeth Leitzell; Theresa Rudolph: Bo Huang; Katia Skanavi: Gueorgui Pinkhassov; p. 105: Ted Soluri: Sylvia Elzafon; Peter Stumpf: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Craig Terry: Todd Rosenberg; p. 107: Ashley Vandiver: Fred Cattroll; Gilles Vonsattel: Marco Borggreve: Liang Wang: Chris Lee; p. 108: Haochen Zhang: Benjamin Ealovega; Gregory Zuber: Missy Wolf; p. 134: Verona Quartet: Kaupo Kikkas; Harry Bicket: Dario Acosta; Kelley O'Connor: Ben Dashwood. Courtesy of the artist: Marc Neikrug (p. 38, p. 87); Mark Almond (p. 87); Kathleen Brauer (p. 89); Daniel Druckman, Alastair Eng (p. 91); Joseph Ferraro (p. 92); FLUX Quartet (p. 93); Jennifer Gilbert (p. 94); Margaret Dyer Harris, L. P. How (p. 95); Daniel Jordan, Benny Kim, Eric Kim (p. 96); Gregg Koyle, Charley Lea (p. 97); Todd Levy (p. 98); Kevin Murphy (p. 100); Scott Ney (p. 101); Mark Tatum, Steven Tenenbom (p. 105); David Tolen, Alejandro Valdepenas, Kajsa William-Olsson (p. 107).
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