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for solo flute with Tara Helen NEW THIS SEASON: AUGUST 3 • Brahms didn’t always O’Connor performing. Thursday and Albuquerque wear too-short pants or a shaggy A Subscriber Benefits Ready… Set… WOW! 2016 Festival Highlights beard. He was a handsome, AUGUST 20 • Artist-in-Residence Series patrons: Wednesday eligible bachelor when he wrote Peter Serkin, fellow pianist Julia 2016 evening concerts will be in Albuquerque Series the ardent String Sextet No. 2. Hsu, and friends have the last SEASON 44 Santa Fe Santa Fe. Thursday evening AUGUST 14 (now on Thursdays) at 7:30 PM word on this season’s Bach Plus Subscriber Benefits include YOUR SAME SEATS GUARANTEED Embrace the new! Discover the luster of • Peter Serkin meets concerts, excluding August 18, In it he tried to exorcise his 4 concerts: July 21, 28; Series performing J.S. Bach’s Kyoko Takezawa, Shai Wosner, and Inon Barnatan year after year; BETTER SEATS and advance single ticket purchase hidden musical gems! 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And be Strings, nicknamed “Fandango” for Clarinet & Strings, a Festival ticket to the concert itself, to see EASY, FREE TICKET EXCHANGES on standard subscription tickets Music 6 concerts: July 17, 24, 31; Baritone Kelly Markgraf is in W of String Quartet No. 1 by July 20, 27; August 3, 10). Please dazzled by our star-studded cast of artists (yes, you’ll be dancing on the commission that features and hear rehearsal results.) August 7, 14, 21 the spotlight for Poulenc’s Le the composer nicknamed “the note: The August 11 concert (a $4 per ticket exchange fee applies to any FlexPass exchanges); who’ll play their hearts out for you! way home!); and two concertos Todd Levy. 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(On August 10 in grandparents, aunts & uncles). interpretations of his five-centuries-spanning repertoire! Monday Series in Paris!). And then a classic: 5 concerts: July 20, 27; Santa Fe mezzo-soprano Sasha AUGUST 10 • Father/daughter That’s why the Festival presents 6 concerts: July 18, 25; Beethoven’s engaging String August 3, 10, 17 Cooke lends her considerable Quartet No. 12. team William and Alexandra four concerts that kids will love. 5 Easy Ways To Subscribe We’re proud to present a BEVY OF BACHS: the father, Johann August 1, 8, 15, 22 talents to vocal selection.) N TH JULY 20 • “When you’re Preucil—concertmaster and They’re fun, appealing—and, Sebastian, plus three of his talented offspring: Carl Philipp AUGUST 15 • Brahms looks at JULY 17, 18 • Kick off the new named after one of the biggest assistant concertmaster of the heaven forbid—enlightening! PHONE: 505.982.1890 or toll free 888.221.9836, Ext. 102 love from all sides in his Music at Noon Thursday Concert Emmanuel, Johann Christian, and Wilhelm Friedemann. season with a grand Tchaikovsky constellations in the night sky, Cleveland Orchestra—join Best of all, they’re free! Liebeslieder Waltzes: happy, sad, 11 concerts: 5 Tuesdays, August 18 in Santa Fe at 6 PM FAX: Fax your order to 505.986.0251 favorite! Souvenir de Florence is all the pressure is on to display husband-and-wife team Ida B jealous, passionate—you name 5 Thursdays, 1 Wednesday: All concerts take place at 10 AM (credit card orders only) And speaking of MUSICAL FAMILIES… wives and husbands who’ll about sunny skies and convivial The Lensic Performing Arts Center PO Box 2227 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2227 a little star power—and the Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom, at the St. Francis Auditorium people in Italy’s iconic city; it—set to lilting waltz rhythms July 19, 21, 26, 28; IN PERSON: Festival Office, 208 Griffin Street, Santa Fe be at the Festival include Tara Helen O’Connor and Daniel Phillips; young pianist Orion Weiss violas, and Mark Kosower, cello, Bach Plus Poul Ruders’s work for soprano, Mozart spreads his own brand of and performed by four fabulous August 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 17, 18 MONDAY, JULY 18 Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom; Jennifer Gilbert and Harvey did exactly that …virtuosity for Brahms’s String Quintet No. 2. 5 Saturdays at 5 PM, except guitar, and string quartet, “Oh, MAIL: Tickets, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival sunshine in the String Quintet, singers—Sarah Shafer, soprano; Kyoko Takezawa, violin de Souza; and Sasha Cooke and Kelly Markgraf; plus, performing to spare.” ( ~ Washington Post) Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke for August 20 at 6 PM The repertoire for our most Mother” from the opera The PO Box 2227, Santa Fe NM 87504-2227 K. 515; plus Artistic Director Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Cho-Liang Lin, violin Now you can hear him on lends her considerable talents to 5 Concerts: July 23, 30; popular series runs the Thirteenth Child features guitarist together—William Preucil and daughter Alexandra Preucil Marc Neikrug’s Kaleidoscope with Ben Bliss, tenor; and Kelly Che-Yen Chen, viola EMAIL: [email protected] our Wednesday Santa Fe and vocal selections. (On August 11 August 6, 13, 20 gamut from Purcell to Kodály, David Starobin. Soprano Sarah (concertmaster and assistant concertmaster, respectively, of the Marc himself at the piano, joined Markgraf, baritone; and Telemann to Takemitsu, and Shafer joins him for a selection Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, viola 505.982.1890 or a pair of stellar pianists, Thursday Albuquerque series in Albuquerque, baritone Kelly JULY 23 • Concertos for flute, Cleveland Orchestra). by clarinetist Todd Levy. Beethoven to Shulamit Ran and of songs, and Ida Kavafian and Keith Robinson, cello Pei-Yao Wang and Haochen in Dvořák’s Piano Trio, Op. 65, Markgraf performs Ullmann’s cello, and oboe by three Baroque 888.221.9836, Ext. 102 Elizabeth Ogonek, one of our Artist-in-Residence Peter Serkin Nicholas Canellakis, cello JULY 24, 25 • Youth rules when Zhang. Plus music of Elgar along with Kyoko Takezawa, Songbook of Hafis, celebrating the masters—J.S. Bach, Boccherini, Our chamber music-style BRITISH INVASION heralds composer Young Composers from 2013; play Schumann’s tour de force SantaFeChamberMusic.com two fantastic ensembles—the and Oliver Knussen’s Masks, violin, in her Festival debut, pleasures of love and wine.) Plus and Marcello—comprise our first MONDAY, JULY 25 royalty like Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Frank Bridge, Sir among the brilliant artists you’ll Sonata in D Minor for Violin and Johannes and Pacifica string in which Tara Helen O’Connor and Keith Robinson, cello. English composer Frank Bridge’s Bach Plus concert of the season. Pacifica Quartet Benjamin Britten, and Oliver Knussen CBE. hear are pianists Inon Barnatan, Piano, Op. 121. To cap off the quartets—join forces in the has a few surprises up her brilliant Phantasie Trio No. 1. JULY 27 • Brahms’s Clarinet Trio, JULY 30 • Grammy-nominated Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner, and concert, Smetana’s “slice of life” MONDAY, AUGUST 1 spirited Octet by 16-year-old flute-bearing sleeves. Op. 114 introduces Romie de AUGUST 17 • Dvořák’s infectious violinist Jennifer Koh (“has now Haochen Zhang; and the Orion String Quartet No. 1. Jennifer Frautschi, violin Can’t get enough of the great BAROQUE MASTERS? You’ll be in prodigy Felix Mendelssohn. AUGUST 21 • If you’ve ever Guise-Langlois (“a formidable Czech flavors shine through moved from the status of an String Quartet. Clive Greensmith, cello Baroque heaven with music by Boccherini, Telemann, Zelenka, Pianist Orion Weiss makes his wanted to master an instrument clarinetist” ~ The New York his String Sextet when played aspiring newcomer to that of an Shai Wosner, piano Romie de Guise-Langlois, Ben Bliss, William Preucil, and Alexandra Preucil Vivaldi, Handel, and, of course, the Bachs. Festival debut in Beethoven’s Community Events just so you could play a particular Times) to the Festival. Plus by the Dover Quartet; Steven established star…” ~ The New Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 2. MONDAY, AUGUST 8 work, Schubert’s sublime String Bartók’s popular Contrasts, Tenenbom, viola; and Eric Kim, Yorker) in a thrilling recital.