Chatter Ensemble – ensemble

David Felberg, Violin 

James Holland, Cello 

Jesse Tatum, Flute 

Jeffery Brooks, Clarinet 

Luke Gullickson, Keyboards 

Jeffrey Cornelius, Percussion 

Apollo Garcia Orellana, Movement Direction & Stage Design

Tara Khozein, Direction

Chatter is a musical ensemble, a concert series, and a beloved community happening. Chatter presents weekly Saturday- and Sunday-morning concerts in a durable one-hour format pairing music with poetry, a two-minute celebration of silence, and a full-service coffee bar. Led by artistic director and violinist/conductor David Felberg and associate artistic director and clarinetist James Shields, the group presents intrepid combinations of repertoire new and old, envisioning an unbroken fabric of musical culture across eras and genres. Chatter has commissioned and premiered works by composers such as Pierre Jalbert, Sarah Hennies, Roberto Sierra, and Raven Chacon. Between its multiple series, Chatter presents more than 120 concerts annually to often sold-out audiences in Albuquerque and Santa Fe while remaining organizationally nimble and artist-led. As Mark Tiarks wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican: “By challenging almost every norm in an industry that sometimes focuses on safe repertoire and conventional marketing, Chatter has gotten ahead of the curve.”