CONCERTS BY SERIES

Music of the Masters Sunday 6

The 40th season opens with a world premiere by young Scottish composer Helen Grime, winner of the British Composer Award. Our 2012 Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, leads Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, tightly-knit works for virtuoso performers; and Mendelssohn’s dazzling Octet features members of the former Guarneri Quartet. Other highlights include performances by the Miró Quartet and the Orion String Quartet in co-commissioned works by American composers David Del Tredici and Aaron Jay Kernis; an all-Schubert evening featuring his sublime String Quintet—perhaps his greatest work—performed by the Tokyo String Quartet and cellist Lynn Harrell; and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni in songs from Schubert’s Schwanengesang.

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Music of the Masters Monday 6

The 40th season opens with a world premiere by young Scottish composer Helen Grime, winner of the British Composer Award. Our 2012 Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, leads Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, tightly-knit works for virtuoso performers; and Mendelssohn’s dazzling Octet features members of the former Guarneri Quartet. Other highlights include performances by the Miró Quartet and the Orion String Quartet in co-commissioned works by American composers David Del Tredici and Aaron Jay Kernis; an all-Schubert evening featuring his sublime String Quintet—perhaps his greatest work—performed by the Tokyo String Quartet and cellist Lynn Harrell; and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni in songs from Schubert’s Schwanengesang.

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Music of the Masters Wednesday 1

This spectacular concert features music by three of Austria’s favorite sons—the regal Emperor Waltz by the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II, Fritz Kreisler’s String Quartet, and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 2 conducted by Alan Gilbert.

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Music of the Masters Thursday 5

Schubert’s delightful “Trout” Quintet starts this series; along the way you’ll also enjoy Barber’s String Quartet, with its beloved Adagio, performed by the Miró Quartet; Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert, cellist Eric Kim, and members of the former Guarneri Quartet—reunited for the Festival’s 40th Anniversary season—play Brahms’s String Sextet No. 2; Beethoven’s Piano Trio, Op. 1, No. 3 featuring pianist Jeremy Denk, and Marc Neikrug’s Death Row Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial, a riveting piece of music theatre composed in 2011, narrated by Tony Award winning actor John Rubinstein.

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Bach Plus 5

A Vivaldi Spectacular, featuring five brilliant Baroque concertos; bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni makes his Festival debut in two Bach cantatas: the affecting “Ich habe genug” and “Amore traditore”—an outpouring about love betrayed; Bach’s Concerto for Violin & Oboe with violinist William Preucil; a solo violin recital by Soovin Kim that includes Bach’s Partita No. 2; and Inon Barnatan as soloist in four Bach piano concertos.

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Albuquerque Series (reserved seating) 3

The series includes Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet with pianist Jon Kimura Parker; Barber’s String Quartet with its transcendent Adagio; a Beethoven Sonata featuring violinist Ida Kavafian; and Brahms’s Sextet No. 2, performed by members of the former Guarneri Quartet, Artist-in-Residence Alan Gilbert, viola, and cellist Eric Kim.

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Music at Noon 11

Music includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, Bernstein, Ravel, and Stravinsky, and piano recitals by Jon Kimura Parker, Kirill Gerstein, and Inon Barnatan.

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Generously sponsored by the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation

Modern Masters (general admission) 1

A Tribute to Peter Lieberson, the late composer, includes two of his works, a new composition by Magnus Lindberg, and Oliver Knussen’s remarkable Requiem: Songs for Sue, composed in memory of his late wife.

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World Music 1

Tiempo Libre: The three-time Grammy-nominated Cuban band plays timba – an exciting, sophisticated mix of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

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