“Through the years, I have learned that music is life and life is music,” Leonidas Kavakos said in a 2023 interview with The Korean Herald. “The role of music is not just to entertain people; [it’s] to really help people understand what life is.” Music has been a...
Pianist Ran Dank made his Festival debut in 2014, the same year he earned his doctorate in music from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studied with such esteemed instructors as Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode. Prior to that, he’d honed his skills at The Juilliard...
In 2024, the Grammy Award–winning baritone Will Liverman made his Festival debut alongside the Grammy-nominated pianist Myra Huang, and this summer we’re excited to welcome back both amazing artists for a noon recital on Wednesday, July 29, when...
Pianist George Li was still a teenager when he won the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2015, and that was five years after he’d won first prize at the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Li has also won the 2012...
Since making their Festival debut in 2024, the Verona Quartet has quickly become a Festival-audience favorite, and this summer they make their highly anticipated return playing music by Janáček, Ravel, and Brahms as well as premiering a Festival-commissioned work by...
Santa Fe audiences are especially familiar with Alan Gilbert. Not only did he serve as the first music director of the Santa Fe Opera from 2003 to 2006 and the Opera’s assistant concertmaster in 1993, but he made his Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut in 2001, as...
