Season Book III update

2023–2024 season

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Forty extraordinary concerts in July and August, performed by over 80 world-class artists from around the globe.

Over 130 works spanning three centuries of genius, from Bach & Beethoven to Kaija Saariaho & Osvaldo Golijov.

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About Performance Santa Fe

Performance Santa Fe has been bringing the world’s best music, dance, and theater to iconic Santa Fe locations since 1937. The organization upholds excellence in the performing arts and brings joy and enrichment to the community. Alongside its extensive performance season, the organization also runs three dynamic, exciting, and inclusive educational programs for students in the community— Arts for Life, the Masterclass Series, and the Field Trip Series.

Performance Santa Fe’s 23–24 season brings 24 performances to five venues across Santa Fe and invites audiences to experience the extraordinary.

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SEASON

Season at a Glance

JULY 2023-MAY 2024

Fri, July 28 Stars of American Ballet 1 (LPAC) Dance

Sat, July 29 Stars of American Ballet 2 (LPAC)  Dance

Sun, July 30 Festival of Song (SRT)  Classical

Sun, Aug 6 Festival of Song (SRT) Classical

Sun, Aug 13 Festival of Song (SRT) Classical

Sat, Sept 16 Transient Landscapes (SJC) Contemporary/Immersive

Tue, Sept 26 Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein (LPAC) Film/Theater/Music

Tue, Oct 3 Arturo Sandoval (LPAC) Jazz

Wed, Oct 25 Camilla Tilling & Emanuel Ax (CRC) Classical

Jenny Lind: Love and Lieder

Tue, Nov 14 Secret Byrd with (SRT) Classical/Immersive/Early

The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik

Wed, Nov 15 Secret Byrd with (SRT) Classical/Immersive/Early

The Gesualdo Six and Abendmusik

Fri, Dec 1 Gala/Jessica Vosk (LPAC)  Musical Theater/Pop

Fri, Dec 15 Winter Wassail (SRT)  Classical/Early

Wed, Jan 24 The Aunties: (LPAC) Storytelling Woman of the White Shell Water Place

Wed, Feb 7 Brad Mehldau (SFA)  Jazz

Sat, Feb 10* Delfeayo Marsalis (LPAC) Jazz and the Uptown Orchestra

Wed, Feb 21 Giordano Dance Chicago (LPAC)  Dance

Wed, Mar 6

Benjamin Grosvenor (SFA) Classical

Tue, Mar 19 Kronos Quartet (LPAC)  Classical/Contemporary

Wed, Apr 3 Kenny Barron & Regina Carter (LPAC) Jazz

Tue, Apr 16 Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI (LPAC)  Early Music

Fri, Apr 19 Takács Quartet and Julian Labro (SFA) Classical

Sun, May 12 Isidore String Quartet (SFA)  Classical

*An event of the 2024 Art + Sol Winter Arts Festival

LPAC = Lensic Performing Arts Center I SRT = Scottish Rite Temple

SJC = St. John’s College I SFA = St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art

CRC = Cristo Rey Church

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Who We Are

board of directors

Leah Gordon, President

Natalie Beller, Vice President

Jack Larson, Treasurer

Bronwyn Poole, Secretary

Cynthia Coleman

Leslie Jones

Timothy Mitchell

Michelle Midyette

Tracy Mobley-Martinez

Dinah Reddick

Kathleen Reidy

Elizabeth Sample

emeritus director

Elisabeth Lerner foundation board of directors

Timothy Mitchell, President

Jack Larson, Secretary

Ben Alaimo-Monson, Treasurer

Natalie Beller

Robin Black

David Marion

psf staff

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volunteers

Virginia Barsky

John Burke

Douglas Conwell

Charlotte Cook

Rebecca Dempsey

Adrienne Ewing

Richard Feldman

Loralee Freilich

Pam Grob

Laurie Grob

Barbara Hadley

Harriet Harris

Patricia Hinton

Bob Hinton

Bo Keppel

Randi Klein

Mike Lester

Margaret Merdler

Estelle Miller

Marie Newsom

Cindy Pabst

Madeline Pryor

Janice Simmons

Janet Steinberg

Erin Taylor

Teri Thomas

Alice Tinkle

Linda Wieseman

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Performance Santa Fe presents

THE AUNTIES:

Women of the White Shell Water Place

Wednesday, January 24 I 7:30 pm I Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place is a multimedia storytelling experience conceived and created by Indigenous Performance Productions. Featuring three Native American culture bearers from northern New Mexico, The Aunties cultivates a space for these remarkable individuals to tell the stories of their lives. Join us as we celebrate these Aunties through an evening of shared storytelling, music, and multimedia arts, collectively reflecting on their pasts as we look towards the future.

This performance includes a talkback presented by the School for Advanced Research (SAR).

Created by Indigenous Performance Productions. Directed by Kendra Potter, Andre Bouchard, Executive Producer.

Presented in partnership with Institute of American Indian Arts and the School for Advanced Research

The evening’s program will be announced from the stage

The Aunties is presented through the support of Bronwyn Poole and Peter Schmitz, Tracy Mobley-Martinez, and Michele Midyette

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

About the Aunties

Deborah Taffa is the director of the MFA CW program at IAIA. Winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant, her memoir WHISKEY TENDER is forthcoming from HARPERCOLLINS HARPER in 2023. A MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, & Kranzberg Fellow, she’s from the Quechan Nation and earned her MFA in Iowa City.

A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, Deborah earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Prior to her job at IAIA, she taught Creative Nonfiction at Webster University and Washington University in Saint Louis.

A member of the Tewa tribe from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, Nora Naranjo-Morse earned a BA from the College of Santa Fe. She is the daughter of the potter Rose Naranjo and grew up surrounded by women relatives and siblings, all of whom worked with clay. Her own sculptures and films are in collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Heard Museum, the Albuquerque Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Naranjo-Morse is the author of the poetry collection Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay (1992), which combines poems with photographs of her clay figures.

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deborah taffa

Laura Tohe is Diné.  She is Tsénahabiłnii, Sleepy Rock People clan, and born for the Tódich’inii, Bitter Water clan.  She grew up at Crystal, New Mexico near the Chuska Mountains on the Diné homeland.

Her published books include Making Friends with Water (chapbook); No Parole Today, a book on boarding schools; Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community, co-edited with Heid Erdrich; Tseyí Deep in the Rock, in collaboration with photographer, Stephen Strom; and Code Talker Stories, an oral history book with the remaining Navajo Code Talkers.  The Phoenix Symphony commissioned her to write the libretto for Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio, which made its 2008 world premiere as part of the Phoenix Symphony’s 60th anniversary.  A compact disc recording of Enemy Slayer is on the Naxos classical music label.  It received rave reviews by the Arizona Republic and was called “a triumph” by Opera Today.

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Performance Santa Fe presents Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries

Wednesday, February 7 I 7:30 pm I St. Francis Auditorium / NMMA

PROGRAM

Fourteen Reveries Brad Mehldau 2023 [intermission]

“L.A. Pastorale” Brad Mehldau 2019

Selections from Suite: April 2020 Brad Mehldau 2020

I. waking up

II. stepping outside

III. keeping distance

IV. stopping, listening: hearing

V. remembering before all this

VI. uncertainty

VII. - the day moves by -

IX. waiting

X. in the kitchen

XII. lullaby

Songs from Elliot Smith, Radiohead, and others to be announced from stage

brad mehldau I photo: elena olivo

About Brad Mehldau

BRAD MEHLDAU: FOURTEEN REVERIES

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. In his newly commissioned work, Fourteen Reveries for Piano, Mehldau reflects on the interior experience that we create from our own consciousness, independently of others. Written from a similar impulse as his Suite April 2020, Fourteen Reveries is a meditation on the space a composer leaves between specific directions that lets the beauty of the music reveal itself, while still allowing new discovery.

brad mehldau I photo: elena olivo

About the Program

Fourteen Reveries came from a similar impulse as the suite from 3 years ago, April 2020, to write shorter pieces. In both sets, I’ve eschewed larger-scale development, opting for brevity. Each piece is more like a distillation of emotion. If there is one link of mood here in this set, it is that of reverie. The music might accompany those moments during waking hours, when we withdraw from our exterior environment. Reverie can be welcome, perhaps as a diversion from the banality of one’s surroundings. At other times, it is an involuntary flight into melancholy. In all cases, it is an interior experience, exclusive to our own consciousness, independent from others. The music here accordingly expresses solitude – at turns enraptured, placid, nervous, lonely or ecstatic.

Reverie is not so much an emotional state itself, but the interior frame in which those emotions knock around. There is often an element of quiet in these pieces – not necessarily in dynamic volume, but the quietude of passivity, as one allows those feelings to wash over them, without broadcasting them to anyone else. Outward quietude masks a flow of inner action. The music is less a willful display, and more like peeling back a curtain to reveal something.

Each piece is self-contained, and while there are no overt melodic themes or motifs which bind them together, they flow into each other, often attacca, with no pause, often connecting through their shared tonal center. The first five, thus, make up a group in C major; 7-9 move between G major and G minor. Metric connections appear as well, as in #2 and #9, which share the same placid 5/8 meter.

There are several pianistic obsessions I’ve wrestled with as a player and composer through the years, which play out in some of the pieces. One is to place a melody within its accompanying figuration, so that even as it takes center stage, it remains part of an undulating texture. One can hear that feature in the first, second and ninth pieces. Another compositional approach in the seventh piece was to avoid indicating the shifting time signatures in the written music, visually emphasizing for the player the fluid, gridless kind of state of the music. In the final more extended piece, as in ‘waiting,’ the ninth piece from April 2020, the music has a clear pulse but no barlines at all, like a paragraph made up of one long sentence.

The more I’ve studied the masters over the years, the more I have been fascinated by what the composer “tells” the pianist in the score – or doesn’t tell – sometimes overtly, sometimes obliquely; concerning dynamics, articulation, tempi, pedalling and emotional direction. There is usually some balance of specificity and open-endedness. A composer like Brahms in his Klavierstücke gives the player everything they need to let the beauty and sublimity of the music reveal itself, but also leaves things to be discov-

ered: there are all sorts of counter-melodies hiding between the hands which are not marked with accents. This is part of the reason for the longevity of that music – in its multi-dimensionality, it gives the player choices, and invites them to interpret it differently from one performance to another.

In some of the pieces here, I’ve exploited those kinds of hidden currents and made them more explicit, marking them with accents and tenutos. At other times, I’ve followed my master Brahms, and written only the notes. For the final 14th piece, there is the following direction on the top of the page:

Dynamics have not been given; the player is free to choose, and is encouraged to find melodies within the figuration and bring them out as they wish, through louder dynamic, marcato touch, and perhaps finger-pedalling. Time signature and barlines not given; each system traces a possible phrase length, sometimes obvious, but they are only guidelines, allowing the player to feel the piece as a continuous stream.

The strongest model for open-endedness in many respects is Bach, who left us with little to no indications for tempo, articulation and dynamics. The listener can hear the inspiration I’ve drawn from many of his “Preludes” in the Well-Tempered Clavier in the last piece here. Like one long wave from beginning to end, it nevertheless invites the performer to draw out a more segmented story with their own sentences, paragraphs and chapter, if they wish. In this regard, finally, the music I’ve written is not only inspired by composers, but by the great interpreters who have shaped their music.

—Brad Mehldau

This work was co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Cal Performances at University of California, Berkeley, 21C Music Festival at The Royal Conservatory, and Carnegie Hall.

Performance Santa Fe presents A Mardi Gras Celebration with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

Saturday, February 10 I 7:30 pm I Lensic Performing Arts Center

Trombonist and NEA Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis brings the soul of New Orleans to Santa Fe! The Marsalis family are the most celebrated ambassadors of New Orleans’ unique jazz heritage. Following a decorated career as a sideman in bands with jazz legends like Ray Charles, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones, Delfeayo formed his own band—the Uptown Jazz Orchestra. Playing a mix of original compositions and classic jazz songs, this lively band emphasizes important jazz traditions like riff playing and spontaneous arrangements. Celebrate Mardi Gras in style with the Uptown Jazz Orchestra!

This event is part of the 2024 Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival.

The evening’s program will be announced from the stage

23–24

About the Uptown Jazz Orchestra

Mission

The mission of the Uptown Jazz Orchestra is to promote a greater appreciation for jazz and its New Orleans’ rooted traditions through world-class performance, artistic excellence, education and community.

Featuring up to 18 accomplished musicians, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra sets the global standard for celebrating jazz in its authentic musical form, inspiring the next generation of jazz musicians and promoting a culture of diversity, inclusion and accessibility in the arts.

Guiding Principles:

• Creativity

• Collaboration

• Preservation

• Education

• Diversity and Inclusion

More about the Orchestra

In 2000, Grammy award-winning trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis formed the Uptown Music Theatre (UMT), a non-profit organization that empowers youth through educational programming and musical theatre training. Then in 2008, Marsalis formed its sister organization under the same 501c3 corporation, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra (UJO). The two organizations enjoy a symbiotic relationship – UJO musicians offer a rich talent pool from which to draw instructors for UMT and UMT musicians are likewise often guest performers for the UJO.

UJO’s premiere children’s program, Swinging with the Cool School, has provided an opportunity for thousands of students across the nation to learn about the true original art form of jazz through its African-American history, stories and sounds.

Your tax-deductible donation will support our musicians and educational programming so that UJO can continue to bring exciting performances, unique collaborations and tributes to the many New Orleans’ greats, as well as continue to grow a diverse talent pipeline of jazz musicians.

delfeayo marsalis’ uptown jazz orchestra I photos: zac smith

The Uptown Jazz Orchestra

delfeayo marsalis’ uptown jazz orchestra I photo: zac smith

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photo: eric gray

Performance Santa Fe presents Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Wednesday, March 6 I 7:30 pm I St. Francis Auditorium / NMMA

PROGRAM

Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35

—INTERMISSION—

Liszt: Berceuse in D-flat Major, S. 174

Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S. 178

Benjamin Grosvenor is presented through the support of JS Charitable Trust

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

benjamin grosvenor I photo: marco borggreve

About the Artist

Benjamin Grosvenor

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is internationally recognized for his sonorous lyricism and understated brilliance at the keyboard. His virtuosic interpretations are underpinned by a unique balance of technical mastery and intense musicality. Grosvenor has been heralded one of the most important pianists to emerge from the UK in several decades.

His 22/23 season begins with Prokofiev‘s Piano Concerto no.3 with RSO Wien conducted by Marin Alsop at the BBC Proms. He is ’Artist in Focus’ at The Sage Gateshead, and performs three projects across the season with the Philharmonia Orchestra, including both Chopin Piano Concerti and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Nicola Benedetti.

Other concerto highlights of the 22/23 season include engagements with KBS Symphony and Mo. Chung (Chopin 1), touring with the London Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor Edward Gardner, Orchestra of St Luke’s at Carnegie Hall (Mendelssohn 1), Auckland Philharmonia, Prague Radio, Bern, San Diego and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Orchestre de Lyon with Leonard Slatkin.

In recital, Grosvenor makes his debut at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, in Mainz as part of the SWR2 Internationale Pianisten series and Oldenburg. He also returns to the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Wigmore Hall, Sage Gateshead, Kennedy Centre, Washington and embarks on a tour of Latin America including returns to Sao Paolo and Montevideo. A keen chamber musician, regular collaborators include Hyeyoon Park, Timothy Ridout, Kian Soltani – whom he appears with at Cologne Philharmonie, and the Doric String Quartet with whom he tours the USA in Spring 2023.

Highlights of recent seasons include debuts with the Chicago Symphony conducted by Paavo Järvi and Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, varied projects as Artist in Residence at the Wigmore Hall in the 21/22 season and at Radio France in 20/21. A renowned interpreter of Chopin, he has performed at the ‘Chopin and his Europe’ Festival in Warsaw, Montpellier Festival, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Spivey Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Carnegie Hall and 92nd Street Y.

Süddeutsche Zeitung praised his “astounding technical gifts, the freshness of his imagination, intense concentration, the absence of any kind of show, and the unmistakable sense of poetic immersion directed solely at the realisation of music”.

About the Artist

Benjamin regularly works with such esteemed conductors as Paavo Järvi, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Mark Elder, Kent Nagano, Alan Gilbert, Nathalie Stutzmann, Manfred Honeck, Vladimir Jurowski, François-Xavier Roth and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

In 2011 Benjamin signed to Decca Classics, becoming the youngest British musician ever, and the first British pianist in almost 60 years, to sign to the label. Released in 2020, his second concerto album featuring Chopin’s piano concerti, recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Elim Chan, received both the Gramophone Concerto Award and a Diapason d'Or de L’Année, with Diapason's critic declaring that the recording is “a version to rank among the best, and confirmation of an extraordinary artist.” His renewal of the Decca partnership in 2021 coincided with the release of Benjamin’s latest album Liszt, centred around the composer’s Sonata in B minor, which was awarded ‘Chocs de l’année’ and Prix de Caecilia.

He was invited to perform at the First Night of the 2011 BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and has since then gone onto perform at this prestigious Festival no fewer than ten times across the last decade including at the Last Night of the Proms with Marin Alsop and BBC Symphony in 2015 and most recently with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 and the Hallé Orchestra. He also performed Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with Paavo Jaarvi in the 2020 Festival during the summer of lockdown.

Everything Grosvenor touches turns to gold.

—Classical Source

Grosvenor has received Gramophone’s ‘Young Artist of the Year’, a Classical Brit Critics’ Award, UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent and a Diapason d’Or Jeune Talent Award. He has been featured in two BBC television documentaries, BBC Breakfast, Front Row, as well as in CNN’s ‘Human to Hero’ series. In 2016, he became the inaugural recipient of The Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize with the New York Philharmonic.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and Daniel-Ben Pienaar, where he graduated in 2012 with the ‘Queen’s Commendation for Excellence’ and in 2016 was awarded a RAM Fellowship. Benjamin is an Ambassador of Music Masters, a charity dedicated to making music education accessible to all children regardless of their background, championing diversity and inclusion.

benjamin grosvenor I photos: marco borggreve / andrej grilic

Performance Santa Fe presents Kronos Quartet

Thursday, March 19 I 7:30 pm I Lensic Performing Arts Center

Kronos Quartet

David Harrington, violin

John Sherba, violin

Hank Dutt, viola

Paul Wiancko, cello

For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has combined a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually reimagine the string quartet experience. In the process, they have created 70 critically acclaimed recordings, collaborated with visionary artists and composers, and performed thousands of concerts across the globe. to The San Francisco-based ensemble celebrates its 50th anniversary with the KRONOS Five Decades tour, bringing new commissions, signature works from its repertoire, and pieces from Kronos’ Fifty for the Future project to Santa Fe.

The evening’s program will be announced from the stage

kronos quartet I photo: lenny gonzalez

About the Artists

Kronos Quartet

Integral to Kronos’ work is a series of long-running commissioning collaborations with hundreds of composers worldwide, including Terry Riley, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Tanya Tagaq, Philip Glass, inti figgis-vizueta, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, and Steve Reich.

In its most ambitious commissioning effort to date, KPAA has recently completed 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Through this initiative, Kronos has commissioned—and distributed online for free—50 new string quartet works written by composers from around the world.

In recordings, Kronos has collaborated with artists including Wu Man, Zakir Hussain, Asha Bhosle, Mahsa Vahdat, and Nine Inch Nails. Kronos has performed live with the likes of Paul McCartney, Allen Ginsberg, Rokia Traoré, David Bowie, Rhiannon Giddens, Caetano Veloso, and The National, among many others.

The quartet tours for several months each year, appearing in celebrated venues, including Carnegie Hall (New York), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), the Barbican (London), the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Shanghai Concert Hall, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), and the Sydney Opera House.

Kronos’ expansive discography on Nonesuch includes three Grammy-winning albums—Terry Riley’s Sun Rings (2019), Landfall with Laurie Anderson (2018), and Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite (2003)—along with dozens of other acclaimed releases. Kronos’ most recent recording is Mỹ Lai (2022), an opera by Jonathan Berger and Harriet Scott Chessman. Kronos’ work has also featured prominently in many films, including the “live documentary” A Thousand Thoughts, written and directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018.

Based in San Francisco, the nonprofit KPAA staff manages all aspects of Kronos’ work, including commissioning, concert tours and local performances, recordings, education programs, and an annual Kronos Festival in San Francisco.

Kronos Quartet is presented through the support of Susan and Karl Horn and Natalie Beller

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

kronos quartet I photo: musical instrument museum

The Kronos Quartet has broken the boundaries of what string quartets do.

—The New York times

Performance Santa Fe presents Kenny Barron & Regina Carter

Wednesday, April 3 I 7:30 pm I Lensic Performing Arts Center

Revered innovators of two generations of jazz music join forces for a very special performance: pianist Kenny Barron and violinist Regina Carter. Both Barron and Carter have the distinguished honor of being named NEA Jazz Masters, Barron in 2010 and Carter in 2023. Longtime friends and collaborators, their 2000 recording, Freefall, earned them accolades for its “passion and dynamic feeling… the cohesion and joy of this duo’s music-making is consistent from beginning to end” (Jazz Times). They appear in Santa Fe in celebration of Barron’s 80th birthday.

The evening’s program will be announced from the stage

23–24 Season Sponsors:

Kenny Barron and Regina Carter are presented through the support of Ellen and James Hubbell

Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

kenny barron I photo: philippe levy-stab

Ms. Carter, jazz’s leading mainstream violinist, plays with a thick, warm-molasses tone; she’s equally indebted to classical technique and folk song

—Classical Source

regina carter I photo: chris drukker

About the Artists

Kenny Barron

Honored by The National Endowment for the Arts as a 2010 Jazz Master, Kenny Barron has an unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms. The Los Angeles Times named him "one of the top jazz pianists in the world” and Jazz Weekly calls him “The most lyrical piano player of our time.”

The Philadelphia native started playing professionally as a teenager with Mel Melvin’s orchestra and Philly Joe Jones. He moved to New York City at 19 and freelanced with Roy Haynes, Lee Morgan and James Moody, after the tenor saxophonist heard him play at the Five Spot. Upon Moody’s recommendation Dizzy Gillespie hired Barron in 1962 without even hearing him play a note. It was in Dizzy’s band where Kenny developed an appreciation for Latin and Caribbean rhythms. After five years with Dizzy, Barron played with Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Milt Jackson, and Buddy Rich.  The early seventies found Kenny working with Yusef Lateef who Kenny credits as a key influence in his art for improvisation. Encouraged by Lateef, to pursue a college education, Barron balanced touring with studies and earned his B.A. in Music from Empire State College, By 1973 Kenny joined the faculty at Rutgers University as professor of music.  He held this tenure until 2000, mentoring many of today’s young talents including David Sanchez, Terence Blanchard and Regina Bell. In 1974 Kenny recorded his first album as a leader for the Muse label, entitled Sunset To Dawn. This was to be the first in over 40 recordings as a leader. His duo album with Stan Getz during the late 1980s, People Time led to the first of 11 GRAMMY nominations received for his recordings.  Without Deception, his 2020 follow up with bassist Dave Holland to The Art of Conversation (Impulse) was noted as one of the top releases of the year. The 2016 CD, Book of Invention (Impulse) was Barron’s first trio outing in 20 years and marked the first recording ever with his bandmates bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake. In 2018 Barron released Concentric Circles featuring his quintet.

Barron consistently wins the jazz critics and readers polls, including Downbeat, Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines. The famed Spanish ceramist Lladro honored Mr. Barron with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater SUNY Empire State in 2013 and from Berklee College of Music in 2011. In 2009 he received the Living Legacy Award from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and was inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame and won a MAC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He is a seven-time recipient of Best Pianist by the Jazz Journalists Association.

Grammy-nominated artist Regina Carter explores the power of music through the voice of the violin in a wide range of genres—including jazz, R&B, Latin, classical, blues, country, pop, and African. A recipient of the MacArthur “genius” award and a Doris Duke Artist Award, she has been widely hailed for her mastery of her instrument and her drive to expand its possibilities.

Her albums include Paganini: After a Dream (Verve, 2003), based on a 2002 concert in Genoa, Italy, in which she was honored to be the first nonclassical violinist to play Niccolò Paganini’s Il Cannone (“The Cannon”), the legendary violin built by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1743; I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve, 2006), a reinterpretation of songs from the 1920s to 1940s and tribute to her mother; Reverse Thread (E1 Music, 2010), an exploration of African folk music and the African diaspora; and Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks, 2014), a musical journey tracing her father’s roots in the American South; Ella: Accentuate the Positive (OKeh, 2017), celebrates the music and spirit of her inspiration, musical legend Ella Fitzgerald. Her latest release, Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Tiger Turn/ eOne, 2020), Regina and her Freedom Band; trumpeter John Daversa, pianist Jon Batiste, bassists Alexis Cuadrado and Kabir Sehgal and drummer Harvey Mason, set out to deliver an optimistic and encouraging project that extols the importance of taking part in the democratic process.

Regina tours with her own group and has appeared frequently as a guest soloist, including with such performers as Kenny Barron, the late bassist Ray Brown, Akua Dixon, Arturo O’Farrill, Steve Turre, Stefon Harris, Mary J. Blige, Joe Jackson, Billy Joel, Dolly Parton, Omara Portuondo, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Rhiannon Giddens and others. She has also been a guest soloist with several major symphony orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.

Regina is artistic director of the Geri Allen Jazz Camp, a unique summer immersion program sponsored by NJPAC for aspiring women jazz professionals. She is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and New Jersey City University and is artist in residence at the Oakland University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Past positions have included resident artist for San Francisco Performances and resident artistic director for SFJAZZ.

Regina Carter

regina carter I photo: jeff dunn

Performance Santa Fe presents

Jordi Savall & Hespérion XXI

Le Nuove Musiche The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660)

Tuesday, April 16 I 7:30 pm I Lensic Performing Arts Center

Hesperion XXI

Jordi Savall, Director viola da gamba soprano e baja

Xavier Díaz-Latorre, chitarra e tiorba

Andrew Lawrence-King, arpa doppia

Philippe Pierlot, viole da gamba soprano e basso

Xavier Puertas, violone

David Mayoral, percussion

Be transported to a world of emotion and beauty by the true maestro of the early music movement! For more than 50 years, Jordi Savall, one of the most versatile musical personalities of his generation, has rescued musical gems from obscurity and given them back for all to enjoy. Now, he and his ensemble Hespèrion XXI bring Le Nuove Musiche to Santa Fe. Exploring the music of the Baroque revolution in Europe, this program features works by Giovanni Kapsberger, Emilio de’ Cavalieri, and Andrea Falconiero, performed by six musicians on historical instruments, including Savall himself on viola da gamba.

The evening’s program will be announced from the stage

jordi savall I photo: toni peñarroyo

Jordi Savall is presented through the support of Leslie Jones and Paul Zeller and Jane and John Bagwell

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

jordi savall I photo: david ignaszewski

About the Artist

Jordi Savall

For more than 50 years, Jordi Savall, one of the most versatle musical personalites of his generation, has rescued musical gems from the obscurity of neglect and oblivion and given them back for all to enjoy. A tireless researcher into early music, he interprets and performs the repertory both as a gambist and a conductor. His actvites as a concert performer, teacher, researcher and creator of new musical and cultural projects have made him a leading figure in the reappraisal of historical music. Together with Montserrat Figueras, he founded the ensembles Hespèrion XXI (1974), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (1987) and Le Concert des Na7ons (1989), with whom he explores and creates a world of emotion and beauty shared with millions of early music enthusiasts around the world.

Through his essential contribution to Alain Corneau’s film Tous les Matins du Monde, which won a César for the best soundtrack, his busy concert schedule (140 concerts per year), his recordings (6 albums per year) and his own record label, Alia Vox, which he founded with Montserrat Figueras in 1998, Jordi Savall has proved not only that early music does not have to be elitist, but that it can appeal to increasingly diverse and numerous audiences of all ages. As the critic Allan Kozinn wrote in the New York Times, his vast concert and recording career can be described as “not simply a matter of revival, but of imaginative reanimation.”

Savall has recorded and released more than 230 albums covering the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music repertories, with a special focus on the Hispanic and Mediterranean musical heritage, receiving many awards and distinctions such as the Midem Classical Award, the International Classical Music Award and the Grammy Award. His concert programs have made music an instrument of mediation to achieve understanding and peace between different and sometimes warring peoples and cultures. Accordingly, guest artists appearing with his ensembles include Arab, Israeli, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, Afghan, Mexican and North American musicians. In 2008 Jordi Savall was appointed European Union Ambassador for intercultural dialogue and, together with Montserrat Figueras, was named “Artist for Peace” under the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors program.

He has played a seminal role in the rediscovery and performance of Una cosa rara and Il burbero di buon cuore by the composer Vincent Martín i Soler. He has also conducted Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in performances of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Vivaldi’s Farnace, Fux’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Vivaldi’s Il Teuzzone. Jordi Savall’s prolific musical career has brought him the highest national and international distinctions, including honorary doctorates from the Universities of

Evora (Portugal), Barcelona (Catalonia), Louvain (Belgium) and Basel (Switzerland), the order of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (France), the Praetorius Music Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of Lower Saxony, the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the prestigious Léonie Sonning Prize, which is considered the Nobel prize of the music world. “Jordi Savall testifies to a common cultural inheritance of infinite variety. He is a man for our time” (The Guardian).

All the mornings of the world may fade away, but Jordi Savall endures.

—Boston Globe

jordi savall I photo: david ignaszewski

Performance Santa Fe presents

Takács Quartet and Julian Labro, bandoneon

Friday, April 19 I 7:30 pm I St. Francis Auditorium / NMMA

Takács Quartet

Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes, violins Richard O’Neill, viola András Fejér, cello

Takács Quartet and Julien Labro is presented through the support of Mercedes Benz of Santa Fe

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

takács quartet I photo: amanda tipton

PROGRAM

Circles Bryce DESSNER (b. 1976)

Meditation #1 Julien LABRO (b.1980)

Julien Labro, bandoneon I Edward Dusinberre, violin

Harumi Rhodes, violin I Richard O’Neill, viola I András Fejér, cello

Minguito Dino SALUZZI (b. 1935)

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 Johan Sebastian BACH (1685—1750)

Astoración Julien LABRO (b.1980)

Julien Labro, bandoneon & accordina

String Quartet in F Major Maurice RAVEL (1875—1937)

I. Allegro moderato – très doux

II. Assez vif – très rhythmé

III. Très lent

IV. Vif et agité

Edward Dusinberre, violin I Harumi Rhodes, violin I Richard O’Neill, viola András Fejér, cello

Clash Clarice ASSAD (b. 1978)

Julien Labro, bandoneon I Edward Dusinberre, violin

Harumi Rhodes, violin I Richard O’Neill, viola I András Fejér, cello

The Takács Quartet appears by arrangement with Seldy Cramer Artists, and records for Hyperion and Decca/London Records.

The Takács Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado in Boulder and are Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall, London

Performance Santa Fe presents

Isidore String Quartet

Sunday, May 12 I 4 pm I St. Francis Auditorium / NMMA

PROGRAM

String Quartet No. 25 in C major, Op. 20, No. 2 (1772)

Moderato

Adagio

Minuetto: Allegretto

Fuga a quattro soggetti

String Quartet No. 2 “Awakening”(2012)

Wake Up Call

The White Room

Song of Healing

-Intermission-

String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (1825)

Assai sostenuto - Allegro

Allegro ma non tanto

Molto adagio - Andante (“Heiliger Dankgesang…”)

Alla marcia, assai vivace

Allegro appassionato

Joseph Haydn 1732-1809

Billy Childs b. 1957

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827

The Isidore String Quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists www.davidroweartists.com

The Isidore String Quartet is presented through the support of Donna and Hal Hankinson, and Connie and David Girard-deCarlo

23–24 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, Gina Browning and Joe Illick, Robin Black, Leah Gordon

Exquisite poise and balance....the Isidore projected the infinite variety that Beethoven mines. Time stood still....exceptional.

—Chicago Classical Review

Isidore String Quartet

Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violins

Devin Moore, viola  Joshua McClendon, cello

About the Artists

Isidore String Quartet

Winners of the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory.  The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’

The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick.  In addition to Mr. Krosnick, the ISQ has coached with Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Joseph Kalichstein, Roger Tapping, Timothy Eddy, Donald Weilerstein, Atar Arad, Robert McDonald, Christoph Richter, Miriam Fried, and Paul Biss, while performing in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and at the Ravinia Festival.

Their Banff triumph brings extensive tours of North America and Europe, a twoyear appointment as the Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas beginning in 2023-24, performances at Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt (in spring 2023) and the Lucerne Festival, plus a two-week residency at Banff Centre including a professionally produced recording, along with extensive ongoing coaching, career guidance, and mentorship.

The Isidore Quartet’s 2022-2023 season will feature debut appearances in Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Burlington, VT; Kalamazoo, MI; Evanston, IL; San Antonio, TX; Laguna Beach, CA (with pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist Stefan Jackiw); and Seattle, WA (with

violinist James Ehnes). The quartet will return Washington’s Kennedy Center as part of the Fortas Chamber Music Concert Series, and will also perform for Schneider Concerts at the Mannes School of Music.  In Europe they will perform at Esterhazy Palace in Austria, and will spend time at the Britten Pears Arts Institute.

The quartet will be working as a resident ensemble with PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US providing encouragement, education, and healing to marginalized communitiesincluding elderly, disabled, rehabilitating incarcerated and homeless populations - who otherwise have limited access to high-quality live music performance. An ensemble actively dedicated to pushing the boundaries of music-making, the ISQ is the resident ensemble for the Contemporary Alexander School/Alexander Alliance International. In conjunction with those well-versed in the world of Alexander Technique, as well as other performers, the ISQ explores the vast landscape of body awareness, mental preparation, and performance practice.

The name Isidore recognizes the ensemble’s musical connection to the Juilliard Quartet: one of that group’s early members was legendary violinist Isidore Cohen. Additionally, it acknowledges a shared affection for a certain libation - legend has it a Greek monk named Isidore concocted the first genuine vodka recipe for the Grand Duchy of Moscow!

isidore string quartet I photos: charles chessler / rita taylor

Local Hero

Louise Rubin

Louise Rubin has managed the Main Library bookstore as a volunteer for Friends of the Library since 2016. After working as a librarian at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA, Louise brought her considerable skills and love of books to our community. With good humor, intelligence and tenacity she oversees a jolly band of nearly forty enthusiastic volunteers who together raise tens of thousands of dollars each year to fund Library programs and services. Although most of her work is behind the scenes, Louise is always delighted to take calls from donors - and will even carry your boxes of books to make donating easier!

Performance Santa Fe is proud to announce LOCAL HERO honorees of the 2023-2024 season:

Staff Spotlight

Kevin Brown

Performance Santa Fe Graphic Designer

Kevin Brown is a designer, writer, and traveler.

He received a Master's degree in architecture from Tulane University in New Orleans, a city renowned not only for its eccentric charm and mystique but for its music, cuisine, culture, and tradition; a city ideally suited for studying art and architecture.

Born in Southern California, Kevin has enjoyed a lifetime of travel. His father's work as an air traffic controller in the United States Air Force required his family to relocate often; they lived in eight states and three foreign countries throughout his early life. As a result, Kevin became a keen observer with an eye for detail—both of which are reflected in his writing and designs.

Kevin continues his pursuit of creativity through writing (he's published two books and is currently working on a memoir about his time growing up as an Air Force brat), graphic design, and illustration, and he continues seeking new travel destinations to fuel his creative spirit.

Kevin is a Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists member and a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

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create a legacy of artistic vitality

Make a charitable bequest to the Performance Santa Fe Foundation

By including the Performance Santa Fe Foundation in your estate plans through a charitable bequest, you will help propel Performance Santa Fe into a bright and promising future. With a steadfast commitment to excellence in the performing arts, Performance Santa Fe has brought joy and enrichment to our community for over 86 years. Our year-round programs showcase internationally renowned artists in various venues throughout Santa Fe, while also providing invaluable free education programs to thousands of local students.

When you choose to support Performance Santa Fe through a charitable bequest, you contribute to the long-term financial sustainability of our organization. When you give to the Performance Santa Fe Foundation you:

• Invest in the future of Santa Fe

• Bring joy and enrichment to the community

• Support arts education

• Sustain Performance Santa Fe for generations to come

• Join the Legacy Society, honoring those who have chosen to remember Performance Santa Fe in their estate planning

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of a charitable bequest or any other form of planned giving, we kindly request you to reach out to Katie Rountree, Director of Development, at katie@performancesantafe.org

If you have already included PSFF in your estate planning, please let us know so we can thank you and acknowledge you as a Legacy Society member.

Performance Santa Fe has been bringing the world of performing arts to Santa Fe for longer than I have been alive and my wish is for it to continue long after I am gone. It would be hard to imagine Santa Fe without the immense influence of music, theater, dance and all the gifts that Performance Santa Fe continues to give us. Performance Santa Fe is woven into the fabric that is Santa Fe. It is my hope that this gift can help enrich our special community, the community that has given me so much, long into the future. —LH

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Give to Performance Santa Fe today and invest in Santa Fe’s ongoing artistic vitality!

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To become an Annual Fund member, visit PerformanceSantaFe.org/support/annual-fund

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• Sponsoring a performance helps us reach our critical annual fundraising goals. Show Sponsors receive exclusive benefits, including complimentary tickets, artist meet-and-greets, and special recognition from the stage.

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• Honor your loved one’s passion for the arts by donating to Performance Santa Fe in their name. Let their legacy inspire and uplift, bringing the magic of performance to countless others.

To give to Performance Santa Fe, visit PerformanceSantaFe.org/support or contact Katie Rountree, Director of Development at katie@ performancesantafe.org or (505) 984-8759.

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