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

6pm: Mozart & Brahms Masterworks

On this powerful program, eight acclaimed wind players—including Minnesota Orchestra Principal Oboe Nathan Hughes and Cleveland Orchestra Principal Horn Nathaniel Silberschlag—come together to play Mozart's earliest masterpiece for wind ensemble, the Serenade, K. 375, and violinist William Hagen leads an all-star ensemble in Brahms's Piano Quintet, which one of the composer's contemporaries, conductor Hermann Levi, described as "beautiful beyond words."

Mozart serenade in e-flat major, k. 375

Brahms piano quintet in f minor, op. 34a

6pm: Dvorak & Janacek: Czech Icons

In this season-finale concert, violinist John Storgards and pianist Kirill Gerstein play Janacek's Violin Sonata, which is noted for both its urgency and lyricism, and, for the first time ever, Gerstein joins forces with the Dover Quartet for a performance of one of the standouts of the chamber music repertoire: Dvorak's rousing Piano Quintet, Op. 81. The modal harmonies and improvisational feel of Janacek's sonata coupled with the dumka and Bohemian dances in Dvorak's quintet offers an invigorating taste of the folk music these two composers brought from their shared homeland and onto the international concert stage.

Janacek sonata for violin and piano

Mozart string quartet in e-flat major, k. 428

Dvorak piano quintet in a major, op. 81