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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2008
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Four Commissioned Premieres by Saariaho, Sierra, Ruo and Tower, Completion of Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Among Musical Offerings of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 36th Season.
Offering something for chamber music tastes of every kind,The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 2008 season presents a variety of chamber music masterpieces, rarely heard gems and new works, including the premieres of four co-commissions, a new work by artistic director Marc Neikrug and the second installment of the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet. This summer 2008, the Festival takes place from July 20th through August 25th, and presents 76 renowned artists and six ensembles in concerts and recitals.
A major contributor to the contemporary chamber music repertoire, The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival raises its number of commissions to 47 this 2008 season with the addition of four new works by some of today's highly acclaimed composers: Huang Ruo, Kaija Saariaho, Roberto Sierra and Joan Tower.
The Festival also presents the completion of the Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet, with eight works performed over the course of three nights, and the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's Piece for Pro Piano Hamburg Steinway Model D & Marimba One.
In all, the 2008 Festival presents over 100 works by composers such as: C. P. E Bach, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Berio, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Carter, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Corelli, Dallapiccola, Debussy, Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Fasch, Faure, Ginastera, Handel, Janacek, Kline, Lancino, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Neikrug, Ortiz, Quantz, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Ruders, Ruo, Saariaho, Schubert, Schulhof, Schumann, Shostakovich, Sierra, Smetana, Stravinsky, Taneyev, Telemann, Tower and Vivaldi. The carefully crafted programs presented throughout the 36th season offer something for every taste. Samples of the various works appearing on the 2008 season include the opening concert, which features Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y yo (performed in English) and Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata. Week one of the Festival also includes a Baroque program featuring Telemann's Concerto No. 3 for Trumpet, Two Oboes, Strings & Continuo, Quantz's Sonata for Flute, Oboe & Continuo, Corelli's Sonata for Trumpet, Two Violins & Continuo, Bach's Sonata for Flute & Harpsichord and Fasch's Concerto for Trumpet, Two Oboes, Strings & Continuo. Week two offers the world premiere of Roberto Sierra's Nonet and an all-Schumann program featuring the Festival debut of soprano Arianna Zukerman; week three features world premieres by Kaija Saariaho and Huang Ruo, Marc Neikrug's new work, Philip Kline's The Last Buffalo, and the first of three concerts in the second installment of the Beethoven string quartet cycle. Week four includes the completion of the Beethoven cycle, and an all-Handel vocal and instrumental program. Week five features Joan Tower's 2008 Festival co-commission, Beethoven's Septet for Winds and Strings and Bruch's String Octet. And among the works in the last week of the festival are Neikrug's Through Roses and Dvorak's Piano Quintet, Op. 81.
As part of its 2008 season, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will also present three concerts in downtown Albuquerque, hosted by American General Media Foundation's new classical music concert series, KHFM PERFORMANCE LIVE. The three evening concerts will take place on July 23, July 30 and August 6 at the KiMo Theatre.
This summer, a special master class will be offered by violinist Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet to the Escher String Quartet. As is the Festival's tradition with rehearsals, the master class will be free and open to the public. Schedules and locations for the master class and open rehearsals will be available during the season on the Festival website and at the Festival's two halls: the intimate St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and The Lensic Performing Arts Center, both in downtown Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performances will be distributed by The WFMT Radio Network in a 13-week, hour-long radio series this spring. Produced and nationally distributed by The WFMT Radio Network since 2005, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival remains the only chamber music festival to be broadcast nationwide. Highlights of the 2007 season included the Festival's premiere of John Wyre's Quartet: Music for 16 Gongs (co-commissioned with the La Jolla Music Society), the first half of the Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet; a Gregorian Chant program by The Monastic Choir of Christ in the Desert and H.K. Gruber's festival debut, as well as the successful completion of the Festival's 35th Anniversary Endowment Campaign, which surpassed its $5 million goal by $1.7 million.
Responding to the popularity of its first Chef's Gala, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents The Second Annual Chef's Gala this July 17, 2008. Held at the Scottish Rite Center, the benefit gala will feature a special performance by cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Yuja Wang in the Hall, then cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the courtyard, followed by an incredible dinner featuring distinctive tables created by 17 of the finest chefs in Northern New Mexico.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Founded in 1972 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, among the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is considered one of the world's preeminent music festivals, renowned for its innovative spirit, inspirational performances and commitment to artistic excellence.
The Festival, one of the oldest in the country, modestly began with six performances and 14 artists in Santa Fe. Marking its 36th anniversary this 2008 season, it has grown to include over 40 concerts, recitals, master classes, youth concerts and open rehearsals with more than 80 artists and ensembles in the Santa Fe area during the Festival's six week season, and continues to draw thousands of enthusiastic music lovers to Santa Fe each summer.
The Festival has been a consistent contributor to contemporary chamber music repertoire since 1980, and has commissioned 47 new works from such eminent composers as Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Harbison and Joan Tower, to name a few. It has transformed the chamber music festival model by extending its musical hallmark, that of a presenter of great masterpieces and champion and contributor to the contemporary repertoire, to include works of fine art by local artists, underscoring the relationship music has with other art forms. Each season the Festival incorporates local art through its performance locations and with program books, posters, or CD covers, having begun the tradition with the reproduction of Georgia O'Keefe's Music, Pink and Blue No. 1 as the cover of the Festival's first program book. Artists have included Dan Namingha, William Lumpkins, Harry Fonsecca, Nils Hogner, Laura Gilpin and William Penhallow Henderson. The 2008 season program cover and poster will showcase the artwork of Ms. Emmi Whitehorse, an internationally renowned painter whose work focuses on nature and landscapes. Ms. Whitehorse will create an original painting for the Festival, not only for
2008, but for the 2009 and 2010 seasons as well. The actual pieces will then be auctioned each year to support the festival.
Recognized as a cultural, educational and economic catalyst for the Santa Fe region, the Festival holds its performances in two locations: Santa Fe's St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum Of Art and The Lensic Performing Arts Center. During the off-season, the Festival reaches out to adults and young people in Santa Fe schools with education and outreach programs, including Music in our Schools,
which involves approximately 3,800 students in eight elementary public schools and Strings in our Schools, which provides violins and weekly violin lessons to students at two elementary public schools.
Since 2005, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 13-week, hour-long radio series has been produced and distributed nationally by The WFMT Radio Network. Other national radio broadcasts have included American Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, NPR, and BBC Radio 3.
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008 SEASON
FESTIVAL ARTISTS: VIOLIN: Adam Barnett-Hart, Kathleen Brauer, Ivan Chan, Jennifer Frautschi, L.P. How, Yi-Wen Jiang, Wu Jie, Benny Kim, Weigang Li, Cho-Liang Lin, Jessica Linnebach, Helen Nightengale, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Giora Schmidt, Philip Setzer, Pinchas Zukerman VIOLA: Choong-Jin Chang, Guillermo Figueroa, L.P. How, Kirsten Johnson, Benny Kim, Pierre Lapointe, Honggang Li, Teng Li, Jethro Marks, Cynthia Phelps, Daniel Phillips, Steven Tenenbom CELLO: Zuill Bailey, Mark Brandfonbrener, Timothy Eddy, Felix Fan, Amanda Forsyth, Sally Guenther, Lynn Harrell; Gary Hoffman, Andrew Janss, Anssi Karttunen, Eric Kim, Ronald Thomas, Nicholas Tzavaras DOUBLE BASS: Marji Danilow HARP: Rosalind Simpson FLUTE: Bart Feller, Tara Helen O'Connor, Janice Tipton OBOE: Allan Vogel, Liang Wang CLARINET/BASS CLARINET: Kyle Knox, Todd Levy, Michael Rusinek BASSOON/CONTRABASSOON: Nancy Goeres; Theodore Soluri HORN: William Barnewitz, Julie Landsman, Eric Ruske TRUMPET: David Washburn PIANO: Jeremy Denk, Benjamin Hochman, Jon Nakamatsu, Marc Neikrug, Jon Kimura Parker, Navah Perlman, Andrew Russo, Yuja Wang HARPSICHORD: Kathleen McIntosh GUITAR: Simon Wynberg PERCUSSION: David Cossin; Angela Gabriel, Jeffrey Milarsky SINGERS: Monia Groop, Isabel Leonard, Laurent Naouri, Arianna Zukerman SPEAKER/ACTOR: Jonathan Richards, John Rubinstein CONDUCTORS: Guillermo Figueroa, Marc Neikrug ENSEMBLES: Escher String Quartet, Imani Wind Quintet, Miami String Quartet, Orion String Quartet, Real Quiet, Shanghai Quartet
Contact: Laura Grant, Grant Communications
978.208.0552; grant11@comcast.net
Julie Rodriguez, Assoc. Artistic Administrator
Four Commissioned Premieres by Saariaho, Sierra, Ruo and Tower, Completion of Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Among Musical Offerings of Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 36th Season.
Offering something for chamber music tastes of every kind,The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 2008 season presents a variety of chamber music masterpieces, rarely heard gems and new works, including the premieres of four co-commissions, a new work by artistic director Marc Neikrug and the second installment of the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet. This summer 2008, the Festival takes place from July 20th through August 25th, and presents 76 renowned artists and six ensembles in concerts and recitals.
A major contributor to the contemporary chamber music repertoire, The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival raises its number of commissions to 47 this 2008 season with the addition of four new works by some of today's highly acclaimed composers: Huang Ruo, Kaija Saariaho, Roberto Sierra and Joan Tower.
The Festival also presents the completion of the Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet, with eight works performed over the course of three nights, and the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's Piece for Pro Piano Hamburg Steinway Model D & Marimba One.
In all, the 2008 Festival presents over 100 works by composers such as: C. P. E Bach, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Berio, Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Carter, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Corelli, Dallapiccola, Debussy, Dohnanyi, Dvorak, Fasch, Faure, Ginastera, Handel, Janacek, Kline, Lancino, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Neikrug, Ortiz, Quantz, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Ruders, Ruo, Saariaho, Schubert, Schulhof, Schumann, Shostakovich, Sierra, Smetana, Stravinsky, Taneyev, Telemann, Tower and Vivaldi. The carefully crafted programs presented throughout the 36th season offer something for every taste. Samples of the various works appearing on the 2008 season include the opening concert, which features Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Platero y yo (performed in English) and Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata. Week one of the Festival also includes a Baroque program featuring Telemann's Concerto No. 3 for Trumpet, Two Oboes, Strings & Continuo, Quantz's Sonata for Flute, Oboe & Continuo, Corelli's Sonata for Trumpet, Two Violins & Continuo, Bach's Sonata for Flute & Harpsichord and Fasch's Concerto for Trumpet, Two Oboes, Strings & Continuo. Week two offers the world premiere of Roberto Sierra's Nonet and an all-Schumann program featuring the Festival debut of soprano Arianna Zukerman; week three features world premieres by Kaija Saariaho and Huang Ruo, Marc Neikrug's new work, Philip Kline's The Last Buffalo, and the first of three concerts in the second installment of the Beethoven string quartet cycle. Week four includes the completion of the Beethoven cycle, and an all-Handel vocal and instrumental program. Week five features Joan Tower's 2008 Festival co-commission, Beethoven's Septet for Winds and Strings and Bruch's String Octet. And among the works in the last week of the festival are Neikrug's Through Roses and Dvorak's Piano Quintet, Op. 81.
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As part of its 2008 season, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will also present three concerts in downtown Albuquerque, hosted by American General Media Foundation's new classical music concert series, KHFM PERFORMANCE LIVE. The three evening concerts will take place on July 23, July 30 and August 6 at the KiMo Theatre.
This summer, a special master class will be offered by violinist Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet to the Escher String Quartet. As is the Festival's tradition with rehearsals, the master class will be free and open to the public. Schedules and locations for the master class and open rehearsals will be available during the season on the Festival website and at the Festival's two halls: the intimate St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and The Lensic Performing Arts Center, both in downtown Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performances will be distributed by The WFMT Radio Network in a 13-week, hour-long radio series this spring. Produced and nationally distributed by The WFMT Radio Network since 2005, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival remains the only chamber music festival to be broadcast nationwide. Highlights of the 2007 season included the Festival's premiere of John Wyre's Quartet: Music for 16 Gongs (co-commissioned with the La Jolla Music Society), the first half of the Beethoven string quartet cycle featuring the Orion String Quartet; a Gregorian Chant program by The Monastic Choir of Christ in the Desert and H.K. Gruber's festival debut, as well as the successful completion of the Festival's 35th Anniversary Endowment Campaign, which surpassed its $5 million goal by $1.7 million.
Responding to the popularity of its first Chef's Gala, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents The Second Annual Chef's Gala this July 17, 2008. Held at the Scottish Rite Center, the benefit gala will feature a special performance by cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Yuja Wang in the Hall, then cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the courtyard, followed by an incredible dinner featuring distinctive tables created by 17 of the finest chefs in Northern New Mexico.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Founded in 1972 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, among the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is considered one of the world's preeminent music festivals, renowned for its innovative spirit, inspirational performances and commitment to artistic excellence.
The Festival, one of the oldest in the country, modestly began with six performances and 14 artists in Santa Fe. Marking its 36th anniversary this 2008 season, it has grown to include over 40 concerts, recitals, master classes, youth concerts and open rehearsals with more than 80 artists and ensembles in the Santa Fe area during the Festival's six week season, and continues to draw thousands of enthusiastic music lovers to Santa Fe each summer.
The Festival has been a consistent contributor to contemporary chamber music repertoire since 1980, and has commissioned 47 new works from such eminent composers as Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Harbison and Joan Tower, to name a few. It has transformed the chamber music festival model by extending its musical hallmark, that of a presenter of great masterpieces and champion and contributor to the contemporary repertoire, to include works of fine art by local artists, underscoring the relationship music has with other art forms. Each season the Festival incorporates local art through its performance locations and with program books, posters, or CD covers, having begun the tradition with the reproduction of Georgia O'Keefe's Music, Pink and Blue No. 1 as the cover of the Festival's first program book. Artists have included Dan Namingha, William Lumpkins, Harry Fonsecca, Nils Hogner, Laura Gilpin and William Penhallow Henderson. The 2008 season program cover and poster will showcase the artwork of Ms. Emmi Whitehorse, an internationally renowned painter whose work focuses on nature and landscapes. Ms. Whitehorse will create an original painting for the Festival, not only for
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2008, but for the 2009 and 2010 seasons as well. The actual pieces will then be auctioned each year to support the festival.
Recognized as a cultural, educational and economic catalyst for the Santa Fe region, the Festival holds its performances in two locations: Santa Fe's St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum Of Art and The Lensic Performing Arts Center. During the off-season, the Festival reaches out to adults and young people in Santa Fe schools with education and outreach programs, including Music in our Schools,
which involves approximately 3,800 students in eight elementary public schools and Strings in our Schools, which provides violins and weekly violin lessons to students at two elementary public schools.
Since 2005, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's 13-week, hour-long radio series has been produced and distributed nationally by The WFMT Radio Network. Other national radio broadcasts have included American Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, NPR, and BBC Radio 3.
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008 SEASON
FESTIVAL ARTISTS: VIOLIN: Adam Barnett-Hart, Kathleen Brauer, Ivan Chan, Jennifer Frautschi, L.P. How, Yi-Wen Jiang, Wu Jie, Benny Kim, Weigang Li, Cho-Liang Lin, Jessica Linnebach, Helen Nightengale, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Giora Schmidt, Philip Setzer, Pinchas Zukerman VIOLA: Choong-Jin Chang, Guillermo Figueroa, L.P. How, Kirsten Johnson, Benny Kim, Pierre Lapointe, Honggang Li, Teng Li, Jethro Marks, Cynthia Phelps, Daniel Phillips, Steven Tenenbom CELLO: Zuill Bailey, Mark Brandfonbrener, Timothy Eddy, Felix Fan, Amanda Forsyth, Sally Guenther, Lynn Harrell; Gary Hoffman, Andrew Janss, Anssi Karttunen, Eric Kim, Ronald Thomas, Nicholas Tzavaras DOUBLE BASS: Marji Danilow HARP: Rosalind Simpson FLUTE: Bart Feller, Tara Helen O'Connor, Janice Tipton OBOE: Allan Vogel, Liang Wang CLARINET/BASS CLARINET: Kyle Knox, Todd Levy, Michael Rusinek BASSOON/CONTRABASSOON: Nancy Goeres; Theodore Soluri HORN: William Barnewitz, Julie Landsman, Eric Ruske TRUMPET: David Washburn PIANO: Jeremy Denk, Benjamin Hochman, Jon Nakamatsu, Marc Neikrug, Jon Kimura Parker, Navah Perlman, Andrew Russo, Yuja Wang HARPSICHORD: Kathleen McIntosh GUITAR: Simon Wynberg PERCUSSION: David Cossin; Angela Gabriel, Jeffrey Milarsky SINGERS: Monia Groop, Isabel Leonard, Laurent Naouri, Arianna Zukerman SPEAKER/ACTOR: Jonathan Richards, John Rubinstein CONDUCTORS: Guillermo Figueroa, Marc Neikrug ENSEMBLES: Escher String Quartet, Imani Wind Quintet, Miami String Quartet, Orion String Quartet, Real Quiet, Shanghai Quartet
Contact: Laura Grant, Grant Communications
978.208.0552; grant11@comcast.net
Julie Rodriguez, Assoc. Artistic Administrator
- 983.2075 ext. 112; julie@sfcmf.org