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Marc Neikrug, Artistic Director Steven Ovitsky, Executive Director
JULY 20 – AUGUST 25 |
Pianist Yefim Bronfman to be 2014 Artist-in-Residence “Bach Plus” Five-Concert Series Including All Six Brandenburg Concerti Performed Over Two Concerts Plus A Solo Piano Recital by Benjamin Hochman Two All-Beethoven Programs to Feature the Composer’s Last Works 2014 Commissions Include: Festival Commission & World Premiere by Brett Dean Festival Co-commission & U.S. Premiere by Julian Anderson Festival Co-Commission & New Mexico Premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Second Annual Young Composers’ String Quartet Workshop Featuring Works by Ryan Chase & Tonia Ko Performed by FLUX Quartet Artists Making Festival Debut: Alessio Bax, piano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Ran Dank, piano; Dover Quartet; Gala to be held July 22 including a silent auction, wine auction, performance & dinner Subscriptions available now & single tickets on sale February 24 from www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com or by phone (505) 982-1890 Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 31, 2014 – Artistic Director Marc Neikrug and Executive Director Steven Ovitsky today announced the programming and artists for the 42nd Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival running July 20 through August 25 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This summer’s six-week event features the Festival’s hallmark blend of contemporary music alongside masterworks of the chamber music repertoire performed by many of the world’s top musicians. Highlights include: pianist Yefim Bronfman as the Festival’s 2014 Artist-in-Residence; performances of Festival-commissioned works by Julian Anderson, Brett Dean, Lowell Liebermann and Young Composers’ String Quartet Workshop participants Ryan Chase and Tonia Ko; the festival debut of mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke; the popular “Bach Plus” series; piano recitals including the works of Chopin and Rachmaninoff; and an all-Beethoven program featuring his final chamber works. Executive Director Steven Ovitsky comments, “Each season we are excited to welcome new artists and composers to the Festival as part of the family we have created in Santa Fe. The setting provides a rare opportunity for artists to build relationships in a fast-paced and vibrant setting. Solo artists collaborate in ensembles while established ensembles have the opportunity to perform in different groups with other distinguished musicians.” The Festival’s scenic location, nestled amongst the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and dynamic programming have been bringing chamber music aficionados from around the world to Santa Fe since 1973. 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 the Albuquerque Academy. Subscription packages are available now from www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com or by phone (505) 982-1890. Single tickets go on sale February 24. 2014 Season Highlights Yefim Bronfman, 2014 Artist-in-Residence Each season the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival appoints an internationally-renowned musician as its Artist-in-Residence, offering audiences the opportunity to experience their artistry at an intimate level. The 2014 Artist-in-Residence is pianist Yefim Bronfman (pictured). Mr. Bronfman will perform Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34a on August 17 alongside Martin Beaver (violin), Benny Kim (violin), Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola) and Eric Kim (cello.) Beginning this summer and continuing throughout the 2014-15 season, Mr. Bronfman will perform all nine of Prokofiev’s piano sonatas on tour. He will perform two of these sonatas on this solo recital program on August 19 which also includes the Festival premiere of Passions, Reflected composed by the Festival’s Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug. Mr. Neikrug comments, “I am happy to continue our commitment to stimulating and innovative programs across all centuries and am particularly honored to welcome my good friend Yefim Bronfman as our Artist-in-Residence.” SFCMF Commissions & Festival Premieres The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is dedicated to supporting living composers and perpetuating the chamber music medium, which has resulted in the premieres of over 60 newly commissioned works since 1980. In 2014 Festival commissions include: A work written for string quartet and soprano by award-winning Australian composer and former Berlin Philharmonic violist Brett Dean receives its world premiere July 30 and 31 at the Simms Auditorium in Albuquerque and St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The work features the Orion String Quartet (pictured) and acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble soprano, Tony Arnold. Other works by Mr. Dean performed during the festival include Skizzen für Siegbert for solo viola (July 23 & 24), and Sextet, Old Kings in Exile (July 24.) The FLUX Quartet (pictured) performs the U.S. premiere of British composer Julian Anderson’s as yet untitled string quartet August 7 and 8 in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Mr. Anderson is the current composer-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall and will be presentat the Festival, giving a pre-concert talk on August 8. His 1994 work The Bearded Lady for piano and clarinet will be part of the Festival’s opening night program on July 20 at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art and repeated on July 21.
The Festival premiere of American composer Lowell Liebermann’s song cycle Four Seasons, Op. 123 will be performed August 6 & 7 by mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke (pictured), David Shifrin (clarinet), Ida Kavafian (violin), Steve Tenenbom (viola), and Peter Stumpf (cello) with the composer at the piano. The August 7 performance at St. Francis Auditorium includes a pre-concert talk with the composer. It is a co-commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Celebrity Series of Boston with the generous support of CMNW Commissioning Fund. Other works to be performed for the first time at the Festival are: C.P.E. BACH Trio Sonata in E Major (August 9); BEETHOVEN Fugue in D Major for String Quintet, Op. 137 (August 20); BIBER Violin Sonata in A Major, “Representatio Avium” and Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major (August 9); CHOPIN Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 (August 5); DALLAPICCOLA Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (July 26); FOOTE Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and String Quartet (August 3 & 4); GLAZUNOV Five Novelettes, Op. 15 (August 17); HANDEL Flute Sonata in C Major, HWV 365 (August 2); KREISLER Liebesfreud (arr. Rachmaninoff) ( July 29); KURTÁG Hommage à Mihály András, 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op. 13 (August 12); MARAIS Variation on Les Folies d’Espagne (August 9); MOZART Sonata in D Major for Piano Four-Hands, K. 381 (August 5), String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 (August 10 & 11); MUSSORGSKY Hopak (arr. Rachmaninoff) (July 29); NEIKRUG Passions, Reflected (August 19); O’CONNOR String Quartet No. 3 “Old-Time” (August 22); RACHMANINOFF Prelude No. 1 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (July 29), Vocalise (arr. Bax) (July 29); RUDERS Romances (July 23 & 24); SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 2 in E-flat Major from Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946 (August 21); TELEMANN Fantasia No. 8 in E Minor, TWV 40:9 (August 25), Trio Sonata in A Minor, “Gypsy” (August 9); and ULLMANN String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46 (August 20).
In keeping with the Festival’s commitment to contributing new works to the chamber music repertoire, the Festival continues its Young Composers’ String Quartet Workshop for the second season. American composer Ryan Chase and Hong Kong-born, Hawaii-raised Tonia Ko will be the 2014 participants. Each composer has written a string quartet to be premiered at the Festival August 8 in a program also featuring Julian Anderson’s Festival co-commissioned song cycle. Prior to the performance, the composers will work intensively for a week with the members of the FLUX Quartet rehearsing and fine-tuning their compositions in preparation for the performance. An enduring and popular part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is the five-concert “Bach Plus” series featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach with music by his contemporaries and those later inspired by him. The 2014 series opens July 26 with a solo piano recital by Benjamin Hochman (pictured), pairing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 and Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 alongside a work by Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola called Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera written in 1952. This work was inspired by Bach’s Booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach and the music is composed around the motif B-A-C-H. The “Bach Plus” series also features Bach’s complete Brandenburg concerti being performed over two concerts at The Lensic Performing Arts Center August 16 (Nos. 3, 4 & 5) and August 23 (Nos. 1, 6 & 2.) An all-Handel program will be performed as part of this series August 2 featuring Sasha Cooke performing La Lucrezia, Cantata for Mezzo-Soprano & Continuo, HWV 145. A program featuring works by C.P.E. Bach, Biber, Marais and Telemann on August 9 is also part of this series. All-Beethoven Programs Works by Beethoven are woven throughout the Festival, but there will be two special all-Beethoven programs presented August 20 and August 21 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center. Focused on the composer’s final works for each genre, the program opens with his Six Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 126 and his Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 performed by Joseph Kalichstein. The program continues with a rare performance of a little-known work, his Fugue in D Major for String Quintet, Op. 137. This short work will be performed by the Dover Quartet (pictured) and New York Philharmonic Principal Violist Cynthia Phelps. The program concludes with the String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 also performed by the Dover Quartet. Yefim Bronfman performs Beethoven’s B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”, the last in the composer’s series of piano trios, alongside Martin Beaver, violin and Eric Kim, cello August 21 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center. Violinist Benjamin Beilman returns to the Festival performing the composer’s Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 with pianist Joseph Kalichstein. Also included on the program is Beethoven’s final cello sonata performed by cellist Ronald Thomas and Mr. Kalichstein. Both of these performances include a pre-concert talk by William Kinderman on Beethoven’s late works. Festival Gala 2014 The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will hold the first-ever Music and Wine Gala Tuesday, July 22. This highly anticipated social event includes an exclusive chamber music performance, an exquisite multi-course dinner with wine pairings and a silent auction of fine wines and other exclusive items. The Gala is the Festival’s largest annual fundraising event and supports the annual summer season as well as the year-round musical education and outreach programs for children and adults in the greater Santa Fe community. In launching this new event, Steven Ovitsky said, “We plan to entice wine lovers with exquisite wine-paired cuisine alongside fine wines available for auction donated by individual collectors, restaurants and wine distributors. Winners of the silent auction will know they are supporting the Festival’s artistic and educational programs.” The evening commences at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art with musicians William Preucil (violin), Mark Kosower (cello) and Jon Nakamatsu (piano) performing movements of Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49, among other works. Following the concert, guests will enjoy dinner and the silent auction at the luxury La Posada Resort and Spa. Tickets are $600 per person and include a $375 tax-deductible donation to the Festival. To purchase tickets, please contact Allison Hooper, Event & Donor Relations Manager, at (505) 983-2075, ext 111 or [email protected] Schedule & Broadcasts Listeners can enjoy the Festival’s outstanding performances on our national radio broadcasts, distributed by the WFMT Radio Network to over 350 affiliates worldwide. Check your local station’s schedule. Or stream music from previous seasons by visiting SantaFeChamberMusic.com/radio. ABOUT THE SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Since its inaugural festival in 1973, 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. Under the spirited artistic leadership of composer/pianist Marc Neikrug, the Festival invites scores of distinguished musicians, along with emerging young talent, to participate in its six-week season. The Festival encourages communication among composers, musicians, and audiences through premieres of Festival-commissioned works, the programming of works by living composers, and concerts featuring the composer as performer. Since 1980, the Festival has commissioned more than 60 works from such 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 the contemporary chamber music repertoire. 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. The 2014 artwork is by Dan Namingha. Concerts take place in Santa Fe at the intimate, historic St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Lensic Performing Arts Center, and in Albuquerque at the Simms Auditorium at Albuquerque Academy. CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF CONCERTS SUNDAY JULY 20 at 6:00 PM SCHUBERT String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581 (1817) JULIAN ANDERSON The Bearded Lady (1994) BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861) TUESDAY JULY 22 at NOON St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art SCHUMANN Widmung “Dedication” (arr.Liszt) SCHUMANN Papillons, Op. 2 SCHUMANN Carnaval, Op. 9 TUESDAY JULY 22 at 6:00 PM KODÁLY Duo for Violin & Cello, Op. 7 (first movement) Works TBA MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49 (first movement) WEDNESDAY JULY 23 at 7:30 PM POUL RUDERS Romances (2011) BEETHOVEN Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 16 (1796) BRETT DEAN Skizzen für Siegbert (2011) SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 (1944) THURSDAY JULY 24 at NOON BRETT DEAN Sextet, “Old Kings in Exile” (2010) MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49 (1839) SATURDAY JULY 26 at 5:00 PM BACH PLUS BACH Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826 (1726-1731) DALLAPICCOLA QUADERNO Musicale di Annalibera (1952) BACH: Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 (1726-1731) SUNDAY JULY 27 at 6:00 PM HAYDN Piano Trio in D Major, H. XV:16 (1790) LIGETI Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano (1982) MENDELSSOHN String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87 (1845) TUESDAY JULY 29 at NOON RACHMANINOFF Prelude No. 1 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (1892) RACHMANINOFF Vocalise (arr. Bax) MUSSORGSKY Hopak (arr. Rachmaninoff) RACHMANINOFF Prelude No. 16 in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5 (1910) KREISLER Liebesleid and Liebesfreud (arr. Rachmaninoff) MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) WEDNESDAY JULY 30 at 7:30 PM SCHUBERT Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen for Flute & Piano, in E Minor, D. 802 (1824) BRETT DEAN title TBA (2014 Festival Commission, World Premiere) BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 (1825) THURSDAY JULY 31 at NOON BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38 (1862-1865) BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 (1886) SATURDAY AUGUST 2 at 5:00 PM HANDEL Flute Sonata in C Major, HWV 365 (1725-1726) HANDEL Suite No. 5 in E Major, “The Harmonious Blacksmith”, HWV 430 (ca.1710) SUNDAY AUGUST 3 at 6:00 PM HARBISON Twilight Music for Horn, Violin & Piano (1985) BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No.2 (“Moonlight”) (1801) FOOTE Nocturne & Scherzo for Flute and Strings (1918) SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht (1917) TUESDAY AUGUST 5 at NOON MOZART Sonata in D Major for Piano Four Hands, K.381 (1772) SCHUBERT Fantasia in F Minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 940 (1828) POULENC Flute Sonata, FP 164 (1956-1957) CHOPIN Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 (1836) WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 1:00PM-5:00PM WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6 at 7:30 PM BEETHOVEN Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 (1798) LIEBERMANN Four Seasons, Op.123 (2014 Festival Co-commission, New Mexico Premiere) DVOŘÁK Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87 (1889) THURSDAY AUGUST 7 at NOON JULIAN ANDERSON title TBA (2014 Festival Commission, U.S. Premiere) MOZART String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, KV. 593 (1790) FRIDAY AUGUST 8 at 5:00 PM FRIDAY AUGUST 8 at 6:00 PM RYAN CHASE String Quartet title TBA TONIA KO String Quartet title TBA SATURDAY AUGUST 9 at 5:00 PM C. P. E. BACH Trio Sonata in E Major BIBER Violin Sonata in A Major, “Representatio Avium” (1669) MARAIS Les Folies d’ Espagne (1701) BIBER Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major TELEMANN Trio Sonata, “Gypsy “, TWV 42: a4 (1740) SUNDAY AUGUST 10 at 6:00 PM MOZART String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 (1789) HAYDN Arianna a Naxos (1789) MOZART Duo No. 1 in G Major for Violin & Viola, K. 423 (1783) WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34 (1811-1815) KURTÁG Hommage à Mihály András, 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op. 13 (1978) WEBERN Bagatelles, Op. 9 (1913) BRAHMS String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1876) MOZART Divertimento in E-flat Major, KV. 563 (1788) MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time (1940-1941) THURSDAY AUGUST 14 at NOON DEBUSSY Syrinx for Solo Flute (1913) HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik for Wind Quintet, Op. 24, No.2 (1922) MOZART Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 (1786) SATURDAY AUGUST 16 at 5:00 PM BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 (1721) BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 (1721) BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 (1721) SUNDAY AUGUST 17 at 6:00 PM SCHNITTKE Moz-Art (after Mozart K. 416) (1976) GLAZUNOV Five Novelettes, Op. 15 (1886) BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34a (1861) MONDAY AUGUST 18 at 6:00 PM MARTINŮ La Revue de Cuisine, H. 161 (1927) SCHUBERT Octet in F Major, D. 803 (1824) TUESDAY AUGUST 19 at NOON NEIKRUG Passions, Reflected (2008) WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 at NOON #10 MOZART Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370 (1781) ULLMANN String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46 (1943) POULENC Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano, FP 43 (1926) WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 at 5:00 PM WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 at 6:00 PM BEETHOVEN Six Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 126 (1823) BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.space30 in E Major, Op. 109 (1820) BEETHOVEN Fugue in D Major for String Quintet, Op. 137 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.16 in F Major, Op.135 (1826) SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 2 in E-flat Major from Drei Klavierstucke, D. 946 (1828) SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959 (1828) THURSDAY AUGUST 21 at 5:00 PM THURSDAY AUGUST 21 at 6:00 PM BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op.102, No. 2 (1815) BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 (1812) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke” (1810-1811) FRIDAY AUGUST 22 at 6:00PM BEETHOVEN Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli in C Major, Op. 120 FRIDAY AUGUST 22 at 8:00 PM MARK O’CONNOR String Quartet No. 3 “Old-Time” (New Mexico Premiere) (2008) SATURDAY AUGUST 23 at 6:00 PM BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 (1721) BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 B-flat Major, BWV 1051 (1721) BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (1721) SUNDAY AUGUST 24 at 6:00 PM TAKEMITSU Rain Spell (1982) BRAHMS String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (1860) MONDAY AUGUST 25 at 6:00 PM TELEMANN Fantasia No. 8 in E Minor, TWV 40:9 KODÁLY Serenade (1919) DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1887) |
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