Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

The Festival draws inspiration from its namesake hometown, which is famously and affectionately known as the City Different. And things are different here, both in Santa Fe and at the Festival.

Schedule of Events

12pm: Benjamin Appl & Simon Lepper Recital

In their Festival debuts, two renowned artists—baritone Benjamin Appl, called "the most promising of today's up-and-coming song recitalists" by the Financial Times, and pianist Simon Lepper—present The Sound of Silence, an intimate recital program that focuses on pauses and silences in music as well as on introspection as the starting point for inspiration. Appl was one of legendary German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's final students, and here he showcases his extraordinary artistry in Schumann's complete Liederkreis, an arresting Gregorian chant, and moving works by Schubert, Monteverdi, Richard Strauss, and other masters.

Anonymous "domine, exaudi"

Schubert "der tod und das madchen," d. 531

Monteverdi "tu se' morta" from l'orfeo, sv 318

Schubert "meeres stille," d. 216

Schumann liederkreis, op. 39

Schubert "der einsame," d. 800

Wolf "wir haben beide lange zeit geschwiegen" from italienisches liederbuch

Wolf "begegnung" from morike-lieder

Wolf "verschwiegene liebe" from eichendorff-lieder

Schubert "der doppelganger" from schwanengesang, d. 957

James macmillan "the children"

Strauss "morgen!," op. 27, no. 4

6pm: Ravel & Brahms

Two crown jewels of the chamber music repertoire— Ravel's hypnotic Piano Trio and Brahms's grand Piano Quartet in A Major—share a program with Elizabeth Ogonek's Lightenings, a stunning and complementary piece that the Festival commissioned and premiered in 2016. Pianist Ran Dank, whom The Washington Post praised for playing with "explosive force and triumphant exultation," is featured in the Ravel and Ogonek, and Haochen Zhang, hailed for his "preternatural virtuosity" by The Boston Music Intelligencer, joins violinist Paul Huang, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Peter Stumpf for the Brahms.

Elizabeth ogonek lightenings, (festival commission)

Ravel piano trio in a minor

Brahms piano quartet in a major, op. 26