Join us For Our Spectacular 52nd Season

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is one of the most respected and renowned chamber music festivals in the world, and part of its allure, for audiences and musicians alike, is that it draws inspiration from its namesake hometown, which is famously and affectionately known as the City Different.

Schedule of Events

BAM!! Insights On The Brain and Music 3 Of 3

In Her Presentation Music and Child Brain Development, Assal Habibi, Phd, Discusses Insights From A Series Of Longitudinal And Cross-Sectional Studies That Explore The Impact Of Musical Training On The Development Of Auditory, Cognitive, And Executive Skills During Childhood. The Studies’ Collective Results Demonstrate That Musical Training In School-Age Children Leads To Improvements In Those Skills, And-Through The Use Of Mris And Eegs-They Reveal Neuroplastic Structural And Functional Changes In The Auditory Regions Associated With Those Skills.

6:00 Pm - 8:00 Pm - Brahms Horn Trio

This Wonderfully Wide-Ranging Program Includes Brahms’s Beautiful 1865 Horn Trio, Which Inspired The Ligeti Trio Performed By The Same Musicians-Pianist Kirill Gerstein, Violinist William Hagen, And Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr-On The Previous Evening’s Program, As Well As Pulitzer Prize–Winning Composer Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet, Played Here By Four Of The World’s Leading Percussionists: Colin Currie, New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman, Doug Perkins (In His Festival Debut), And Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Percussionist Gregory Zuber. The Same Percussionists Give The US Premiere Of A New Work By Former Santa Fe Young Composer Freya Waley-Cohen: Stone Fruit, Which The Festival And London’s Wigmore Hall Commissioned For Currie.

STEVE REICH Mallet Quartet For Two Vibraphones And Two Marimbas 

DOHNÁNYI Serenade In C Major For Violin, Viola, And Cello, Op. 10

FREYA WALEY-COHEN Stone Fruit For Percussion Quartet (Festival Co-Commission, US Premiere)

BRAHMS Horn Trio In E-Flat Major, Op. 40

Approximate Length: 2 Hours