SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL July 19–August 24, 2020 Season 48
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SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL July 19–August 24, 2020 Season 48 505.982.1890 ■ SantaFeChamberMusic.com BELOW: New York Philharmonic String Quartet, John Storgårds. OPPOSITE PAGE: James Gaffigan, Ran Dank. ON THE COVER: Clockwise from top left: Richard Goode, Dover Quartet, Leila Josefowicz, Tony Arnold, Gilles Vonsattel, Escher String Quartet. WELCOME TO OUR 2020 SEASON! It’s another exciting summer at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Building on the momentum of the 2019 season, the Festival Festival, filled with classics of the repertoire, lesser-known gems, expands its piano-vocal recital series from three concerts to five world premieres, and a brand-new stage work—plus we’re four, presenting towering works of the art-song repertoire like expanding a recently launched series and, as always, featuring Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Beethoven’s To the Distant some of the most extraordinary artists in the world. Beloved while featuring seven powerhouse performers: mezzo-sopranos Michelle DeYoung and Sasha Cooke, tenor Legendary pianist returns to the Festival for Richard Goode Paul Groves, countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, and pianists the first time in years to present a solo recital of works by Calio Alonso, Pei-Yao Wang, and Michał Biel. Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, and Chopin, and violin superstar Leila Josefowicz makes her Festival debut performing Solo recitals this season feature, in addition to Richard Goode, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with pianist Gilles pianists Ran Dank, Benjamin Hochman, Nicolas Namoradze, Vonsattel, cellist Peter Wiley, and clarinetist Ricardo Juho Pohjonen, and Gilles Vonsattel. Morales. In another highly anticipated return appearance, Continuing its commitment to championing new music, the soprano Tony Arnold, renowned for her interpretations of contemporary and cutting-edge music, partners with violinist Festival presents the world premieres of four commissioned string quartets—by , , and Movses Pogossian, in his Festival debut, for György Kurtág’s Augusta Read Thomas Helen Grime the two participants in the Festival’s revelatory Kafka Fragments. Young Composers String Quartet Project, Jack Hughes and Lara Poe—as well as a work James Gaffigan, chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony for piano and wind quintet by Michael Seltenreich. Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, makes his Festival debut leading Festival debuts include violinists Camilla Kjøll, the former first concertmaster of The Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and four large works: Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Knussen’s Requiem: Amy , a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra, in addition Songs for Sue, Takemitsu’s Rain Coming, and Schoenberg’s Oshiro Chamber Symphony No. 1. to Josefowicz, Pogossian, Gaffigan, Orliński, Alonso, Biel, Namoradze, and the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio. Among the And, in a one-time-only event, visionary director Doug Fitch, dozens of returning artists are violinists John Storgårds, Ida praised by The New York Times for his “imaginatively and Kavafian, and Daniel Phillips; violist Paul Neubauer; cellist resourcefully staged” productions, brings Artistic Director Marc Eric Kim; flutist Tara Helen O’Connor; and the New York Neikrug’s chamber opera A Song by Mahler—featuring mezzo- Philharmonic and Orion String Quartets. soprano Kelley O’Connor, baritone Kelly Markgraf, clarinetist All this and more is on offer this summer, so read on for details. David Shifrin, and the FLUX Quartet—to the Festival for its New Mexico premiere. We look forward to seeing you during our 2020 season! Two dynamic ensembles—the Dover Quartet and the Escher String Quartet—join forces for octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu, and, over the course of three evenings, the Chien- Steven Ovitsky Marc Neikrug Kim-Watkins Trio performs the full cycle of Beethoven’s Executive Director Artistic Director groundbreaking Piano Trios. ■ 1 ■ THE BEETHOVEN PIANO TRIOS 2020 HIGHLIGHTS Wednesday, August 12, 6 pm / New Mexico Museum of Art; Sunday, August 16 & Monday, August 17, 6 pm / The Lensic Performing Arts Center For the first time in its history, the Festival presents the full cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Trios performed over the course of a single season. The revolutionary, groundbreaking works reveal not just Beethoven’s talents as a composer and piano virtuoso but also his visionary spirit and gift for redefining every form and genre he touched. The newly formed Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio performs nine works, beginning with Beethoven’s Op. 1, No. 1, and ending with his towering “Archduke” Trio. The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio comprises pianist Gloria Chien and violinist Soovin Kim— Courtesy of Doug Fitch who, in 2021, become co-artistic directors of Chamber Music Northwest—and Paul Watkins, cellist for the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet. THE BEETHOVEN PIANO TRIOS PACKAGE: Need to Know • Order early to improve your chances of having your first-choice seats for all 3 concerts. • Choose from 3 price points, beginning at $90 for the least-expensive full package. A SONG BY MAHLER • Subscribers to the Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday Series Thursday, August 20, 6 pm / The Lensic Performing Arts Center will receive a deeper discount and priority seating. On the Festival presents one of the most • Beethoven Piano Trios package purchasers have priority Thursday, August 20, extraordinary events of its 2020 season: seating over non-package ticket buyers. the New Mexico premiere of the chamber opera A Song by Mahler, written by the Festival’s Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug, and staged by director Doug Fitch—whose acclaimed productions include Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre for the New York Philharmonic, Puccini’s Turandot for The Santa Fe Opera, and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat for the Festival— with lighting design by Nicholas Houfek. In a synopsis of the work, Marc writes: BELOW: Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio (Gloria Chien, Soovin Kim, Paul Watkins) A celebrated concert singer, famous for a particular Mahler love song, contracts early-onset Alzheimer’s. The drama follows her and her husband, who is also her pianist, as they confront their new reality. As her illness progresses, he tries to stave off the inevitable consequences through music and her singing. The tragic end resolves in a new, elevated understanding of their love. A Song by Mahler showcases the talents of some of the world’s leading and most-compelling musicians: mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, baritone Kelly Markgraf, clarinetist David Shifrin, and the FLUX Quartet. Be sure to make this unique musical event part of your 2020 Festival experience! ■ 3 ■ SUNDAY, JULY 19 week 1 [S] 6 PM NM MUSEUM OF ART The Festival’s 48th season begins with beloved works by MONDAY, JULY 20 Beethoven and Brahms, a recital by pianist Ran Dank, and [M] 6 PM the return of the Orion String Quartet. NM MUSEUM OF ART BEETHOVEN & BRAHMS The Festival begins with two giants of the repertoire— Beethoven’s heroic “Harp” Quartet, performed by the WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 SATURDAY, JULY 25 Orion String Quartet, and [NW] 12 PM [W] 6 PM [B] 5 PM Brahms’s tumultuous Piano NM MUSEUM OF ART NM MUSEUM OF ART NM MUSEUM OF ART Quartet in C Minor. BEETHOVEN SERENADE DVOŘÁK STRING QUARTET BACH & BIBER New York Philharmonic The Orion String Quartet plays On the first Bach Plus concert DETLEV GLANERT Déjà vu harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon Dvořák’s wildly evocative of the season, two works (Wind Quintet No. 2) and violinist Daniel Phillips String Quartet in G Major, by the Baroque master are String Quartet BEETHOVEN kick off the Festival’s first written after he returned to paired with the wonderfully in E-flat Major, Op. 74, “Harp” Wednesday Noon concert Prague following a three-year expressive Violin Sonata No. 3 Piano Quartet in BRAHMS with Bach’s Sonata in A Major stay in New York. by 17th-century Bohemian- C Minor, Op. 60 for Violin & Harpsichord, Austrian composer Heinrich BEETHOVEN String Trio in Ran Dank, Ida Kavafian, BWV 1015. The program also von Biber—one of the most D Major, Op. 9, No. 2 Che-Yen Chen, Peter Stumpf, includes works by Martinů influential composers for MARC-ANDRÉ DALBAVIE Orion String Quartet and the Hong Kong–born, the violin—as well as Piano Quartet (Festival The Jet (Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Hawaiian-raised composer , a playful mid-20th- commission, 2012) Whistle Steven Tenenbom, Tonia Ko as well as Beethoven’s century work for flute and DVOŘÁK String Quartet in Timothy Eddy), Bart Feller, lighthearted Serenade for Flute, cello by Brazilian composer G Major, Op. 106 Robert Ingliss, Todd Levy, Violin & Viola. Heitor Villa-Lobos. Julia Harguindey, Gregory Flint Ran Dank, Ida Kavafian, Sonata in A Major Sonata in G Major Sunday approximate length: BACH Che-Yen Chen, Peter Stumpf, BACH for Violin & Harpsichord, for Flute & Viola da Gamba, 2 hours (with presentation) Orion String Quartet Monday approximate length: BWV 1015 BWV 1027/1039 1 hour and 45 minutes (Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, TONIA KO Still Life Crumbles Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy) (arr. Samuel Baron) for Violin & Harpsichord BIBER Violin Sonata No. 3 Approximate length: 1 hour and TUESDAY, JULY 21 MARTINŮ Promenades for in F Major 45 minutes [NT] 12 PM Flute, Violin & Harpsichord VILLA-LOBOS Assobio a Játo NM MUSEUM OF ART BEETHOVEN Serenade in (The Jet Whistle) for Flute THURSDAY, JULY 23 RAN DANK PIANO RECITAL D Major for Flute, Violin & & Cello Award-winning pianist Ran [NTH] 12 PM Viola, Op. 25 Sonata “Sopr’il Soggetto Dank plays Schumann’s NM MUSEUM OF ART BACH Reale,” from Musical Offering, spirited Carnival Scenes Paolo Bordignon, Daniel Phillips, ORION STRING QUARTET This program includes two for Flute & Violin, BWV 1079 from Vienna; Thomas Adès’s L. P. How, Tara Helen O’Connor pillars of the repertoire: gripping Darknesse Visible, Paolo Bordignon, Approximate length: 1 hour Haydn’s ethereal String based on a song by English Daniel Phillips, Timothy Eddy, Quartet in F Major, known as Renaissance master John Tara Helen O’Connor Dowland; and Prokofiev’s “The Dream,” and Schubert’s Approximate length: 1 hour and melancholy Sonata No.