2026 Festival Highlights
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Bassist Edgar Meyer, violinist Daniel Phillips, and New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey reuniting to play Meyer’s String Trio No. 1—a work they premiered together at the Festival in 1986.
Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Simon Lepper returning to perform three Schubert song cycles: Die Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin, and Schwanengesang.
Jennifer Gilbert, Alan Gilbert, and Paul Watkins playing Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s trio arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Piano-vocal recitals by baritone Will Liverman and pianist Myra Huang in week 2 and baritone Lucas Meachem and pianist Irina Meachem in week 4.
Kirill Gerstein and Katia Skanavi performing piano duets by Schubert, Kurtág, and Rachmaninoff, plus Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman and Mike Truesdell.
The Verona Quartet playing Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with clarinetist David Shifrin.
Solo piano recitals by Ran Dank, Jeremy Denk, Kirill Gerstein, George Li, Nicolas Namoradze, Juho Pohjonen, Orion Weiss, and Haochen Zhang.
Guitarist Meng Su giving an all-Bach recital.
Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket conducting Opera musicians in Bach orchestral suites.
Premieres of Festival commissioned works by Magnus Lindberg, Elizabeth Ogonek, Alex Paxton, and the two participants in the 13th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project.
The New Mexico premiere of Marc Neikrug’s Fantasy for Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and Percussion.
Return appearances by the Dover and JACK quartets.
