Festival News

“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]...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Baritone Benjamin Appl, who’s been called “the most promising of today’s up-and-coming song recitalists” by the Financial Times, made his Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut in 2024 and quickly...

In a recent interview with Music & Artists, British-born Julian Bliss described his earliest days as a music student and professional clarinetist as “unconventional,” beginning with how he took up...

Grammy Award–winning baritone Lucas Meachem—hailed as a “rock star of opera” by Opera Pulse, a “masterful musician” by Opera News, and an artist who “has it all” by Forum Opera—made his Festival...

It’s a rare few who are hailed as “the most remarkable virtuoso” in the history of their instrument, but bassist Edgar Meyer—who received such praise from The New Yorker—is indeed one of the rare...

The New Mexico–raised, “Genius” Award–winning pianist Jeremy Denk returns to the Festival to give an all-Bach recital at The Lensic on August 15. In the years since growing up in Las Cruces, New...

Katia Skanavi has quickly become a Festival-audience favorite since making her debut in 2023, and this summer she returns for three programs, including a can’t-miss recital with violinist Chad...

When Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr made his Festival debut in 2019, he brought the house down with his nuanced and highly virtuosic performance of Britten’s stunning Serenade for...

On Friday, August 1, the JACK Quartet premieres Festival-commissioned works by the two outstanding talents in our 12th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project. Tyson Gholston Davis’s...

When you’re an adventurous, risk-taking chamber-music group whose mission is to “champion new string quartet music and the transformative experiences that it creates,” being hailed by The New York...

Last summer, audiences got to experience the Festival debut of one of today’s most in-demand ensembles: the Calidore String Quartet, which Gramophone has called “the epitome of confidence and...

This summer, acclaimed clarinetist Carol McGonnell will grace the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival stage, bringing her distinctive artistry to two captivating performances. Known for her expressive...

I dreamed a dream of this happening, but I could never have imagined the details,” soprano Ailyn Pérez said in an interview about her experiences as an artist for the online series Living the...