2025 Festival
Festival Highlights
Pianist Orion Weiss playing one of Bach’s most enduring masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations.
Percussion virtuoso Colin Currie giving the Festival’s first-ever solo percussion recital.
The Festival debut of the JACK Quartet—called “fearless” and “one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles” by The New York Times.
The Calidore String Quartet playing Caroline Shaw’s enthralling, Haydn-inspired Entr’acte.
Violin-piano recitals featuring Chad Hoopes and Katia Skanavi playing Brahms and Beethoven sonatas and Paul Huang and Orion Weiss playing Mozart and Prokofiev sonatas as well as Arvo Pärt’s hauntingly beautiful Spiegel im Spiegel.
Solo piano recitals by Kirill Gerstein, Juho Pohjonen, Gilles Vonsattel, and Shai Wosner.
Violinist Leila Josefowicz and cellist Paul Watkins join forces for Ravel’s structurally lean but melodically loaded Sonata for Violin and Cello.
Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr performing dazzling horn trios by Brahms and Ligeti.
Tony Award–winning actor John Rubinstein narrating Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s deeply moving World War II–centered “play with music,” Through Roses.
Baritone Michael Hix singing the role of King George III in the Festival’s first-ever presentation of Peter Maxwell Davies’s avant-garde monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King, featuring New Mexico’s very own Chatter Ensemble.
Piano-vocal recitals marking the Festival debuts of sopranos Erika Baikoff, Emily Pogorelc, and Liv Redpath.
Premieres of Festival-commissioned works by Julian Anderson, Sean Shepherd, Freya Waley-Cohen, and the two participants in the 12th annual Young Composers String Quartet Project.
Return appearances by violinists Jennifer Frautschi, William Hagen, and Yura Lee; violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt; cellist Nicholas Canellakis and clarinetist David Shifrin; and the Dover, Escher, and Miami string quartets.
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