Press Releases
The Kings of Swing are back!
“I started playing when I was 6, but I didn’t start practicing until I was 12,” (Scholastic interview) says trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. “I didn’t want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn’t like me.” Once he got serious ...
Joe Illick presents Performance Santa Fe’s annual celebration of Richard Wagner’s music!
There is no figure in classical music as simultaneously revolutionary, controversial, and admired as Richard Wagner. Join Joe Illick as he guides the audience through an evening of speech and song centered on Wagner’s famous opera, Tannhäuser.
The opera was ...
Experience the epic and heartwarming music of Tchaikovsky, conducted by Joe Illick, at Performance Santa Fe’s Opening Orchestra Concert.
The Performance Santa Fe Orchestra, led by Joe Illick, will present two of Tchaikovsky’s best-known and loved works. Tchaikovsky was a brilliant Romantic composer famous for his melodies and the color, scale and depth of his works. ...
Daniel Ulbricht, “brilliant” (Dance Magazine) principal dancer for New York City Ballet, formed what was to become the Stars of American Ballet in 2008. The Stars of American Ballet features principals and soloists from New York City Ballet and often includes topmost dancers from other companies such as American Ballet Theatre and Pennsylvania Ballet. This dynamic troupe performs ...
Experience stars of The Santa Fe Opera up close in a different context. Performance Santa Fe’s annual Festival of Song is a series of intimate one-hour recitals featuring stars from The Santa Fe Opera. A meet-the-artists reception follows each recital at the historic Scottish Rite Center.
“Warm, resonant” (The Associated Press) Verdian baritone Quinn Kelsey and ...
Performance Santa Fe has the great pleasure of welcoming back the illustrious Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
Created in 1967 to perform the larger chamber works—from quintets to octets—these players, who customarily work together, draw on their camaraderie and so enrich the level of artistry with which they play. The Ensemble ...
Performance Santa Fe presents a very special recital by the extraordinary duo of violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt. They will perform all three of Brahms' stirring sonatas for violin and piano, with a dash of Webern for good measure.
Vogt, who has played with major orchestras since his debut with Sir Simon Rattle at age ...
Performance Santa Fe is proud to welcome the Takács Quartet to St. Francis Auditorium on April 16. Considered one of the greatest chamber music ensembles in the world, and the first string quartet to win the Wigmore Hall Medal on May 10, 2014 after having been appointed the first-ever Associate Artists at Wigmore in 2012, the Takács ...
Performance Santa Fe welcomes the dual force of co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han and David Finckel, and two of their longtime friends and collaborators, the brilliant violinist Daniel Hope and Paul Neubauer, the sublimely artistic violist. An evening of intense musical chemistry and unity of expression awaits you.
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Performance Santa Fe is delighted to present New Mexico’s diva, Susan Graham in a very special recital.
Ms. Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau will present an evening performance centered around and serving as a sort of deconstruction of Schumann’s iconic song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman’s Love and Life). It is an incredibly varied ...
