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

12:00 Pm - 1:00 Pm - Kirill Gerstein Piano Recital

Two Themes-Flowers And Waltzes, As Heard In Works Ranging From Schumann’s Blumenstück (Flower Piece) To Ravel’s La Valse-Shape This Lovely, Delicate, And At Times Haunting Recital Program Performed By Longtime Festival Collaborator Kirill Gerstein, Who’s Been Hailed As "A Peerless Performer" By The Guardian. Gerstein Also Performs A New Work Called Waltzes Toward Civilization, Which The Award-Winning Spanish Composer Francisco Coll Wrote For Him And Which Gerstein Premiered In December 2024.

SCHUMANN Blumenstück, Op. 19

GYÖRGY KURTÁG Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers From Játékok (Games)

RACHMANINOFF Lilacs, Op. 21, No. 5

GRAINGER Paraphrase On Tchaikovsky’s Waltz Of The Flowers

FRANCISCO COLL Waltzes Toward Civilization

RAVEL La Valse

Approximate Length: 1 Hour

6:00 Pm - 7:45 Pm - Marc Neikrug’s Through Roses

For This One-Night-Only Performance Of Wholly Original Late-20th-Century Stage Works, Tony, Drama Desk, And Theatre World Award–Winning Actor John Rubinstein Stars In And Directs Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s World War II–Set "Play With Music" Through Roses, And New Mexico’s Own Chatter Ensemble Makes Their Festival Debut Performing Peter Maxwell Davies’s Avant-Garde Monodrama Eight Songs For A Mad King, Which Features Baritone Michael Hix In The Titular Role Of King George III.

DAVIES Eight Songs For A Mad King

MARC NEIKRUG Through Roses

Approximate Length: 2 Hours