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: Kirill Gerstein Piano Recital

Longtime Festival collaborator Kirill Gerstein, praised by The Guardian as "a peerless performer," offers a rich Romantic recital program that includes Chopin's Polonaise-Fantasy-a visionary work that, while writing the piece, the composer described as something he didn't "yet know what to call": Liszt's flamboyant, Chopin-influenced Polonaise No. 2: and Schumann's Carnival Scenes from Vienna, which moves masterfully and innovatively between the festive and the somber.

Chopin polonaise-fantasy in a-flat major, op. 61

Liszt polonaise no. 2 in e major, s. 223

Schumann faschingsschwank aus wien (carnival scenes from vienna), op. 26