Jan 30 2009
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival News
| Festival presents 2008-09 American Composer Residency Program | ||
SFCMF presents second half of 2008-09 American Composer Residency Program, featuring Gunther Schuller, George Tsontakis and Marc Neikrug The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2008-09 American Composer Residency Program, which celebrates the importance of chamber music and its evolution in the United States, continues this summer. Providing members of the Santa Fe community and visitors to the Festival with the opportunity to interact with some of today’s most highly acclaimed American composers through pre-concert discussions, master classes and recordings, the Festival presents composers Gunther Schuller and George Tsontakis this 2009 season. Festival artistic director/composer/pianist Marc Neikrug will act as host of the pre-concert talks, (consisting of an interview with the composer followed by a Q & A with the audience) and will also be featured in pre-concert talks about his own work, Green Torso - Green Torso Too with Festival executive director Steven Ovitsky. Mr. Schuller will discuss his Festival commission, Quintet for Horn & Strings, on Sunday July 26 and Monday, July 27 at the Women’s Board Room of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Mr. Neikrug will discuss his work on Sunday, August 9 and Monday August 10 at the same location. Mr. Tsontakis will discuss his Festival commission (to be named) on Sunday, August 16 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The two guest composers’ master classes will be held on July 27 and August 16 respectively, with the locations to be announced. Both Mr. Schuller’s and Mr. Tsontakis’ works will receive their world premieres at the Festival. The American Composer Residency Program is made possible through a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius initiative. The Residency activities revolve around the works of the American composers participating in the Residency program presented by the Festival during its 36th and 37th seasons. During summer 2008, the Festival featured the works of American composers Roberto Sierra, Joan Tower and Marc Neikrug. Composition students from the University of New Mexico and the College of Santa Fe will have the chance to interact with the composers. They will attend a dress rehearsal and performance of each composer’s work and participate in master classes and seminars led by the composers. The final component of the Residency will provide future audiences with the opportunity to get to know these American composers and their work. All performances, pre-concert discussions and master classes are being professionally recorded both on audio CD and DVD for archival and educational purposes. The information will be available for download from the Festival’s website at a future date. Performances will be broadcast on the Festival’s nationally syndicated radio series. |
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Festival returns to Albuquerque’s KiMo Theatre for the second year |
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If you happen to be in Albuquerque this summer, you can still hear the Festival in action. The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will present three concerts in downtown Albuquerque for the second season in a row. Part of the KHFM PERFORMANCE LIVE series hosted by American General Media Foundation, the concerts will take place on July 22, 29 and August 5, 2009 at 7:30 pm. The July 22 concert features pianists Shai Wosner and Marc Neikrug in music for four hand piano - Schubert’s Rondo in A for Piano Four Hands, D. 951. The July 29 concert includes Villa-Lobos’ Quinteto em forme de Choros, Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet featuring the Miro String Quartet, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C, Op. 29. The final Albuquerque concert on August 5th includes two Britten works: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49, performed by oboist Liang Wang and Two Insect Pieces, Mr. Wang joined by Marc Neikrug. Violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, cellist Peter Wiley and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott perform Mozart’s Piano Quartet in Eb, K.493, and Louis Spohr’s Nonet for Winds & Strings in F, Op. 31 rounds out the program.Check out the full program details at www.santafechambermusic.com |
