Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Since it was founded in 1972, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has become one of the world’s preeminent music festivals, guided by a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence and innovation. Contributing to its magic is the Festival’s unique Santa Fe setting, nestled amid the timeless splendors of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
With legendary cellist Pablo Casals as honorary president, the Festival’s 1973
inaugural season hosted 14 artists performing six Sunday concerts in Santa Fe
and additional appearances in other New Mexico and Arizona communities.
Today, 38 summers later, under the spirited artistic leadership of
composer/pianist Marc Neikrug, the Festival invites scores of distinguished
musicians, along with emerging young talent, during its 6-week season. Thousands
of enthusiastic patrons young and old return year after year to enjoy the more
than 80 concerts, recitals, master classes, youth concerts, and open rehearsals,
including an Albuquerque Series that made its debut in 2008. In addition, in the
off-season, the Festival reaches out to adults and young people in Santa Fe
schools with innovative and inspiring musical adventures.
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Composer-in-Residence program, inaugurated in 1976, encourages communication
among composers, musicians, and audiences through premieres of
Festival-commissioned works, performances of a composer’s other works, and
concerts featuring the composer as performer. Since 1980 the Festival has
commissioned more than 50 works from such eminent composers as Aaron Copland,
Ned Rorem, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, Mark-Anthony
Turnage, Steven Stucky, and Brett Dean, among many others, thereby contributing
significantly to contemporary chamber music repertoire.
In the 2010 season, the Festival begins an exciting new Artist-in-Residence
program featuring opera superstar, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in its inaugural
year.
Concerts take place in the intimate, historic St. Francis Auditorium at the New
Mexico Museum of Art, the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, and at
Simms Auditorium at Albuquerque Academy.
Beginning in 1981 Festival performances have been broadcast on national radio
networks, including the WFMT Fine Arts Network, American Public Radio, Minnesota
Public Radio, and National Public Radio (NPR). The Festival currently produces a
series of 13, hour-long broadcasts distributed nationally by the WFMT Radio
Network; performances are also heard on Performance Today.
The Festival also maintains a strong tradition of community service, including
the Music in our Schools program—a music education series for grades K–8 in the
Santa Fe Public Schools.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has garnered enthusiastic acclaim not only
from music lovers, but also from art aficionados with its 20-year series of
collectible posters and program book covers of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. The
tradition continues with other artists, including Dan Namingha, William Lumpkins,
Harry Fonsecca, Nils Hogner, Laura Gilpin, William Penhallow Henderson, and Emmi
Whitehorse.
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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
PO Box 2227, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2227
208 Griffin Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501-1821
Toll Free: 1-888-221-9836 or 505-983-2075
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