SUNDAY & MONDAY SERIES
NIGHT MUSIC

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison’s Twilight Music starts the evening with Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Daniel Phillips, violin; and Philip Myers, horn. Next, Mr. Asuncion performs Beethoven’s definitive work, “Moonlight” Sonata.

The theme of “night music” continues with Festival favorites Orion String Quartet and Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, for Arthur Foote’s contrasting Nocturne & Scherzo. Schoenberg’s dark, dramatic Verklärte Nacht performed by the Orion String Quartet; Ida Kavafian, viola; and Peter Stumpf, cello, closes the program.

Sunday, August 3 & Monday, August 4 at 6 pm
St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

JOHN HARBISON 
Twilight Music for Horn, Violin & Piano (1985) 
            Philip Myers, horn; Daniel Phillips, violin; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight” (1801)
            Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

ARTHUR FOOTE 
Nocturne & Scherzo for Flute & String Quartet (1919)
            Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, violin; Todd Phillips, violin; 
Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899)
Ida Kavafian, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello
            Daniel Phillips, violin; Todd Phillips, violin; 
Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello

Sunday and Monday Series subscription: $396
Single tickets: $55 & $75; Ages 19-35 $15; Ages 6-18 $10

MUSIC AT NOON
MOZART, SCHUBERT, CHOPIN PIANO

Pianist Pei-Yao Wang, a current CMS Two at Lincoln Center artist, makes her Festival debut with pianistVictor Santiago Asuncion performing two piano duets: Mozart’s Sonata in D Major for Piano Four Hands and Schubert’s Fantasia in F Minor for Piano Four Hands.  Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, joins Ms. Wang for Poulenc’s Sonata for Flute & Piano, composed in honor of Elizabeth Sprague-Coolidge (known as America’s patron saint of chamber music). Mr. Asuncion plays Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brilliante to complete the program. 

Tuesday, August 5 at 12 noon

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 
Sonata in D Major for Piano Four Hands, K. 381 (1772) 
            Pei-Yao Wang, piano; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

FRANZ SCHUBERT 
Fantasia in F Minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 940 (1828) 
            Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Pei-Yao Wang, piano

FRANCIS POULENC
Sonata for Flute & Piano (1956) 
            Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Pei-Yao Wang, piano

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brilliante, Op. 22 (1834)
            Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

Music at Noon Series subscription: $242
Single tickets: $20 & $25; Ages 19-35 $15; Ages 6-18 $10

ALBUQUERQUE & THURSDAY SERIES
BEETHOVEN, DVORÁK & LIEBERMANN PREMIERE
PRE-CONCERT DISCUSSION WITH COMPOSER LOWELL LIEBERMANN

The New Mexico Premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s song cycle Four Seasons, Op. 123 features Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; David Shifrin, clarinet; Ida Kavafian, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; and Peter Stumpf, cello, with the composer as pianist. Mr. Shifrin, Timothy Eddy, cello, and Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano, perform Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, and Mr. Stumpf appears again in the final piece on the program -- Dvorák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major -- with Jessica Lee, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; and Pei-Yao Wang, piano. The August 7th performance at St. Francis Auditorium also includes a pre-concert talk with Mr. Liebermann and Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug. 

Wednesday, August 6 at 7:30 pm

Thursday, August 7 at 6 pm

Wed: Simms Auditorium, Albuquerque Academy
Thu: St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

Thursday, 5 pm; Beauregard Gallery, New Mexico Museum of Art 
Pre-concert talk: Composer Lowell Liebermann and Marc Neikrug

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 
Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 (1798)
            David Shifrin, clarinet; Timothy Eddy, cello; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

LOWELL LIEBERMANN 
Four Seasons, Op. 123 (2013)
            Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; David Shifrin, clarinet; Ida Kavafian, violin; 
Steven Tenenbom, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Lowell Liebermann, piano

(2014 Co-commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and Celebrity Series of Boston with the generous support of CMNW Commissioning Fund); New Mexico Premiere

ANTONÍN DVORÁK 
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87 (1889) 
            Jessica Lee, violin; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Pei-Yao Wang, piano

Albuquerque Series subscription: $153; Single Tickets: $35 & $45
Thursday Series subscription: $305; Single Tickets: $35 - $70
Ages 19-35 $15; Ages 6-18 $10

MUSIC AT NOON
SCHUMANN, MOZART & ANDERSON PREMIERE

The FLUX Quartet performs the U.S. Premiere of British composer Julian Anderson’s Festival co-commissioned String Quartet No. 2, “300 Weihnachtslieder.” Mr. Anderson is the current Composer in Residence at London’s Wigmore Hall and has resided with the Cleveland and London Philharmonic orchestras. Translated from German as “300 Christmas Songs,” Mr. Anderson sought inspiration from these songs and explains that he “allowed their melodic contours, moods, rhythms, and texts to affect [his] music.” He employs his “macrotonality” tuning system to this piece as well as “vertical bowing,” which lends unique colors and atmosphere. Schumann’s Adagio & Allegro in A-flat Major for Horn & Piano and Mozart’s String Quintet No. 5 in D Major round out the
program. 

Thursday, August 7 at 12 noon
St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

ROBERT SCHUMANN 
Adagio & Allegro in A-flat Major for Horn & Piano, Op. 70 (1849)
            Philip Myers, horn; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

JULIAN ANDERSON 
String Quartet No. 2, “300 Weihnachtslieder” (2014)
            FLUX Quartet: Tom Chiu, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; 
Felix Fan, cello

(Co-commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation) U.S. premiere

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 
String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, K. 593 (1790)
            Ida Kavafian, violin; Jessica Lee, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; 
Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello

Music at Noon Series subscription: $242
Single tickets: $20 & $25; Ages 19-35 $15; Ages 6-18 $10

MODERN MASTERS: YOUNG COMPOSERS STRING QUARTET PROJECT
PRE-CONCERT DISCUSSION WITH COMPOSER JULIAN ANDERSON

The Young Composers String Quartet Project, a week-long intensive workshop, culminates with the FLUX Quartet giving the World Premiere of works by American composer Ryan Chase and Hong Kong-born, Hawaii-raised composer Tonia Ko. The program also includes Julian Anderson’s Festival co-commissioned String Quartet No. 2, “300 Weihnachtslieder.” Mr. Anderson participates in a pre-concert discussion with Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug.

Friday, August 8 at 5 pm

Beauregard Gallery, New Mexico Museum of Art 
Pre-concert talk: Composer Julian Anderson and Marc Neikrug

6 pm Concert
St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

RYAN CHASE
String Quartet (2014)
            FLUX Quartet: Tom Chiu, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; 
Max Mandel, viola; Felix Fan, cello

TONIA KO
String Quartet (2014)
            FLUX Quartet: Tom Chiu, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; 
Felix Fan, cello

JULIAN ANDERSON
String Quartet No. 2, “300 Weihnachtslieder” (2014)
            FLUX Quartet: Tom Chiu, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; 
Felix Fan, cello

(Co-commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation)

Single tickets: $5 General Admission

BACH PLUS
BACH, VON BIBER, MARAIS & TELEMANN

An enduring and popular part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is the five-concert “Bach Plus” series, featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries, and those later inspired by him. In the third concert of the series, Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord, and Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, join members of theOrion String Quartet for sonatas by C.P.E. Bach, von Biber, Marais, and Telemann.

Saturday, August 9 at 5 pm
St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL BACH
Trio Sonata in E Major, H. 580, Wq 162 (1747) 
            Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Timothy Eddy, cello; 
            Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord


HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ VON BIBER
Sonata Violino Solo Representativa in A Major, 
C. 146, “Representativio Avium” (1669)   
            Daniel Phillips, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

MARIN MARAIS 
Variation on Les folies d’ Espagne, Book II, No. 20 (1701)
            Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ VON BIBER 
Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140 (1681) 
            Daniel Phillips, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN 
Trio Sonata in A Minor for Flute, Violin & Continuo, TWV 42: a4, “Gypsy” (1740) 
            Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Timothy Eddy, cello; 
            Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

Bach Plus Series subscription: $200
Single tickets: $35 & $45; Ages 19-35 $15; Ages 6-18 $10

For more information on Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's concerts and to order tickets, please call 505-982-1890 or visit www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com. The box office is located in the lobby of the New Mexico Museum of Art at 107 West Palace Avenue and is open daily from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. 

ABOUT THE SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Since its inaugural festival in 1973, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has become one of the world’s preeminent music festivals, guided by a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence and innovation. Contributing to its magic is the Festival’s unique Santa Fe setting, nestled amid the timeless splendors of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Under the spirited artistic leadership of composer/pianist Marc Neikrug since 1998, the Festival invites scores of distinguished musicians, along with emerging young talent, to participate in its six-week season. The Festival encourages communication among composers, musicians, and audiences through premieres of Festival-commissioned works, the programming of works by living composers, and concerts featuring the composer as performer. Since 1980, the Festival has commissioned more than 60 works from such composers as Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Steven Stucky, and Brett Dean, among many others, thereby contributing significantly to contemporary chamber music repertoire.