
2024 Festival
July 14 – August 19

2024 Festival Season highlights include:
The Festival debut of Donald Runnicles—General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival—conducting a chamber orchestra in two performances of Mahler’s song-symphony Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), which features soloists mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht, tenor Clay Hilley
The Escher String Quartet (pictured) playing Festival’s first-ever complete cycle of Bartók’s String Quartets—six towering masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire
Violinist Leila Josefowicz, violist Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt, and cellist Paul Watkins performing works of Kodály and Schoenberg, and pianist Kirill Gerstein collaborating for the first time with the Dover Quartet on Dvorak’s beloved Piano Quintet in A Major.
Recitals by mezzo-sopranos Fleur Barron, Jamie Barton, Annika Schlicht, and Kelley O’Connor; baritone Benjamin Appl; and pianists Zoltán Fejérvári, Kirill Gerstein, Gilles Vonsattel, and Haochen Zhang
Handel’s regal Water Music led by Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket in his first Festival appearance, and guitar virtuoso Łukasz Kuropaczewski performing fiery duos of Paganini and Giuliani with violinist Danbi Um, in her own Festival debut.
Four world premieres of Festival-commissioned works by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen, Xinyang Wang and the two participants of our 11th-annual Young Composers String Quartet Project.
Festival debuts of Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medalist cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, solo bassist of San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra Anthony Manzo, and Cleveland Orchestra principal horn Nathaniel Silberschlag.
Dozens of returning artists including pianist Katia Skanavi, violinists Paul Huang, William Hagen, and John Storgårds, cellists Eric Kim and Peter Stumpf, oboist Nathan Hughes, clarinetist David Shifrin, and the Miami and FLUX string quartets.
And much more!

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Non-Subscription Concerts
New Music with FLUX Quartet
Friday, August 2 at 6 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
Program to be announced. Will feature world premieres of Festival-commissioned works, including string quartets by the two participants in the Festival’s 2024 Young Composers String Quartet Project.
General admission $10
Indian Market Concert
Friday, August 16 at 6 p.m.
St. Francis Auditorium
Artists and program to be announced.
FREE admission
Sunday Series

Beethoven, Ligeti & Mendelssohn

Dvořák & Prokofiev

Schubert & Beethoven

Escher String Quartet Plays Bartók
Monday Series

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Dvořák & Janáček: Czech Icons
Wednesday Series

Russian Odyssey: Rachmaninoff & Prokofiev
Bach Plus Saturdays

French Baroque Masters: Rameau & Lully

Italian Splendor: Vivaldi, Giuliani & Paganini

Bach, Telemann & Zelenka
Music at Noon Tuesdays

Zoltán Fejérvári Piano Recital

Haochen Zhang Piano Recital

Kirill Gerstein Piano Recital
Music at Noon Wednesdays

Kelley O'Connor & Myra Huang Recital

Benjamin Appl & Simon Lepper Recital

Annika Schlicht & Donald Runnicles Recital

Jamie Barton & Julius Drake Recital

Fleur Barron & Julius Drake Recital
Music at Noon Thursdays

Gilles Vonsattel Piano Recital
